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The scans of my first roll of HP5 just came in. Most shots turned out quite boring but here is one of my wife that I like.

Canon AE-1 Program
Ilford HP5
Helios 44M 58mm/2

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #MonochromePhotography

in reply to Eugen Rochko

You're lucky your wife is so beautiful; she makes for all developing and scanning glitches! Just kidding, nice photo indeed


NASA en espaΓ±ol Senior Science Writer and Editor Noelia GonzΓ‘lez nasa.gov/image-article/nasa-en… #NASA
#NASA


Join NASA to Celebrate Worm Design, Influence with Original Designer nasa.gov/news-release/join-nas… #NASA #NASAHistory



It's been a long day, but the new briefs.video will be out tomorrow. In the mean time, please support on Open Collective if you can: opencollective.com/webbed-brie…


How many animals have ever existed on Earth? The estimated number is ludicrously big, orders of magnitude more than a trillion. Mostly insects. livescience.com/animals/how-ma…


I'm so proud of Keren, one of our recent graduates in the Media and Public Engagement MA program, for her work on the spirituality and politics of a Nigerian musical instrument: m.youtube.com/watch?v=5b443u_5…

If you're interested in graduate work on making community-centered media, learn more about the program here: colorado.edu/cmci/academics/me…





New #ISEPpapers! Long-read-based genome assembly reveals numerous endogenous viral elements in the green algal bacterivore Cymbomonas tetramitiformis academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-a… #protists #algae #microbes #genomics #viruses by @DacksLabECB
in reply to ISEP

@DacksLabECB very cool! Endogenous giant viruses are turning out to be quite common!

in reply to JocelynAyodele

@StaceyAyodele "16bit Sensation: Another Layer" episode 4 at 00:30. This scene is set in 1996, and the context is that this girl, who's helping out a small bishoujo game studio, is trying to convince the person in the apartment, who is their only programmer and who is refusing to work on the game because it'll be made for Windows (he's a PC-98 nerd), to come out and work on the game.
in reply to Feβ‚‚πŸ¦€β‚ƒβ‹…Hβ‚‚πŸ¦€ (normie arc)

the PC-98 to Windows switchover was just the Japanese version of the DOS to Windows switchover, and there were also plenty of holdouts in the west as well.

It's just that in Japan, two things happened. A lot of people were buying PCs for the first time, and NEC was overcharging for inferior hardware. The PDF related has a whole summary of why this happened, and there were a lot of things not mentioned from the video hardware staying unchanged to how nobody else was allowed to build clones.

NEC 100% fucked themselves over to the point they sell desktops/laptops in a joint venture with...Lenovo now.

in reply to Pawlicker 🐾😹

The other important thing to note here is that without Windows, there were 3 main DOS architectures (DOS/V which was essentially a localized version of MS-DOS, the NEC PC-98/Epson clones, and the Fujitsu FMR/FM Towns). DOS programs were written to use direct hardware access, Windows programs used APIs and as a result you could abstract away the hardware differences between the PC-98, FM Towns/FMR, and whatever piece of shit you bought at Wal-Mart back in the day.

If it wasn't Windows, Linux would have done the same thing. Or OS/2. Or BSD. In fact as a result of the abstraction, Windows NT/2k works with more PCI devices and western off the shelf software than on Windows 9x on the PC-98.



Glenn Hangar Has Long Been the Face of the Center nasa.gov/image-article/glenn-h… #NASA #GlennResearchCenter


Two weeks left to apply for this postdoc in my group:
embl.org/jobs/position/EBI0215…

Deadline 9th November




Encke and the Tadpoles apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231027.ht… #APOD
#APOD


PhylteR: efficient identification of outlier sequences in phylogenomic datasets.

PhylteR can automatically identify sequences likely to be hidden paralogs or horizontally transferred genes in very large datasets. Removing those sequences therefore reduces noise in downstream analyses.

Available as an R package on CRAN or as docker and singularity images.

Package:

cran.r-project.org/web/package…

Paper:

doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msad234

#Phylogeny #Genomics #bioinformatics #Phylogenomics



A leap in user experience: AlphaFold Database introduces sequence-based search and structure cluster members
ebi.ac.uk/about/news/updates-f…


Are you attending #SC23 and do you want to learn how to program GPUs with #OpenMP ? Join Tom Deakin, Simon McIntosh-Smith and Tim Mattson for their tutorial!

Date: Monday, 13 November 2023
Time: 8:30am - 5pm MST
Location: 203

For a sneak preview, check out:
youtube.com/watch?v=so7OsHCxaq…



Eviden (part of Atos) is hosting a lunch briefing at #SC23 on Mon Nov 13

Besides the obligatory marketing, it will also feature πŸ‘‡

#JUPITER Panel Discussion: Architecting the First European #Exascale System

Register at: page.eviden.com/sc23-eviden-lu…

#HPC #AI



If you are into the @obsidian #Obsidian #notes app – you’d like to know that you can sync your notes using Nextcloud!

