🌸🌹2ck 🌱🐇 @2ck@social.cleverlibre.org
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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this is your casual reminder that I wrote https://toast.cafe/s/systemd.bash and that it works great thanks
@clacke I have literally never seen anyone use GUSD to mean a billion US dollars: where did you pick that up?
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Someone posted a question if you can see the JWST with a telescope on Earth and I thought pffft of course not, could you see a bus parked on the moon? And now move that bus four times as far away as the moon.
And then people posted pictures of the JWST taken in the backyards of amateurs with tracking equipment.
It is just a dot, yes, but it is actually a dot slightly bigger and brighter than the stars around it.
That said, you can't see it with binoculars as you can with e.g. the ISS.
#JWST #JamesWebb #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope
And then people posted pictures of the JWST taken in the backyards of amateurs with tracking equipment.
It is just a dot, yes, but it is actually a dot slightly bigger and brighter than the stars around it.
That said, you can't see it with binoculars as you can with e.g. the ISS.
#JWST #JamesWebb #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope
@readsteven if you see a half eaten Snickers mini next, I suggest you leave immediately and alert the authorities. this is not a joke.
(this is completely a joke)
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Obligatory joke time
Polar bears dissolve in water. Nonpolar bears dissolve in benzene
I may have said this before, but there are chickens in my neighbor's yard and the sounds they make some mornings... I just feel very certain I'm hearing chickens orgasming. I've never definitively heard what that sounds like in a hen, but it's what I imagine it would sound like. (I will not even consider searching for what that actually sounds like)
more power to those chickens if that's what it is, but I really don't wanna hear it😑
#nature #neighbors #animals
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Timnit Gebru Is Building a Slow AI Movement
https://spectrum.ieee.org/timnit-gebru-dair-ai-ethics#toggle-gdpr
I'm thinking of starting a restaurant where you get indefinite quantities of a variety of food and pay as you go. more like conveyor belt sushi than a buffet. I'd call it "I Could Eat".
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@maltimore hoo, boy. what was his take on Hitler? Did he think Hitler was some kind of German folk hero??
@izaya this one's a "thinker", huh?
(I don't get it)
what's the collective noun for a group of software infrastructure/IT folks? a "rack"? a "stack"?
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Today I did a super cool music research thing. I have been playing this piece, which was written for me and it's based on cymatics, which is about the patterns notes make... and the composer & I want to visualise the music for the deaf community... today I made all the notes!!!!! Got some software to generate the patterns instead of building the very costly plates, and I am so pleased with the initial results! Here's a vid of how it works: #Music #research #cymatics https://www.instagram.com/p/Cbw_YaVgCw3/
https://www.wuwf.org/florida-news/2022-03-31/a-new-era-of-space-science-takes-flight-thanks-to-private-civilian-missions
#space #AxiomSpace #humanspaceflight #science #commercialspace #podcast
Discussion of human space flight, including the possibility of "hibernation" or slowing the human metabolism to reduce caloric requirements for long duration space travel.
@readsteven what are you taking about? this place is amazing!
@izaya only things good about Bourne shell are that it's everywhere and basic scripting of the "run this then run that" variety is simple. even process control beyond that is kinda wonky. maybe I'm just a dummy, but I basically relearn how to properly trap signals and kill child processes every time I write a nontrivial bash script.
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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