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What is MATA in this context?
2·7 days agoYep, especially now that the government has signaled relaxing H1B regulations…
3·17 days agoTwo of the scientists use the word “exotic” in the new possibilities:
At the same time, this type of old environment is making us rethink our standard FRB progenitor models and turning to more exotic formation channels
If yes, it would make this FRB only the second FRB known to reside in a globular cluster. If not, we would have to consider alternative exotic scenarios for the FRB’s origin.”
I’m curious what constitutes exotic in this context.
5·21 days agoI use graphene OS and Magic Earth instead of Google maps. I only turn on location when navigating. GOS also surfaces app permissions in a more obvious and granular way so I tend to reject most permissions and wait to see if it breaks anything. I also try to use open source apps from F-Droid instead of the Google store. If I need an app on Google store, I use Aurora as my client so I can install apps anonymously.
There’s a number of additional steps I take. Although it seems like a lot, I still feel like I’m not doing everything I could. What really matters though is that I’m always making progress over time.
The degoogle sub is a good resource, as is the !privacy@lemmy.ml comm.
3·24 days agoThis is actually the main plot in Orson Scott Card’s “Worthing Saga”, although I’ve seen the concept explored in Peter F. Hamilton’s Commonwealth series and Richard Morgan’s Takashi Kovacs novels.
It’s a fascinating concept to think about, and frankly depressing because it feels uncomfortably close to the reality we’re headed towards.
Here’s Mitt Romney and Anthony Blinken’s explanation for the ban’s passage:
TLDR:
Then Romney explained that the TikTok ban overwhelmingly passed both chambers of Congress because of the widespread Palestinian advocacy on the app.
The other concern I’ve heard, and has not been brought up in this thread yet, is the lobbying influence from rideshare companies to pass the congestion laws.
It’s arguable that ride share vehicles are a better traffic density alternative to single rider personal vehicles, but there are pretty clear downsides to consider as well.
Source:
1·1 month agoIt appears to be related to fiber optics, here’s the best resource I found:
2·1 month agoGreat topic, thanks for posting!
Relevant username (Final Architecture)
Others in no particular order:
- Skyward Quadrilogy. A new YA Sci-Fi from Brandon Sanderson. Some similar world elements to final architecture actually, but in a pretty interesting divergence. Really great ship combat pulled off as eloquently as sword play in Stormlight.
- Reckoners Series. Another genre departure for Brandon Sanderson, and also in one I don’t typically pursue (cape stuff). But I think it really worked, and Sanderson’s talent for hard magic systems fit well with the superpowers concept in the books.
- Ten Thousand Doors of January.
I also feel compelled to mention giving up with Peter F. Hamilton. I’ve read lots of the Commonwealth ones years ago, but struggle with the self-insert, male wish fulfillment that all of his characters seem to suffer from. I tried one last time with The Night’s Dawn trilogy, but dropped it halfway through the second book. I was mostly along for the ride with the novel spiritual elements, and I also liked the Biomechanical / Ship AI technology. But the characters were all just pretty meh and I had a hard time caring. Also, the Al Capone thing was pretty strange lol.
11·1 month agoI’m pretty experienced in some technical ways, but still learning a lot on Linux / kernel level. I appreciate your comment as I learn more about lower level architectures like this.
Reading about the Hurd microkernal was really interesting, here’s the wiki article for others:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Hurd
Def open to other suggestions on good resources for these topics.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Waters
Legendary artist / filmmaker. His movies are not for everyone and can be tough watches at points but also hilarious and with some great characters.
2·2 months agoYeah for me the understanding really came when working in a federated GraphQL API. Each team had us own little slice of overall object graph, and overlap / duplication / confusing objects across the whole domain were a lot easier to see in that environment.
31·2 months agoI was at a tech conference recently, and the local city tech department was showing off the cameras all around the city. They were all tracking individual vehicles with computer vision, across town as the traffic moved from one camera to another.
I didn’t get a chance to ask them whether law enforcement used the data, but I’m pretty sure that’s a given.
Check out 404 media! I’m a big supporter of independent media, but there’s been a real lack of high quality, competent tech journalism for the last few years.
They launched in the last few months and I’ve been pretty impressed with their coverage so far.
Even their coverage though could be called at the intersection of current events <> technology. When I want pure tech news, I usually watch YouTube channels that specialize in related topics ( like Asionometry for silicon design or Dave2d for device reviews).
4·3 months agoSilicon manufacturing is one of my obsessive interests. For anyone else interested in learning more, I’ve learned a lot from the Asianometry YouTube channels.
Do it! I just made the switch (using PopOS as my distro, AMD CPU, 1080ti GPU) and haven’t had much trouble with my extensive Steam collection. The biggest issue so far was Bioshock Infinite which actually runs native and I had to edit some configs for texture pools. SteamVR / Index has been a little unstable but seems to generally work (I don’t use it enough to be sure if it’s Linux or my hardware getting old).
SteamDB has been a excellent resource for checking compatibility and game specific tweaks.
I went in with really low hopes, but ended up liking the new Alien Romulus movie, due to some of the reasons you outlined.
It’s not perfect and has its dumb choices (uncanny valley de-aged android from Alien, stupid callback lines). But the characters are generally all solid, and there’s just enough world building without getting too expository. And there’s a new twist on alien morphology that was interesting and straight up good horror.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_dentistry
In 1998, a man was arrested in Van Nuys, California for operating an unlicensed dental practice out of the back of a toy store in a strip mall.
Archive link:
https://archive.is/RUB7x