Chris 
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@thelastpsion You won’t regret it, I use it even on my laptop. #FreeBSD and #zfs is the way …
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Today i learned in Thailand they use a totally different way to measure what year it is.
I always thought itnwas odd different coubtries didnt coubt years differently. Seems they do.
Fuck AD i am using BE from now on no matter what coubtry im in!
@freemo LOL you’ll discover during your stay here, there are many things the Thais do differently to us “farangs. That’s one of the many things that makes them so charming!
@lupyuen This is great, I want one. With your skills you can build your own! 
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Hacking our #Sourdough Recipe with a pH Meter ... Someone please make an #IoT Sensor 🙏
Recipe: https://lupyuen.codeberg.page/articles/sourdough.html
@freemo yeah the black Soi cats are cute. We adopted one and make sure she regularly visits the vets for her vaccinations - whatever she needs. She has a lovely temperament.
@freemo @bonifartius Maybe we should call you Dr Doolittle? 
@freemo Great to see, always a black cat. Just be careful, rabies is endemic in Thailand. You are looking at a visit to the local hospital if bitten or scratched to get rabies injections. I speak from painful experience both in physical terms and financial!!
@freemo Sounds good, I’m sure you’ll have a great time. 👍️
@freemo Well, you are in a good area to do some excellent diving. To see manta rays near Koh Bon island is on my todo list.
@freemo Hope you have a good time! I live in Bangkok, would be happy to meet when you are in the area.
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Bread Machine #Sourdough ... Much better thanks to "The Sourdough Framework"! 👍
Recipe: https://lupyuen.codeberg.page/articles/sourdough.html
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Update: the de-icing procedure has worked even better than expected!
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid/Euclid_s_sight_restored
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Euclid on Ice
I thought it would be appropriate to add a little update about the European Space Agency's Euclid mission. I'll keep it brief here because you can read the full story on the official website here. You may have seen in the news that the Euclid telescope has been having an issue with ice forming on surfaces in its optical systems, especially the…
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“If a person gave away your body to some passerby, you’d be furious. Yet you hand over your mind to anyone who comes along, so they may abuse you, leaving it disturbed and troubled—have you no shame in that?” —EPICTETUS, ENCHIRIDION, 28
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Cosmology Talks: Intrinsic Alignments – A Guide for All Cosmologists
I was just thinking this afternoon that I haven't posted recently any of the Cosmology Talks curated by Shaun Hotchkiss, then I looked and found that I had the perfect excuse for doing so. This particular talk is actually about one of the two new OJAp papers I announced in my previous post, i.e. “The IA Guide: A Breakdown of Intrinsic Alignment Formalisms…
http://telescoper.blog/2024/02/24/cosmology-talks-intrinsic-alignments-a-guide-for-all-cosmologists/
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SN1987A, Past and Present
There's a new paper in Science featuring observations using the MIRI and NIRSpec instruments on JWST of Supernova SN1987a in the Large Magellanic Cloud. I couldn't resist doing a short post about this result, partly because the paper features Maynooth colleague Paddy Kavanagh, and partly because I'm old enough to remember when this supernova was detected, in 1987. In fact I was doing my PhD at the time.
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DES and the BAO Scale
I just saw a press release about new results from the Dark Energy Survey relating to measurements of baryon acoustic oscillations. These are basically the residue of the oscillations seen in the power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature distribution imprinted on the galaxy distribution. They are somewhat less obvious that the primordial temperature fluctuations because the growth of structure produces a much larger…
