Semprini's Harry Potter Fan Fiction
A collection of high quality novel-length fan fiction.semprini-stories.blogspot.com
In everyday life we encounter two kinds of forces: energetic forces and entropic forces.
When you hold a rock you feel it pushing your hand down. This is an energetic force: raising the rock increases its energy, while lowering it lowers its energy.
When you stretch a rubber band, you feel it pulling back. This is an entropic force. You're not mainly increasing its energy as you stretch it. You're decreasing its entropy! You are taking the tangled polymers in the rubber and forcing them to line up more neatly.
We see here a fundamental truth of thermodynamics: when the temperature is constant, the world wants to minimize its 'free energy', which is energy minus temperature times entropy. So the rock pushes down to reduce energy, but the rubber band pulls back to increase entropy.
Now for a puzzle. When you compress a cylinder of gas, it pushes back. Is this an entropic force or an energetic force... or maybe a mixture of the two?
Yes, the force is due to the pressure of the gas. When you compress the cylinder, molecules of gas inside are bouncing against the cylinder's head, pushing back. That's a perfectly fine explanation at the microscopic level. But you can still ask: are you increasing the energy of the gas, or decreasing its entropy... or both?
Think about it a minute, and then I'll tell you. Someone told me the answer, but I decided it's not quite that simple, so I'll explain the answer I came up with.
If you can handle some math, check out my blog article about entropic forces. If you can't - fear not, the answer to the puzzle uses essentially no math!
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johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2…
Entropic Forces
In 2009, Erik Verlinde argued that gravity is an entropic force. This created a big stir—and it helped him win about $6,500,000 in prize money and grants! But what the heck is an ̵…Azimuth
TWO. DAYS
until kitsune tails bounces onto steam and itch like a bird riding a giant boot but then leaving it during a jump like a sacrificial yoshi (... these are becoming a bit hard to write ok? 😭)
more info & wishlist via kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails
#KitsuneTails #QueerGames #GameDev #PixelArt
Kitsune Tails
Explore the complicated relationships between kitsune and humans in this platforming follow up to Super Bernie World.kitsunegames.com
Hacía falta este artículo? Diría que no, pero allá cada uno con su conciencia!
Cómo engañar a la empresa y fingir que estás trabajando
noticiasdenavarra.com/ciencia-…
Cómo engañar a la empresa y fingir que estás trabajando
Las vacaciones silenciosas, el ‘ghosting’ laboral o el ‘quiet firing’ son tendencias entre estos grupos de población de entre 18 y 41 añosCristina Ibañez (Diario de Noticias de Navarra)
Hay una canción yanquie que me viene a la cabeza:
Boss makes a dollar,
I make a dime,
that's why I shit
in company time.
El jefe se lleva un dólar,
yo diez centavos,
por eso voy al baño
en horario de trabajo.
At 5:00 (KST) (08:00 UTC) Please join us for 'Bits from the DPL' talk in the Bada Venue debconf24.debconf.org/schedule/venue/4/. #debian #debconf24 #busan #korea #debiankorea
At 5:00 (KST) (08:00 UTC) Please join us for 'Bits from the DPL' talk in the Bada Venue https://debconf24.debconf.org/schedule/venue/4/. #debian #debconf24 #busan #korea #debiankoreamicronews.debian.org
Me acabo de enterar de que, si uno está pendiente de que publiquen algo en el BOE, no hace falta entrar todos los días a mirarlo.
Existe este servicio boe.es/mi_boe/ que permite guardar búsquedas asociadas a una alerta. Si se publica algo con la cadena de texto que queramos, nos mandan un e-mail.
At 3:30 (KST) (06:30 UTC) 'contributors.debian.org: what is, how to benefit from it and how to help' in the Bada Venue, 'Apt Transparency' in the Somin, and 'Debian Policy & Developers Reference Bof' in Pado. #debian #debconf24 #busan #korea #debiankorea
At 3:30 (KST) (06:30 UTC) 'contributors.debian.org: what is, how to benefit from it and how to help' in the Bada Venue, 'Apt Transparency' in Somin, and 'Debian Policy & Developers Reference Bof' in Pado. #debian #debconf24 #busan #korea #debiankoreamicronews.debian.org
Great news for those who could not attend the DebConf or have missed the conference because of time zone differences, there are so far 18 videos published for viewing at your leisure: meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2024/DebConf24/
Great news for those who could not attend the DebConf or have missed the conference because of time zone differences, there are so far 18 videos published for viewing at your leisure: https://meetings-archive.debian.micronews.debian.org
We pause for lunch and will resume Day 3 of the 24th Debian Developers Conference at 2:30 PM (KST) #debian #debconf24 #busan #korea #debiankorea
We pause for lunch and will resume Day 3 of the 24th Debian Developers Conference at 2:30 PM (KST) #debian #debconf24 #busan #korea #debiankoreamicronews.debian.org
Penelope passed away peacefully in my arms tonight. We made sure her last few hours were wonderful. I'll describe more later but it involved going to the park, meeting a toad and dark chocolate mousse.
