🌸🌹2ck 🌱🐇 @2ck@qoto.org
A capable software engineer and aspirating (sic) cook. Also posting about space stuff (mostly NASA) occasionally
pronouns: he, him
Joined Apr 2020
🌸🌹2ck 🌱🐇
boosted
@2ck I thought you were being creative...
https://www.designswan.com/archives/incredible-3d-pretzel-art-by-pretzel-factory.html
Also used the same quantity of dough to make this ball. I assume it's basically a rock because of how dense it would be but IDK. I made it as a kind of joke.
These were supposed to be pretzels but they're mostly rolls instead cuz I'm lazy
"The Ultraviolet Catastrophe" would be a pretty good band name #physics #quantummechanics #humor
🌸🌹2ck 🌱🐇
boosted
I did see one comedy sketch (from BR) where some farmer type lad started excitedly speaking in Boarisch at 200km/h and the subtitles changed to "Keine Ahnung. Ich verstehe kein Wort mehr".
OTOH the Boarisch version of Despacito (Des bassiert hoid) that is on Youtube has 100% correct subtitles which have been manually added...
🌸🌹2ck 🌱🐇
boosted
First time creator,
although I have edited
many articles
🌸🌹2ck 🌱🐇
boosted
Listen to an audiobook. https://librivox.org/ has free, public domain books recorded by volunteers.
🌸🌹2ck 🌱🐇
boosted
This page will attract
people who are busy, or
lazy, or selfish
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/gigayear WotD? I didn't know SI prefixes were used for years : I've always seen bya (billion years ago). Not sure I've ever seen byo (billion years old) though.
🌸🌹2ck 🌱🐇
boosted
@cryospheroid It's sort of understandable to get bored of melting ice caps, polar bears, and biodiversity in faraway rainforests. If people would realize it could be unbearable heating of their city or the collapse of their country, that's new and dramatic (to the global north). That ought to excite/spark interest. As an artist, I'd use it.
https://www.macaulaylibrary.org/2021/06/22/behind-the-scenes-of-sound-id-in-merlin/
Cool idea, and a really natural application for ConvNets. I'll have to try this.
#birds #machinelearning #ML #audio #nature
🌸🌹2ck 🌱🐇
boosted
How to calculate the power output of a nuclear reactor - just multiply coolant flow and temperature rise.
But how do you multiply two numbers electrically in a meter, in 1955, while using as little active circuitry as possible, ideally without digital logic, transistors, or even tubes? The answer is a Wheatstone bridge!
(Principles of Nuclear Reactor Engineering, Samuel Glasstone, 1955) #retrocomputing #electronics
🌸🌹2ck 🌱🐇
boosted
@2ck The bounce/reflection changes the frequency depending on material, different frequencies are perceived as different colors by the receptors in the eye. The absorbed photons turn into heat, the ones which gives partial energy to an atom will be reflected at a new angle. The average frequency of all photons reaching your eye determines color.
I tend to hear #climatechange/global warming framed in terms of rising *average* global temperatures, but it seems like the numbers don't affect most people. Talking about single digit changes in degrees Celsius doesn't viscerally effect people who think in Fahrenheit and easily tolerate a few degrees up or down in their personal environment. I suspect the data about the tails of the temperature distribution may be more compelling. When every summer is the "hottest on record", that has to strike a chord.
#sciencecommunication #statistics
Light absorption and color confuses me. Electrons absorb photon energy at certain frequencies, and the light that's not absorbed is reflected and that gives the color, but doesn't the energy get emitted again with the same frequency? So, the emitted and reflected photons would add together to give back the original color of the light rather than the object. Why doesn't that mean everything is the same color?
#physics #light #color
🌸🌹2ck 🌱🐇
boosted
my most recalled memory from gscon vienna was when @shibayashi ordered a hamburger at mcdonalds without the meat patty, makes me remember the meme in the pic and chuckle every time
#breakfast : scrambled eggs with kale, parsley, jalapenos, garlic, and mushrooms
+ oatmeal with honey, PB, banana and my secret blend of spices 😋
🌸🌹2ck 🌱🐇
boosted
Klingon function calls do not have 'parameters' -- they have 'arguments'
-- and they ALWAYS WIN THEM.
-- and they ALWAYS WIN THEM.
A capable software engineer and aspirating (sic) cook. Also posting about space stuff (mostly NASA) occasionally
pronouns: he, him
Joined Apr 2020
🌸🌹2ck 🌱🐇's choices:
