ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au
Joined Nov 2022
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'Unbreakable' quantum communication closer to reality thanks to new, exceptionally bright photons
https://www.space.com/unbreakable-quantum-communication-bright-photons
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Comets are made from a collection of small icy particles that formed in the early Solar System. As they approach the Sun for the first time, tidal forces and radiation pressure cause them to crumble, shedding smaller meteoroids that follow them in orbit. When those meteoroids cross Earth's orbit, we see them as a meteor shower. A new paper suggests that the meteor showers we see can explain the sizes of the particles that went into the formation of the comet.
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Hot language take:
More languages need sentence modifiers like ね (ja), kan (id) and innit (en-GB) for when you're 99% sure of something but want the listener to be able to confirm or refute the information.
Ex.
今日寒いね?
Hari ini dingin, kan?
Cold today, innit?
Are there other languages that do this that I can marvel at?
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Some ads just don't age well.
Humble Oil became Standard Oil became Exxon became ExxonMobile became monsters.
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My book The Everything Guide to Remote Work has tons of tips for remote job interviews. Why? Hiring managers told me the interview doubles as a screening process to make sure candidates know the etiquette & norms of working remotely. It's things like:
⏱ giving a time zone when you schedule the interview
🎧 wearing headphones on the call
🎤 muting your mic if there are more than 2-3 people on the call
...and many more tips in my book!
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Florida's housing market is seeing 'nightmare scenarios' as buyers back out due to affordability concerns
Read more: https://t.co/JLApWKciLV
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As seen in the Anarchist Pedagogigies Collective
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I am not going to lie, I distinctly remember electronics from my childhood being less fragile, and computers being less pissy with hardware (drivers are another thing).
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https://uk.news.yahoo.com/alien-life-might-actually-look-101500218.html
How likely is it that we’re not alone in the universe? The idea goes in and out of fashion. The problem is that we’re the only life we know of. “We are both the observer and the observation,” says Nathalie Cabrol, chief scientist at the SETI Institute in California and the author of The Secret Life of the Universe, a bestseller in her native France, “We are life trying to understand itself and its origin.”
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This artwork by @kellybrownsays (on another platform) is perfect and speaks volumes!
h/t to my friend @MikeMayak for the image
#TimWalz #VP #candidate #election2024 #politics #USpol #Harris #book #CharlottesWeb #EBWhite #spider #web
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20 Books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers.
Day 5
Goodbye, things by Fumio Sasaki
This book helped me maintain my debt-free life. It basically short-circuited my desire to cheer myself up by buying things.
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Tim #Walz said that when he signed the school lunch bill he was at an elementary school, in a classroom, and he was explaining to the kids what it meant. He said "now all your friends can eat." And they mobbed him because they immediately knew exactly what it meant and why it mattered. That's the backstory of the ecstatic photos with the kids. You don't need much more than that to know why you should #VoteBlue. Bringing back the joy. #HarrisWalz2024
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More than 80% of all carbon emissions have happened during my lifetime 😲 (ht @cstross & @infobeautiful)
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Horror story, but apparently it's true.
I'm sitting in an AWS meetup, and a dude is telling a story about how 50 people physically showed up on a Tuesday at his wife's Fortune 500 company.
All 50 people said that they start their new job today. She works in HR, she has 0 new employees starting today.
Apparently scammers had completely mirrored the company's career website, conducted interviews with these candidates, sent them written offer letters, had them fill out I-9 forms to start their new jobs... An insane phishing attack where the scammers have gathered everything there is to know about these 50 people, including banking information "for credit checks," social security numbers, everything you hand over to a new employer to accept a job offer.
Obviously, devastating for these 50 people. Not only has their TOTAL identity been stolen, they're still unemployed.
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I just found my old periodic table shoes after being missing for about ten years and the disappointed look on my husband's face implies he's the one who hid them.
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Obvious bias here against the cybersecurity community ...
Joined Nov 2022
