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Anti-ICE sentiments have escalated among Democrats since the death of Renee Good, who was shot by an ICE agent on Jan. 7 after she defied officers’ orders and hit him with her car in Minneapolis.

The reason is that the technology behind EUV machines is a chain of almost impossible steps, all of which have to work at the same time. Modern chips are made by printing patterns, layer by layer, on to silicon using light.
To do this, engineers first need to create a form of light that does not occur naturally. Powerful lasers are fired at microscopic droplets of molten tin, turning them into plasma hotter than the surface of the Sun. That creates a pulse of extreme ultraviolet light, which is then reflected off a series of mirrors, each made with atomic-level precision and taking months to make, before the pattern is finally transferred to the silicon wafer.
The hardest part to replicate is the optics. EUV-grade mirrors are produced by a single supplier: Carl Zeiss SMT. They are the product of decades of tightly integrated development between Zeiss and ASML.

If you see a large variance, it means that the system-level audio callback function has unstable timing that can lead to poor audio stream quality.

The likely issue for crackling sounds on Ubuntu 24.04 is that the distro has been switching over to pipewire and it runs a conversion service from pulse audio, namely pipewire-pulse.

The challenge is that many apps don't directly talk to piepewire, but do it through JACK and/or especially pulse itself, hence sound data needs to be moved though additional hops.

The default time buffers for pipewire-pulse is 2.7 ms, which means that an application needs to be able to fill sound content every 2.7 ms, otherwise pipewire will send to the audio device whatever was previously filled and potentially some random data, hence the crackling.

2.7 ms is quite a stringent time, especially for applications which don't have dedicated threads for audio (likely Proton/wine/games) and/or when running on old CPUs - hence one way to limit cracking is to tell pipewire-pulse to set a larger time buffer, albeit adding a delay to when the sound is sent to the audio device.

How terrible, then, to hear news from Iran of guards shooting metal pellets into young protesters’ faces, deliberately targeting their eyes. Hospitals have been overwhelmed. Many protesters have needed eyes removed. Terrible, too, to learn of two protesters who have lost eyes after being shot in the face with “less-lethal” munitions fired by ICE officers in the US.

Deliberately blinding someone is evil. Most of us believe we would never do such a thing. But we may be wrong about that.

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The psychologist Paul Bloom has argued convincingly that some perpetrators of evil, far from dehumanising their victims, know how to be particularly cruel because they are expert at imagining what it would be like to be those victims. Far from dehumanising them, they recognise them, through empathy, as fellow humans too. That’s why they know so well how to do the worst possible things to them.

Only one country that sent military personnel was not included in Trump’s threats. Belgium was not targeted although it will send one military officer to Greenland.

Because this dojo is a private dojo, the environment is very different from teaching Japanese club activities.
There are many children who are working on judo in parallel with other sports and children who are busy studying, and the time they can use to practice is limited.
In the United States, there is a lot of homework, and considering the compatibility with school life, there is never much time to practice.
I am constantly thinking about how to practice effectively in the limited time, and I repeat trial and error every day.