Martin Jambon 🌍🌎🌏 @mjambon@qoto.org

I try to tolerate people who are wrong or that I don't like.

Having never lived near the equator, it's only today that I theorized that although summer and winter are astronomically-speaking indistinguishable at latitude zero, these seasons receive different sun exposure than spring-fall.
The midday sun on the equator is vertical twice a year at the equinoxes. On the tropics, the midday sun is vertical once a year, at the summer solstice. For other locations between the tropics, I'm guessing it also happens twice a year sometime between the summer solstice and the nearest equinoxes.
Now, I'm curious about actual climate differences between December and June at specific regions on the equator.
#earth #climate #math #geometry #astronomy #bathroomthoughts

I try to tolerate people who are wrong or that I don't like.

Do you own a website?

1. It must be a website:
1a. It links to external websites other than commercial partners.
1b. It's accessible to all without a sign-up process.

2. It must be yours:
2a. You're the main content contributor.
2b. It may not run ads imposed by your hosting platform.

#www #web #poll #tech #freedom

Ilgomano (la pêche au thon en boîte, d’après Salvador Dalí)
April 2024
61 cm × 91 cm, acrylic and brass leaf on plywood

#art #artistonmastodon #cannedtunafishing

Here is Instagram preventing me from posting a link to the web. The "Report a problem" link does nothing.

Evil.

It's so sad that people and artists in particular are generally bad at managing websites. It's so easy to create your own gallery page with paintings of other artists, directly linking to their galleries. If everyone did this, there would be an infinite gallery of artworks for everyone to visit; without ads or other imposed content.

#art #artistonmastodon #web #www

@QOTO @paulg @marius workaround: create a post containing their username, then click on the username to show the profile without leaving qoto.org, and hit "Follow".

Dear @QOTO, I'm getting a "500" error when searching for these Mastodon users on other servers in an attempt to follow them:
- @paulg
- @marius
I use the advanced web interface (screenshot). I checked that the mas.to server doesn't block qoto.org according to https://mas.to/about.

Yhsiop, March 2024.
You saw it first on Mastodon.

#art #artistonmastodon

I just found out by accident that the A0 paper format is designed to have a surface area of 1 m²! An A4 sheet is obtained by cutting an A0 sheet in half 4 times, giving a surface area of 1/16 m².

It came up while playing with formulas to price artworks based on their dimensions. I was using sqrt(height * width) to obtain the side length of the equivalent square and I was surprised to get a round number for sqrt(21 * 29.7).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_size
#paper #math #art

They say "I forgive but I don't forget" but it misses the main point of forgiving, which is to not be haunted by the memory of the incident.

I forgive to better forget.

#thoughts #psychology

The problem is that if they use political correctness, they're being shallow which is ok, but if I do, it's hypocritical.

Yes, this should work: next time I want to accuse someone of being a hypocrite (which is bad), I'll assume they're just being shallow (which is better)... as an instance of "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" (known as Hanlon's razor).

oh, I know it's because the authors really believe that changing words will change how people think about what the words refer to. I suppose involuntary shallowness is indistinguishable from hypocrisy.

lol, they managed to write the whole Wikipedia article about political correctness without using the word "hypocrisy" a single time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_correctness

#language #english #bullshit

If half of an airline's flights are full and half are empty, passengers will complain that the flights are full every time, contrasting with the assessment of the crew who report that half of the flights are empty. How do you call this effect/paradox? (I forgot)

The same effect explains that if you have an average number of friends (= popularity), more than half of your friends are more popular than you.

Or when your doctor tells you you're in average physical condition but each time you go cycling, most cyclists you come across are faster than you (because the fast cyclists are also the ones who spend the most time on the roads and are encountered disproportionately).

#stats #statistics #math #paradox