There’s no longer really any doubt that birds are a type of dinosaur. These days, the debate is about details. The strong evidence doesn’t just come from fossilised bones and similarities found across the skeleton, but from fossilised soft tissue – especially feathers. Many dinosaurs had not just some kind of body covering, but distinctive bird-like feathers. Rare fossils also give us glimpses of the behaviour of bird-like dinosaurs, such as Mei long, a small, duck-sized bipedal dinosaur from the Cretaceous era. It was found preserved in volcanic ash falls – a bit like Pompeii – captured curled up in a sleeping position very similar to how a lot of birds roost today.

Why don’t they protest? Because every Russian alive today descends from survivors who learned the same brutal lesson: if you resist, you die. Almost every family carries the scars of revolution, civil war, or Stalin’s purges. Many don’t know the details—because it was too dangerous to talk about—but the instinct remains. Survival means adapting. Or siding with the oppressor. That is why, even now, everything is considered “fine.”

Kräftor odlas idag för både utplantering och för konsumtion. Odling av sötvattenskräftor sker oftast i grunda grävda dammar där kräftorna både lever av den föda som förekommer naturligt i dammen samt av foder. För att minska risken för predation från exempelvis häger är det dock viktigt att strandkanterna inte är för grunda. Kräftodling sker i många fall också utan extra matning och skötsel (så kallad extensiv odling) i jorddammar på jordbruks- och skogsbruksfastigheter.

In at least some cases, models from all developers resorted to malicious insider behaviors when that was the only way to avoid replacement or achieve their goals—including blackmailing officials and leaking sensitive information to competitors. We call this phenomenon agentic misalignment.

The box-decoration-break CSS property specifies how an element's fragments should be rendered when broken across multiple lines, columns, or pages.

Not the biggest problem in the world, but it's annoying when you're trying to use borders around words or phrases in paragraphs of text and the result looks like crap because of line breaks. Glad to know there's a simple solution.

I randomly learned this trick today from a newsletter by Victor Ponamariov so thanks for that!

In the world of audio processing, the use of linear phase EQs has become increasingly popular among mixing and mastering engineers. Unlike traditional equalizers that can introduce phase shifts and distortions, linear phase EQ maintains a consistent phase response across all frequencies. This is achieved by delaying the audio signal, allowing for precise control over the harmonic spectrum without affecting the original tonal balance.

Why is this important? The significance of linear phase EQ lies in its capability to achieve a more transparent sound than standard EQs. This makes it particularly valuable in mixing and mastering applications where clarity and definition are paramount.

By reading this article, you will gain a comprehensive understanding of what linear phase EQ is, how it works, its key features and benefits, practical applications in mixing and mastering, and how it compares to standard equalizers.

A groundbreaking study released today by Economists for Ukraine reveals that the actual value of U.S. aid to Ukraine is significantly lower than widely reported. Contrary to the U.S. government's estimate of more than $60 billion in military assistance, the study finds that the real value amounts to approximately $18.3 billion. The full report is available at https://econ4ua.org/aid-value.

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“Public narratives about aid to Ukraine often overlook the distinction between appropriations and actual delivered value,” said the Economists for Ukraine leadership team. “This study provides a comprehensive, data-driven assessment that clarifies how much Ukraine is truly receiving.”

Meanwhile, in the early 2010s, the company shifted its focus from “music enthusiasts” to what it calls “lean-back consumers”, effectively the kind of people who would once have turned the radio on in the morning and left it burbling in the background all day. The purpose of the playlists it designed to target them – “chill vibes”, “mellow morning”, “mood-booster” – was, and is, to provide unobtrusive background noise or, as Pelly suggests, a latter-day equivalent to muzak: nothing striking, unusual, out-of-the-ordinary, or indeed any of the things one might reasonably want music to be. The message that quickly filtered through to artists was that the more beige your sound, the more likely it was to find a place on a Spotify playlist and earn some cash. Hence the rise of a homogeneous genre dubbed “Spotifycore”, which you’ve doubtless heard even if the term seems unfamiliar. It’s a bit ambient, a bit electronic, a bit folky, a bit indie, a nonspecific wish-wash possessed only of a vague wistfulness, the sonic equivalent of a CBD gummy: music “for any place, for anyone”, as one producer put it, that ends up being “music for no place, for no one”.

Spotify encouraged it, developing an “optimisation tool” called Spotify4Artists that urged musicians to examine the data, see what is doing well and tailor their music to be more like that. Given how hard it is for musicians to make a living in the 21st century, you can understand the pressure on artists to join this particular race to the bottom. “To be sustainable,” says one indie record label executive dolefully, “you have to put out records that are going to get repeat listens in coffee shops.”

This website contains all the lectures, project materials and tools necessary for building a general-purpose computer system and a modern software hierarchy from the ground up.

The materials are aimed at students, instructors, and self-learners. Everything is free and open-source, as long as you operate in a non-profit setting.

Portmaster is a free and open-source application firewall that does the heavy lifting for you. Restore privacy and take back control over all your computer's network activity.