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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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It has its own assembly language now. 
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My wife has honed her innate talent for #sourdough #bread making over the past few years. She can make many varieties with her starter and has opened a #microbakery business and is delivering locally to several customers now. Naturally, we only eat bread that she makes in the house too.
#MyWork #MyPhoto #CCBYSA #DSLR #Nikon #D7000 #Food #Cooking #Baking
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To construct a #ParallelLine to a given line (in blue) in 2D #EuclideanSpace, all you need to do is pick two #points and draw #circles centred at those points of a specified #radius. Draw a #perpendicular to the line at each point (in red) and then draw a new line passing through the intersection of the perpendicular with the circles and there is the line parallel to the original one. Here is the process shown in #Geogebra.
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[jonker phone] hello yes i'm looking for Moon Macrosystems
It would be nice if C/C++ deprecation warnings would tell you at what version they were introduced. Bonus points for telling you when or at what version it's planned to remove the function.
#programming
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New #Firefox Sandbox Isolates Third-Party Libraries. The latest version of #Mozilla’s #Firefox #browser comes with a new #security feature designed to protect users from web #attacks targeting #vulnerabilities in third-party libraries.
https://www.darkreading.com/emerging-tech/new-firefox-sandbox-isolates-third-party-libraries
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Q: Why did quaternion fall out of favor among physicists by the early 1900s, despite being a very successful system to represent quantities in 3D space?
A: Because history is written by the vector.
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“Why isn’t the new year on the winter solstice?”
The answer, honestly, is that the Romans had no fucking idea how to run a calendar.
Like, seriously, people notice "OCTOber" and "DECEMber" and say, "hey, those mean 'eight' and 'ten', but they're the 10th and 12th months, what's up with that?".
If you've got a little more history, you'll know that July and August are named after Julius and Augustus Caesar, and think, "oh, they added those two months and bumped the rest of the months back."
Nope. The Romans were way, way worse at calendars than that.
https://gist.github.com/joyeusenoelle/3754e00a37fe81aa43aad3eb9543f3ce
it takes a ridiculous amount of time to compile #Firefox on a laptop
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Hey! You are creating something wonderful and it shows how much effort you put into it.
@timorl To be fair, it's not necessarily for new contributors, just a way to improve the quality of bug reports overall. You're right about even more moderately experienced devs not including basics: 1) what were you doing (including specific steps you took!) 2) what did you expect 3) what actually happened (actual output or screenshots appreciated).
It's funny. We make bug report templates, ostensibly for newbies, but as an experienced software developer I'm pretty careful to fill in the fields if they're offered. I know the pain of a poorly written bug report.
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Q: What do you say when an OpAmp circuit is defective and keeps oscillating?
A: OopsAmp.
@thalweg home-schooling? kids will be interested in what they're interested in. I know when I was younger, I tried to get my friend as interested in learning C++ as I was: he just couldn't care less 🤷
@Pat thanks. it wasn't really a sourdough bake: I was trying to use this sponge method I saw mentioned on a forum, but I doubt I got all the details. Haven't really tried making sourdough yet.
That's an interesting theory about grinding. Somewhat related: you know they sell snacks that are just potato chip crumbs like you get from the bottom of the bag? Go figure
@izaya I've been meaning to look up how humans started leavening bread this way. the weird thing really is grinding grains down to flour: like why would you think that makes sense if you'd never done it? and then baking it? you can imagine how you get yeast from unleavened bread dough: you just forget about it and leave it out for a while then still be hungry enough to cook that weird sticky dough that's bigger for some reason
well, I gave in and just added a couple more teaspoons of activated yeast, incorporated, kneaded, and shaped. turned out ok, but a didn't get any of the interesting flavors I had sought with a longer ferment... probably because nothing was fermenting. so many dead yeast cells in this loaf😔😂
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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