This is the worst day of my life, she was everything to me. I was her Daddy and she was my bouncy, feisty little girl. She knew she was a rough and tumble princess and she acted accordingly. She was always in charge.
I loved her with all of my heart. Every day she was the first person I saw and the last person I saw at night.
I know I'm going to be posting a lot over the coming days but words will never be able to describe the love I had for her and she for me.
This M.2 card adds classic beep-boop boot-up sound to your PC
A novelty M.2 card from Japan can give your modern PC the startup sound of a vintage NEC PC-9801.Michael Crider (PCWorld)
Dig out your vintage FireWire audio interface and rub some #Linux on it. Testing FFADO with Pipewire.
interfacinglinux.com/2024/07/2…
FireWire + FFADO With PipeWire
By default, PipeWire uses ALSA drivers for FireWire interfaces, which usually works fine, but the latency is terribad. Thankfully, PipeWire learned how to FFADOInterfacing Linux
Gmail Labels Using the Keyboard - dSurf
Labels in Gmail using the keyboard: Create, add colors, search, create a filter to move messages out of inbox using a label, and more.Dan Clark (dSurf)
Gmail Labels Using the Keyboard - dSurf
Labels in Gmail using the keyboard: Create, add colors, search, create a filter to move messages out of inbox using a label, and more.Dan Clark (dSurf)
Monday Tech Tip: Irie-AT’s Refreshable Braille Displays - Assistive Technology at Easter Seals Crossroads
During the 2024 ATIA Conference, Cody Mitchell from Irie-AT, showed us some of their refreshable braille systems. Check it out here: https://youtu.be/zbXWonX0SFY Click this link for more information about Irie-AT's refreshable braille displays.Nikol Prieto (Assistive Technology at Easter Seals Crossroads)
Announcing Aira’s Meta Ray-Ban Giveaway! - Aira
Aira is announcing a giveaway of four pairs of Meta Ray-Ban glasses in August! Learn all of the details and how you can enter here.Hannah Griffin (Aira)
montreal.ctvnews.ca/montreal-b…
Montreal byelection expected to be a tight race between Liberals, NDP: analyst
The countdown is on for the byelection in the Montreal riding of LaSalle-Emard-Verdun and it's shaping up to be a close race between the Liberals and the NDP, according to one political analyst.Montreal
After reading Google’s announcement that they no longer plan to deprecate third-party cookies, we the @tag wanted to make our position clear.
Third-party cookies have got to go.
We have updated our TAG finding “Third-party cookies must be removed” to spell out our concerns.
w3c.social/@hadleybeeman/11283…
w3.org/2001/tag/doc/web-withou…
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Hadley Beeman (@hadleybeeman@w3c.social)
This is NOT good for personal data rights on the web. #privacy “Instead of deprecating third-party cookies, we would introduce a new experience in Chrome that lets people make an informed choice that applies across their web browsing.w3c.social
it's been a while since I taught Advanced Compilers and this time I thought I'd start out having the class read a few big-picture papers about the field.
some ideas I had include:
- Reflections on Trusting Trust
- Impact of economics on compiler optimization
- Death of Optimizing Compilers
cr.yp.to/talks/2015.04.16/slid…
what else should be on this list?
ok so @yosh suggested "A Catalog of Optimizing Transformations" which of course I should have thought of clear.rice.edu/comp512/Lecture…
then there are a few fun things to read about Proebsting's Law such as gwern.net/doc/cs/algorithm/200…
🚀 Cinny v4 Update! 🚀
We’re excited to roll out Cinny v4 with amazing new features and fixes:
Lobby feature for easier space management
Organize spaces into folders and customize room order
Multi-room message search with filters
Redesigned Explore Community section and new Notification Center
Key-based account registration and password reset support
Check out the update at app.cinny.in/
Cinny
A Matrix client where you can enjoy the conversation using simple, elegant and secure interface protected by e2ee with the power of open source.app.cinny.in
Inclusive Design 24 (#id24)
A free 24-hour online community event on accessibility and inclusionInclusive Design 24 (#id24)
#WhatsApp for #Windows lets Python, PHP scripts execute with no warning
Granted, Python needs to be installed on the system prior.
Meta says they will not bother to fix this, despite maintaining a built-in list of potentially dangerous file types (ex: .exe)
@xogium apparently this has been reported before. 
You would think they’d just add these to the list they already use, it’s low hanging fruit. But seems like it’s not worth the effort because it’ll “only” affect a handful of users.
Eniko | Kitsune Tails out now!
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