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Disney says subscribers are happy to sit through some ads
Disney Plus’ ad-supported tier is becoming popular among new subscribers. Fifty percent of new users signed up for the plan from March to September of 2023.Emma Roth (The Verge)
Petrol/gas prices are a major cause for our current inflation.
Petrol is holding up inflation – the 7 graphs that show what’s happening to prices and what it will mean for interest rates
Petrol is holding up inflation – the 7 graphs that show what's happening to prices and what it will mean for interest rates
Inflation has slipped from 6% to 5.4%, but the price of petrol climbed 7.2% in the September quarter. Much depends on what the RBA thinks will happen from here on.The Conversation
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This is a problem that can be solved without lowering the price of petrol.
Indeed it's probably best and most quickly solved by increasing the price of petrol!
Nature Is Beautiful: This Stupid Little Bird Probably Has Some Dumb Name Like Violet Cockass Or Billow-Throated Goochtail Or Something
The wonders of the natural world are without number, and something truly magnificent has reminded us just how beautiful this Earth can be: This stupid…Jewel Galbraith (ClickHole)
_Moth_ names, on the other hand, are truly, deliciously wild: Angle Shades; Blair's Mocha; Bloxworth Snout; Old Lady; Silky Wave; The Satellite—honestly, I am not making these up.
NASA Supports Tests of Dust Sensor to Aid Lunar Landings - NASA
University of Central Florida researchers tested an instrument designed to measure the size and speed of surface particles kicked up by the exhaust from aLoura Hall (NASA)
Glenn Hangar Has Long Been the Face of the Center - NASA
The Flight Research Building, or hangar, at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland has not only housed the center’s aircraft and Flight Operations team forNASA
NASA Technologies Receive Multiple Nods in TIME Inventions of 2023 - NASA
As NASA explores, innovates, and inspires through its work, agency inventions aimed at monitoring atmospheric pollution, studying samples from asteroids,Roxana Bardan (NASA)
NASA Technologies Receive Multiple Nods in TIME Inventions of 2023 - NASA
As NASA explores, innovates, and inspires through its work, agency inventions aimed at monitoring atmospheric pollution, studying samples from asteroids,Roxana Bardan (NASA)
Researchers have built a superconducting camera with 400,000 pixels, which is so sensitive it can detect single photons. It comprises a grid of wires with no resistance until a photon strikes them. This shuts down the superconductivity in the grid, sending a signal. By combining the locations and intensities of the signals, the camera generates an image. These devices have been possible for decades but with a fraction of the pixel count of this new version.
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NIST Team Develops Highest-Resolution Single-Photon Superconducting Camera | NIST
Researchers at NIST and their colleagues have built a superconducting camera containing 400,000 pixels — 400 times more than any other device of its type.NIST
Valheim testing a Unity upgrade with lots of optimizations gamingonlinux.com/2023/10/valh…
#Valheim #Unity #SteamDeck #Linux #PCGaming
Valheim testing a Unity upgrade with lots of optimizations
Iron Gate announced a new public test release Beta of Valheim, which brings with it a Unity game engine upgrade that includes multiple performance enhancements to improve the game. So time to get testing.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Develop for Nextcloud: App development tutorials
These app development tutorials will help you easily write new Nextcloud applications, extend existing features or integrate other software.Nextcloud
NASA, JAXA Benefit from Collaborative Fellowship Experience - NASA
A yearlong journey of cultural and professional development overseas has a NASA Deep Space Logistics employee excited about current and future collaborationJim Cawley (NASA)
"Ge Bai, a professor of Accounting and Health Policy at Johns Hopkins University, said that for any business to survive, they must go after their debt."
Bingo.
American healthcare is a predatory business that's simply sits and waits until you need it, and then you're fucked. What it *isn't* is a public service that prioritizes public health & human development.
Are there any developed nations that I am allowed to move to?
nysfocus.com/2023/10/27/medica…
Medical Debt Reforms Haven't Stopped Fear of Health Care Costs
Despite state attempts to rein in medical debt collection, some New Yorkers decline care out of concern they'll get sued.New York Focus
Oh yeah and the mental health hotline was off work because it was a weekend when my friend had a huge crisis. Their automated advice? Call the cops.
My friend is alive and okay today, despite the mental health system. Not because of it.
ARK: Survival Ascended out now and enabled BattlEye for Steam Deck gamingonlinux.com/2023/10/ark-…
ARK: Survival Ascended out now and enabled BattlEye for Steam Deck
Studio Wildcard with Grove Street Games and Instinct Games have released ARK: Survival Ascended, a full Unreal Engine 5 remake of ARK: Survival Evolved and it's playable on Steam Deck.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Steam Scream: The Revenge is live for a week of Halloween deals on Steam gamingonlinux.com/2023/10/stea…
#Steam #PCGaming #SteamDeck #Linux
Steam Scream: The Revenge is live for a week of Halloween deals on Steam
If you prefer Steam as your main store the Steam Scream: The Revenge event is live now until November 2nd, featuring discounts and demos for some spooky times.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
GOG giving away Blacksad: Under the Skin during their Halloween Sale gamingonlinux.com/2023/10/gog-…
GOG giving away Blacksad: Under the Skin during their Halloween Sale
Here's another chance to pick up a free game, as GOG are now giving away Blacksad: Under the Skin as part of their ongoing Halloween Seen I recently covered here.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
NASA-ISRO Radar Mission to Provide Dynamic View of Forests, Wetlands - NASA
NISAR will help researchers explore how changes in Earth’s forest and wetland ecosystems are affecting the global carbon cycle and influencing climate change.Anthony Greicius (NASA)
The scans of my first roll of HP5 just came in. Most shots turned out quite boring but here is one of my wife that I like.
