ReHacked #148: Yandex data center in Finland loses power due to war sanctions, 100-year-old Brazilian breaks record after 84 years at same company, Mechanical Watch - how it's made and more

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Yandex data center in Finland loses power, runs on diesel, due to war sanctions - DCD #economy #politics #internet

Yandex's data center in Finland has been cut off the electricity grid as a response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. It is currently running on diesel, according to reports.

The Russian search giant's 40MW facility in Mäntsälä, Finland, was cut off by the local energy company Nivos Energia Oy, according to Russian news service RBC. The reasons for the disconnection are not clear, as Yandex is not currently on sanctions lists, but its news and blogging services, as well as a senior executive, have been criticized for spreading Russian propaganda.

100-year-old Brazilian breaks record after 84 years at same company | Guinness World Records #world

How long have you been working in the same company? Five years? Ten?

Walter Orthmann (Brazil) has been working at the same company for 84 years and 9 days, as verified on 6 January 2022.

His passion, discipline and commitment motivated him to keep doing what he loves and, eventually, become an official Guinness World Records title holder for the longest career in the same company.

Mechanical Watch – How it’s made and how it works #engineering #longread

In the world of modern portable devices, it may be hard to believe that merely a few decades ago the most convenient way to keep track of time was a mechanical watch. Unlike their quartz and smart siblings, mechanical watches can run without using any batteries or other electronic components.

A first for Canada: New type of nuclear plant opening by 2028 - The Weather Network #engineering #energy

SMRs are nuclear reactors that typically produce up to 300 megawatts (MW) of electricity, which is enough energy to power 300,000 homes for one year. SMRs can also support remote off-grid communities and supply power to existing grids.

“Currently, the [Chalk River] project is scheduled to come online around 2026 or 2027, which would make it Canada's first operating SMR,” Ken Darlington, VP of Corporate Development at Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC), told The Weather Network.

A single memory is stored across many connected brain regions | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology #science #nature

Innovative brain-wide mapping study shows that an “engram,” the ensemble of neurons encoding a memory, is widely distributed and includes regions not previously realized.

Memory pioneer Richard Semon had predicted such a “unified engram complex” more than a century ago, but achieving the new study’s affirmation of his hypothesis required the application of several technologies developed only recently. In the study, the team identified and ranked dozens of areas that were not previously known to be involved in memory and showed that memory recall becomes more behaviorally powerful when multiple memory-storing regions are reactivated, rather than just one.

Training materials and labs for a "Getting Started" level course on COBOL #programming

PyScript | Run Python in your HTML #programming

Say Hello to PyScript

PyScript is a framework that allows users to create rich Python applications in the browser using HTML’s interface. PyScript aims to give users a first-class programming language that has consistent styling rules, is more expressive, and is easier to learn.

IBM's asshole test — johnpublic #work #psychology #career

"Oh, it's not about that, this is an asshole test. You see who turns into an asshole under pressure and they don't make it to the next round".

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