Heya! I thought I’d mention that I’ve been doing a bunch of development on the optical Timex Datalink watches! I have been carefully sniffing data from the original Timex software with a logic analyzer, and have fully reverse engineered every Datalink protocol, the serial Notebook Adapter, and even the CRT syncing graphics!...
Probably going to get downvoted for this, but I tend to agree that AA, as it stood, had run its course. Getting rid of it now clears the way for new and better solutions.
“Universities all across the country will begin to experiment with a whole variety of admissions techniques that are race-neutral in the sense that race is not an explicit factor, but not race-neutral in the sense that they’re intended to produce diversity,” says Jeremy R. Paul, a professor of law and former dean of the Northeastern University School of Law.
Paul says many universities are going to have to up their recruitment efforts, increase partnerships with community colleges and high-poverty high schools, and invest more in scholarships and financial aid.
“These are things that universities will want to do anyway, because they’re good things to do,” Paul says.
Dan Urman, director of the law and public policy minor at Northeastern, who teaches courses on the Supreme Court, says the ruling means that universities will have to redouble their efforts to maintain diverse student bodies. Urman says there are examples of states opting out of affirmative action policies to mixed results.
“My home state of California abolished affirmative action in 1996 in a vote called Proposition 209, and California universities spent a lot of time and resources recruiting, establishing programs,” he says. “They were able to get diversity, not back to where it was before … but let’s say they were able to avoid some of the worst predictions of what would happen to diversity.”
One potential solution to maintain diversity are so-called percentage plans, where students who graduate at the top of their classes at each respective high school are guaranteed spots in universities. The first percentage plan was signed into law in 1997 in Texas by then-Gov. George W. Bush. It permits any student from “a Texas public high school in the top 10% of his or her class to get into any Texas public college, without any SAT or ACT score.”
Are you guys tired of the "Material You" design? I don't really like the huge paddings on everything aspect of it. Also a lot of it feels too flat. What do you guys think?
Obligatory mention for those who don't know yet : you can find what files a program use by using strace <command> (provided strace is installed). It actually logs all syscalls made by the program, so there will be a lot of noise, but in there you will find the access() and open() calls.
Additionally, if you want to strace programs that already are running in a convenient interface, htop has strace support (this is less useful to find configuration files, as those are usually read at the start of the program, but if you can trigger a save to the file, it will appear here).
I've had an absolute overkill vault for years and intend to switch to a sack (obvs unless the area has aggressive bears and/or the park specifies vaults are required)....
I find it very easy to lock myself into one or two different ratios simply because I don't want to do math first thing in the morning. But sometimes, especially if there's coffee that's just finicky, a big swing in ratio can be just the thing....
For decades scientists noticed that quantum phenomena respect something called CP-symmetry, that is a really posh way to say "if you sub your particle with an antiparticle and invert its spatial coordinates, the laws of physics will stay the same". So for example it doesn't really matter if you have an electron at (1,1,1) or a positron at (-1,-1,-1), the effect is the same.
There are some exceptions (called CP violations) but for most part CP-symmetry is a real phenomenon. And one of those violations that could happen is when you're dealing with quarks (the junk that protons and neutrons are composed of). And if something can happen, in quantum mechanics, it will happen. So why don't CP violations happen?
Based on that, in 1977 Roberto Peccei and Helen Quinn predicted a new particle, that they named "axion" after some laundry detergent, as "it washed off the problem" (yup - scientists being silly with names, nothing new). That axion particle would be a really small particle, but with mass (unlike photons), and it compensates the predicted CP violation.
Now, to the link: apparently axions are a real thing, and they explain (at least partially) what dark matter is supposed to be.
I don't know if this helps but starting at roughly 39:00 of this Fermilabs lecture the lecturer mentions that lighter the dark matter particle is more wave like it behaves and so you have to imagine like a "fluid" of waves that can be macroscopic.
I've played with pretty much any film I come across, and in terms of cost-benefit I've settled on Fomapan films. I like the grain structure, they are some of the cheapest BW film available and have great latitude if you like to mess with stand development. I shot this photo on a Pentax ME camera using Fomapan 100. Developed at...
I've also settled on Fomapan. I mostly tend to use 200 or 400, but I've also found that pushing the 400 to 1600 to do some night time city shooting is a really fun time.
Definitely depends on my mood, but my go-to's are HP5 and Fomapan 100 because I stocked up on bulk rolls and I'm still working through it. I've also got a little stash of Agfa Cinerex IC1N that I like to shoot with, it's a little slower, but it tends to be quite contrasty without the need for orange/red filters or pusing. This is an older shot from when I was messing around with it, I think from my very first roll.
