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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
not an original idea, certainly, but I think the Black Mirror episodes that represent the complexity and nuance of human interaction with technology are almost uniformly more interesting than the ones that just extrapolate to an obviously bad future outcome. Certainly the latter are memorable and significant, but there's a richness to episodes like "San Junipero" or "Be Right Back" and maybe "Striking Vipers" that deal with how technology interplays with intimate personal relationships that has me returning to consideration of then repeatedly.
anyone else decide not to use a piece of open source software because, on the off-chance you might want to contribute a feature or fix, you don't want to write code in a certain programming language or environment? That's me with nodeJS projects. Maybe it's actually really nice to work with if you give it a chance, but it's always been that a pain for me. Also I'd have to be coding in JavaScript.
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@annaleen hoping i'm the first to the thread with this contribution but honestly it's been a whole 5 minutes so probably somebody else has posted the same and i just can't see it from over here on my end of the fedi
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On a #Linux #laptop, is there a way to see #PowerConsumption by process name / by cgroups?
Asking, uh, for a friend
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The Adler Planetarium is hiring a postdoc to work on #LightPollution data science: https://workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/default/mdf/recruitment/recruitment.html?cid=a34e224f-a2e0-411d-b27a-c621816a3d74&ccId=19000101_000001&jobId=467668&source=CC2&lang=en_US
International applicants are welcomed. Please pass it on!
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Anyone with a recommendation for a #fountainpen? I've been considering getting one and just completed my self-imposed two-month test run with a disposable Pilot Varsity with satisfactory results. Here's what I'm looking for:
Something fairly slim, say 11mm barrel or less
Vacuum/plunger fill, piston would be a reasonable alternative
Flexible nib would be a plus
So far I think my best option might be a used Conklin Nozac Vest Pocket or perhaps a Sheaffer Balance Slender. I don't mind a little DIY effort, but if it'd take expensive specialised tools to maintain an old pen, then maybe I'm better off looking at newer models. What #fountainpens can the Fediverse recommend?
Do other people buy albums and listen to them over and over on repeat? I know you might for an album that "really speaks to you" or something, but I'll do this for an album I just like. I have a Pandora account that I never use, but otherwise I only stream #music from, like, #Bandcamp, or sometimes #Soundcloud, when I'm considering buying the album it's on.
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Today's my last day at Google 🥲
I'm taking some time off to focus on my family, personal health, and to work on my bots.
If anyone knows of a role that'll fit me, I'll appreciate the intro! 😊
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.
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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.
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
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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