"Messier 13 - The Hercules Globular Cluster."
Carsten Frenzl from Deutschland, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons or Flick: flic.kr/p/2m45CuV
Messier 13 - The Hercules Globular Cluster
distance 25.100 ly exposure time: 3,9 hours Processing: PixInsight/affinity photo Equipment: 10" /f4 TS ONTC Newton ASI1600mmc v2 ZWO EFW 8x Skywatcher EQ8 Guiding TS9 OAG Lodestar 328x30s Luminanz 84x20s red 37x20s green 94x20s blue April 2020…Flickr
Radakan Tower at night.
mohammad Ghafourian nasiri, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Bronze coin from Paphos.
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Coin of Nikokles, King of Paphos.
Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. cngcoins.com, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons.
Scale model of ancient Rome by Gismondi. View of Palatine Hill (~3rd-4th century).
Cassius Ahenobarbus, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Etched slice of the Zaragoza Iron Meteorite that was found in Spain (1950s).
Miguel Calvo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Flight delayed when travelling home from the holidays. It reminded me of this article that airlines are just big banks now. Depressing considering their outsized impact on the climate
Airlines are just banks now
Any other parents of young kids out there who like to hike / bike / ski / camp?
For us 2023 was the year of learning how to do it with a toddler while keeping him safe, comfortable, and happy.
And it went pretty well, overall. 🙂
In 2024, though, we'll have a new baby, as well...
Any tips, tricks or advice you've got on trip planning & execution with TWO young kids would be welcome!
#parenting #parents #hiking #biking #camping #backpacking #backcountry #skiing #travel
US residents: If you haven't ordered your free COVID tests through USPS in the last five or six weeks, you're eligible for four more per household. It takes about a minute to fill out the online form, and USPS delivers them to your mailbox.
Testing is a great way to keep friends, family, and coworkers safe.
Fun article about building a castle using medieval techniques!
What It’s Like to Build a Castle From Scratch Using Only Medieval Construction Methods
What It’s Like to Build a Castle From Scratch Using Only Medieval Construction Methods
Guédelon Castle has been under construction for 26 years—using only historically accurate medieval tools and methods. Here’s what that looks like in practice.Caroline Delbert (Popular Mechanics)
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I thought I had seen a Tom Scott video that covered some aspect of the building of Guédelon Castle!
youtu.be/pk9v3m7Slv8?si=se4V6O…
I thought the treadmill crane was fictional.
The treadwheel crane, or treadmill crane, sounds like something from Astérix or the Flintstones. But at Guédelon in France, not only do they have one: they'r...YouTube
youtu.be/pCg-SNOteQQ?si=XVCzwi…
Every Logical Fallacy Explained in 11 Minutes
Every Famous Logical Fallacy gets explained in 11 minutes.I explain stuff through paint, subscribe and activate the bell if you liked this video.Join my Disc...YouTube
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Globular Cluster NGC 2210 in the LMC.
ESA/Hubble, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Color edits.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! ZOMG! I'm crying!
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I had a dream last night that there was a new popular form of music called Love Honk
Every song was basically just smooth jazz or soft rock instrumentals, but where the lead singer or main instrument should have been playing, there was just a loud, constant car horn.
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Might even work for Me & Mrs. Jones ...
"If you honk like that, you'd better be dropping something off, because you're sure as hell not picking anything up."
– Paul Hennessy (John Ritter), 8 Simple Rules
Have you heard of The #KDE Networks?, well I hadn't but today we have a member of the Australian branch on the show to explain all the details we need to know #Linux
Video Release: youtube.com/watch?v=dN5v4eUByl…
Audio Release: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/sho…
#200 Bringing The Joys Of KDE Around The World | Kye Potter
There's a program you've probably never heard of called KDE Networks which aims to build local KDE communities with local members around the world and today ...YouTube
About the part where you were saying that people get British accents confused with Australian. I cant say from the perspective of an average US citizen, but as someone in the middle east, I couldn't tell the difference between American, British, and Australian accents (I'm a bit better now though). Simply because I didn't hear them often enough to distinguish them.
