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How can someone hate "étui" so bad !?

I'd like to see stats about that middle user though, I would think that this usecase decreases fast as things are moving to the browser (Office366, Drive, mail, even corporate apps).

Other types of usecases have gone very Linux-friendly recently (e.g video games thanks to Valve).

This. I bought a System76 laptop in 2011 which is still working very well with lubuntu for office and browser and such, it's now the laptop of my neighbourhood association. I could without problem upgrade RAM and drive to SSD, I could even swap the keyboard after I broke it.

I bought a new one from them this year, still incredible hardware.

My only issue with them, which is a big one, is that they ship only from USA. So as EU customer I have to pay VAT on top!

OMG I thought it was something wrong on my end, privacy add-on or whatnot. Glad to see they just lost it.

"Taxes, taxes, taxes. All the rest is bullshit in my opinion." https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/1/30/18203911/davos-...

This is great. Furniture from one type of wood piece. Went recently through a similar process to optimize building bird nests from one type of wood planks from the local sawmill. I think I'll give the hyperwood bench a try next week.

Funny enough, DMS is a fermentation byproduct in beer brewing and it's detectable for us at low concentration. The off-flavor it can cause is indeed "cooked corn" or "cabbage". [https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/how-to-brew/acceptabl...].

Sweden has 'lätt svenska' (easy Swedish) radio and TV news - https://www.svtplay.se/nyheter-pa-latt-svenska - https://www.sverigesradio.se/radioswedenpalattsvenska

pretty useful for learning indeed!

We boosted the anti-mass spectrometer 105 percent. Bit of a gamble, but we need the extra resolution.

Oh waw, that's a trip straight to nostalgia lane. CS surf was so fun, good times.

Ublock has been blocking all youtube ads for me for many years (on Firefox).

True ! The capitalization is not quite right, it should read WASP-127b actually

Great questions, thanks!

> Could you provide anymore insight into how this was achieved? The observations we have consist of spectra - light from the star is split into wavelengths with a fine resolution (we can distinguish very small differences in wavelength/frequency). When the planet passes between the star and us, its atmosphere absorbs a tiny fraction of the stellar light and we can see that : Fingerprints in the spectrum that are associated to molecules we have characterized in the lab (here we see carbon monoxide and water). The way we can isolate the signature from the planet - compared to the signature from the star or say the water in the earth atmosphere - is that the planet is moving and its velocity with regards to us is varying ! The Doppler effect (think ambulance coming towards you making the sound higher pitch) means that the signature from the planet also get shifted in frequency.

> Any interesting challenges associated with the measurement? Yeah, one of the big challenge is that the Earth atmosphere is not so transparent in the near-infrared so it absorbs a lot of light and pollutes a lot our data. Getting rid of the atmospheric spectrum with high enough accuracy is challenging, but we manage - either doing some physics and modelling it -- and/or using some data analysis tool (PCA for instance).

> What are the practical limitations of this methodology? The main one is the amount of light we need, that's why this instrument sits at the Very Large Telescope (the primary mirror is 8m in diameter) one of the largest European telescope. We need to have very good signal, as we are splitting the light into many wavelengths. And we cannot just take very long exposures, because the transits of the planets in front of the star is done in a limited time (few hours)

> How did you pick the planet as a target to measure? Normally we start with a big spreadsheet of all planets, and we work out which ones are observable from a given telescope, which stars are bright enough, which planet could have observable signal. WASP-127 was studied in the past and other teams already detected some molecules, but we did not expect to measure this kind of winds.

I'm a co-author, feel free to ask anything

Yes, not the wild asparagus but the ones you can shop have thick hard stalks at the base!

I like that conspiracy ! They should be careful about retribution if the TMT lands on the Canary Island, sombebody could conspire to put another industrial facility next to it

I don't know any solar physicist who calls our sun "sol" (and I know many), neither have I come across scientific papers doing so. A sol is a martian day though!

I was going to ask about comparison with quarto. I just managed to get a good quarto setup with typst to typeset documents and I'm curious about this alternative.

You'd be flown to Stockholm. Or within EU I may expect.

Doublethink!

Very nice guy too! Met him at a workshop recently and got a hardcopy of the book

Indeed, and to be fair most people I know who were reticent to the new Linky were not "fearing that the new meters would fry their brain using Bill Gates’ evil 5G Wi-Fi waves", but were concerned about their privacy.

Astronomy is a big field. In my field it is either UTC or TDB.

There are also variants, for some science cases it is preferrable to get out of the Earth referential and move to e.g the barycentric reference frame and use the Barycentric Julian Date [1], which can itself be expressed in different standards (UTC, TAI (atomic time), TDB etc ...)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barycentric_Julian_Date

Usually, you would see the sign of this in the data - because we can actually detect the gap between the planet and eventual rings. But if the gap is extremely small, then it could be a possibility.

AFAIK the Shoemaker-Levy impact was useful for other studies, but not so for the density/mass of Jupiter (also as per your link).

Jupiter is full of surprises still (mostly about its interior). However, the assessments made in this article about the mass and radius of the planet are using very basic physical laws (mostly Kepler laws from the 1600s).

The Netherlands used to have this system over the full country (OV chipcard) when I lived there (it seems to still exist), the card could be anonymous too.

After the French ticketing system, this felt magical to me.

The bad press is particularly bad in Sweden and was all over the main media, with Musk refusing to sign collective agreements with Tesla employees there, leading to strikes [e.g 1,2].

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/10/elon-m... [2]: http://www.nordiclabourjournal.org/i-fokus/in-focus-2023/the...

I wonder why they use "'scope" instead of telescope throughout the headline and article?

Can't access the website, but sounds like the German approach [1]. In the past years, I can see that some new playgrounds being built in my area in France also incorporate more risks, which is nice.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35220345