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This podcast interview with Peter Thiel is... worrying? Heavy on opinions, Bible quotes and the Antichrist, very light on facts
https://overcast.fm/ ABLQpR1gTkw

From my LinkedIn post: “Telling your dev team to use AI coding tools is like telling your 2010 ops team to use AWS. They didn’t know how to code, they were ticket and click-it VMware people… developers who don’t have product management mindset or have never managed a dev team will fail by trying to micromanage the output of the tool rather than specifying the outcome of the product and managing the agent team to deliver that outcome.”

Back in 2010 when we first started using AWS to run Netflix, the AWS services were very incomplete, somewhat unreliable, had scaling issues, but were super fast to provision compared to filing… | Adrian Cockcroft
Back in 2010 when we first started using AWS to run Netflix, the AWS services were very incomplete, somewhat unreliable, had scaling issues, but were super fast to provision compared to filing tickets and waiting for data center ops teams to do what we need. We worked around the issues, built a new cloud native developer driven architecture and scaled Netflix at speed. At the time many people said we were crazy to run a large enterprise on cloud and would be back in datacenters when it failed. …

The effect of doping layers position on the heterojunction sharpness in (In,Al)As/AlAs quantum dots
T. S. Shamirzaev, D. R. Yakovlev, M. Bayer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01500

The effect of doping layers position on the heterojunction sharpness in (In,Al)As/AlAs quantum dots
Effect of doped layer placed in structures with indirect band-gap (In,Al)As/AlAs quantum dots (QDs) on heterointerface sharpness is investigated. We demonstrate that growth of n (p) doped layer below QDs sheet leads to pronounced deceleration (acceleration) for dynamics of exciton recombination (which is very sensitive to heterointeface structure in these QDs) in compare with the undoped structure. Opposite, the placing of the same doped layers above the QDs sheet does not effect on the exciton…

A classic. Reporter fails to pay attention to what the nimbys actually say.
Reporter: Critics fear that [very modest] upzone won't produce "housing that is actually affordable for county residents"
Then quotes critic who fears it will "just provide more affordably priced rental units"
https://…

WFH has made my quads very tight... I found that out when I started practicing the Asian/deep squats.
Calves and Achilles, oddly not so much of an issue.
I am trying to target flexibility/mobility with different stretching positions, and it is definitely making a difference.
#Mobility #Flexibility #Squats

Ein paar Impressionen von meinen letzten drei Wochen… Logistik-Team des Conquest stabil.
Conquest of Mythodea ist das größte Liverollenspiel der Welt mit rund 10.000 Teilnehmenden und es ist ein großer Spaß Teil vom Team zu sein - drei Wochen nicht am Schreibtisch sondern „harte“ Arbeit, wenig Schlaf und unendlich viel tolle Menschen, Nähe und Quatsch

Low-density InGaAs/AlGaAs Quantum Dots in Droplet-Etched Nanoholes
Saimon F. Covre Da Silva, Ailton J. Garcia Jr, Maximilian Aigner, Christian Weidinger, Tobias M. Krieger, Gabriel Undeutsch, Christoph Deneke, Ishrat Bashir, Santanu Manna, Melina Peter, Ievgen Brytavskyi, Johannes Aberl, Armando Rastelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08400

Low-density InGaAs/AlGaAs Quantum Dots in Droplet-Etched Nanoholes
Over the past two decades, epitaxial semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) have demonstrated very promising properties as sources of single photons and entangled photons on-demand. Among different growth methods, droplet etching epitaxy has allowed the growth of almost strain-free QDs, with low and controllable surface densities, small excitonic fine structure splitting (FSS), and fast radiative decays. Here, we extend the local droplet etching technique to In(Ga)As QDs in AlGaAs, thereby increasing…