tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
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You've got to be kidding me 🤦🤦🤦
JUST BUILD TRAINS FOR GOODNESS’ SAKE. HYPERLOOP IS IMPOSSIBLE.
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EPA Scientists Said They Were Pressured to Downplay Harms From Chemicals. A Watchdog Found They Were Retaliated Against.
Three reports issued by the agency’s inspector general detailed personal attacks suffered by the scientists. #ClimateChange
@Catfish_Man
well, it's true there are a lot of very energetic particles out there, but the actual energy you get from something like an AGN in the gamma ray band is about the same as from the normal optical star light you get from a galaxy.
So yes, space is constantly awash in high energy radiation, but it is also just as awash with the much lower energy radiation we can see with our own eyes and yet the night is still dark.
@mcc
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The only solution is to *shrink* the sphere, fighting against the tremendous pressure exerted by the gas of stars within. Once it's small enough - about the size of the dense of cluster of stars - you'll be back to equilibrium (or so it seems). But the temperature and pressure now is much higher than when you started!
Furthermore, even when the gas of stars seems to be in equilibrium, it's not. It's just a 'metastable state'. Eventually by chance a small dense cluster will form, and the gravo-thermal catastrophe will occur!
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@lomanfeusagach
no, the Russians only held it for a few months at the start of the war, and gave it up as part of their general retreat from the north of Kyiv in ~April of 2022. You might be thinking of Zaporizhzhia nuclear powerplant in the south of Ukraine.
@GossiTheDog
@Mabande
Nu är du lite väl gnällig tycker jag, det verkliga arbetet var ju att välja ut 163 personer till juryn och sen sammanställa deras listor, som tillsammans täckte ungefär 2600 olika låtar.
Om arbetet: "Varje person i juryn har röstat helt fritt på de 15-30 låtar som gjort störst avtryck på hen. Låtarna har tilldelats poäng utifrån hur den röstande har rankat dem. Därefter har vi slagit ihop samtliga låtar och poäng och på så vis fått fram en topplista."
Textvinjetten varje låt sen får är sedan en efterkonstruktion och har inte så mycket med det faktiska resultatet att göra.
Visst är det trist att de inte haft pengar att göra bättre än korta texter för de flesta låtar, men du missar det stora problemet: de har inte publicerat alla individuella listorna! Hur ska vi då kunna kontrollera att listan verkligen stämmer, eller att #BigRobyn inte såg till att en gynnsam ranknigsalgorithm användes?!
Det har säkert inte heller bett juryn att ange demografisk information, så det går inte heller att göra stratifierade listor såsom "300 bästa enligt män 50+ med grundskoleutbildning" :(
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In our rapidly changing climate, clinging on to "1-in-100 year event" characterizations - based on statistics from the stable era - have been reduced to a description of how unusual the event was back in those days.
It's a what-used-to-be-1-in-100- year event now. No more.
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Good piece by @jon : may write a riff on it for scientists later (if I ever get time to write anything ever again..)
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@jonny Imagine my surprise when it turns out that when tech bros talk about "web scale" what they actually mean is "centralization" and "profit extraction".
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La composition du gouvernement Barnier est encore susceptible d'évoluer: "Le Premier ministre affine", indique un proche de Macron à Libé. Les ministres seront-ils un peu plus ou un peu moins à droite, un peu moins ou un peu racistes et homophobes? Quel suspense... https://www.liberation.fr/politique/gouvernement-barnier-lelysee-evoque-des-ajustements-necessaires-avant-lofficialisation-de-la-liste-20240920_F3GT3HOKLBAC5HBJ4MHYOHCZ3E/
#Politique #Gouvernement #Barnier #Macron #Homophobie #Racisme #Retailleau #DirectAN
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I never knew you, Kesaria Abramidze, but I miss you already. And I miss the #Georgia I knew. I was lucky enough to be in Tbilisi on the day the accession (to the #EU) agreement was signed. That was a day of celebration and coming together. Did you feel stronger that day? Somehow more protected by the emphasis on #humanrights? Did we let you down? What happened in Georgia? Where did we go wrong?
