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A capable software engineer and aspirating (sic) cook. Also posting about space stuff (mostly NASA) occasionally
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Joined Apr 2020
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Today I was invited to join the EIRSAT-1 team to their clean room to help tiny bit while they continue working towards building the final version of the satellite. We are building Ireland’s first satellite! A cubesat the size of a shoebox that will monitor the gamma-ray sky with novel technollogy developed here at UCD.
Exciting times!
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Can you trap a galaxy in a crystal ball? I tried! Back in 2018 I took this image of the Milky Way through a crystal ball from ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile.
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These are NGC5426 and NGC5427, collectively known as Arp271, a pair of interacting spiral galaxies located about 130 million lightyears away.
I took this image back in 2018 with VIMOS, an instrument at ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile. I was the Instrument Scientist, and that night we were decommissioning the instrument to make room for a new one, so I decided to take one last farewell image to celebrate all the cool science done with this instrument over the years.
https://exbulletin.com/entertainment/1241288/
It's weird that they say the Bryan character looks like Harper. I thought the character looked more like Richard Ayoade, but with a more prominent chin...and more buff.
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So I got a lathe, and I made this! (not the wood part, but I'm working on it) It's a Paua Abalone shell inlay into a size 10 wooden ring blank. Polished up to 12000 grit, and while the images don't exactly catch the opalescence, I'm very proud of my first attempt 
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@nickwedig sounds like a fun night😆
@Pat dude, this is Michigan, not the United States as a whole. besides, it looks like the candidates didn't have the signatures to be formally considered as candidates in the election... even if they personally didn't write fake signatures, they are campaign leaders so they're responsible
@neauoire cool. I wonder though, I didn't learn much programming from people talking, but from reading. is there much advantage to having the lesson signed? maybe it's more engaging for some...
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Apple created a short #asl series of videos to talk about the fundamentals of programming.
https://developer.apple.com/asl-videos/video-functions.html
@johnabs I've 100% heard an informal proposal related to that before, but specifically for getting reviewers. Basically the idea was about finding a scheme to gather reviewers, keeping results under wraps so no one gets "scooped", and *I think* paying reviewers for their time or somehow crediting them. I'll link it if I find a record of it -- my notes are shit though, so don't hold your breath
If I could spend my working days helping to mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change or helping people making more efficient use of natural resources, I would, but I don't know how to make a living doing that 😔
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Stolen joke:
It's only a murder of crows if there's probable caws.
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Weekly #space / #astronomy news update!
○ InSight's fading power 😢
○ formation of DF2/DF4 (no dark matter!)
○ how soon will humans reach an asteroid?
○ Psyche mission delay
○ OFT-2 in the books! ✅
○ 👀 tau Herculids on May 30
I gotta start citing "scheduling conflicts" when it's inconvenient for me to be places
@CodingItWrong@mastodon.technology only read the first couple sections, but good points. one thing though is the refactor step is described as rewriting both test and production code, but I think you might want to emphasize only changing one at a time. if you're changing both at the same time, then you're losing the guarantees of confirming to the interface described by your tests, so you no longer have a fixed point of comparison. refactoring should not change the interface by definition
why shouldn't I just buy a patch of land in the desert? it's not like I have to use it for anything
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However, while performing a security audit of the DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser, security researcher Zach Edwards discovered that while the browser blocks Google and Facebook trackers, it allowed Microsoft trackers to continue running.
DuckDuckGo CEO and Founder Gabriel Weinberg confirmed that their browser intentionally allows Microsoft trackers third-party sites due to a search syndication agreement with Redmond.
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I have made a weird musical instrument. It is some kind of electronic just intonation kalimba I guess? With stars?
@olamundo@red.niboe.info what's your worry? companies merge and acquire each other all the time
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A capable software engineer and aspirating (sic) cook. Also posting about space stuff (mostly NASA) occasionally
pronouns: he, him
Joined Apr 2020
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