Nicholas Koh @n@qoto.org

Dear programmers, if someone asks for help about a paticular language please don't hold it over them. Saying things like:

"Shouldn't you know that?"

Someone could code 6 years in C and have no idea about basic OO principles. If they've done some research and can't make sense of them and then they ask a programming discord, you don't need to shit on them. You can just help them.

TLDR: Shitting on people for not knowing about something you know doesn't make you a better programmer.

Quaternions: the Strange Numbers That Birthed Modern Algebra
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17933908
#hackernews #tech

Tore up my bike with a night time 10 mile bike ride (16km) at 11pm. I love dutch farm land in the middle of the night being all alone.

I am also pretty proud of my average moving speed (had to stop for a phone call at one point), it was almost 10 mph (16 kph) over the course of the whole trip.

An animated gif of the open-source library #APARAPI doing an N-body simulation. The blue dots are low-mass and the red dots are high-mass objects. Its written in Java and runs on the GPU.

Aparapi is an Open-source framework for executing native Java and Scala code on the GPU.

github.com/Syncleus/aparapi

http://Aparapi.com

#GPGPU #OpenCL #OpenGL #OpenSource #OSS #FOSS #HPC #GPU #Aparapi #Java #Scala #GPU

Blue Ribbon #1E53EF
Aquamarine #74F8C4

(Contrast ratio: 4.5:1 | AA)

My research involves quantifying trace, toxic, particulate matter with neutron activation analysis. This is the neutron generator I use to irradiate air sampled filters, which are then analyzed by gamma spectroscopy.

Deuterium gas feeds into the magnetron on the left, which is ionized into plasma. The plasma strikes a deuterium film target in the chamber on the right, producing helium and a neutron beam. Aluminum then moderates the beam to thermal energy.

#nuclear #physics #neutron #instrument

@n I always enjoyed the middle of the night, except for all the shops being closed. I wish the shops were open just no people, self checkout everywhere

I saw this and I thought of #QOTO

I love the community we have built here. No one waiting in the bushes to assault you if you say something they dont agree with; just acceptance and inclusion of everyone's ideas, it is wonderful!

do not disturb mode is great, but what about lonely mode? when you want even more notifications than usual?

So I got home around 1 am and decided to get for a 10 miles (22 km) bike right through farm land in the middle of nowhere. I'm half way through my route and stopped at a bench by then bike path and still haven't seen a single person car or bike. Why can't it always be this way.

You come into my house on the day my daughter is to be married and you ask me to boost your toots?

Would you like a tree in this trying time? It has 414 nodes, descending 34 nodes down.

I had really bad anxiety when i started and was too scared to talk to anyone, and now it's been so long that i don't know how to start