While at it, let us know what your favorite Obsidian feature is – perhaps it can inspire us for our Notes app!

addictivetips.com/ubuntu-linux…

in reply to Nextcloud πŸ“±β˜οΈπŸ’»

This is exactly what I do with my setup. I have a Mac, a Chromebook, a Linux box, and an Android phone all syncing Obsidian this way.

So far, so good!

in reply to Nextcloud πŸ“±β˜οΈπŸ’»

Great feature #nextcloud, I used this functionality already with a workaround by using a library inside my Nextcloud folder structure.

Would be great to have a possibility to use a dedicated folder inside my Nextcloud, which may be a groupfolder or even change the dependency so that obsidian notes can be distributed to the specific locations by defining topics (specific clients/projects) and rout the .md files to these folders.



in reply to Muse

Well, our goldfinches can read.

Mom put out food for them. Nothing. Then she added a sign, "Special food for finches!" with an arrow pointing to the feeder.

Poof! Finches!



Systrays Are Incredible (I Would Never Go Without One) #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/D9AZMCxzfT8
in reply to Brodie Robertson

About DT's point about needing the systray for nextcloud, I think it's valid. That's not to say that OBS doesn't need a systray but that nextcloud definitely needs one.

Most of the things you do on the nextcloud app you do through the systray. In most cases you use the systray to just check the status of things. You can also log in and set up sync settings but it's a very limited app. Instead other things are done in the webapp, or by file operation in synced folders.

in reply to Brodie Robertson

On the secret systrays, maybe DT's thinking of systrays which work like Windows? When I close an app there, it wanders into a sub-systray area where it's only visible once you click on the systray.



"Well... fuck."
Black pigment and glass shards on orange linoleum.
Temporary kinetic installation, 2023.


Sam is giving Tiffany Aching’s Guide to Being a Witch a once over.



Artemis II Water Deluge Test nasa.gov/image-article/artemis… #NASA #Artemis2 #ExplorationGroundSystems #KennedySpaceCenter


LLVM merges initial support for the #OpenMP kernel language.

This will help having performance portable #GPU codes. The extensions allow for the seamless porting of programs from kernel languages to high-performance OpenMP GPU programs with minimal modifications.

phoronix.com/news/LLVM-Lands-O…

#HPC #Embedded



NASA Is Locating Ice on Mars With This New Map nasa.gov/solar-system/planets/… #NASA #Mars #JetPropulsionLaboratory #TheSolarSystem


Hey friends!

As part of the countdown to SC, I wanted to share a small anonymous Strawpoll on expectations for the much talked about #Aurora Super computer coming soon to ALCF!

strawpoll.com/3RnYlK0mxye



Join us next Friday at noon EDT for the #OpenMP Users Monthly Telecon! The subject of this month's telecon will be "OpenMP Offloading on the Exascale #Frontier: An Example Application in Pseudo-Spectral Algorithms". πŸ†’

The authors Stephen Nichols and PK Yeung have developed turbulence codes on Frontier which target #GPUs using OpenMP which may have advantages in future portability. πŸ”…

More details at:
openmp.org/events/ecp-sollve-o…

#HPC #Embedded



😲Did you know compliments can influence large-language models?

They're even open to Argentinian Spanish & Swiss German slang.

Discover how Nextcloud AI is tackling ethical concerns differently:
#AI #EthicalAI #LanguageModels

nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-e…



NASA, Pacific Disaster Center Increase Landslide Hazard Awareness nasa.gov/earth/nasa-pacific-di… #NASA #Earth #NaturalDisasters


NASA Tech Breathes Life Into Potentially Game-Changing Antenna Design nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/nas… #NASA #SpaceTechnologyMissionDirectorate


in reply to Nathan Schneider

I’ve recently picked up Thunderbird after many years due to an impulse to use FOSS whenever possible.

Being that my main area of comparison is the utterly uncustomizable Apple Mail and that every other mail app seems intent on adding β€œAI” to their service, I’m loving it.



Psst! Have you heard of Our Paint?

It's a painting program that uses node-based brushes, supports wacom, has infinite canvas and it's very simple, try it today! 😁

#OurPaint

chengdulittlea.itch.io/ourpain…



CW: weight loss

πŸ“ New post: The plan and the plateau

daverupert.com/2023/10/the-pla…

in reply to Dave Rupert

CW: weight loss

Well written post, thanks for sharing.

Of all the eliminations, have any been particularly hard? I've been trying to cut back on alcohol but it's hard when I go out. I don't know how often you go out, but has that been a problem?



I'll talk about Usernetes (Rootless Kubernetes) Gen 2 in the CNCF TAG-Runtime meeting.

15 minutes from now.

docs.google.com/document/d/1k7…

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