In other news today...
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
Scientists say the Amazon has suffered losses at an accelerated rate since Mr Bolsonaro took office in January, with policies that favour development over conservation.
Brazil's space agency data showed an 88% increase in deforestation in June compared with the same month a year ago.
We don't really understand the complex interactions between chainsaws and the forest, but it's very unlikely that man is capable of significantly changing this vast, vast forest cover that is the Amazon. Of course, the consensus is that man is changing the forest! We don't know how, but probably like planting trees and such. Also, scientists said the Amazon rain forest is actually growing. And if it isn't, it's because of sunspots and anyway that's good for people, the land is earning money after all. People just have to adapt a bit.
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@LaoC That read like a Trump speech.
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
@LaoC That read like a Trump speech.
That was unintentional though, otherwise I'd have thrown in some some hyperlatives for good measure.
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
@LaoC That read like a Trump speech.
Not enough "we have the best forests, all our forests are great".
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
The US Navy will replace its touchscreen controls with mechanical ones on its destroyers
It's sad that people had to die in order for someone to realize how fucking dumb an idea it is to use touch screens for any kind of safety-critical control, let alone for a several-thousand ton warship.
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@Zecc
Probably because they aren't raked properly like Finland's.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
I'm fairly certain a U-turn is not what was used...
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Later...
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/06/world/americas/brazil-prison-escape-dead.html
Anyway.
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit I don't even know any system where null == "NULL", unless you're manually converting to string before comparing values.
Export to CSV.
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@LaoC I personally find those scientists quite condescendent for making such bold claims like it's just objective truth that and you're not allowed to disagree when there's so many valid arguments against it. You're literally not allowed to have differing beliefs without being harassed and insulted. And they claim to be the rational ones! This attitude is why Bolsonaro got elected.
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
Linux:
10 days since less secure than WindowsA bunch of stuff is prompting me to update today:
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
A bunch of stuff is prompting me to update today:
It can't be already patched, it takes 90 days+ for Microsoft
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@TimeBandit
They didn't patch it, they just nuked it.Linux(tm), giving you the Choice, at least until said Choice turns out to need work to fix a security hole.
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
Linux(tm), giving you the Choice
Yes, you can choose to update or not.
Windows may get that very nice feature one day (at least, you can hope)
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@pie_flavor Yeah, a nuclear powered missile seems like such a good idea... (maybe if the payload is also nuclear. Only maybe.)
That was the idea behind Project Pluto. Loiter indefinitely over the neighbour you dislike, then drop your nuclear bombs on them, then crash your flying nuclear reactor into them as well for good measure.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Sounds logical. Internet access might help treat poisoning, food won't help fix internet access.
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@Gąska But you can't use the internet while puking, whereas you can easily avoid vomiting without internet access.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@Gąska But you can't use the internet while puking
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@Gąska Do you have some kind of IoT toilet?
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@hungrier no, but I do have a hand with opposable thumb and a partially rotatable eye.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@Gąska But you can't use the internet while puking
Not with that attitude.
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@ixvedeusi said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
The US Navy will replace its touchscreen controls with mechanical ones on its destroyers
It's sad that people had to die in order for someone to realize how fucking dumb an idea it is to use touch screens for any kind of safety-critical control, let alone for a several-thousand ton warship.
It gets worse. I am pretty sure none of the aviation authorities would certify touchscreen for anything critical in an airplane and colleagues who worked on some projects for railway say that the railway authority would similarly never certify touchscreen at the engineer's station. Which means the Navy's quality certification sucks.
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I hope he's still using BMW
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@TimeBandit The river is holy, that's why you put all the trash in there. And cars. Cars too.
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@topspin And cows, I guess
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In case anyone was wondering...
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@boomzilla It does enhance natural selection though.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Damn. Something must be relying on those ads to load. Wait...
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@Tsaukpaetra , adblock and all
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
Linux: 0 days since less secure than Windows
Not for long
File under: Windows: always doing it better
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra , adblock and all
I turned off Adblock, just to be jazzy. All I get is a little tiny
null
at the top:I sadly cannot instantly find another video source based on the thumbnail so I guess I'm SOL on this news...