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I've seen that starlink radiotelescope interference article going around and I'm now trying to find an old blog post someone made where they analysed the RF emissions of one of the satellites and demonstrated that they were just doing any old shit because there are no real EMC standards for space. it was really embarrassing shit like spewing noise from DC-DC switching converters. the kinda stuff most folks learn to do right in their first professional designs.
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Is there anything more awkward than German and Americans emailing each other?:
Subject: 19 Sep 24 Round Table
Dear Robert (if I may),
graciously would you allow me to attend your meeting?
Yours in most sincerity,
Dr. Prof. Hans-Joseph Fritzberger
Re: Meeting
Hey Hans!
Great!
- Bill
"Is Ursula von der Leyen transforming the Berlaymont into an EU White House?
The new structure of the EU Commission, by blurring the portfolios among members and downgrading the VP status into executive positions, hints to a transformation of the Commission from a collegial body into a Presidential office.
Through her restructuring and centralization of the College, von der Leyen is completing the presidentialisation process that began with Barroso, and was pursued by Juncker.
Under that vision:
- the Commissioners will act as presidential advisers instead of being independent, autonomous decision makers as required by the Treaties;
- the Secretary General becomes the office of the president supporting the presidential team.
Behind this process there’s a marked politicization of the EU project. This will in turn question the ability of the Commission to act as both the engine and the guardian of EU policymaking.
We’re about to witness major transformations in the power dynamics existing among the Commission, EU Council / Council and the EU Parliament which may in turn alter the principle of institutional balance governing their relations. #vonderleyen"
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alright, after like a year of halfheartedly trying on and off, #FetchAllReplies is pretty much finished - the problem of not being able to see all replies to a post is one of the largest complaints that people have with mastodon in particular but also the fedi in general. It is an especially potent problem for smaller servers, making them feel lonely, and making the whole fedi seem quiet. It is also a large contributor to the 'reply guy' problem where a moderately popular post will get the same replies over and over again and people won't even know they're doing it.
This patch recursively fetches replies using activitypub collections. it does it respectfully, only when someone is explicitly looking at a post (rather than fetching all replies for everything all the time) with some debounce, and spaces out the recursive calls to the other servers in deep threads.
the only thing left is to make the posts get inserted into the web client as they are received, currently you need to refresh to see them.
trying it locally now and it is a game changer.
i'm not "good at ruby" so if you ever wanna see this upstream, kindly spare a code review?
https://github.com/NeuromatchAcademy/mastodon/pull/44
#FediDev #MastoDev #UnFuckTheFedi #PubSubIsCoolButPresentsPrettySeriousUsabilityProblems #JustSmallInstanceThings
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It's not like we (society) talked about this and decided we'd sacrifice ground-based astronomy in exchange for internet access in remote areas.
Musk and a few others did this unilaterally. It wasn't to help anyone. They did it to make a profit and consolidate control over critical infrastructure.
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You might've seen some buzz and histrionics about Russians At War, which follows Russian soldiers to their death in eastern Ukraine.
I watched the film, interviewed its director, and tried to make sense of the competing criticism. https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/what-everybody-is-getting-wrong-about-the-years-most-controversial-film/article_4a9007ae-7531-11ef-9516-77047be32003.html
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Study (N=280 companies) finds less commitment to DEI. 78% of employers said gender diversity was high priority vs 87% in 2019. Racial diversity=69% now vs 77% in 2019.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/09/17/dei-backlash-hits-women-workplace/75264686007/
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I should have bought more solar panels, crap https://www.pv-tech.org/us-finalises-section-301-tariffs-proposes-50-duty-on-wafers-and-polysilicon/
@kevinrothrock
Is there like a fan wiki somewhere that tracks all this? I feel like I'm only seeing updates to some big story of years past...
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
