George Budd @Gbudd@qoto.org

Congratulations to the big boy ❤️
#dogs #dogsofmastodon

On 16th March, 1968 Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jnr was flying helicopter reconnaissance for an attack on an alleged North Vietnamese-controlled village at My Lai.

As the ground attack developed below, Thompson realised he was in fact witnessing something something else:

A massacre.

He decided to act. /1 🧵 #history #histodons

💓 python -m module

These are great when working with a #Python app:

python -m pip
python -m venv
python -m pdb
python -m unittest
python -m pydoc

These are handy general CLI tools:

python -m http.server
python -m webbrowser
python -m json.tool
python -m calendar

This #Python script attempts to discover all standard library modules that support "-m" in some way. ⚗️

⚠️ Beware import side effects... I think I skipped all the modules that have them but who knows!

https://www.pythonmorsels.com/p/2eyt4/

Give a person a program, frustrate them for a day.

Teach a person to program, frustrate them for a lifetime.

If you could see in X-rays, one of the brightest things you'd see in the night sky is the Vela pulsar. It was formed when a giant star's core collapsed about 12,000 years ago.

The outer parts of the star shot off into space. Its core collapsed into a neutron star just 20 kilometers in diameter. Today it's spinning around 11.195 times every second. As it whips around, it spews out a jet of charged particles moving at about 70% of the speed of light. These make X-rays and gamma rays.

The Chandra X-ray telescope took a closeup movie of the Vela pulsar! It shows this jet is twisting around:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/7d/Vela_Pulsar_jet_seen_by_Chandra_Observatory.ogv/Vela_Pulsar_jet_seen_by_Chandra_Observatory.ogv.240p.vp9.webm

The most interesting part of all this, to me, are the 'glitches' when the neutron star suddenly spins a bit faster. Let me tell you a bit about this.

(1/n)

I accidentally said “hey Shirley” instead of “hey Siri” to my phone this morning and now it is stuck in airplane mode.

Originally my SF story had a simple solar EM storm erase all of the digital files. But, I think I will change it to a mutate and bloat virus (MBV) - this virus is a generative algorithm that gobbles whatever data it encounters as "training" and then rewrites and fills all available space with generated copies of the originals. It drowns you in data of variable reliability.

Finally got a new fountain pen I’ve been eying for a while. TWSBI Eco in White RoseGold. My first TWSBI!
I ordered from WonderPens and also ordered some sample inks. The winner is Diamine Eclipse. So far so good. So smooth. The ink is a lot darker than expected. Dark purple black and I love it ❤️ Looking forward to writing with this.

#fountainpen
#diamine
#twsbi
#fountainpenink
#fountainpens

@kennypeanuts

Typed out what I do...then realized your situation may differ, and it could lead you into hell, so I deleted it.

So. This thread is what I use when I get into Bad Git Trouble:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4114095/how-do-i-revert-a-git-repository-to-a-previous-commit

@futurebird I wish I'd been presented with a wider variety of mathematics when I was young. As an older guy, I've rediscovered an interest in things like number theory and discrete math. Those interested me as a kid, too, but were never a significant part of my math classes. Now I know that math is much bigger than the arithmetic-algebra-calculus I learned in school.

#SilentSunday

Holy cow, I love this so much!

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/02/xomatok-manifestos-mexico-city/