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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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Hoping to find fellow Trekkies here. We have a Starfleet group called the USS Valkyrie in AltspaceVR with a fleet of starships and 30 planets to explore. We meet in VR and on the Discord server.
@wookiecat cheers for making positive decisions for your mental health 🖖
any #retrocomputing folks that would have an interest in this? my father's getting rid of some of his books from college. i understand there may be more.
@readsteven well, it wasn't a course, but a unit. and it was in a systems course for a CS degree, but I hear it is more common to require it
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:Chaos: 
@izaya I've been going by the timeline on the wikipedia article which seems to line up with the schedule of events on NASA's website. I haven't found anywhere a list of precise times
the major things are
day 6: Lunar gravity assist, closest approach to the Moon at 97km, that will be an impressive one. that will be as I understand it a free capture into distant retrograde orbit where it remains for the next ten days
day 16: trans-Earth injection burn should be at its next closest approach to the Moon
day 26: re-entry
the major things are
day 6: Lunar gravity assist, closest approach to the Moon at 97km, that will be an impressive one. that will be as I understand it a free capture into distant retrograde orbit where it remains for the next ten days
day 16: trans-Earth injection burn should be at its next closest approach to the Moon
day 26: re-entry
> what if platypus, but all the animals?
the creators of Avatar: Legend of Korra, probably
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In its current implementation, #Mastodon (and the #Fediverse in general, though maybe not #Hubzilla?) scales quite poorly as the number N of instances grows:
- connections accross servers grow as N^2
- a post must be sent ~N times for popular accounts
- federated data is cached on all servers that received it
Are there current issues/PRs about these problems, what leads are considered to tackle them?
I only found two issues about data duplication/the use of IPFS (see below)
cc @Gargron
@skwinnicki thanks for sharing! I'm only a casual bird watcher, but I'm always excited to see a new bird and to see how the local populations change over the seasons @queerornithology
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This is a Fancy Fire Department Connection
politics
https://blog.washcoll.edu/wordpress/theelm/2020/10/the-meaning-of-wokeness-explained/
for a while I haven't understood the criticism leveled against "wokeness". I always understood "being woke" as being aware of the effects of social and political action on one's own life and the community. I also understand it as being a product of black political culture, so I always read the reaction against it as being essentially racist fear of black political power
the linked article explains a bit more the (typically unexamined) distaste for "wokeness" as essentially performative which I've heard from more liberal folks, but I'm still scratching my head about how it's put in opposition to, say, QAnon, like these things have anything to do with one another or exist on a spectrum.
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RT @PhilosophyMttrs@twitter.com
Today’s Bad Pun
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/PhilosophyMttrs/status/1591725065342697472
I kinda hate the chess.com way of telling you in computer games that your last move was a blunder. It makes me feel bad and I just stop playing. I'm fine to look after the game is over and see where the game turned against me, but I'd rather the outcome of the game tells me I didn't do well
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I keep seeing people say Mastodon is nothing like Twitter. And they’re right.
Mastodon is an echo of the old internet, it’s decentralised, chaotic. What you get depends on your sysadmin. You can’t search, everything has to be shared to you by a human. Networks split apart and rejoin. What you see is your unique connection to it.
Is this good? Maybe. But for me that’s the internet I grew up with. No algorithms, no targeted adverts, just human interaction, and it was glorious.
@Shillywakes still not really following. anyway, I assume you mean specifically hashtags in the fediverse. that's not really going to lead to cohesive discussion because of the decentralized nature of the fediverse. I don't know what kind of #activitypub object, but in Mastodon, I think you're better served by just linking to a toot from your publication page or maybe creating an account specific to the topic, depending on how expansive your engagement with it is as the author
@Shillywakes I don't understand your point about being "descended upon": how and in what context?
@trinsec 🤔 maybe. to be honest, I'm realizing I haven't specifically checked for that before. Just figured you only have the option to cancel service and subscription during the trial period.
I just canceled an Amazon Prime Video channel, and they do have the option to turn-off auto-renewal during the normal subscription, but I'm not sure they wouldn't continue service and still bill you just without charging your card, though that seems rather sneaky.
blankets should just be squares. i'm sleepy, cold, and in the dark, but you want me to find the long side of this blanket to wrap around myself when I'm sitting up in bed to post nonsense on the internet? it's too much
protip: always set a calendar reminder for your free trials: you will definitely not remember to cancel just before the paid subscription starts
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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