Similarly, I imagine some Americans don't get to hear Australian accents often.
The Strathmore Meteorite fell on December 3, 1917 in Scotland.
Geni, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Color and cropping edits.
Scientists Explain Why ‘Doing Your Own Research’ Leads to Believing Conspiracies vice.com/en/article/v7bjpm/sci…
“study published on Wednesday in Nature has found that using online search engines to vet #conspiracies can actually increase the chance that someone will believe it. The researchers point to a known problem in search called "#DataVoids." Sometimes, there's not a lot of high-quality information to counter misleading headlines or surrounding fringe theories”
Scientists Explain Why ‘Doing Your Own Research’ Leads to Believing Conspiracies
Researchers found that people searching misinformation online risk falling into “data voids” that increase belief in conspiracies.Mirjam Guesgen (VICE)
Investigating antifungal tolerance
A refined single-cell sequencing technique provides insight into how pathogenic fungi respond to drugs.eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd
Here's the most played Steam Deck games of 2023 gamingonlinux.com/2023/12/here…
Here's the most played Steam Deck games of 2023
Valve has released the annual Best of lists, and so we can see what the most played games are across the whole of 2023 for the Steam Deck so here's what's up.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
I want Firefox to succeed more than ever and I support Mozilla finding better revenue sources than search engine default sales, but I do not support a $7M salary for its CEO.
I canceled my recurring donation to Mozilla because I need that money more than Mozilla’s CEO needs that money.
If there is a direct funding option of developers working on Firefox, I will happily reallocate that money. Send me links.
@Gargron The for-profit corp is wholly controlled by the non-profit one.
Like the OP, I don't really agree with the CEO's salary (and would not donate for that reason), but Mozilla did increase their revenue considerably over that period. IIRC she has made arguments about her pay scale vs other IT executives that sounded plausible (the $6 mil is not her pay scale BTW; most of that was bonuses tied to the new revenue).
Caution: Brendan Eich has been grinding this axe loudly for years
Christmas market. Erfurt.
Canon AE-1 Program
Kodak Portra 800
Canon FD 50mm/1.8
#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm
Meteorite fall witnessed and drawn by Josep Bolló on December 25, 1704 in Catalonia.
Xavier Caballe, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The Geminid Meteor "Swarm" (l'Essaim des Géminides) over Kitt Peak (2023).
ἑσμός https://lsj.gr/wiki/ἑσμός
ἐσσήν https://lsj.gr/wiki/ἐσσήν
KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Sparks (NSF’s NOIRLab), CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
ἑσμός - Ancient Greek (LSJ)
ὁ, (ἕζομαι)A that which settles, esp. a swarm of bees, Hdt.5.114, Pl.Lg.708b, X.HG3.2.28; ἑ. λαμβάνειν Plu.Dio24; of wasps, καθ' ἑσμούς in swarms, Ar.V.1107.2lsj.gr
"Euclid’s view of globular cluster NGC 6397."
ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre (CEA Paris-Saclay), G. Anselmi, CC BY-SA IGO 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO, via Wikimedia Commons.
rust9x 1.76.0 is close! Now with unwinding, backtrace support and thread parking working :V
I spent a decade of my life creating game assets, the result is a lot of game assets. They're free, no ads, no tracking, no registration, no subscription, no permission needed, no need for attribution and suited for any use including commercial.
I have played with GEOS for C64, and was not impressed. So, I postponed trying out PC GEOS aka GeoWorks aka NewDeal aka Breadbox Ensemble. In the first place, I wasn't sure it will work on our 80286 computer - all the articles say it's for "low-end 386 machines". But it does work, and NewDeal 3.1 runs on 286/2MB as well as Windows 95 runs on 386/8MB. In other words, it runs pretty well!
I am certainly going to play with it more, as the version I've installed doesn't have office apps or Ethernet driver (but both exist, and they're darn good - with Word 97 import and export).
So far I've only tried out media viewer (bmp/gif/pcx, no jpg, sadly), and a web browser (some HTML and CSS, no JS support). I love it.
