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After more than 42 years I still don't understand in which circumstances it is acceptable for someone to say "This piece of land belonged to my ancestors as you can see in these ancient texts that I think are holy, and I need the land. Therefore you must leave".

I'm following exactly 500 people right now. This might be my limit.

@… My answer would be the infamous: It depends.
Not all tools suppprt the PAT mechanism, so falling back to SSH makes sense.
If I’m configuring an automated tool to run unsupervised, I’d feel more strongly that it’s critical to limit the scope of what it can do, in case of mistakes or bad actors, for a tool I’m directly interacting with, that’s le…

📉 Tide In, Tide Out: Anne Lamott on Growing Old and Making Peace with Death
https://lithub.com/tide-in-tide-out-anne-lamott-on-growing-old-and-making-peace-with-death/

Tide In, Tide Out: Anne Lamott on Growing Old and Making Peace with Death
The tide comes in, the tide goes out, and when you are older, around the time when you stop feeling like you’ve crawled into somebody else’s shell, old friends begin to die with appalling regularit…

Sustainable regional economic development and land use: a case of Russia
Wadim Strielkowski, Oxana Mukhoryanova, Oxana Kuznetsova, Yury Syrov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12477

Sustainable regional economic development and land use: a case of Russia
This paper analyzes sustainable regional economic development and land use employing a case study of Russia. The economics of land management in Russia which is shaped by both historical legacies and contemporary policies represents an interesting conundrum. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Russia embarked on a thorny and complex path towards the economic reforms and transformation characterized, among all, by the privatization and decentralization of land ownership. This transiti…

Autism spectrum condition, attachment to objects, "minimalism"
I could say that I'm a minimalist. Much like many other of my characteristics, this one stems from the autism spectrum.
Many people in the spectrum show emotional attachment to objects. Sometimes you could think of it as "hoarding", but for me it's mostly about strong negative feelings when something breaks, when I need to throw it away (interesting enough, I don't really mind giving it away, so others could use it, just trashing).
The simplest way to limit these negative feelings… is to have very little stuff. Don't buy, nor take, stuff that you don't need. Limit yourself to things that are really important, and ideally wait some more, look around, maybe it will turn out you didn't need it after all.
I don't have any plushies (anymore). Most of my old hardware were given "into good hands". Some is still waiting for a good way how to revive it. There are no ornaments over my walls, just an old clock that belonged to my grandmother, one from the "сделано в СССР" era. Its scary how outdated my smartphone firmware is.
I suppose some people will think it's an unhappy life. I don't really know. I don't think I've ever enjoyed mindless consumption. Perhaps as a child — but the excitation of novelty usually quickly gave way to disappointment.
And gifts, gifts are something I truly hate. But it's a separate topic, another kind of trauma.
#ActuallyAutistic #minimalism

Linda Wenhold absorbed Patriot Academy’s message that America is falling apart as it drifts from its biblical roots.
Then she won a seat on her local Pennsylvania school board.
Wenhold closed her eyes, bowed her head and offered a prayer. “Lord, let us see that the further we move from biblical truth, the further we move from our liberty and freedom,” she began.

The 60-year-old grandmother stood at the front of a modest stone church in this former steel town just beyond th…

The education of a true believer
Linda Wenhold absorbed the Patriot Academy’s message that America is falling apart as it drifts from its biblical roots. Then she won a local school board seat.

Orbifold Kodaira-Spencer maps and closed-string mirror symmetry for punctured Riemann surfaces
Hansol Hong, Hyeongjun Jin, Sangwook Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14360

Orbifold Kodaira-Spencer maps and closed-string mirror symmetry for punctured Riemann surfaces
When a Weinstein manifold admits an action of a finite abelian group, we propose its mirror construction following the equivariant TQFT-type construction, and obtain as a mirror the orbifolding of the mirror of the quotient with respect to the induced dual group action. As an application, we construct an orbifold Landau-Ginzburg mirror of a punctured Riemann surface given as an abelian cover of the pair-of-pants, and prove its closed-string mirror symmetry using the (part of) closed-open map tw…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.15341 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@a…

Observation of an Abrupt 3D-2D Morphological Transition in Thin Al Layers Grown by MBE on InGaAs surface
Among superconductor/semiconductor hybrid structures, in-situ aluminum (Al) grown on InGaAs/InAs is widely pursued for the experimental realization of Majorana Zero Mode quasiparticles. This is due to the high carrier mobility, low effective mass, and large Landé g-factor of InAs, coupled with the relatively high value of the in-plane critical magnetic field in thin Al films. However, growing a thin, continuous Al layer using the Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) is challenging due to aluminum's hi…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.11354 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qu…

Kinetic inductance traveling wave amplifier designs for practical microwave readout applications
A Kinetic Inductance Traveling Wave amplifier (KIT) utilizes the nonlinear kinetic inductance of superconducting films, particularly Niobium Titanium Nitride (NbTiN), for parametric amplification. These amplifiers achieve remarkable performance in terms of gain, bandwidth, compression power, and frequently approach the quantum limit for noise. However, most KIT demonstrations have been isolated from practical device readout systems. Using a KIT as the first amplifier in the readout chain of an …