I've been using LO pretty much constantly for the last two years (even wrote a novel on it). Like any interface, it just takes time to become familiar. In fact, I like the way Writer organizes styles and style configuration far better than Word, and often, even for DOCX files, do initial style set up and layout in Writer and then move to Word if I have to (which is seldom enough).

LO is a damned good office system. Its default UI is older, but since I used MS-Edit and Word pretty extensively back in the 1990s, it feels familiar to me. There is a ribbon interface, but I've only tried it a few times before remembering why it is I actually don't like the Word ribbon.

The 30 year old (at the time) woman, Jaclyn Marie Flury, killed herself last September (age 33). She really was as unstable as she appears in the video.

I've spent time on the difficult end of black-boxing a BINARY file format. You jokers with your XML and LABELS have it faaaaaar too easy. Here, I'll tell you my secret:

Gather as many saved files as you can, from as diverse of a group as possible. (there is NO upper limit, literally grab as many as you can) Write a short little test script to import and then export every single one. Then compare the export with the original. Refer the mismatches to the dev. I had over 1,000 test files in my suite, and in the initial release only a SINGLE flag was missed, because of all those test files, nobody implemented that feature and the dev guessed the storage would be the same as EVERY other one. (it turned out to be quite unique)

Oh and as for XML depth.... it's RECURSION. It literally does not care if it's 5 levels or 200 levels deep. (unless your IDE has a truly pathetic stack size)

So it's not difficult. QYB.

Additionally some white dwarfs collect enough matter to become unstable and explode throwing their entire mass back out as a mass of new elements, and some neutron star pairs merge and generate kilonovae that pump out the very heaviest elements formed in the universe due the intensely concentrated neutron fluxes produced (the r-process of element formation).

What really happens is that there are huge clouds of gas and dust that become stellar nurseries (we see one about 800 light years away in the constellation Orion). These huge clouds collapse and start producing density centers that collapse into stars, some of these a very massive, live for a short time, explode with core collapse supernovas and send shock waves and newly formed elements into the huge cloud forcing more collapses into star to form. This process continues for hundreds of millions of years until all the gas and dust is used up or blown away by the stellar winds and results in a large open cluster of thousands of stars. In addition to core collapse supernovas other types of stellar events like exploding white dwarfs and merging neutron stars create more shock waves and bursts of new elements of different masses.

We have known this for decades because we can directly observe the products of planetary system formation from a supenova -- they fall to Earth all the time. They are the most abundant type of meteorite -- the chrondrite or stony meteorite.

The term "chondrite" means that is is composed of little spherical grains, or chondrules, which condensed out of the supernova debris. This is the stuff they are seeing in the HOPS-315 system. And we can tell this is "formation in place" because we can tell that the very oldest parts of chondrules, the CAIs (calcium aluminum inclusions) found in carbonaceous chondrites, condensed directly out of the still very hot >1300 K supernova gas, and some of which were them remelted by heating from aluminum-26, a short lived (717,000 year) nuclide produced by the supernova. Al-26 generates a lot of heat for an astronomically short period (a few million years) so that remelting went to completion within a few million years of the supernova occurring.

I can't speak to this paper but for the CERN papers the reason there are so many authors has far more to do with the fact that to get at the physics you need a 14-story tall incredibly complex detector that has its data collected and analyzed by software consisting millions of lines of code. You need a few thousand people to build and operate such detectors and to write and debug the code that analyzes the data to get at the physics. That's why there are so many authors.

Many of us would love to have our own table-top experiments but nobody knows how to make one that small which can get at the physics we are interested in.

If nearly 100% of their code is written by AI that means it's not under copyright then. Interesting future when this becomes the common case across all companies.

All directions look back to the Big Bang because it happened at every point of the universe. The "Big Crunch" is pretty much ruled out by the accelerating expansion but this has introduced a new possible ending to the universe: the "Big Rip". In this scenario nothing stops the accelerating expansion driven by increasing dark energy.

