Erik Przekop @IAmErik@qoto.org
Parent, programmer, amateur astronomer and terrible guitar player.
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Here is my introduction post:
Instead of defining myself by saying “I am a…”, here’s a collection of hashtags that interest me (in no particular order). #meditation (specifically #twim right now) #cigars #bicycling #photography #computerscience #physics #guitar #music .
I live in #Michigan (in #LakeOrion, which is 35+ miles north of #Detroit), and spend a lot of time around #RogersCity (I’ll bet that’s the first time that hashtag has been used on Mastodon). My kids are really bright and sometimes struggle with #ADHD, so I’ll probably talk about that at times as well. I have spent more than 3 decades of my life as a #programmer, and now I get to be the old man who leads really smart people in solving big problems with small amounts of #software.
Joined Nov 2022
@nic
Jet stream, or gulf stream?
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Thank you Musk for adding more reasons to make the move.
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They deserve the Congressional Medal of Freedom.
They literally rescued the election by securing the box containing the election certifications from each state & getting it away from the insurrectionists.
I think of all the photos I've seen from that day this is one of the most powerful of all.
Thank you Ladies.
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@cstross
Wimpy, not won't be. Damned voice input...
It is the space opera equivalent of Gandalf suddenly realizing that he should have just asked the goddamn eagles to fly the ring to Mount Doom. Now he has to scramble to pick up those won't be a little hobbits, Frodo and Sam, and come up with an aerial combat doctrine to fight off ringwraiths as he leads his eagle army there.
Except with space ships.
You're welcome, maggot!
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@freemo
A few demographic factors that may affect this:
* Urban areas have a higher concentration of more educated people
* Urban areas have a higher concentration of non-white people
Education likely affects people's trust in religious leaders (or even awareness of them). Exposure to other ethnicities and cultures likely drives compassion for them.
My point is simply that one shouldn't interpret this as meaning that the blue sections are unfairly dominating the red sections. It may just as easily be interpreted as an uneducated and selfish group controlling the vast bulk of the territory.
@freemo
I was a pretty hardcore Linux user for 6 or seven years. I pretty much defaulted back to Mac and Windows lately, though. ("Lately" being the last 8 years or so.)
One of the reasons I haven't used Linux is that I do like to play games from time to time, and there was very little for that platform. Are you saying that you can run most gaming libraries under wine now?!?
@trinsec @sergeant
I'm enjoying a 3-year-old Fuente "Lost City" I have read that you want to smoke these when you get them because they're best at that point, having already been aged. I don't know about that. I think this tastes better than the last one I had.
Paired with a reposado tequila whose name I'm too lazy to go inside and check.
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I suppose I’m in the minority but I always lick my knife when I’m done.
None of the other surgeons seem to do it.
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It's July the 4th! The 247th anniversary of some of the North American colonies thanking parliament for defending them from a foreign Empire who wanted to invade by defaulting on their debts.
So: Happy Thanksgiving Day, as we in the UK call it!
@cstross
It is much more nuanced than that! Our founding fathers also wanted to keep the slave trade going...
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Gravitational Waves Can Be Gravitationally Lensed, and This Could Provide Another Way to Measure the Expansion of the Universe
Astronomers can never have enough ways to measure the expansion in the Universe, from nearby stars to distant quasars. A new study suggests another method might come from the growing catalog of gravitational waves detected by LIGO and other observatories. As two black holes merge in a distant galaxy, the gravitational waves could pass close to a massive cluster that would create a gravitational lens. Some of the waves would take different paths around the gravitational lens, allowing astronomers to measure the expansion rate of the Universe. Gravitationally lensed gravitational waves.
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A reminder to anybody who's found me in the last week: I host a podcast at Meduza called The Naked Pravda. The latest episode, released yesterday, is devoted to Prigozhin's mutiny (duh).
More specifically: How did Prigozhin manage to convince his men to embark on this misadventure? What did we learn about the Russian political elite in this crisis? And what should we expect in Belarus, where at least some remnant of Wagner Group is said to be headed?
This one is about 40 minutes long.
https://meduza.io/en/episodes/2023/07/01/an-obituary-for-yevgeny-prigozhin-s-wagner-group
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An infuriating story about how Musk’s changes to Twitter—restricting API access, gutting the engineering team + more—throttled disaster response in the #turkey #syria #earthquake. https://time.com/6254500/turkey-earthquake-twitter-musk-rescue/
Mastodon + fediverse need to expand beyond northern Europe and the Anglophone world, and consider what emergency response on this platform would look like; the lives of people in Asia, Africa, Latin America, etc. can’t be reliant on a billionaire’s whims
@freemo
You need to have .380 on this list. Ruger LCP's are perfect for when one finds it unwise to carry a "real" gun. I have also seen some compelling evidence that says caliber isn't all that important when defending yourself from other human beings.
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Alright, it's been a couple of weeks. Let's see where everyone is at. Please repost for reach, I'm pretty curious.
Parent, programmer, amateur astronomer and terrible guitar player.
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Here is my introduction post:
Instead of defining myself by saying “I am a…”, here’s a collection of hashtags that interest me (in no particular order). #meditation (specifically #twim right now) #cigars #bicycling #photography #computerscience #physics #guitar #music .
I live in #Michigan (in #LakeOrion, which is 35+ miles north of #Detroit), and spend a lot of time around #RogersCity (I’ll bet that’s the first time that hashtag has been used on Mastodon). My kids are really bright and sometimes struggle with #ADHD, so I’ll probably talk about that at times as well. I have spent more than 3 decades of my life as a #programmer, and now I get to be the old man who leads really smart people in solving big problems with small amounts of #software.
Joined Nov 2022