Canon AE-1 Program
Ilford HP5
Helios 44M 58mm/2
#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #MonochromePhotography
NASA en español Senior Science Writer and Editor Noelia González - NASA
“Obviously, Spanish has a lot to do with accessibility and broadening our audiences. We are using Spanish as a tool to break those barriers to connect withNASA
Join NASA to Celebrate Worm Design, Influence with Original Designer - NASA
Media are invited to hear a discussion on the design and cultural significance of the worm logotype with NASA and its creator Richard Danne at 11:30 a.m. ESTNASA
NASA Rocket to See Sizzling Edge of Star-Forming Supernova - NASA Science
A new sounding rocket mission is headed to space to understand how explosive stellar deaths lay the groundwork for new star systems.science.nasa.gov
Webbed Briefs - Open Collective
Videos about the web, its technologies, and how to make the most of them.opencollective.com
How many animals have ever existed on Earth?
To figure out this mind-bogglingly high number, we need to know how many species have ever lived, dig deep into the fossil record and do a lot of math.Joanna Thompson (Live Science)
I'm so proud of Keren, one of our recent graduates in the Media and Public Engagement MA program, for her work on the spirituality and politics of a Nigerian musical instrument: m.youtube.com/watch?v=5b443u_5…
If you're interested in graduate work on making community-centered media, learn more about the program here: colorado.edu/cmci/academics/me…
My CU Journey: Meet Keren.
Colorado’s breathtaking beauty drew Keren from Nigeria to CU. She quickly found a home and a campus community that helped her spread her wings. Start your jo...YouTube
NASA Updates Commercial Crew Planning Manifest - NASA
NASA and its industry partners Boeing and SpaceX are planning for the next set of missions to the International Space Station for theDanielle Sempsrott (NASA)
Progress Continues Toward NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test to Station - NASA
Once the spacecraft meets the agency’s safety requirements, NASA’s Boeing Starliner Crew Flight Test (CFT) will see astronauts ButchDanielle Sempsrott (NASA)
Long-read-based genome assembly reveals numerous endogenous viral elements in the green algal bacterivore Cymbomonas tetramitiformis
Abstract. The marine tetraflagellate Cymbomonas tetramitiformis has drawn attention as an early diverging green alga that uses a phago-mixotrophic mode of nutriGyaltshen, Yangtsho (Oxford University Press)
the PC-98 to Windows switchover was just the Japanese version of the DOS to Windows switchover, and there were also plenty of holdouts in the west as well.
It's just that in Japan, two things happened. A lot of people were buying PCs for the first time, and NEC was overcharging for inferior hardware. The PDF related has a whole summary of why this happened, and there were a lot of things not mentioned from the video hardware staying unchanged to how nobody else was allowed to build clones.
NEC 100% fucked themselves over to the point they sell desktops/laptops in a joint venture with...Lenovo now.
The other important thing to note here is that without Windows, there were 3 main DOS architectures (DOS/V which was essentially a localized version of MS-DOS, the NEC PC-98/Epson clones, and the Fujitsu FMR/FM Towns). DOS programs were written to use direct hardware access, Windows programs used APIs and as a result you could abstract away the hardware differences between the PC-98, FM Towns/FMR, and whatever piece of shit you bought at Wal-Mart back in the day.
If it wasn't Windows, Linux would have done the same thing. Or OS/2. Or BSD. In fact as a result of the abstraction, Windows NT/2k works with more PCI devices and western off the shelf software than on Windows 9x on the PC-98.
Glenn Hangar Has Long Been the Face of the Center - NASA
The Flight Research Building, or hangar, at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland has not only housed the center’s aircraft and Flight Operations team forNASA
Two weeks left to apply for this postdoc in my group:
embl.org/jobs/position/EBI0215…
Deadline 9th November
EMBL Jobs
We offer a wide range of challenging scientific and non-scientific positions at all of our European locations and encourage applications from international candidates at all career levels.www.embl.org
Hubble Captures a Galactic Dance - NASA Science
This striking image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures the interacting galaxy pair known as Arp-Madore 2339-661.science.nasa.gov
APOD: 2023 October 27 - Encke and the Tadpoles
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
PhylteR: efficient identification of outlier sequences in phylogenomic datasets.
PhylteR can automatically identify sequences likely to be hidden paralogs or horizontally transferred genes in very large datasets. Removing those sequences therefore reduces noise in downstream analyses.
Available as an R package on CRAN or as docker and singularity images.
Package:
cran.r-project.org/web/package…
Paper:
ebi.ac.uk/about/news/updates-f…
A leap in user experience: AlphaFold Database introduces sequence-based search and structure cluster members
In response to user community demands, the AlphaFold Protein Structure database has introduced sequence-based search and cluster members.www.ebi.ac.uk
Are you attending #SC23 and do you want to learn how to program GPUs with #OpenMP ? Join Tom Deakin, Simon McIntosh-Smith and Tim Mattson for their tutorial!
Date: Monday, 13 November 2023
Time: 8:30am - 5pm MST
Location: 203
For a sneak preview, check out:
youtube.com/watch?v=so7OsHCxaq…
Programming Your GPU with OpenMP: A "Hands-On" Introduction Supercomputing 2023 Tutorial Promo video
Join Tom Deakin, Simon McIntosh-Smith and Tim Mattson for our Supercomputing 2023 hands-on tutorial to learn how to program your GPU with OpenMP.Ssh icons cr...YouTube
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