@LouisIngenthron I’ve seen erosion used in the context of orbital debris, but I don’t know of any missions where something was disintegrated with the purpose of modify the atmosphere so you might need a whole new word or phrase.
This is the kinda thing that gets me real excited!
Heard this through Joss Bland-Hawthorn, this article discusses the need to set up a Lunar timescale.
Time, at the moment, is connected to Earth's clocks - even for spacecraft out in far reaches of the Solar System.
Eventually, we are going to need a timescale that works across the whole Solar System universally.
Steps are being considered for the lunar timescale ...
BUT .... IMHO, we need to think bigger ... (see next toot)
@tonic confused as to why you would use that website instead of the official for free?
I don't know who needs to hear this but
The postal service exists to deliver letters and parcels to people
Not to make money for shareholders
The transport system exists to move people to where they need to go
Not to make money for shareholders
The water, gas, and electricity supplies exist to provide people vital utilities
Not to make money for shareholders
The healthcare system exists to ensure (and that's ENsure, not INsure) the health of the population
Not to make money for shareholders
Shareholders in vital public services are a vampiric drain on those services
Capitalism is a disease
@tonic you can literally drop your resume and a job posting in and ask it to make you a cover letter. You can be pretty natural with it too and say things like emphasize point x in the cover letter more and it’ll do a really good job with it. I find the more conversational and natural you are with it the better it performs
ULA’s big new Vulcan rocket boards barge in Alabama for Cape Canaveral - al.com
https://www.al.com/news/2023/01/ulas-big-new-vulcan-rocket-boards-barge-in-alabama-for-cape-canaveral.html
@planet4589 Definitely one of the cooler recent NASA projects, sad to see it so short lived.
Qoto new weekly signups appears to have peaked on Nov 11 at 4838 for that days trailing 7 days: https://qoto.org/web/statuses/109325078038092501
Today, it was only 129: https://qoto.org/web/statuses/109448233595238192
That's the lowest since Oct 29, when daily signups started increasing: https://qoto.org/web/statuses/109448233595238192
Not sure how this compares to the trend in other instances. I blindly speculate that other servers haven't seen the same decline and the conflict between instance operators is impacting Qoto. Which is unfortunate, because from my tiny vantage point, Qoto seems well run, and I don't see its policy of very limited blocking of other instances having negative consequences.
Nonetheless, I want to have one Fediverse presence and want to be able to interact with people on Qoto and on other instances that suspend Qoto, so I may have to migrate.
for folks who don't know, google specifically has like, the Most Advanced C++ Bug Catching/Mitigation Tools, to the point that they *took over the development of clang*
just using rust instead, even with 'unsafe' parts, completely blew all of that out of the water! holy shit!
Advent of Code Day 2 in Rust
https://gitlab.com/MisterBiggs/aoc_2022-rust/-/blob/master/src/day2.rs
use itertools::Itertools;use std::fs;pub fn run() { println!("Day 2:"); let input = fs::read_to_string("./inputs/day2.txt").expect("Could not read file"); println!("\tPart 1: {}", part1(&input)); println!("\tPart 2: {}", part2(&input));}#[derive(PartialEq, Clone, Copy)]enum Hand { Rock = 1, Paper, Scissors,}#[derive(Clone, Copy)]enum Outcome { Lost = 0, Draw = 3, Win = 6,}fn part1(input: &str) -> usize { input .trim() .split('\n') .map(|round_str| { let round = round_str.split_once(' ').unwrap(); let opponent = match round.0 { "A" => Hand::Rock, "B" => Hand::Paper, "C" => Hand::Scissors, _ => panic!(), }; let me = match round.1 { "X" => Hand::Rock, "Y" => Hand::Paper, "Z" => Hand::Scissors, _ => panic!(), }; let outcome = match (opponent, me) { (l, r) if l == r => Outcome::Draw, (Hand::Rock, Hand::Paper) => Outcome::Win, (Hand::Paper, Hand::Scissors) => Outcome::Win, (Hand::Scissors, Hand::Rock) => Outcome::Win, _ => Outcome::Lost, }; outcome as usize + me as usize }) .sum()}fn part2(input: &str) -> usize { input .trim() .split('\n') .map(|round_str| { let round = round_str.split_once(' ').unwrap(); let opponent = match round.0 { "A" => Hand::Rock, "B" => Hand::Paper, "C" => Hand::Scissors, _ => panic!(), }; let outcome = match round.1 { "X" => Outcome::Lost, "Y" => Outcome::Draw, "Z" => Outcome::Win, _ => panic!(), }; let me = match (outcome, opponent) { (Outcome::Draw, _) => opponent, (Outcome::Win, Hand::Rock) => Hand::Paper, (Outcome::Win, Hand::Paper) => Hand::Scissors, (Outcome::Win, Hand::Scissors) => Hand::Rock, (Outcome::Lost, Hand::Rock) => Hand::Scissors, (Outcome::Lost, Hand::Paper) => Hand::Rock, (Outcome::Lost, Hand::Scissors) => Hand::Paper, }; outcome as usize + me as usize }) .sum()}
Advent of code day 1 in rust
https://gitlab.com/MisterBiggs/aoc_2022-rust/-/blob/master/src/day1.rs
fn part1(food_input: &str) -> usize { food_input .split("\n\n") .collect::<Vec<&str>>() .into_iter() .map(|elf| { elf.split_whitespace() .map(|food| food.parse::<usize>().unwrap()) .sum() }) .collect::<Vec<usize>>() .into_iter() .max() .unwrap()}
fn part2(food_input: &str) -> usize { let mut elves_calories = food_input .split("\n\n") .collect::<Vec<&str>>() .into_iter() .map(|elf| { elf.split_whitespace() .map(|food| food.parse::<usize>().unwrap()) .sum() }) .collect::<Vec<usize>>(); elves_calories.sort_by(|l, r| r.cmp(l)); elves_calories[..3].iter().sum::<usize>()}
Software Engineer working on space stuff at Blue Origin he/him