LucifarGundam @lucifargundam@social.cleverlibre.org

@nyx

Also refused to hire me.

@lanodan @Hyolobrika@berserker.town @icedquinn

Because the safety of the nation trump's individual freedom? At least that's the idea.

I'm in no way stating my stance on the topic- only conveying information.

@lanodan @Hyolobrika@berserker.town @icedquinn

Some admins would be sadface to hear you say that on Fedi

@baldengineer

There's a reason I hate Adobe more than Microsoft- and that's a lot coming from a Linux user.

@Pat

Supposedly the idea cam from some sticker weeds getting caught on some blue overalls when the farmer was working on a field.

No idea if true, and at this point it's been around long enough it doesn't matter much functionally.

@kell_topaz@mstdn.social

Sorry, I'm a subhuman suburban. Trying to become a human hermit. I don't speak ur urban ;)

@icedquinn
I pictured actual fudge dice. On a good roll, you eat it. On a bad roll, your lose it.

@lanodan @lynne

...The H.264 standard can be viewed as a "family of standards" composed of a number of different profile...

We are legion, for we are maaaannnyyyy....

@acjay very much!!
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Studying samples of this ancient concrete, he and his team determined that the white inclusions were, indeed, made out of various forms of calcium carbonate. And spectroscopic examination provided clues that these had been formed at extreme temperatures, as would be expected from the exothermic reaction produced by using quicklime instead of, or in addition to, the slaked lime in the mixture. Hot mixing, the team has now concluded, was actually the key to the super-durable nature.

“The benefits of hot mixing are twofold,” Masic says. “First, when the overall concrete is heated to high temperatures, it allows chemistries that are not possible if you only used slaked lime, producing high-temperature-associated compounds that would not otherwise form. Second, this increased temperature significantly reduces curing and setting times since all the reactions are accelerated, allowing for much faster construction.”

During the hot mixing process, the lime clasts develop a characteristically brittle nanoparticulate architecture, creating an easily fractured and reactive calcium source, which, as the team proposed, could provide a critical self-healing functionality. As soon as tiny cracks start to form within the concrete, they can preferentially travel through the high-surface-area lime clasts. This material can then react with water, creating a calcium-saturated solution, which can recrystallize as calcium carbonate and quickly fill the crack, or react with pozzolanic materials to further strengthen the composite material. These reactions take place spontaneously and therefore automatically heal the cracks before they spread. Previous support for this hypothesis was found through the examination of other Roman concrete samples that exhibited calcite-filled cracks.

@hackernews@die-partei.social

Christine Lambrecht has resigned as Germany's defense minister following a much-criticized New Year's eve message. Her year in office became a succession of minor scandals and statements that many saw as tone-deaf.
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Lambrecht had been under intense pressure over a video she posted on Instagram on New Year's Day from the streets of Berlin, in which she attempted to recapitulate her experiences of the war in Ukraine but was almost drowned out by the noise of fireworks exploding around her.

Members of the opposition Christian Democratic Union (CDU) called out the message as tone-deaf and urged her to resign.
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@hackernews@die-partei.social
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Houston Chronicle reporter Stephanie Asin was with Yeltsin on the visit to the grocery store that day.

Yeltsin, then 58, “roamed the aisles of Randall’s nodding his head in amazement,” wrote Asin. He told his fellow Russians in his entourage that if their people, who often must wait in line for most goods, saw the conditions of U.S. supermarkets, “there would be a revolution.”

“Even the Politburo doesn’t have this choice. Not even Mr. Gorbachev,” he said.

The fact that stores like these were on nearly every street corner in America amazed him. They even offered free cheese samples. According to Asin, Yeltsin didn’t leave empty-handed, as he was given a small bag of goodies to enjoy on his trip.
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@hackernews@die-partei.social
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had the added pressure of feeling like I was representing my entire gender with my performance.

My manager at the time must have noticed my anxiety around this, and he did a wonderful thing. He made the timing aspect of it super explicit for me. He would do things like give me my next task and then say “try and get this done, if at any point you have spent an hour without making any progress, come and ask for help”. Then I knew how long was too long to spin my wheels on something on my own. Most of the time, I could keep figuring things out on my own, but when I couldn’t I could approach my manager without worrying whether I was bothering him “too soon”.
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@hackernews@die-partei.social

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Naturally, it was cancelled on a cliffhanger after a single season because it didn’t attract enough viewership or have enough people finish all the episodes in some arbitrary stretch of time.

But what’s happened now is that this has happened so often with so many shows, that Netflix has created a self-fulfilling loop with many series that probably could have gone on to become valuable catalogue additions otherwise.

The idea is that since you know that Netflix cancels so many shows after one or two seasons, ending them on cliffhangers and leaving their storylines unfinished, it’s almost not worth investing in a show until it’s already ended, and you know it’s going to have a coherent ending and finished arc.
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Mmm... Sugar #cookies #cookiesofmastodon

I guess I have to be an arse to move forward... Well, whatever works I suppose.

@ocean

did I say buy buy buy?

i meant bye bye bye

@peterdrake

hehe...hehe... whale go boom.