Readit Newselashri commented on The contrarian physics podcast subculture timothynguyen.org/2025/08... · Posted by u/Emerson1
Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oipI5TQ54tA
"Professor Dave" interviews 6 physicists regarding Hossenfelder including one guy whose name you particle physicists in particular might recognize.
Oh, This is the first time I have seen Michael peskin. I have known him through his famous QFT book. I did not even know he is still alive.
Feels good putting a face to the author of one the books that made you struggle but also enjoyed.
In academia the research pipeline is this
Undergraduate -> Graduate Student -> Post-doc -> Tenure/Senior
Some exceptions occur for people getting Tenure without post doc or people doing some other things like taking undergraduate in one or two years. But no one expect that we for whole skip the first two and then get any senior researchers.
The same idea applies anywhere, the rule is that if you don't have juniors then you don't get seniors so better prepare your bot to do everything.
elashri commented on Why I'm all-in on Zen Browser werd.io/why-im-all-in-on-... · Posted by u/benwerd
Zen still has some annoying shortcomings, like missing Widevine DRM or the dev tools opening up annoyingly slow. The potential is there, but it wasn't quite daily drivable as a developer for me just yet as of a few weeks ago.
Once it gets there, I too will finally leave Arc behind. Until then, while it is on life support, Arc actually works. I really wish The Browser Company would just own up to their fuck up and revive it.
Regarding the DRM support, they are trying to get Widevine license from Google [1] but for some reason Google approval process is taking too long.
[1] https://docs.zen-browser.app/faq#why-cant-zen-browser-play-d...
I did not go though the details of the proposed Swiss law to be honest so it might be obvious why they are doing that but still why Germany instead of some other place (like Mullvad being in Sweden) ?