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IRS: the new w-4 form greatly simplifies the tax withholding and adds clarity
Great, so I update to the new form, went through their lengthy online form and used the random numbers it spit out and my witholding went up by 80%. Clearly it's wrong.
I have no idea how to fine tune my withholdings from here. The website tells me forms downloaded before May 25 (i.e. mine) had a bug. Filling it out now is thrown way off by my ridiculous withholding this paycheck and I have no idea …

Schon interessant was ich aus einem der letzten OkDoomer Posts erfahre:
Während wir in der Öffentlichkeit inzwischen eine "War was?"-Attitüde bei #Covid an den Tag legen, müssen alle Teilnehmer des International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg dagegen einen negativen PCR-Test [sic!] vorweisen.

I continue to progress and enjoy the Adrift Expedition in No Man's Sky. I have acquired a couple more starships to go along with the basic ass hauler I started with. The Solar Ship came by way of the Phase 2 "find a crashed ship and repair it" milestone. Oddly enough, I could swear I got one with the same name in the last Expedition I played through. I've been carrying around some odd thing in my inventory almost since I started, and finally used it and had a Sentinel ship …

Time-resolved optical assessment of exciton formation in mixed two-dimensional perovskite films
Zheng Zhang, Jianan Wang, Yijie Shi, Xi Wang, Zhong Wang, Xiangyu Zhu, Chunlong Hu, Zonghao Liu, Wei Chen, Wenxi Liang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03876

Time-resolved optical assessment of exciton formation in mixed two-dimensional perovskite films
We report the observation of exciton formation from the cooled band-edge carriers in mixed two-dimensional hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites using femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy. By monitoring the changes of bleach signal upon excitations with various photon energy, we are able to extract the values of exciton binding energy and the occupancies of carriers of free and bound states for each two-dimensional phase. We also confirm the existence of Mahan exciton when injected carr…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.06882 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Regularized-Renormalized-Resummed loop corrected power spectrum of non-singular bounce with Primordial Black Hole formation
We present a complete and consistent exposition of the regularization, renormalization, and resummation procedures in the setup of having a contraction and then non-singular bounce followed by inflation with a sharp transition from slow-roll (SR) to ultra-slow roll (USR) phase for generating primordial black holes (PBHs). We consider following an effective field theory (EFT) approach and study the quantum loop corrections to the power spectrum from each phase. We demonstrate the complete remova…

Single-cycle, 643-mW average power THz source based on tilted pulse front in lithium niobate
Tim Vogel, Samira Mansourzadeh, Clara Jody Saraceno
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03318 <…

Single-cycle, 643-mW average power THz source based on tilted pulse front in lithium niobate
We present, to the best of our knowledge, the highest average power from a laser-driven single-cycle THz source demonstrated so far, using optical rectification in the titled pulse-front geometry in cryogenically cooled lithium niobate, pumped by a commercially available 500 W ultrafast thin-disk Yb-amplifier. We study repetition rate dependent effects in our setup at 100 kHz and 40 kHz at this high average power, revealing different optimal fluence conditions for efficient conversion. The demo…

[[Forms of life, forms of mind]] | [[Michael Levin]] on [[Baba is you]]
https://thoughtforms.life/a-most-profound-video-game-a-good-cognitive-aid-for-research-at-the-frontier-of-life-and-mind/

Forms of life, forms of mind | Dr. Michael Levin | A most profound video game: a good cognitive aid for research at the frontier of life and mind
Baba Is You is a philosophical video game that facilitates the kind of thinking needed for frontier topics in the sciences of life and mind.

Would you have the patience and persistence to post something like the following about a hundred times in reply to the same person over 3 years?
"'This is the semi-friendly patch-bot […] you seem to have sent a nonsensical or otherwise pointless review comment to a patch submission on a #Linux #kernel

Who do I know with #arcgis
I did a Freedom of Information request for some data on rights of way and the data sent back appears to be formatted using British National Grid and fooling the online conversion tools.
If I can get the linked results into a GeoJSON format, using lat/lon, I can take it from there!

Data of all of the Maintained Unsurfaced Roads in Norfolk - a Freedom of Information request to Norfolk County Council
I would like an electronic copy of the following rights of way across the Norfolk County: 1. Maintained unsurfaced roads 2. Byways Open to All Traffic I would be happy to receive these in most open formats; GeoJSON, KML, or GPX would be especially helpful. Please ensure that any included rights of way are not subject to a current Traffic Regulation Order, or include a copy of the Traffic Regulation Order documents that are applicable. Yours faithfully, Rachel Lawson

Starling Formation-Flying Optical Experiment: Initial Operations and Flight Results
Justin Kruger, Soon S. Hwang, Simone D'Amico
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.06748

Starling Formation-Flying Optical Experiment: Initial Operations and Flight Results
This paper presents initial flight results for distributed optical angles-only navigation of a swarm of small spacecraft, conducted during the Starling Formation-Flying Optical Experiment (StarFOX). StarFOX is a core payload of the NASA Starling mission, which consists of four CubeSats launched in 2023. Prior angles-only flight demonstrations have only featured one observer and target and have relied upon a-priori target orbit knowledge for initialization, translational maneuvers to resolve tar…