Who would win?
1. A blatant backdoor in software millions of people use
2. A very clever and subtle quine that breaks if you use GCC instead of clang
Empirically, if you actually want to hack people you pick option 1. Such is the world we live in.
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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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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
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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
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Cómo engañar a la empresa y fingir que estás trabajando
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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.
SO, I got a post from elonmusk63:
> "Greetings It's me Elon musk, hope you're doing great! I'm reaching out because I'm currently working on a project/initiative that aligns with your interests/expertise. Would love to get your thoughts/insights on it. Can we schedule a quick call to discuss?"
I asked this fake account why it didn't message me on X, but it seems not to want to engage. Shame!
I abandoned Twitter when all the useful apps and tools powered by their API stopped working and haven't been back since.
siempre me hicieron gracia las descripciones heráldicas. Hoy sale una el el BOE al hilo del cambio de escudo de un ayuntamiento:
Escudo partido. El primero de gules con un báculo abacial de oro sobre el que se posa un pájaro de plata. El segundo de oro, una encina arrancada de su color. Al timbre un yelmo con su penacho de gules.
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Also a lot of them struggle with the rotor as a gesture, too. Some can remap but it's all very much on an individual basis. having this beta mode for a few of them really seems to have made them feel more at home, for some reason.
@frog67 I often find very hard to replicate what seem to be small issues but that grow to be hugely problematic with multidisciplinary disabilities unfortunately. So to have a win like this is pretty nice.
Also having the parents of the blind children seeing how the mapping works to a mainstream product has been helpful.
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
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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.
Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.
Ayer hacía tanto calor que suspendí el ordenador de casa, y al reanudar debió de coger otra IP, así que ahora no me puedo conectar en remoto. Por lo demás todo bien por la oficina, excepto que estoy validando un acuerdo que tiene mierda blockchain (fuera de mi competencia oponerme).
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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
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