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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
I went ahead and got a #library card.
Although I've checked out books before, it's been a while, and I was a little taken aback by the self-checkout. It felt kinda like that one SNL sketch for the store where you could just walk in, take stuff and go: I was glancing around a bit...tensed up just the slightest amount as I walked through the RF tag sensors at the door...checking to make sure I got the email receipt to confirm it's all good.
Perhaps a reminder of how radical the ethos of a public library is in a world where everything costs money.
@izaya I feel you. only so much time in the day
I've meaning to set up a wireguard VPN to see how good the perf is in practice. If I can stream Nier:Automata over wg and have it playable, I think that'd be an interesting data point
@izaya I guess you use a VPN to connect over the internet? I only ever tried remote play when I was on the same LAN...but I didn't ask too many questions about how it actually worked.
@izaya Sweet. I'd never heard of Sunshine or Moonlight software. I'll have to give em a shot when I delve back into playing video games.
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Filled Long Form Journal XLII (28 Dec 2021 to 11 May 2023) and prepared journal XLIII. It took me much longer than my usual 6-8 months to fill this one because I had weeks where I couldn’t write much, if at all.
Brain sticker by Laura Bundesen and vertebrae sticker by Birch & Beads.
@izaya how are you streaming it? I'm not familiar with RimWorld: is it point and click? I've tried streaming a couple games running on Proton--one, a 3D MMORPG, and the other, a 3D adventure game--from my desktop to my laptop before with Steam's built-in streaming tools, but I ran into issues with input/peripherals and one weird camera issue that made both games I tried unplayable.
My small city's public #library actually has a nice selection of contemporary SF titles. They have Martha Wells Murderbot Diaries series, Artemis Project by Weir, they even have the manga series BLAME! by Tsutomu Nihei. Besides that, they've got a number of DVD and Blu Ray titles. I just wish they expanded their hours: they're closed in the early mornings and evenings when I'd most like to go to the library
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`datetime.utcnow` and `datetime.utcfromtimestamp` will be deprecated in #python 3.12: https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/103857
If you maintain a package, now is probably a good time to grep your source code for `utcnow` and `utcfromtimestamp` to get out ahead of the deprecation warnings. 📅🕐
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Tabletop gaming at the 20th World Science Fiction Convention in Chicago, 1962. Photo by Jay Kay Klein.
I don't recognize that game! Can anyone identify it?
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Finally finished after having taken a long break from this book. I really enjoy Carroll's podcast and liked most of the book. I definitely perceive the lack of understanding that comes from not working with the equations more closely: the last couple of chapters didn't do much for me.
(comment on "Something Deeply Hidden")
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Less birdy today in the Ramble but still pretty decent (38 species). I caught up with the Brewster's Warbler again at the end of the day and had a nice view of it chwing down on tint caterpillars, but I dipped on all my other targets that other people had reported--Wilson's, Blue-winged, and Worm-eating Warblers, Indigo Bunting, and in particular the Summer Tanager which was again seen all over the Ramble all day, just not by me.
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Did you know that many people working on NASA missions are also musicians? Staff at the Space Telescope Science Institute put their talents on display at a show last week in Baltimore!
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Fast forward to 2020:
@andrasgaspar and collaborators re-imaged the Fomalhaut system with the Hubble Space Telescope
AND FOMALHAUT b was GONE!!!
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.08736
https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2020/09/4627-Image
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In light of the really impressive JWST observations of Fomalhaut that were released yesterday, I wanted to share my view of the Fomalhaut system. Story time!
Fomalhaut is a bright nearby star that has been known for decades to have a debris disk, a belt of dust caused by asteroids crashing into each other. Sounds very dramatic, but we see them all over the place! Our own Kuiper Belt and asteroid belt are extremely faint/low mass versions of debris disks we observe around other stars.
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So, I have to say at this point that it's pretty freaking cool to get to have your theoretical prediction confirmed in your lifetime in astronomy. (And others also independently had this prediction, it's not just me). But yeah, that feels pretty good.
Here's a Sky & Telescope article (where I got to be very excited about the new images): https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/the-james-webb-space-telescope-reveals-fomalhauts-disk-in-unprecedented-detail/
I think I'm also quoted in Nat Geo (but paywalled so I'll wait until I get get it from my library): https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/nasa-photo-of-planetary-debris-unlike-anything-seen-before
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We're currently looking for a PyPI Safety & Security Engineer. If that sounds like something you'd like to do, we hope you'll send us your resume. #opensourcejob
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Finally, a solution to the unfairness of authorship ordering in scientific papers! 😂
"Every Author as First Author"
@RL_Dane dang. how long are you waiting in the drive thru that turning off the engine makes sense? @TechConnectify
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single hose air sucker? what kind of system is that? typically, where I live we have a forced air recirculation. doesn't make sense usually to pull air in from outside for keeping a set temp
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I don't normally like being Mr. Grumpy old man, but it is currently 68° (20°C) and just about perfect outside, yet I hear a bunch of air conditioners running.
Consider opening yer dang windows, people!
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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