🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

Interesting fact of the day: Not counting point sources of light, any source of light that doesnt appear as a single point will have the same brightness no matter what distance you happen to be from it.

In fact the opposite is true in a sense. Once you get close enough to an object that you can no longer see the whole object within your field of view, then it will get **less** bright as you get closer.

Amazingly this even applies to the sun. IF you were at the surface of the sun, just a few feet away (Such that 1 meter square of the surface of the sun was within your field of vision) it would only appear to be 93 lumens bright. That would be equivalent to only a 6 watt incandescent light bulb! Compare that to the brightness of the sun from earth which is a whopping 127,000 lumens.

#Space #Science #STEM #Astronomy #Physics

"There was a moment today I was worried we might actually survive" -- Worf in Picard

#StarTrek #Picard #Quote #Quotes

As many of you know by now I've been working on the #Fedipage project the past few days.

https://fedipage.com

One thing I dont like however is right now it locks you into Vercel as your deployment. However our dependence on it is rather minimal as we use it only to cover the serverless functions needed as well as some simple routing.

My fear is many may not be able to afford vercel or may not like them as an option. Does anyone know of a cheaper more FLOSS/privavcy oriented option that makes it easy to deploy typescript/java based serverless functions?

If I can find a good alternative I'd love to adapt the project to support Vercel alternatives.

#ActivityPub #Fediverse #Floss #FOSS #OSS #Hosting #Programming #Hugo

Just a reminder, Gay means "happy".... I think this is a bit telling... I mean its almost like people recognize on some level gay people are happy when they are allowed to be themselves. So much so the word means the same thing :)

Some of the most annoying people you will ever meet are the ones who say "you always need to have the last word"... largely because its idiotically hypocritical.

1) In making this statement you are showing **you** need the last word, since you could have just walked away and let whoever you ridicule have the last word, but no **you** needed that last word

2) Even if their right, its idiotic, no one should care who spoke left. If someone else has more to say than you, and even if thats a pattern. Who the hell cares. People speak until they feel they dont want to..

3) its argumentative just for the sake of being argumentative. It contributes nothing to the conversation, not even constructive criticism, just toxicity.

"Electricity always takes the path of least resistance"

This is probably the most damaging phrase a future EE could ever hear... it has caused so many students to fail to learn basic concepts by clinging on to an inaccurate "fact"

For me I rmeember as a young kid 11 or 12 i was trying to learn advanced EE on my own and I couldnt get past a basic understanding because this idea was at odds with the reality and i couldnt reconcile my new more accurate teachings against the bad understanding i had.

Wasnt till i pushed through and got to the more advanced math I knew this was all a lie. Instead the truth is electricity usually takes all paths available to it

Man Season 3 of Picard is when this show really starts to shine... mostly funny moments and quotes, the storyline isnt bad .. but either way im loving this!

You ever wonder why the small band of spectrum we can see (called visible light) is special? I mean almost all animals see in light ranges are are somewhere around here. I mean sure some can see a little farther into IR or UV but in general all animals see roughly around this same narrow band of frequencies in an otherwise infinite spectrum... So what is so special?

Its actually a quantum thing. Everything roughly around visible light and higher interacts with material by electrons jumping energy levels. However IR energy is absorbed by the bonds between molecules instead, which is why IR represents heat.

Basically visible light is right where these two modes intersect. Essentially they are the lowest energy part of the spectrum that is still high enough energy to interact primarily through changing energy levels of electrons. Essentially any more energy and it wont really get through the atmosphere as extreme UV is cut off.. any lower and it wouldnt be very effecieient cause most of the energy goes to heating the eye rather than seeing... So its right in that sweet spot.