@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social2026-05-27 04:21:10
#joshJohnson is a smart guy. I’m watching him being interviewed and he’s giving an example of his process. He tells stories. He told a story about a couple of his friends taking another friend to a strip club. And in the course of the evening this friend became convinced that the dancer was falling in love with him. She was just doing her job, and doing it well, engaging with him and making him…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-05-25 03:54:23
Failing chemical tank in Orange County rises to 100 degrees
— the maximum temperature on the gauge
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-05-24/failing-orange-county-chemical-tank-rises-to-…
@sean@scoat.es2026-03-25 15:47:23
Regularly, I use the following for near-realtime communications ("text messages”).
- SMS/RCS/iMessage (friends, family)
- Facebook Messenger (friends, family)
- What's App (friends)
- ActivityPub/Mastodon (friends)
- Matrix (friends, work)
- Discord (work)
- Mattermost (friends, locals)
I'm sure I'm missing some.
The fact that no one is allowed to make a single piece of software (for wide distribution) that talks on all of thes…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-26 14:56:05
Filing: Monzo reports its "refer a friend" payouts grew 40% YoY to £29.5M for the 12 months ending March 2026, as part of a broader £143M marketing spend (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/23de626c-0359-462a-b06b-ce7fe7095a89
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2026-04-26 18:14:50
A long time ago, when I was still going to school, I often thought about some class or other: "What's the point of this? I'm just wasting time on stuff I won't ever need. And my grades are going down because of it." So I supported all these bright ideas like having schools work the curriculum out with the industry.
Nowadays, I know better. The purpose of school is not to produce ready-made employees. It's to give people a wider perspective. Perhaps they won't use most of what they learn there, perhaps they'll have bad memories of some classes, but that doesn't really matter. What does matter is that you learn how to learn, how to reason, how to think.
I hate what's been happening to schools lately. They are becoming conveyor belts: we throw children on them, throw specific knowledge at them and see what sticks, we do exams and classify them. We expect to get a thoughtless laborer at the end, someone ready to take a specific job immediately.
A human whose only purpose in life is mindless labor and mindless consumption. Metaphorically, someone who's just going to spend their time off by drinking beer in the front of the TV and breeding more babies. Babies who will eventually become more cogs in the machine, fueling the infinite growth, trying to prevent this mindless system from falling apart.
#AntiCapitalism
@funkvolk@mastodon.social2026-05-26 12:56:09
@UP8@mastodon.social2026-05-26 00:03:43
Harvard № 13 Chandler Piggé and Cornell № 23 DJ Nix scrambled for the ball with Harvard № 12 Dutch Dowdell (6'6" !) following close behind
#photo #photography #sports
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-04-25 23:44:37
Las Vegas Raiders front office discusses NFL draft, trade of Tyree Wilson —WATCH LIVE https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/las-vegas-raiders-front-office-discusses-nfl-draft-trade-of-tyree-wilson-watc…
@arXiv_physicsfludyn_bot@mastoxiv.page2026-02-27 08:29:00
On the spatial structure and intermittency of soot in a lab-scale gas turbine combustor: Insights from large-eddy simulations
Leonardo Pachano, Daniel Mira, Abhijit Kalbhor, Jeroen van Oijen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.23155 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.23155 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.23155
arXiv:2602.23155v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This work presents a numerical investigation of soot formation in the Cambridge lab-scale gas turbine combustor. Large-eddy simulations (LES) of a swirl-stabilized ethylene flame are performed using the flamelet generated manifold method coupled with a discrete sectional model to account for soot formation, growth, and oxidation. The study aims to elucidate the mechanism governing the spatial structure and intermittency of soot, supported by comparisons with experimental data. The predicted soot distribution agrees well with measurements, with peak concentrations near the bluff body. Flow recirculation is identified as the key mechanism driving soot accumulation in fuel-rich regions, where surface reactions dominate soot mass growth. Soot intermittency arises from fluctuations in the flow field driven by interactions between the flame front and the recirculation vortex. Two soot modeling approaches are evaluated, differing in their treatment of soot model quantities: the first approach employs on-the-fly computation of source terms (FGM-C), while the second uses fully pre-tabulated source terms (FGM-T). Their predictive performance and computational cost are compared in the context of unsteady, sooting flames in swirl-stabilized combustors.
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@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-04-27 17:10:28
Bills GM Brandon Beane shut down trade interest in WR Keon Coleman: 'His best year is yet to come' https://www.nfl.com/news/bills-gm-brandon-beane-shut-down-trade-interest-in-wr-keon-coleman-his-best-year-is-yet-to-co…