🌸🌹2ck 🌱🐇 @2ck@social.cleverlibre.org

oops, sounds like they're still getting it into place

i hear #jwst is basically in its operational config now, so it just has to reach the Lagrange point. nice

#Firefox tip: if you open the context menu with a right click and then another click to activate the menu item, you may find that Firefox will activate whichever menu item your cursor happens to be over when the menu opens. This is really annoying for me. I've worked around that previously with a userChrome.css modification to offset the location the menu opens in, but it stopped working. I've found that setting ui.context_menus.after_mouseup to "true"
also works OK for this problem: it opens the menu *after* you release the right click, so there's no unintended activation.

#korean "trot" #music really does get boring quickly. Like, it's basically the same song over and over, but with different lyrics, and sometimes a different tempo.

Are software and systems engineering students still being taught Therac-25, I wonder?

#systemsengineering #softwareengineering

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZBwsm6B280
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJyKM-7IgAU

I like this pair of videos. I remember someone was lamenting the prevalence of the claim that nothing is ever really true. They claimed that people who said such things were ignorant of mathematics. At the time, I had no response, but my understanding of mathematics has always been that it's a family of tools for reasoning towards things that are necessarily true *given certain premises*, and without that last bit, claims about truth are, at best, incomplete. Grant states essentially that succinctly in the second video, which is nice to hear from someone who is way more mathematically adept than me.

#math #philosophy #probability #numberphile

https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/media.blubrry.com/stemtalk/content.blubrry.com/stemtalk/033_STEM-Talk_Batalha.mp3
#astronomy #stem #podcast #exoplanets

Issue trackers are a godsend. If I couldn't write up the various ideas I have while working on other things, I'd never get anything done. Either I'd be flitting around to lower-prio tasks or I'd be constantly tripping over issues that I happened upon earlier or I'd straight up forget to do things.

TODO lists help, but I've never managed to consistently review and clear my TODO lists. That's more often where tasks go to die.
#programming #softwarengineering

https://www.wolframphysics.org/questions/spacetime-relativity/what-do-your-models-imply-regarding-dark-energy-and-the-cosmological-constant/

I would be a lot more impressed with the Wolfram physics project if they could provide answers to questions like this without a lot of jargony crap. IIUC, he's saying their physics theory (?) is compatible an accelerating expansion which is currently called an effect of dark energy.

Knowing #JWST launched 11 (plus?) years later than originally scheduled, I feel less bad about my projects that have taken years to reach a stable point. (Granted, I'm not fielding a multi-billion dollar space telescope, and I don't have an international team to manage, but that's not really the point)

aww. E O Wilson died. Told some interesting stories about ants in a podcast I listened to.🐜

rolls I baked. I had the dough in the fridge for maybe two days after about an hour proofing at room temp. about 2 parts "bread flour" to one part whole wheat flour. rolled out into a tube over a mixture of dried basil, cut into roughly equal portions and tried to roll into balls (they mostly kept the shapes they were cut into). dipped individually into a mixture of extra virgin olive oil and garlic salt. baked at 400°F (204.4°C) for about 30 minutes on non-stick parchment paper sprinkled with corn meal.

has a slight sour taste, which I like. slight crunch on the bottom.
#bread #breadposting #baking