As the expansion accelerates, the causally connected region of the universe shrinks and, if nothing stops this, at some point in the extremely distant future even atoms and then nucleons etc. will get ripped apart as the causally connected region shrinks below their size until it reaches the planck length at which point there will be a "big rip" as space-time itself is pulled apart. One intriguing, but complete guess, at what happens then is that the huge energy density triggers a new Big Bang at each and every point in the universe i.e. our universe will give birth to a new universe at every single point in it.

While that scenario is extremely hypothetical it seems a lot more optimistic end for us that just expanding forever until heat death stops everything...but it will be a while before we know whether it is right.

Prison for a civil suit? I don't think so. Leaving him financially destroyed, on the other hand, is definitely what Apple is aiming for.

Apple has launched a civil lawsuit. If it was criminal, federal prosecutors would be the ones executing the case, which they would do if there really was a case for it. So no, not criminal.

WHAT is right there on video? That is NOT one of Zelensky's bodyguards. That's a random soldier from the 25th Separate Secheslav Airborne Brigade, which recaptured Izyum, during Zelensky's visit to celebrate the victory. Do you think bodyguards spend all their time taking selfies with the person they're protecting? Grow some common sense circuits in your brain. And it's not like Zelensky was handing the man an award with the patch prominently featured in front of the camera while he received it or anything. The Russian volunteer ranks are absolutely littered with Nazis.

What, you mean like the Russian governor of occupied Donetsk outright giving an award to a guy with a Totenkopf patch? Or all of the numerous Russian officials who have praised or given awards to the puppy-eating, unabashed Nazi, Milchakov?

Also, contrary to the misinfo sites you read, that was not a photo of "one of Zelensky's bodyguards". That was from his visit to Izyum where he was posing with random soldiers from the 25th Separate Secheslav Airborne Brigade to celebrate the retaking of the city from the Russians. That's why everyone has their phone out to take selfies.

Stalin was perfectly happy to ally with Hitler for the conquest of eastern Europe. The USSR only turned "anti-Nazi", not for ideological reasons, but because the Nazis betrayed them. Today in Russia, "Nazi" is used as a general insult for any external perceived enemy of the state, with any actual connection to Nazism not being at all required. Yet actual support for the actual principles of fascism within Russia is well tolerated. For example, Putin's good friend Dmitri Rogozin, now governor of occupied Zaporozhye Oblast, is absolutely a fascist, including speaking at a far-rally surrounded by people doing Nazi salutes under a only slightly modified Nazi flag, among so, SO many other things.

In most countries, the saying with respect to WWII is "Never Again". In Russia, it's "We Can Repeat It!" (Mozhem povtorit!).

I guess it depends on who you were. If you were Jewish, the Nazi occupation was definitely worse. Stalin was more of an equal-opportunity atrocity-committer.

It is kind of darkly funny how similarly Hitler and Stalin thought, though. For example, Hitler cited positively the Holodomor and the collectivization of Ukraine, and planned to use the Holodomor as a role model for resource extraction during scarcity, and to maintain the collectivization of Ukrainians set in place by the Soviets. He likewise viewed Ukrainians as a "colonial peoples", in the sort of Africanizing terms common among imperial powers of the time, and just planned to switch which foreign colonial master ruled them, arguing that ultimately Ukrainians would prefer the German yoke to the "Jewish"** (Soviet) one.

** How the whole Nazi view of the USSR as a "Jewish Empire" played out was I guess predictable. Because if the Wehrmacht rolls into your town, and you're some low-level communist functionary, and there's a bunch of soldiers knocking on your door who want to kill communists, but who also believe communists = jews = communists, what's your response? For most, it was along the lines of, "Yes, yes, you're right, communists ARE Jews, absolutely! And look, I'm not a Jew, I can prove it! But THAT GUY over there, HE is Jewish, that's the guy you're looking for!".