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@izzion said in In other news today...:
Linux: 0 days since less secure than Windows
Not for long
File under: Windows: always doing it better
From one of the comments:
Let's see … this is about a newly discovered 18-year-old vector of vulnerability which cannot be used to compromise a secure system, and has apparently never been used by malware to compromise any system.
Now that the CTF vulnerabilities have been discovered, I would expect that Microsoft will address them but, in the mean time, I don't have to worry because my system is secure.
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@Tsaukpaetra Here's the actual video:
https://www.uni-due.de/agfarle/bilder/StandingWaveComparison_480_2x_30_c - Kopie.gif
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra Here's the actual video:
https://www.uni-due.de/agfarle/bilder/StandingWaveComparison_480_2x_30_c - Kopie.gif
Now that I see the moving picture... I suppose I don't understand what's novel here?
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@Tsaukpaetra The regular one is a normal standing wave, and the other one is also a standing wave but it doesn't look like one.
Here's the text of the article
A wave consists of antinodes and nodes. If you imagine this on a rope, the antinodes are the areas which swing up and down, whereas nodes are the points in between. With a standing wave, nodes and antinodes always remain at the same position and do not move along the rope.
In travelling waves on the other hand, nodes and antinodes do not remain in place: If you start shaking a rope from one end, you will excite a wave that travels down the rope until it reaches the other end.
Benjamin Zingsem from the research group of UDE's Professor Michael Farle has now observed the apparent paradox for the first time: For this purpose, he worked with, what physicists call a chiral magnet: A magnetic material in which the so called Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction occurs. In such magnets, all dipoles – the tiny magnets that make up the solid – are slightly tilted towards each other with a certain direction, like screw windings.
If the system is resonantly excited, a standing wave with travelling properties is formed. This wave has stationary nodes and antinodes, but at the same time a continuous phase shift creates the impression of a travelling wave. "I had to look at it for a long time before I could put it into words. I only really understood it by watching a video of the phenomenon," says Zingsem.
The effect reveals previously unknown transport properties in such systems. Which may, for example, be harnessed in future technology, as, information can be stored, transmitted and processed via magnetic oscillations without generating heat, which is the main bottleneck in conventional electronics.
In general, standing waves are fundamental for understanding all types of matter and they are the foundation for our understanding of chemistry.
In this project Zingsem collaborated with colleagues from the University of Colorado (USA) and the University of Glasgow (UK).
Editor: Birte Vierjahn, +49 203 37-9 8176, birte.vierjahn@uni-due.de
Wissenschaftliche Ansprechpartner:
Benjamin Zingsem, Faculty of Physics and Forschungszentrum Jülich, +49 203 37-9 4411, benjamin.zingsem@uni-due.deOriginalpublikation:
B.W. Zingsem, M. Farle, R.L. Stamps, and R.E. Camley, Unusual nature of confined modes in a chiral system: Directional transport in standing waves Phys. Rev. B,99:214429, Jun 2019. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.99.214429Weitere Informationen:
Video of the phenomenon: http://udue.de/standingWaveComparison
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Yes, Bloomberg
FAA Bans Recalled MacBook Pros From Flights
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
the other one is also a standing wave but it doesn't look like one.
Ah. I didn't notice it was supposed to appear as not-a-standing wave. All I see is a static object being rotated, I guess it's supposed to look like it's moving from side to side?
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We're all going to die!
Presumably. Some day.
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Just flared
for a few hours
25000 years ago
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@Zecc It was doing the galactic black hole equivalent of nomming a sammich.
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@lolwhat said in In other news today...:
Hmm...
As temperatures in Dallas climbed to 103 degrees Fahrenheit (39 Celsius), the Electric Reliability Council of Texas issued an emergency alert
That makes for an emergency alert in Texas? Here in central Utah we've been getting temperatures like that all summer.
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@Mason_Wheeler That means your electric network has been well tested under load of all those air-conditioners though. But then, Texas is south of you, so…
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