i think he never was a genius, but it seems he did solid and respected work.

Until 2018 he seemed to have been working productively on many topics. (it seems he made a switch in the early 90s from Physic related subjects to cryptography related stuff with some success by seemingly publishing in peer reviewed journals

His descent into self-citing bullshit and scientific madness began IMHO around 2018. His paper titles got more and more crackpot-science. In his world mixing undergraduate understanding of certain mathematical topics and mixing it up with pseudo-science lingo seems to mandate him to explain the world to everybody.

He is not the first scientist whom to go that way. Please do not feed the grandiose delusions of such people in general, and if you know him, please recommend to him that he visits a counselor to see if all of this is a sign of some underlying more serious problem.

His google scholar:

https://scholar.google.com/cit...

Did they wait with suggesting to clone powershell until some patent of MS ran out?

Nice move of Nature journal to make much of the covid19 related articles open access:

Face masks work:
https://www.nature.com/article...

In that article there is an explicit list of studies with apparently contradicting findings of cases in which they don't work, so no silencing going on here.

It seem mask work if applied coherently to the population (I refrain from adding my conclusions here).

and I consume more youtube in average than netflix (yes, i have youtube prime).

Netflix hat 1-3 new seasons of series which i really want to watch per year. Having netflix 1-2 month per year to catch up is enough. 90% of what netflix original content is more of the same which worked 5-8 years ago.

Youtube is better in covering everybody's niche content since the crowd of independent youtubers are more flexible and dont need approval for doing that.

I prefer it if my LTS distribution of choice makes plans to upgrade the kernel version (potentially with a suitable config) at times when the old LTS kernel ends. There are very few userland things which break or require change if you update the kernel.

If you are *so* specific in the kernel version (e.g. embedded HW with specific non-mainline drivers or devices in which you are mandated under change control (medical, aerospace etc.) then you have to do your own thing anyway.

As a physicist: How else would you call it?

It is radiation in the same way IR,optical,Optical or gamma radiation is radiation.

And now we know why google never really tried to force people into a own chat app. They could not find a way to monetize without being hated.

Really?

Hey, its half a wafer scanner which you can buy from that........

You for sure can supply us with a link to the market data which somehow supports your claim.

I know that the one Child policy was abandoned - too little too late. It seems you are not aware that turning around a population dynamics takes 30 years (if it works at all), and even if you would ramp up births very quickly, that would make the economic effect worse.

I think we should look for Japan since the 80s to see a potential/likely (optimistic) trajectory of China in the next 40 years.

The crisis which is very real is that China has

* a quickly decreasing ratio of workforce/total population (one child policy)
* brain drain
* imbalance in male/female population

all at the same time.

The only thing they could do is to invite Indians.....

And make the SW support worse. 10 years ago a high end Samsung device did receive at most updates for 2y and there were grotesque software bugs (Galazy Note 2 had writable memory device for everybody).

just saying