Doubledodge 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧🐧 @doubledodge@social.cleverlibre.org
FOSS, Gnu Linux,Python, sailing, windsurf, electronics, bell ringing, evangelist for Molten Salt Thorium reactors for cheap clean Nuclear Power and world peace. 七十岁学生学汉文
Joined Nov 2022
A Race We Must Win – Climate Action Now!
Team Malizia Wins The Ocean Race’s First In-Port Race
The international sailing team skippered by Boris Herrmann crossed the finish line of the Alicante In-Port race first, kicking off The Ocean Race on a high note.
https://www.team-malizia.com/news/team-malizia-wins-the-ocean-race-s-first-in-port-race
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Stellarium 1.2 released
🔗 https://stellarium.org/release/2022/12/25/stellarium-1.2.html
#Stellarium is a #planetarium application, showing a realistic sky in 3D
Changes:
• New projection: Equirectangular (fills the screen)
• Improved rendering of Milky Way, Zodiacal Light and landscapes
• Improved rendering of the Moon
• Improved HiDPI behaviour
• Added Modern (IAU), Tikuna and Seri sky cultures
• Added Chinese and Bahai calendars (Calendars plugin)
#astronomy #planetarium #education #software #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #astrodon
From Nasa's insight mission "My power’s really low, so this may be the last image I can send. Don’t worry about me though: my time here has been both productive and serene. If I can keep talking to my mission team, I will – but I’ll be signing off here soon. Thanks for staying with me." https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/ 😢
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Elon has gone on damage control banning journalists. Any and everything related to me is banned. So much for free speech.
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It's now close enough to justify running this #Python code every morning…
```
import datetime
today = datetime.datetime.now()
christmas_day = datetime.datetime.strptime("25/12/22", "%d/%m/%y")
print(
f"There are {(christmas_day - today).days} days left until Christmas"
)
```
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Now updated to show (I hope!) the asymmetry in DNA (thanks @ColinTheMathmo).
https://www.geogebra.org/m/h5mjrw7g
This participant of Advent of Code 2022 discovered malware on his system was changing his copy/paste presumably because it recognized it as a valid Dodgecoin code. #programming #AOC2022
Surely this can't be true... #AdventOfCode as a virus scanner? https://www.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/zb98pn/2022_day_3_something_weird_wit...
I just completed "Calorie Counting" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2022 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2022/day/1
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It's back! The Advent of Code ...
November 29, 2022:
expert reaction to current COVID situation in China
A few journalists have asked the UK science media centre about the current COVID situation in China, so here are some comments from some scientists in the field.
https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-current-covid-situation-in-china/
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Tectonic plate movement from 1 billion years ago to today in just 40 seconds
note: Ma = million years ago, each second = 25 million years
Source: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/1-billion-years-of-tectonic-plate-movement/
Advent of Code 2022
The first puzzles will unlock on December 1st at midnight EST (UTC-5)
Clean the rust off your #programming skills or use it as an opportunity to try out this new language you got the hang of but haven't used "in anger" yet.
Fingers crossed I manage to keep up with the new problem every day schedule for a few days longer than last year 😊
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When the free, conspiracy-laden #antivax newspaper The Light began to circulate around Stroud, Gloucestershire, one group of concerned locals decided enough was enough #misinformation #denialism #conspiracytheory
Guardian UK Interview with Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder:
‘There are quite a few areas where physics blurs into religion’
To answer life’s biggest questions, says the German theoretical physicist and YouTuber, we need to abandon unscientific ideas such as the multiverse
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Quick little tip: You don't need to use link shorteners on Mastodon.
All links on Mastodon count for 23 characters towards your limit, no matter how many characters they really are.
However, you need to include https:// at the beginning of links to make them clickable.
New post by Prof. Matt Stassler on his blog:
The Artemis Rocket Launch and Particle Physics
This explains in simple terms how neutron back scatter from cosmic rays will be used to map the presence of water ice on the moon.
https://profmattstrassler.com/2022/11/21/the-artemis-rocket-launch-and-particle-physics/
For those of you who are running cross-posters that copy everything over from Twitter ..
Please consider turning them off, flipping the direction (Mastodon->Twitter), or at least disabling RTs and mentions that insert a gazillion twitter dot com links into your feed here.
That's part of making this the New Place and the other site the Old Haunted Place In Which The Mad Billionaire Yells Into The Void.
Hat tip to Erik Moeller
@eloquence
for the above words
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For those of you who are running cross-posters that copy everything over from Twitter ..
Please consider turning them off, flipping the direction (Mastodon->Twitter), or at least disabling RTs and mentions that insert a gazillion twitter dot com links into your feed here. (I don't follow such accounts, and I regret that, because some of them I would like to!)
That's part of making this the New Place and the other site the Old Haunted Place In Which The Mad Billionaire Yells Into The Void.
senseless vandalism 😡
Following the cyberattack in October, the #ALMA radio observatory is out of action probably til the end of the year: https://almascience.nrao.edu/n...
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Did you know that 35mm film cassettes could communicate with a camera?
New video!
https://youtu.be/imMBwUGjXHs
FOSS, Gnu Linux,Python, sailing, windsurf, electronics, bell ringing, evangelist for Molten Salt Thorium reactors for cheap clean Nuclear Power and world peace. 七十岁学生学汉文
Joined Nov 2022