This is the smartwatch I own. True netrunners know that the tech we wear on (or under) our skin is a prime entry vector for ever hungry megacorps to bleed the pulsing data from our digital veins, so having a wearable I have full control over is of paramount importance. I can flash it with new firmware whenever I want, the...
Do you know any service that does that? Right now I have reached 5GB of my phone contract and I have to navigate with a very low speed. I was thinking to write a simple service that takes the URL as request and sends back the page but in read mode or in a very minimal way keeping focus only on the content. But I want to check if...
I'd love to see what kind of a game dev community we have here on beehaw and help each other out. Whether you use Unreal, Unity, Godot or even your own engine, let's see what you got!
But in the past I've worked on a fully kinematic parkour character control with wallrunning, grappling, dashing, mantling, etc. Character controllers are probably one of my favorite aspects to program. Something about the vector math and physics just feels good to solve.
I'd suggest that the right way to handle this is, if the "Hide adult content" checkbox under settings is checked, it should prevent this from happening. (Currently it makes no difference, afaict.)
Seriously, though, Comic Sans was originally designed to be legible at the smallest possible font size, and the lack of hard lines makes it easier to read!
I reverse-engineered all Timex Datalink watches and devices, the Notebook Adapter, and the CRT graphics in Ruby! (lemmy.world)
Heya! I thought I’d mention that I’ve been doing a bunch of development on the optical Timex Datalink watches! I have been carefully sniffing data from the original Timex software with a logic analyzer, and have fully reverse engineered every Datalink protocol, the serial Notebook Adapter, and even the CRT syncing graphics!...
US supreme court rules against affirmative action in Harvard and UNC cases
From The Guardian...
Are you guys tired of "Material You" design?
Are you guys tired of the "Material You" design? I don't really like the huge paddings on everything aspect of it. Also a lot of it feels too flat. What do you guys think?
Everything that uses configuration files should report where they're located (utcc.utoronto.ca)
City blocks, bus, or other?
Was curious how people design their factories. I typically do a main bus but decided to try city blocks this time and use a lot of trains.
I feel ashamed of trying to contribute to open source for a decade, but never finding a way to. Could someone help me?
I can code, but I never found my way into any project. It's hard to explain, but I'm sort of a dysfunctional human being....
swapping hard bear vault for sack, what to do with extra weight/volume availability
I've had an absolute overkill vault for years and intend to switch to a sack (obvs unless the area has aggressive bears and/or the park specifies vaults are required)....
Don't be afraid to change your ratio sometimes
I find it very easy to lock myself into one or two different ratios simply because I don't want to do math first thing in the morning. But sometimes, especially if there's coffee that's just finicky, a big swing in ratio can be just the thing....
The Evidence is Building that Dark Matter is Made of Axions (www.universetoday.com)
What's your go to B&W film?
I've played with pretty much any film I come across, and in terms of cost-benefit I've settled on Fomapan films. I like the grain structure, they are some of the cheapest BW film available and have great latitude if you like to mess with stand development. I shot this photo on a Pentax ME camera using Fomapan 100. Developed at...
There will be direct train service to the Great New York State Fair this summer — Time Out New York (apple.news)
Mayor Adams announces $75 million plan to improve outdated infrastructure in 'The Hole' (gothamist.com)
The mayor’s announcement follows a series of Gothamist stories detailing decrepit – and unsafe – conditions inside several apartments in the Hole....
PineTime - a $27 smartwatch that runs open source firmware and software that's easy to flash and easy to modify and tinker with (liliputing.com)
This is the smartwatch I own. True netrunners know that the tech we wear on (or under) our skin is a prime entry vector for ever hungry megacorps to bleed the pulsing data from our digital veins, so having a wearable I have full control over is of paramount importance. I can flash it with new firmware whenever I want, the...
Service to load a minimal version of web pages in case of low connection speed
Do you know any service that does that? Right now I have reached 5GB of my phone contract and I have to navigate with a very low speed. I was thinking to write a simple service that takes the URL as request and sends back the page but in read mode or in a very minimal way keeping focus only on the content. But I want to check if...
OC Looking up from the Jefferson Memorial
Damp Bells (lemmy.ca)
A segment of a string of post-rainshower bells that I saw while hiking the Jug Island Trail in Belcarra, BC.
Some latte art experimentation (midwest.social)
Any indie/hobbiest game devs here? Show off what you're working on!
I'd love to see what kind of a game dev community we have here on beehaw and help each other out. Whether you use Unreal, Unity, Godot or even your own engine, let's see what you got!
Can we stop showing NSFW subs on the sidebar?
There's a few NSFW communities who keep getting advertised on the sidebar, showing an inappropriate photo. I don't care to see it.
I have a confession to make... I code in Comic Sans (dtinth.github.io)
Seriously, though, Comic Sans was originally designed to be legible at the smallest possible font size, and the lack of hard lines makes it easier to read!