The paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/smll.202004... (you need access to see all parameters).
Anyway it looks like they created a very tiny diamond. So it looks to me we should not expect man made diamond rings soon.
Readit Newsthdrdt commented on Artificial diamonds creation process generating lonsdaleite newatlas.com/materials/sc... · Posted by u/bleair
I love it!
I feel like the 1MB limit is excessively generous, especially for text-only pages. But maybe that's what makes it so damning when pages fail to adhere to it. I know at least one website I maintain fails it spectacularly (though in my defense it's entirely because of that website being chock-full of photos, and full-res ones at that; pages without those are well under that 1MB mark), while other sites I've built consist entirely of pages within a fraction of that limit.
It'd be interesting to impose a stricter limitation to the 1MB Club: one where all pages on a given site are within that limit. This would disqualify Craigslist, for example (the listing search pages blow that limit out of the water, and the listings themselves sometimes do, too).
I also wonder how many sites 1mb.club would have to show on one page before it, too, ends up disqualifying itself. Might be worthwhile to start thinking about site categories sooner rather than later if everyone and their mothers starts spamming that GitHub issues page with sites (like I'm doing right now).
I think an onload limit is much more useful than file size.
A 700kB JavaScript page can take up to 10 sec. to render on older mobile devices. And a 500kB image can contain megapixels which will slow down non-PGU browsers.
Personally I always go for a max 2 sec. limit on all devices.
thdrdt commented on The number of people dying is not the same as in any other year fullfact.org/health/coron... · Posted by u/kirkbackus
It is strange. I noticed all the ads lately, sometimes even 2 in a row.
But thinking about it I can't remember a single ad. Today more and more people have an ad filter in their head. This means that Google earns a lot of money from ads that have a lot of exposure but almost zero effect.
This was amazing to watch. Highly recommended.
I do start to wonder if any of such materials are stored like this in one of our ports, such as Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
I can't imagine such a mess to exist there.
But The Netherlands remembers the Firework explosion in Enschede, from 2000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enschede_fireworks_disaster
It's not nearly at the scale of Beirut, but it killed 23 people.
https://www.ad.nl/buitenland/moeten-wij-ons-in-nederland-zor... (Dutch)
The storage and production is highly regulated. Every suspicious event must be communicated with the "Nationaal Coördinator Terrorismebestrijding" (coordinator counterterrorism).
I know there are several content creators (such as Jim Sterling) that have their videos ad-free as a perk for their supporters (since he's supported enough via Patreon). He's pretty angry about this change.
I somewhat understand Google's stance on this, as it's a service that should be allowed to make money even on people who don't want to make money. They don't really have such a way to opt out of pretty much any other service of theirs that has monetization.
But at the same time, there are people who have so heavily invested into the YouTube ecosystem with certain expectations for a very long time, and pretty much have their entire business on there, so they can't very easily take their business elsewhere if they're unhappy with the change.
This isn't a 'Netflix raising their subscription cost' scenario, where users can just cancel their subscription and sign up for a different service. It would be a massive undertaking to shift their backlog of videos onto another service, and they'd lose all their existing subscribers and have to build it up elsewhere.
So in that respect, it's kind of a shitty move by Google.
"...and pretty much have their entire business on there..."
This is what I don't get about YouTubers. They created a business with basically only one source of income. This is bad practice in every business book.
I am a freelancer. If I only had one customer my business would be instantly over when they didn't hire me anymore.
YouTubers put too much trust in an untrustworthy business partner.
There are already 2 known virus mutations: G614 and D514. In Italy new research suggests even a 3rd mutation might go around. And Denmark also had a mutation.
Do those vaccines work on all mutations or are they like the common flu vaccines that must be adapted every year?
thdrdt commented on Pine64 November Update: KDE PinePhone CE and a Peek into the Future pine64.org/2020/11/15/nov... · Posted by u/3np
The list of apps depends on the operating system. There are >13 OS available [0]. On Debian, which I prefer, Telegram works very well.
[0] https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/PinePhone#Operating_System...
I seriously consider going away from Android (Google).
Is Linux a viable option as mobile OS? I've got a feeling that it is almost as a 'dumb' phone. You got your calculator and SMS app but that's about it.
Or would going to something like LineageOS be a better option?
And I guess most people could not even distinct a diamond from polished glass.