Because even Windows 3.1 is more painful to use on this machine than GEOS.
Good kitty!
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Get ready for the New Year's Day 24 Global Stream Parade! from your fedi adjacent alt streaming and broadcasting friends.
We have 24+ hours of amazing special content lined up kicking off at 0100 UTC Jan 1st.
It's a massive distributed parade of party, anti-party, laugh, learn, riot, share, entertain, comfy and more hangouts in the spirit of #JoinIn, #SitTogether and celebrating #community.
Here is where we will keep the parade route (schedule):
Ubuntu Experiments With Raising CPU Requirement
Ubuntu like many distros support the entire range of x86_64 CPUs but there have been improvements and feature additions over the years so is it about time to...YouTube
My Thinkpad T430 oh nooo! The Display is absolute garbage and really its hard switching back after having an also corebootable Clevo NV41MZ. But the keyboard is great! And it is still perfectly working, 2TB of SATA SSD storage, no problem.
Btw interviewing some people working on Coreboot would be cool!
My Recent Media Diet, the End of 2023 Edition
Over the past few months, I’ve had some time away from the computer and have taken several very long plane trips and some shkottke.org
"...this is a movie that has Something To Say and I still can’t figure out what that is."
That tracks with the misogyny the site occasionally espouses.
To borrow a quote: it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his misogyny depends on his not understanding it.
Well, if you ever visit Melbourne Australia, here are some things to learn!
"Don't you dare go to Starbucks. There aren't many of them anyway, and a real Melbourne café is always going to be a better bet. You can get excellent coffee (a flat white, by the way, is a latte without the foam; a long or short black is a black coffee) as well as, usually, sandwiches like chicken and avocado and treats like caramel slices and brownies."
21 surprising lessons you learn living in Melbourne
Whether you've come from interstate or overseas, Melbourne has some quirks you need to learnCassidy Knowlton (Time Out)
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This one trick to do sqr() and cube() in C: godbolt.org/z/7qeanM
![Godbolt screenshot
code:
#include <stdio.h>
int sqr(int n) {
char p[n][n];
return sizeof p;
}
int cube(int n) {
char p[n][n][n];
return sizeof p;
}
int main() {
printf( "%d %d\n",sqr(2), cube(2));
printf( "%d %d\n",sqr(3), cube(3));
printf( "%d %d\n",sqr(4), cube(4));
printf( "%d %d\n",sqr(5), cube(5));
printf( "%d %d\n",sqr(6), cube(6));
}
Result:
4 8
9 27
16 64
25 125
36 216](https://keybored.me/photo/preview/640/1198107 "Godbolt screenshot
code:
#include <stdio.h>
int sqr(int n) {
char p[n][n];
return sizeof p;
}
int cube(int n) {
char p[n][n][n];
return sizeof p;
}
int main() {
printf( \"%d %d\n\",sqr(2), cube(2));
printf( \"%d %d\n\",sqr(3), cube(3));
printf( \"%d %d\n\",sqr(4), cube(4));
printf( \"%d %d\n\",sqr(5), cube(5));
printf( \"%d %d\n\",sqr(6), cube(6));
}
Result:
4 8
9 27
16 64
25 125
36 216")
Compiler Explorer - C
int sqr(int n) { char p[n][n]; return sizeof p; } int cube(int n) { char p[n][n][n]; return sizeof p; } int main() { printf( "%d %d\n",sqr(2), cube(2)); printf( "%d %d\n",sqr(3), cube(3)); printf( "%d %d\n",sqr(4), cube(…godbolt.org
“Running this gives us a nice 40 GB file which contains all 4.2 billion comparisons needed to determine if any 32 bit number is even or odd”
andreasjhkarlsson.github.io//j…
ChatGPT is involved. Via Charlie Stross a master hacker shows off.
4 billion if statements
I recently stumbled upon this screenshot while researching social media on the train. Of course, it was followed by a cascade of spiteful comments, criticizing this fresh programmer’s attempt to solve a classical problem in computer science.Blabbin’
Frank Aylward
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