๐ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ Category: Culture,Music,Stage,Dance,Theatre,Film,Television,Television & radio,Art,Art and design,Games ๐ก Main takeaway: Exit: cinemaEleanor the GreatOut nowJune Squibb stars in Scarlett Johansson's directorial debut, which premiered at Cannes, and tells the story of Eleanor, a senior citizen recently moved to New York, who befriends a 19-year-old โ and then stumbles her way into pretending to be a Holocaust survivor.LurkingOut nowA hit at Sundance, the story of an unassuming retail employee who happens to befriend a rising pop star becomes a Boswell for Johnson, if Boswell were part of the pop star's…
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Hereโs what youโll learn: Choose the weekStrange thingsThe final episodes of the Duffer brothers' smash-hit sci-fi coming-of-age fest (maybe the secret to the show's success is how many genres it manages to incorporate?) will be dropping around the holiday season โ and they're huge. Fans will be up and early on Boxing Day for episodes five through seven (the finale airs on New Year's Day). Will's new powers take over, posing a major threat to Vecna. But why…
โจ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News ๐ ๐ Category: ๐ก Key idea: A Crowded Market, But An Unsolved Problem Object storage is the backbone of modern data infrastructure. AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage, MinIO, Ceph, newer players like Tigris Dataโthe market is saturated. So why build another one? Because the fundamental assumptions behind these systems are shifting. High performance is no longer optionalโbut having high performance available isnโt the same as being able to afford using it. Beyond โCold Storageโ: Why Performance Matters Now Traditional object storage had a clear priority order: cost first, performance later. This…
โจ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ Category: Television & radio,Culture,Peep Show,The Great British Bake Off,Television ๐ Key idea: peep Show is not actually a TV show. It's more of an identity now, embedded in the collective British DNA. A decade after the show ended, many of us still call each other "clean shirt," notice the logos in the foam or complain that the cracks are "weirder." The single show more emblematic of the UK's national psyche is The Great British Bake Off. So rejoice, because the best holiday collaboration is here! I call…
๐ Explore this awesome post from Business News ๐ ๐ Category: ๐ก Key idea: Noah Schnapp, Caleb McLaughlin, Finn Wolfhard and Gaten Matarazzo star in Season 5 of Stranger Things on Netflix.Courtesy: NetflixThe original concept for what would become "Stranger Things" was rejected by more than 15 studios before it was reached Netflix List of original programming. A decade later, the show created, written and directed by Matt and Ross Duffer has become one of the biggest cultural touchstones of the streaming era, and has cemented Netflix not just as a competitor, but as an industry leader.โPeople always talk about…
๐ฅ Read this must-read post from Hacker News ๐ ๐ Category: ๐ Hereโs what youโll learn: Neal Mohan, the CEO of YouTube speaks during a panel for the Summit for Democracy on March 30, 2023 in Washington, DC.Anna Moneymaker | Getty ImagesYouTube's CEO Neal Mohan is the latest in a line of tech bosses who have admitted to limiting their children's social media use, as the harms of being online for young people have become more evident. Mohan, who took the helm of YouTube's leadership in 2023, was just named Time's 2025 CEO of the Year. He said in an…
โจ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ Category: Television,Culture,Television & radio,Drama,Factual TV,Entertainment TV,Documentary ๐ก Main takeaway: DramaStuffedDrama pickAn hour of capers and heartfelt moments โฆ Stuffed. Photograph: Janne-Pekka Manninen/BBC/Baby Cow/When cash-strapped Arslan (Guz Khan) gets an ยฃ8,000 bonus, he treats his wife Hannah (Morgana Robinson), two daughters and brother-in-law Jamie (Theo Barklem-Biggs) to a magical Lapland trip. But the payment was an error. How will he pay it back? Cue an hour of capers and heartfelt family moments. Plus, Sue Johnston completes the cast as the familyโs new holiday friend, Lily. Hollie Richardson Tuesday…
๐ฅ Check out this insightful post from WIRED ๐ ๐ Category: Science,Science / Environment,Storm Surge ๐ Hereโs what youโll learn: โThis was one of the most significant safety events in U.S. nuclear history, and yet it did not pose a significant risk to the public,โ Stein said. โThis shows the power of these plants.โStein added that the NRC license requires that reactor buildings be built to withstand โhurricane missiles,โ or large objects that collide at high speeds. โIt is literally designed to safely withstand this type of event,โ he said.However, NextEra plans to increase weather-related safety measures at the reopened…
๐ฅ Discover this must-read post from Hacker News ๐ ๐ Category: ๐ก Hereโs what youโll learn: In particular, Katzarkov wanted to break the mirror imageโs curve count into pieces, then use the mirror symmetry program to show that there was a corresponding way to break up the four-foldโs Hodge structure. He could then work with these pieces of the Hodge structure, rather than the whole thing, to show that four-folds canโt be parameterized. If any one of the pieces couldnโt be mapped to a simple 4D space, heโd have his proof. But this line of reasoning depended on the assumption…
