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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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And the highlight of the highlight was that I GOT TO TOUCH MARS!! Well...a very smol piece of it.
Who's a good little Martian meteorite? Yes, you are!
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In 1925, Dr. Cecilia Payne completed her PhD thesis, described as “the most brilliant ever written in astronomy.” At a time when few #women entered academia, Payne discovered what the universe is made of. Her work began a revolution in astrophysics.
Dr. Payne-Gaposchkin became the 1st female professor & 1st female department chair at Harvard. Given most of us remember names like Darwin & Newton, we should also celebrate Payne. #science #space
Read more at https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201501/physicshistory.cfm
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@kelseyfrog the device took money?
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My 1st-grader and I were genuinely confused while watching a video about the Antikythera mechanism. He kept asking if it would give the money back when it reached the end of the calendar cycle.
He had connected the concept of using computers to buy things and was surprised that the Antikythera, while a computer, did not facilitate commerce. What a good starting point for a conversation about computing.
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@phildini Hi, do you have any tips on when to accept/reject signups where a user would be posting exclusively in non-english? How impossible does this make moderation? Interested in hearing your thoughts :)
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Food (baking pic)
It's the first boule I've done in a bit and it must be good bc the kiddos asked to eat plain bread :D
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Bessie Stringfield
'In 1930, at age of 19, Bessie Stringfield flipped a penny onto a map of the US then ventured out on her bike alone. She became the first Black woman to ride a motorcycle in every one of the connected 48 states — a solo cross-country ride she undertook eight times during her lifetime'
https://medium.com/femalepioneers/femalepioneers-4-bessie-stringfield-52160dd789a0
I hope #UFoI goes well. I can already imagine the headlines if not
Fediverse Federation Fails Fantastically
Federation of Fediverse Freelancers Faces Friction
@WhatYouMcCallit you could agree if you tried😁
I'm not saying there's necessarily a profit motive or that there aren't real people in companies (I work for a company. I am one), but there's a mode in which a company will send you official communications with phrases like "how are you?" and "we've missed you!" that are filtered through concerns with "engagement" and, yes, "customer satisfaction" that don't mean the same thing as when your mom or close friends says it, for instance. it's that they seem to be attempting to co-opt that dynamic with a loved one that strikes me as basically not genuine.
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Fedi.directory is not meant for general personal accounts, there are already two directories for them at https://communitywiki.org/trunk and https://fediverse.info/explore/people
I'm trying to build lists of accounts that focus on specific topics.
This is why I need help with suggestions, because accounts that focus on topics are much rarer than general personal accounts.
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@freemo i know how i feel about it. "concern" from a company isn't genuine. real concern comes from a person who knows you and loves you
I wish there was an MMO with the aesthetics of Nier:Automata.
@lucifargundam oh. long distance relationship? no. I would think your interactions at a distance aren't the same as in person though
I'm more interested in how a VR experience can be more fulfilling than, say, a video chat. if you've read Snow Crash, there's a passage in there that describes a low bandwidth facial communication scheme: this stuff isn't really in my area, but I've thought a solution like this will be important in making VR more compelling for people. I've read a paper that tries to do something like this, so it's not just fiction.
@lucifargundam qu'est-ce que c'est?
are people dating in VR? my guess is that it's not a big deal right now because there's not good face mapping yet, but there's also a lot of physical and chemical stuff that happens in person
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via u/brodyqat on Reddit: "Desaturated Santa is still the best costume I've ever done. (not photoshopped)" (eye contact)
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Alternate history where Bob Dylan made a home workout tape in the 1980s called Everybody Must Get Toned
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Ah, another long day of doing my part to bring Roko’s basilisk into existence. Never gets old! Can’t wait to get up and do it again tomorrow.
@PlusPixels excellent! thanks for sharing♥️
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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