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When your family is so brilliant they die from it.

From a scientific point of view this is correct, the climate system is too complex to say this particular event is due to climate change. Exceptional events happened in the past too. So you can only draw conclusions from larger statistics. What's solid science is the increasing averages, increasing frequencies of extreme events etc. If it was scientifically informed, that's what this kind of sentence mean.

I have been using Deezer because it was local for me, France. At the beginning you could upload your own collection to share with others, it was fun. Now it's basically the same as the others, I think it pays artists a little bit more than Spotify. Also just learned that it is now majorly owned by some US investment fund. 🫠 At least it's not directly funding terminators yet?

The point is the Linux Kernel is covering the same security mitigations which make the CPU level ones redundant. If all users are using the Linux Kernel, why would it be an issue?

Ajuster l'offre et la demande d'électricité à quelques pouillemes prés en temps réel pour éviter que le système s'écroule est un défi technique énorme pour tous les pays, même développés (le Texas a régulièrement des problèmes par exemple). Il y a normalement pas mal de sécurités pour absorber les déséquilibres, mais il y a eu des défaillances en chaîne la-dessus. Le renouvelable a probablement joué un rôle parce qu'il démultiplie les sources et donc rend le système d'équilibre plus compliqué. Mais il a suffisamment d'autres avantages qui compensent la complexité additionnel. Je pense qu'il n'y a que les populistes anti renouvelable qui trouveront dans cet incident un argument contre les renouvelables en général. Le problème était probablement dans la maintenance des systèmes qui sécurisent l'équilibrage.

You receive: Windows 95 theme on Xubuntu.

Reverse Saruman, the money he donated made him look white.

Macron, Bouleau, bobo

Whether an actor should be a half-billionaire is up for debate but if anyone should have that kind of money yes it’s artists, sportsball players, etc.

Why would it be more fair for them than CEOs? I'm not defending this one but asking in general.

I was surprised so I did the computation just to resolve the disk of Betelgeuse at 550 nm, and I found a telescope of 2.8 m, that's definitely already doable. We already have 8 m in one piece and 10 m segmented, JWST is 6.5 m segmented. The ELT is planned to be 39 m for 2028. So this star is closer and bigger than I thought.

And these are the images we have from one of the top imaging instrument SPHERE on the VLT in 2019. It's precise enough to show the change of shape due to its variable star type.

It would be the size of the telescope's diffraction artifacts probably. Meaning the shape you see on the picture is not related to the size of the star but only to the physical limits of the optical instrument. This diffraction pattern is proportional to the color your looking at and inversely proportional to the size of the telescope primary mirror. The bigger the telescope primary mirror, the smaller the diffraction pattern and the more chance you have that this artifact will not completely hide the object you are looking at. I didn't do the math, but I guess to image the actual disk of Betelgeuse, the size of the telescope you need is probably still science fiction, even with interferometry.

C'est de la psychologie inversée.