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I think I am literally coughing up Sahara Desert dust ->
"The snow on Mount Vitosha, which rises above the capital city, has turned yellow as the Saharan dust continues to blow."
Dust from the Sahara to drift across Bulgaria until 2 April
https://bnr.bg/en/post/101970460<…

Read the results of Goucher College Poll-Baltimore Banner's statewide survey (John O'Connor/The Baltimore Banner)
https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-power/state-government/read-the-results-of-goucher-college-poll-baltimore-banners-statewide-survey-O7ULAIF4NFBW3IYCIW3LHWHEAE/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240402/p39#a240402p39

The first CCD photometric studies of the member eclipsing binary ZTFJ015003.88 534734.1 in the newly discovered young open cluster UBC 188
Y. H. M. Hendy, I. Zead, A. E. Abdelaziz, A. Takey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02419

The first CCD photometric studies of the member eclipsing binary ZTFJ015003.88+534734.1 in the newly discovered young open cluster UBC 188
We present the first CCD observations of an eclipsing binary, ZTFJ015003.88+534734.1, which is a member in the open star cluster UBC 188. The observations were taken by the 1.88 m telescope at the Kottamia Astronomical Observatory (KAO) in SDSS griz bands. The latest version of the Wilson- Devinney (W-D) code was employed for photometric analysis and light curve modeling of the eclipsing binary. The results indicate that the binary system is in an over-contact configuration. The mass of the pri…

... this is not a franchise that i ever expected to be rebooted (i've only seen DEATHSTALKER 2)
https://www.screendaily.com/news/daniel-bernhardt-to-star-in-reboot-of-roger-cormans-deathstalker-f…

Daniel Bernhardt to star in reboot of Roger Corman’s ‘Deathstalker’ films (exclusive)
Raven Banner handles international sales, will distribute in Canada.

as someone who is mostly doing stuff with binary buffers, i am suffering a lot from the change in py3 from py2 how they handle strings. i like f-strings, i work with binary stuff, not human readable stuff. this stackoverflow answer makes me sad https://stackoverflow…

Is there a formatted byte string literal in Python 3.6+?
I'm looking for a formatted byte string literal. Specifically, something equivalent to name = "Hello" bytes(f"Some format string {name}") Possibly something like fb"Some format string {name}". D...

lol get fucked
i didn't expect to see the Hague Invasion Act be tested in my lifetime
https://www.bnr.nl/nieuws/internationaal/10545882/vs-dreigt-met-maatregelen-tegen-strafhof-den-haag

‘VS dreigt met wraak tegen Strafhof Den Haag’
Het Internationaal Strafhof in Den Haag (ICC) kan maatregelen verwachten vanuit de Verenigde Staten mochten er arrestatiebevelen komen voor Israëlische functionarissen. Zowel de Democraten als de Republikeinen uit het Congres hebben het Strafhof daarvoor gewaarschuwd, meldt Axios. ‘Het ICC heeft geen jurisdictie in deze situatie en we steunen zijn onderzoek niet’, liet het Witte Huis weten.

Generating gaussian pseudorandom noise with binary sequences
Francisco-Javier Soto, Ana I. G\'omez, Domingo G\'omez-P\'erez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02251

Generating gaussian pseudorandom noise with binary sequences
Gaussian random number generators attract a widespread interest due to their applications in several fields. Important requirements include easy implementation, tail accuracy, and, finally, a flat spectrum. In this work, we study the applicability of uniform pseudorandom binary generators in combination with the Central Limit Theorem to propose an easy to implement, efficient and flexible algorithm that leverages the properties of the pseudorandom binary generator used as an input, specially wi…

For what's primarily a source distribution, the binary packages in #Gentoo have some cool features (with binpkg-multi-instance). The package manager can create and use different variants (builds) of the same source package, with different USE flag combinations *and* bound dependency versions.
So, NumPy 2 introduced ABI changes. Packages built against NumPy 2 work with NumPy 1, but not the other way around. Upstreams resolve this by building wheels against NumPy 2. We can't express that properly, so we force rebuilds after switching between NumPy 1 and 2.
What's really cool, though, is that once I've built all the NumPy-using packages against both NumPy versions, i can switch between them trivially using binary packages. Like, literally I can do:
$ emerge -vk --jobs "dev-python/numpy<2"
…and I get NumPy 1 and all of its reverse dependencies built against NumPy 1 installed from binary packages. If I go for NumPy 2 instead, then again, everything is reinstalled from the other set of binary packages. All of this works transparently and effortlessly — when there's no matching binary package, #Portage builds one, and starts using it the next time around.

Black Hole-Disk Interactions in Magnetically Arrested Active Galactic Nuclei: General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations Using A Time-Dependent, Binary Metric
Sean M. Ressler, Luciano Combi, Xinyu Li, Bart Ripperda, Huan Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02193

Black Hole-Disk Interactions in Magnetically Arrested Active Galactic Nuclei: General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations Using A Time-Dependent, Binary Metric
Perturber objects interacting with supermassive black hole accretion disks are often invoked to explain observed quasi-periodic behavior in active galactic nuclei (AGN). We present global, 3D general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations of black holes on inclined orbits colliding with magnetically arrested thick AGN disks using a binary black hole spacetime with mass ratio $0.1$. We do this by implementing an approximate time-dependent binary black hole metric into the GRMHD cod…

lol get fucked
i didn't expect to see the Hague Invasion Act be tested in my lifetime
https://www.bnr.nl/nieuws/internationaal/10545882/vs-dreigt-met-maatregelen-tegen-strafhof-den-haag

‘VS dreigt met wraak tegen Strafhof Den Haag’
Het Internationaal Strafhof in Den Haag (ICC) kan maatregelen verwachten vanuit de Verenigde Staten mochten er arrestatiebevelen komen voor Israëlische functionarissen. Zowel de Democraten als de Republikeinen uit het Congres hebben het Strafhof daarvoor gewaarschuwd, meldt Axios. ‘Het ICC heeft geen jurisdictie in deze situatie en we steunen zijn onderzoek niet’, liet het Witte Huis weten.