Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org
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For those who didn't know (or have forgotten), there's a PeerTube channel here with videos of the talks and Q&A sessions from the #ActivityPub conference we had in late 2020:
https://conf.tube/c/apconf_channel/videos
Picking through these videos is a great way to get a sense of where some of us wanted fediverse development to go, both technically and politically.
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Plutonium Pu-238 has a half-life of 87.7 years, i.e., in 87.7 years, 50% of its atoms decay to uranium-234 and then to lead-206.
But the RTG has already lost half its power in ~45 years. Why?
That is because the bi-metallic thermocouples, which are quite inefficient to begin with, also degrade over time.
Every year, Pu-238 degrades by 0.7872%. The thermocouples must also degrade by a comparable amount to account for the net power loss rate. See graph below.
Looks really good, will there be an English version of this too.
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Glad to see UK rejected the blatantly anti-competitive, anti-customer Microsoft buyout of Activision. Common sense prevailed, for once. https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/26/23689252/microsoft-activision-blizzard-acquisition-blocked-uk-cma
And let's stop calling buyouts "mergers" --
I think what you have there is correct
Depends, if you are quoting a post or someone else then you just quote what was said, or in this case the headline part.
It really does depend on the situation and context
As I said there is no right way to do something. e.g
dmesg (as root) gives you the last few messages from the kernel (I think) on a linux system, so running dmesg plug in device run dmesg again you see related messages.
But there are multiple ways of doing that.
I think with Pasta it depends on how you like it cooked.
We had a similar idea in the UK, a company spent several million developing a solution, then the UK gvernment decided to do something else, comany sued to get their money back.
Should is fine, I think that is more of an advisory, where as Must is more of a command.
So in terms of using the command shell, you should only use root privileges when needed, is advice, if you decide to do everything as root don't start crying when you mess something up.
You MUST use root privileges (e.g sudo su) to install software.
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RT @TTP_updates
Outsourcing antitrust policy to Google's allies is a recipe for regulatory capture. Read more from
@corporateeurope and @lobbycontrol: https://twitter.com/corporateeurope/status/1651128361215836162
I think it more down to being told 'you're doing it wrong, do it this way,' rather than providing ideas for different methods of cooking.
In a lot of cases there are no absolute right ways of doing things.
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@zleap @boilingsteam You should never eat plutonium.
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A super exciting talk at ISSI Bern today: Gavin A. Schmidt in "Climate Change from Space"
➡️ https://www.issibern.ch/online-seminars-game-changers/
(The ISSI talks are publicly broadcasted but they are very much scientific talks aimed at a professional scientific audience.)
If I understand things, these rises, plus icemelt from the arctic is causing ocean currents to shift, which in turn, affects the weather and climate.
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Jeff Bezos reportedly purchased a $75 million "support yacht" with a helipad to trail his $500 million superyacht.
Meanwhile, Amazon doesn't want workers to organize for better pay and safer working conditions.
This is what oligarchy looks like.
I have seen, and generally ignore the articles that say 'you're doing X wrong' too. I think they are mostly designed as click bait.
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How much does the academic peer review cost in notional staff time?
This paper got me thinking about how much my time commitment to the review process has cost my employers over my career so far.
The authors in this paper suggest each paper review has a US dollar cost of $1272 of time commitment.
And a previous paper suggests a US dollar cost of $1900 per person per year for the lead author submitting a paper. That is the time taken to format and submit a paper and then revise it.
These figures blow out to more than one billion US dollar annual cost for peer review alone. Which of course is typically done for free and often poorly recognized.
Scientific sinkhole: estimating the cost of peer review based on survey data with snowball sampling - Research Integrity and Peer Review https://researchintegrityjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s41073-023-00128-2
#peerreview #science #research #academia #academicchatter #publishing #ResearchIntegrity
This is now beyond parody, the implications for this sort of thing can be serious, surely someone is capable of doing some basic research and identifying if a media outlet is stateowned or not, e.gl the actual website, cross reference this with information from any regulatory bodies (ofcom inthe UK I guess) and people such as amnesty international.
It is hardly as if we are asking them to do or explain something complicated.
Someone at twitter needs to get a grip, Musk is clearly beyond useless, he cares for nothing.
We have the same choices here in Torbay, LibDeb or Conservative
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