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Comment Not just yes (Score 1) 20

But hell yes

I might not have cared when I was younger, but as the years go by, the "spring forward" change is more and more disruptive and for a longer span of time.

I've been able to mitigate it somewhat by setting my alarm incrementally earlier in the weeks prior to make the adjustment gradual, but it is still quite stressful and irritating, and the reasoning behind it is outdated and pointless (in my book).

Comment Ingenious but evil af (Score 5, Insightful) 163

This strikes me as an incredibly evil and underhanded way to get coding projects done without having to actually pay someone to do it.

1) Applicant submits interest in job
2) As an "aptitude test" they are assigned an extensive coding project the company wants completed
3) The company gets the completed project back from the applicant, who is then turned down for the position

Presto, free coding work....

Submission + - Radio telescope reveals how lightning begins

g01d4 writes: From Quanta Magazine. Detailed observations inside a cloud, using a state of the art radio telescope array, have exposed how electric fields grow strong enough to generate lightning. It seems to be something of a chain reaction starting with clusters of ice crystals inside the cloud. Turbulent collisions between the needle-shaped crystals brush off some of their electrons, leaving one end of each ice crystal positively charged and the other negatively charged. The positive end draws electrons from nearby air molecules. More electrons flow in from air molecules that are farther away, forming ribbons of ionized air that extend from each ice crystal tip. These are called streamers which build up numbers until one becomes hot and conductive enough to turn into a leader — a channel along which a fully fledged streak of lightning can suddenly travel.

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