What Was the Washington Post Afraid Of?

What Was the Washington Post Afraid Of?

For nearly four months, investigative reporter Amy Brittain and I, then a freelancer, had been working on a follow-up to our November front-page story about sexual-harassment allegations against Charlie Rose. The Post had nonetheless kept both Amy and me on the story and, to ensure the integrity of the process, reassigned us to editors on the national desk who had never worked with Fager. But in the days that followed, at least two senior women on the show called Baron to say that Fager was being falsely accused and to express anger at the characterization of 60 Minutes as a hostile environment for women.

Source: nymag.com

I don’t want to be a full-fullstack developer

I don’t want to be a full-fullstack developer

It is easier for the business: you need to check with one person and process of development does not get too complicated with ‘who does what’ issues, it also cuts the costs making a little tradeoff with quality and development time. Backend development is a complex field, including understanding of network layer, the way servers work overall, deployment, AWS/Google/Azure services(they are vital to modern web applications), specifics of server application language and framework, protocols used, authentication, database connectivity and setup and a lot of other things. Don’t get me wrong, I think it is good to widen up the field of knowledge and employ understanding of your parts surrounding to do a better job on your section, but making developers be Jacks of all trades directly influences code quality, choice of solutions and the future of the project developed.

Source: artur-martsinkovskyi.github.io

An internet mob falsely painted a Chipotle employee as racist

An internet mob falsely painted a Chipotle employee as racist

As her video made the rounds on social media, people started stalking Moran on social media. Reason 3: All you need is one person with a question

Two days after her video went viral, Moran got another call from her mother. Moran wasn’t the only person in the video suspicious of the young black men’s intentions, he noted.

Source: www.cnn.com

Nissan says Leaf batteries will outlast the car by 10-12 years

Nissan says Leaf batteries will outlast the car by 10-12 years

Nissan claims the batteries in its Leaf electric cars will last 22 years, an estimated 10-12 years longer than the average life of the car itself. Last year, the company even debuted a modern streetlight powered by used Leaf batteries and solar panels. Carranza said,

In 2018, Nissan introduced a program to replace old Leaf battery packs.

Source: electrek.co

How Screwed is Intel without Hyper-Threading?

How Screwed is Intel without Hyper-Threading?

Corona is a high performance renderer and here the 8700K saw a 31% performance decrease with Hyper-Threading disabled, while the 7700K saw a similar 33% drop off. The 8700K saw a 10-12% performance drop off with Hyper-Threading disabled while the 7700K saw a 24% drop off, though the 1% low margins were similar to what we witnessed with the 8700K. For the games we tested, with a 6-core Intel CPU you will see minimal impact on performance for the most part, though 1% performance does suffer at times and on high refresh rate gaming you’ll notice the performance drop.

Source: www.techspot.com

100% renewables doesn’t equal zero-carbon energy, and the difference is growing

100% renewables doesn’t equal zero-carbon energy, and the difference is growing

“To guarantee 100 percent emissions reductions from renewable energy, power consumption needs to be matched with renewable generation on an hourly basis,” said Sally Benson, co-author of the paper and co-director of the Precourt Institute for Energy. “In California, gas is often the marginal generation source and has a higher emissions rate than average grid power, which is why purchasing renewables can result in a net negative carbon footprint,” said de Chalendar. By using its energy storage to maximize purchases of electricity in the afternoon when solar power dominates the California grid, Stanford could reduce emissions from heating and cooling by an additional 40 percent, according to a study published earlier this month by the authors of this paper.

Source: energy.stanford.edu

These maybe the first images of dogs, and they’re wearing leashes (2017)

These maybe the first images of dogs, and they’re wearing leashes (2017)

And those lines are probably leashes, suggesting that humans mastered the art of training and controlling dogs thousands of years earlier than previously thought. For the past 3 years, Maria Guagnin, an archaeologist at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany—in partnership with the Saudi Commission for Tourism & National Heritage—has helped catalog more than 1400 rock art panels containing nearly 7000 animals and humans at Shuwaymis and Jubbah, a more open vista about 200 kilometers north that was once dotted with lakes. The researchers couldn’t directly date the images, but based on the sequence of carving, the weathering of the rock, and the timing of the switch to pastoralism, “The dog art is at least 8000 to 9000 years old,” Guagnin says.

Source: www.sciencemag.org

Who Art Thou, Shakespeare?

Who Art Thou, Shakespeare?

(Princeton University Press)
In “How the Classics Made Shakespeare,” Jonathan Bate — provost of Worcester College, Oxford, as well as a scholar of remarkable industry — probes what one might call the Ovidian, Virgilian, Horatian, Ciceronian, Plutarchan and Senecan undergirdings to the many Shakespearean works with strong classical associations. Bate begins with a simple premise: “Storytelling was Shakespeare’s method of making sense of the world, and no stories gripped him more fully than those of classical antiquity.” Erotic obsession, madness, pagan “fame” vs. Christian salvation, the horrors of civil war, the stage as a secondary world, the symbolic import of magic, dreams and ghosts — Bate brilliantly delineates their classical origins and redeployment in Shakespeare’s work.

Source: www.washingtonpost.com

Why Do Lunar Satellites Eventually Crash into the Moon? [video]

Why Do Lunar Satellites Eventually Crash into the Moon?

Spacecraft orbiting the Earth have remained in space since the 1950’s and may last for centuries more, but spacecraft orbiting close to the moon can crash within weeks. The reason for this is the lunar gravity field is lumpy, with geological features making the smooth orbits of space probes distort until they hit the surface. The recent publication on the giant lunar and images taken from NASA’s Apollo, GRAIL and LRO programs.

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You Don’t Need to Be Brilliant to Do Brilliant Work

You Don’t Need to Be Brilliant to Do Brilliant Work

Part of it was a question of ego — I’d run into this problem around the same time Csongor had. I think what happened is that people started thinking “man, this book is full of really hard concepts. And that seemed like a waste of time if I wasn’t able to amortize by that helping other people learn the same things.

Source: sandymaguire.me