A similar one I recently discovered is https://www.youtube.com/@SleepOnPhysics. I think it was meant to put you to sleep with the detailed narrative, but I found it to be very interesting and captivating, especially for long drives.
The content quality is pretty good, I am almost certain the audio is AI generated, but wonder how the content itself was authored.
Amazes me how people in a tech industry paying six figures refuse to pay a tiny percentage of their income to get rid of adverts on something that consumes so much time.
There's a very emotional "I'm not paying for YouTube" feeling that some people have. They try and justify it with logic after the fact, but the underlying principal seems too simply be "I'm not gonna pay for YouTube, I deserve to get everything for free!" Like, you get paid at your job where you work, which gets you money. Paying other people money for their work, however, suddenly that's just not ok. Somehow.
I avoid sponsorship read outs by choosing the channels I spend my time on, especially if it’s mid roll. Those people are bypassing the built in ad system and deliberately placing the read out in a place where it’s annoying for you to skip.
I can't speak for other cheapskates, but I personally think it's more that YouTube is still so utterly inessential that if ads ever start managing to get past my ad blockers, I'll simply not watch.
There appears to be a severe regression in the Claude Code CLI that makes it nearly impossible to use for extended sessions right now. Since the weekend, premium quotas are being drained in 10 to 15 minutes. According to GitHub issue, the CLI is instantly hitting rate limits even with extremely high cache hit rates (98%+). A single workflow goes from 0 to 100% quota usage almost immediately. For a tool that costs 100+ dollars per month for these higher limits, getting locked out after two prompts is incredibly frustrating. Cant say if this is a temporary bug, or a taste of things to come.
You could get a dev board and a breakout board on aliexpress for less than $6 - this way you can get away without any soldering for most use cases. And if you use esphome and homeassistant, pretty much all code is just configuration and setup in homeassistant.
That's a good bout of nostalgia - almost felt like watching an episode of Halt and Catch Fire. Joel, PG and Steve Yegge where some of the influential writers of that time who seemed to have a big impact on how people thought about careers, startups and corporate life.
So if I understood you and the original paper correctly, this observation is not in conflict with the Standard Model or Lambda-CDM and that this is an observational outcome of general relativity. Is that a correct statement? If so, then those models may need to incorporate why this may have happened, right?
Edit: Thank you for the detailed post. Learned a few things from it.
It's support for \Lambda-CDM, which is the standard model of cosmology. The standard model of particle physics is only involved to the extent that it explains spectral emission and absorption lines in the first place; locally the physics of electromagnetism vs hydrogen ions (among others) works the same over-there-back-then and here-and-now.
Sorry that there's two "standard model"s. One often hears "concordance model" or "standard cosmology" or \Lambda-CDM instead, as a result.
This study's novelty is in showing that [a] the changing luminosities of both families of variable quasar can be usefully compared and [b] similar variable quasars have similar luminosity-changing rates at similar redshift; if the redshifts differ, the less-redshifted one's brightness changes more frequently and more quickly.
It was surprising to come across an article on geological or planet-scale phenomena that did not mention human activities as a contributing factor to the changes being discussed. Effects of Anthropocene are still only skin deep.
The damage obviously goes beyond humans (for example coral reefs are getting decimated), but it's true the planet has endured far greater assaults in the past, and life has marched on. Environmentalism is Humanism in disguise. The risk is that we'll soil the crib and turn the planet into a hell-hole for future generations of humans.
A few years ago, we were building somethings to integrate with multiple expense and invoice management systems. Concur's odata based APIs were by far one of the worst integration experiences I had. (Even worse than integrating with dot net SOAP APIs from AXIS and Java)
You could see that some of the older APIs were well documented and thought out and the new versions were considerably worse. What we realized was that the earlier versions were built prior to SAP acquiring Concur.
