dark chocolate, cashew and rice (sometimes with, sometimes without any lentils, onions or something). love them. with first 2 - cost is a issue, with rice, it is not that nutritious

i am late, but here is a news you must promise to take to your graves. and you definitely did not hear this from me.

someone may (or may not, still no official letter) have landed admission to phd programme

fun fact, days have actually been getting longer pretty much since formation of earth (well moon to be correct). reason iirc is that moon is slowly moving away from earth, and this results in some dynamics changing and as a result earth spins slower. like billions of years ago, it was closer to 23 hours.

ps - very rusty memory right now, should have skipped writing instead of half borked fact

i love rust, but this shit is so peak

From the reports that i have read (am indian), 20+ generics are expected, within roughly 2 months or so, with previous price being something along 10k INR (roughly 100USD) a month to about 3-4k INR (30-40 USD) a month. Drugs have always been kinda cheap here (as an example, a simple paracetamol (tylenol) tablet costs 1 INR (~1cent US)), so it is still expensive (for vast majority, it is more than 2-3 days of work), but much better. hope people use this cautiously though with reasonable expectations.

i am guessing ask someone to bring it over (maybe courier also works).

i have not played totk, but i have done the final fight of botw. botw is one of those games which is designeed to not have any post game, i guess you already know this, but if you do the final fight and defeat ganon, you see some cutscenes, you see credits, and then game is over, you do not get to be in a world where you have defeated ganon. if you continue, you resume from last save before ganon fight. it is the director’s prefered way (with which i do not completely agree, but sure, i respect it), so i do not think it necessarily ends the fun. (i actually had to defeat him thrice because of some glitches, i could not complete the scripted part of end fight twice). once you resume, you can “complete” the run, like complete all missions, all shrines ( i had only done some 30-40 before fight i guess), explore in general, buy a house, and you can keep on doing the final fight n number of times with different difficulties, like no healing, no weapons, etc.

hit too close to me.

do you have more people than indian metros? or java island. if not, then no

basically any amount of energy conversion is lossy - a loose fabric stretching and pulling on frame in a “wider fashion”, and any deformation of frame will require a lot energy - all subracting from your fall. and fame up in your tushie is at worst a life long pain in sitting or in bowel moments, a direct fall is iinsta death from basically anything above, lets say, 10th floor (pulled number out of thin air, but assuming a roughly flat contact, and human not falling like a diver reducing the direct load o spine(by crushing their arms))

that was really heart warming

my bad, sorry. reading humor/sarcasm over internet is a bit hard

why do we want to hate on other projects.

try to see if 1080p av1 can get you some more saving? also just resolution and codec is not enough - we need to know bitrate. just for a frozen frame or some regular slow talking style scene, low bitrate is fine, but if you have action or high pace, a low bitrate 4k would look worse than high bitrate 480p or something. I am storage poor, so I do 480p mostly at reasonable bitrates. I can do 720 p at a bit lower bitrate, but action and stuff struggle.

sorry to disturb your business kind sir

you can check out my comment to another reply here, or here is a link https://piefed.social/post/1803401#comment_10240799

not my domain, so i looked the title online (the original article is in nature, and not open access, and currently not in uni, so can not access through uni wifi)

here is a theoretical version establishing physics for this effect - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.23083v1

I am also not reading the linked article, as it is too flowery for me.

so here is a tl;dr - if you know seebeck effect, this should be somewhat easy. seebeck effect is a effect where if there is a temperature gradient in a material, electricity can be generated. i will not go on about why that happens, but as a statistical argument, just keep in mind that as things are heated, they jiggle (very specific physics term, definitely not me stupidifying oscillations). if it is a “bond” between two atoms (aptly named atomic bonds), we consider a quantisation (fancy way to put number to how strong the vibration is, there is more to it, but not for now) of these oscillations as phonons. another thing is that in materials, these bond are often arranged in some special manners. for most materials, these arrangements are periodic lattices, (think junglee gym bars or rubik cube or some other periodic arrangement). in these materials, phonons can often transfer in different modes, always trapped by the ends. in some materials, these bonds can form helices, where phonons instead of going in straight line, will travel across the helix. if you know what angular momentum is then great, if not, think something with some “speed” going in circles. in that case it will have some angular momentum along the axis of that circle. coming back to main topic, here we have some phonon going across helix, having some angular momentum. now essentially this motion of phonon can create spin current. this requires us to go into separate tangent, abou what spin is, which is well hard to explain. in most materials, there are 2 types of electrons, and we just name these 2 spins up and down (and it has practically nothing to do with up or down directions). as to why there are only 2, is a really big topic we are not going into. but roughly, it is because of nature of material. in non magnetic materials, they behave same, but in magnetic materials, they do not. in some other words, you can say magnetic materials are magnetic because these 2 spins behave differently in these materials. in normal current, we have electrons going from 1 direction to another (kinda, but that is tangent to tangent, not going there). in spin current, these 2 electrons flow in opposite directions. since both are electrons, there is no charge difference created, a spin potential is created. this tudy showed that in non magnetic materials (tungsten and titanium), you could generate spin currents by “injecting” a angular momentum from quartz crystal phonon. if yo have ever heard of angular momentum conservation, this is a consequence of that, as spin current is a kind of angular momentum.

as to why this could be special, spintronics (the name for using electron spin instead of charge for generating currents and making devices) requires lower power than electronics. one of the problems was that you required special magnetic materials, this is a demonstration without magnetic materials.

in my physics world, this is big (in a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being theory of everything done, 1 being boring desk work - this is 5-7 - very big in spintronics, and reasonably big electronics), but to someone outside -not that big, like for decade(s). we made first transistors in 50s and 60s, an reasnable electronic devices (the semiconductor chips) by 70s and 80s. we made first spin transistors in 00-10s so i guess another 10 or so years before we see some industry level production.

i partially agree. i would request you to check back to discussion in the pinned post where we decided to ban schadenfreude. there were lots of bad things happening to bad people, or stopping bad things from happening, and community decided to stop that.

this would fall in schadenfreude. asking other mods for their decisions. i know the situationm and it was great that he was removed, but him being found guilty is now a bad thing happening to bad person. it is not hateful, so i am contemplating.

sorry to break it to you chief, but in reality, neptune is not darker blue, i learnt it recently, but the darker color comes from some magazine print which got very popularised. from the images, the look basically same.