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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
Baked some trout. Covered in kosher salt and sugar over night, wiped off, rinsed off, baked uncovered at 425°F for abt 15min, rotated and back in for abt 10min, on top of oven with the oven on for about five minutes.
I seasoned with black pepper, ginger, sage, olive oil, but no additional salt since it's pretty salty already
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If you're in Chile or are planning to visit soon, ESO's observatories are reopening for in-person visits!
The tours are free, but you have to register in advance: https://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann22008/?lang
I'm biased 'cause I worked there for 7 years, but it's totally worth it!
📷 ESO/J. Kupec
why does #firefox have search suggestions from the web on by default?
@publius
obscure for the reasons you gave... many (most?) people haven't heard of the guy or the history you relate.
@jalefkowit@octodon.social
@publius that's a rather obscure comment about your guy Santos-Dumont @jalefkowit@octodon.social
@jalefkowit@octodon.social come on, a *lot* people know Buzz Aldrin's name... at least he in the United States--he's a national hero!
@Sandra
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@abbienormal @cwebber there are some neat things that can be done that reduces the impact of the tagging stuff.
Perhaps this blog post I wrote would be interesting: https://blog.dhsdevelopments.com/common-lisp-code-optimisation
nice little turn-up from Docker's random container name generator (usually I've seen the names before):
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/5-types-people-who-can-ruin-your-life/201804/are-narcissists-and-sociopaths-increasing
I used to think 1% is small, but 1% occurrence in the general population means you're nearly guaranteed to see someone with the condition at least once in your lifetime unless you live in a very cloistered group. 6.2% is a huge number... I remember some expert, I think on the Serial podcast, season one, saying how rare it is that you'll talk to a sociopath, and maybe for the context that's true, but in general I think it's not true if that statistic is.
(the 0-6.2% range from the DSM is bonkers though: 'somewhere between a hefty chunk of the population and non-existent 🤪')
the author of the article has a pretty clear conflict of interest though, so take it all with a grain of salt
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Windows Subsystem for Linux malware steals browser Auth Cookies
#TIL there's a taxonomic group for fungi and animals separate from plants -- in my freshman biology class, we just had animals, plants, and fungi all laid flat underneath eukaryotes.
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Today I was invited to join the EIRSAT-1 team to their clean room to help tiny bit while they continue working towards building the final version of the satellite. We are building Ireland’s first satellite! A cubesat the size of a shoebox that will monitor the gamma-ray sky with novel technollogy developed here at UCD.
Exciting times!
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Can you trap a galaxy in a crystal ball? I tried! Back in 2018 I took this image of the Milky Way through a crystal ball from ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile.
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These are NGC5426 and NGC5427, collectively known as Arp271, a pair of interacting spiral galaxies located about 130 million lightyears away.
I took this image back in 2018 with VIMOS, an instrument at ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile. I was the Instrument Scientist, and that night we were decommissioning the instrument to make room for a new one, so I decided to take one last farewell image to celebrate all the cool science done with this instrument over the years.
https://exbulletin.com/entertainment/1241288/
It's weird that they say the Bryan character looks like Harper. I thought the character looked more like Richard Ayoade, but with a more prominent chin...and more buff.
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So I got a lathe, and I made this! (not the wood part, but I'm working on it) It's a Paua Abalone shell inlay into a size 10 wooden ring blank. Polished up to 12000 grit, and while the images don't exactly catch the opalescence, I'm very proud of my first attempt 
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@nickwedig sounds like a fun night😆
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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