🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

@freemo @Science Reminds me of how military people let out the strength of the atomic bomb because they didn't know physics https://youtu.be/_gaCAFcW6OY?t=39

The 6 points of advice I have given to many people in my life are pretty much what I distilled from baz Luhrman's speech (my last post). This is basically the advice that has stuck with me from that:

1) Do one thing every day that scares you
2) Don't be reckless with other people's hearts; don't put up with people who are reckless with yours
3) Sing every chance you get
4) Never let distance be a barrier, travel!
5) Never expect anyone or anything to financially support you
6) Be critical of advice you receive, but be patient and kind to those who give it.

@crackurbones

Correct as was the norm at the time. Telegraph wires, atleast before they starded duplexing and quadraplexing them (which came later) were simply a dc signal that directly correlated to the morse. Dots and dashes were just direct DC pulses.

@Science

@freemo Ah, intersymbol interference. They transmitted square waves without any modulation on some carrier wave? @Science

@freemo @pernia @redneonglow @georgia @lnxw37a2
I'm especially of pedos currently growing on the fediverse, even though they still get harassed, I think that they shouldn't have a platform to have fun on. I don't even understand why is there not a high moral guard for people like them. If this keeps up, there are going to be more minors getting groomed.

@freemo
I'm leaving the fediverse

@freemo #artdeco #scuba #art
#abbreviation #disambiguation

Here's a nice deco scuba piece by Pablo Romero:

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/man-scuba-diver-01-in-watercolor-pablo-romero.html

Do you know of a succinct description of the mapping between Mastodon concepts (such as "public"/"unlisted"/... sharing modes, or visibility of replies) and ActivityPub activity entries (such as to,cc,bto,bcc,audience fields)? I would like to:
a) understand how various things I could send as a client to a Mastodon server correlate with things that I can do in a typical Mastodon client UI,
b) understand semantics of various Mastodon concepts better.

#lazytoot #activitypub

@Pat

I'm not a saturation diver, even when i go 120 meters I'm down there a short period to ensure I dont approach saturation.

Attached is an example of a decompression schedule that would be used if you saturated at about 180 meters in the ocean, so a bit farther down than I would ever and have ever went. The time at the top is in days:hours so your looking at 7 days of decompression in a tiny tube for just a few hours or work.

Should give you an idea why an open-circuit record attempt where you decompress over the course of hours instead of days is kinda a death sentence.

@lefarfadet

@Pat Picture of the chamber.

The part on the right is the moon pool they use for getting in and out at depth. The bit on the left usually has chairs and/or a bed along with some other tools which is where they stay for a few days as they decompress.

If you want to look it up it is called saturation diving because you are at such deep depths and for so long that your body tissues become saturated with dissolved pressurized gas.

@lefarfadet

@freemo
Tldr of Mr Rogers for those who don't want to navigate too far:::
Fred McFeely Rogers
(March 20, 1928-February 27, 2003)

Occupation::
Children's television presenter, actor, puppeteer, singer, composer, television producer, author, educator, Presbyterian minister.

Early life::
Grew up with a lonely childhood and was bullied for being overweight and called "fat Freddy". Enrolled in the Army draft but was deemed unfit for duty.

Married Joanne Byrd in 1952 and had 2 kids.

Awarded Lifetime Achievement Emmy in 1997 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2002.

@freemo The footage of him in talking in the senate is pretty amazing.

https://youtu.be/-C5PMPIdG_Y

He was one the greats to have lived in our time.

@mc
Julia is an interesting case. Implicit multiplication is only allowed where it doesn't clash with the function syntax, it has higher precedence, and it forbids whitespace. https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/integers-and-floating-point-numbers/#man-numeric-literal-coefficients

julia> x=9; y=2;

julia> 2x/3y-1
2.0

Meanwhile, the Wolfram Language allows implicit multiplication in general, but apparently with the same precedence as explicit multiplication, and whitespace is required. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Times.html

I appreciate that both languages have rules about whitespace that make the semantics more obvious. The approach used in Julia seems more useful, though.