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No other signal like it has been detected before or since.

the signal was much more powerful than had previously been predicted at 250 Janskys, four times larger than had previously been estimated.

We propose that the Wow! Signal was caused by the abrupt brightening of the hydrogen line of these clouds triggered by an intense radiation source, such as a magnetar flare or a soft gamma repeater

OAuth was first introduced in 2007. It was created at Twitter because Twitter wanted a way to allow third-party apps to post tweets on users' behalf.

OKLCH is a newer color model that is designed to be perceptually uniform. This means that colors are much more accurate in terms of how humans perceive them and it makes working with them much easier

firmitas (solidità e permanenza); utilitas (funzione, destinazione d’uso); venustas (perfezione di bellezza).

equilibrio e proporzioni sono elementi caratteristici della natura

Canone di Policleto, l’applicazione del modulo architettonico all’anatomia: partendo da un’unità (come un dito o la testa) si ricavano proporzionalmente le misure di tutto il corpo.

Alice

>> Make cheese expensive again << Non è un paese per caci

è un modello che concettualizza i meccanismi di conoscenza e auto-conoscenza delle persone; in altre parole, spiega in che modo l’Io si relaziona con sé stesso e con gli altri, attraverso diversi livelli cognitivi e relazionali

Scientists recently discovered a microbe with one of the tiniest genomes on Earth. More surprising, the creature is almost entirely dependent on its host

Merlin displays what he knows so shamelessly that he throws everyone off

the “shameless” approach is becoming a dominant strategy today. It was first popularized in modern canon by Paris Hilton, who played the “dumb blonde heiress

people were dismissive of Paris because validating her playbook would mean admitting that they were playing an inferior game

Today, it seems like punishing shamelessness only increases social rewards to the transgressor. What’s changed?

In the past, if the size of your community was finitely bounded (like a village, or an aristocratic social class), people didn’t enter or exit these communities as frequently. Under these conditions, sanctions are probably still effective, because members of the community want to be liked and accepted.

But the borders to online communities are much more fluid - perhaps even nonexistent

will backfire, because they just serve as a signaling boost for the transgressor, attracting outsiders who resonate with that person’s message.

forms the basis for an entirely new community.

A common critique of shameless people is questioning their intelligence

it doesn’t actually matter how aware that person is

The shameless person is simply a host for a set of ideas, which, like any virus

I quickly cancelled my GPT subscription and put the $20/month towards Anthropic instead.

1) Have faith (always run it with 'dangerously skip permissions', even on important resources

If you're from infosec, you might want to stop reading now

they can perform wildly differently based on the same or similar inputs

coding is just conditional logic and looping