From Wikipedia: According to Serebriakova, the winter came early in that year, there was a lot of snow, but it was warm in the house, so "she started to paint herself in the mirror, entertaining by drawing different small things from her dressing-table".

Here's a great video describing the context of the painting and Zinaida's rather tragic life that followed this happy moment.

Other paintings by her:

Google Ai didn't find the meme video I was looking for, but it substituted a suitable response in the form of interpretative dance.

The patch is small, about a fingernail in size.

Elsewhere on the packet they used two colors of ink: a very dark blue (this) and a lighter blue. I expected it to be some kind of alignment pattern, but only one of the inks seems to have been used here, so that's not it...

What is it for, why would they bother printing it? An ink+paper resolution/absorption test?

This probably sounds like a joke, but I just wanted to mention how useful the actual cardboard box the Supernote A5X2 comes in is. I don't mean the brown one that the tablet, cover and pen come in. That one's really nice and upcyclable too (once you pull out the inner separator it makes a great folder organizer).

The one I mean is . I carry my Manta around daily in a backpack, and it sits in that one box that it came in. You need to carve out the cardboard in a couple of places to make room for it with the cover on, but otherwise it makes for a perfectly sturdy, light and practical case. The magnetic closing mechanism is just right (you can partially open it to slide the tablet out while in the backpack without taking the whole box out), the dimensions are a good balance between sturdiness and heft, and for a disposable bit of packaging it's unbelievably durable.

I realize most people have thrown theirs away, but in case you haven't and are a bit paranoid (like me) about harming the tablet, try using it.

Oh yeah, and the Manta itself is ok too I guess. :)

https://www.kohney.com/comic/fake-license/

I was idly browsing browser (heh) market share graphs when I noticed there was a bump for Chrome in Asia.

None of the obvious countries had it, but I eventually traced it back to unlikely Vietnam. What happened there?! Why did Chrome crush all other browsers in may all of a sudden?

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/viet-nam

"We saw that the boulders weren't scattered randomly in space," Farnham said. "Instead, they were clustered in two pretty distinct groups, with an absence of material elsewhere, which means that something unknown is at work here."

The largest debris cluster, containing about 70% of the measured objects, was ejected toward the south at high velocities and shallow angles to the surface. The team believes that the ejected boulders likely came from specific sources, perhaps from larger boulders on Dimorphos that were shattered by DART's solar panels just before the main body of the spacecraft hit the surface.

"DART's solar panels likely hit two big boulders, called Atabaque and Bodhran, on the asteroid," explained the paper's second author, Jessica Sunshine, a professor of astronomy and geology at UMD. "Evidence suggests that the southern cluster of ejected material is probably made up of fragments from Atabaque, a 3.3-meter-radius boulder."

Previously, a yield strength of 5,000 pounds per square inch (psi) was enough for concrete to be rated as “high strength,” with the best going up to 10,000 psi. The new UHPC can withstand 40,000 psi or more.

The greater strength is achieved by turning concrete into a composite material with the addition of steel or other fibers. These fibers hold the concrete together and prevent cracks from spreading throughout it, negating the brittleness. “Instead of getting a few large cracks in a concrete panel, you get lots of smaller cracks,” says Barnett. “The fibers give it more fracture energy.”

The study analyzed data from 258 UK Uber drivers over more than 1.5 million trips between 2016 and 2024. This revealed a significant shift when Uber introduced a dynamic pricing algorithm in 2023. Passengers now pay more per trip, but drivers' earnings have declined. Adjusted for inflation, drivers' hourly income fell from over £22 to just over £19 before operating costs, and drivers are spending more unpaid time waiting for rides than before. Uber's commission has risen from around 25% to 29% and in some cases, Uber took over half the value of the fare.

Kletetschka said his theory overcomes some of the problems with earlier three-dimensional time theories that are based on traditional physics.

Those earlier theories, for example, describe multiple time dimensions in which cause-and-effect relationships are potentially ambiguous. Kletetschka's theory ensures that causes still precede effects, even with multiple time dimensions, just in a more complex mathematical structure.

In three-dimensional time, the second and third dimensions are thought by some researchers, notably theoretical physicist Itzhak Bars of the University of Southern California, to become apparent, or unfold, at levels of extreme energy such as during the early universe or in high-energy particle interactions..

[...]

His framework accurately reproduces the known masses of particles such as electrons, muons and quarks and also explains why these particles have these masses.

The researchers found an average of around 100 microplastic particles per liter in glass bottles of soft drinks, lemonade, iced tea and beer. That was five to 50 times higher than the rate detected in plastic bottles or metal cans.

"We expected the opposite result," Ph.D. student Iseline Chaib, who conducted the research, told AFP.

"We then noticed that in the glass, the particles emerging from the samples were the same shape, color and polymer composition—so therefore the same plastic—as the paint on the outside of the caps that seal the glass bottles," she said.

The paint on the caps also had "tiny scratches, invisible to the naked eye, probably due to friction between the caps when there were stored," the agency said in a statement.

This could then "release particles onto the surface of the caps," it added.

They use stacked transparent color sensors, like Foveon camera sensors used to.

In numerous experiments, the researchers put the two prototypes, which differ in their readout technology, through their paces. Their results prove the advantages of perovskite: the sensors are more sensitive to light, more precise in color reproduction and can offer a significantly higher resolution than conventional silicon technology.

The fact that each pixel captures all the light also eliminates some of the artifacts of digital photography, such as demosaicing and the moiré effect.

Aagesen singled out the role of the Spanish grid operator REE and certain energy companies she did not name which disconnected their plants "inappropriately... to protect their installations."

She also pointed to "insufficient voltage control capacity" on the system that day, due in part to a programming flaw, stressing that Spain's grid is theoretically robust enough to handle such situations.

Due to these misjudgments "we reached a point of no return with an uncontrollable chain reaction" that could only have been managed if steps had been taken beforehand to absorb the overvoltage problems, she added.

In the world of black holes, there are generally three size categories: stellar-mass black holes (about five to 50 times the mass of the sun), supermassive black holes (millions to billions of times the mass of the sun), and intermediate-mass black holes with masses somewhere in between.

While we know that intermediate-mass black holes should exist, little is known about their origins or characteristics—they are considered the rare "missing links" in black hole evolution.