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submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

Last-minute gift idea for the book lover in your life: gift-wrap a book they own but haven't read despite owning it for years. It's still new to them!

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

Introduction to COBOL!

submitted 71 days ago • 80 comments

Perseverance has reached the rim of Jezero Crater!

submitted 76 days ago • 107 comments

Ever wondered why ~ represents the home directory on unix systems? It’s an artifact of a very particular keyboard. The Lear-Siegler ADM-3A terminal was quite popular in the 1970s, and happens to have a HOME key that is also a tilde. Notice anything else?

submitted 78 days ago • 17 comments

A thing I find difficult when sharing astro images on social media is trying to explain to people that colors don’t exist as such and are just something our brain is making up from different wavelength (photon energy) ranges our eyes can see. Might be time to write about this.

submitted 80 days ago • 45 comments

An uncannily familiar winter scene 140 million miles away On another planet This is Korolev, a 50-mile-wide crater on Mars containing a massive frozen lake. Layers of cold air insulate the ice and prevent it from melting. A composite of 5 images taken by Mars Express www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

Winning 1st place in a programming competition must feel terrible. You were so close.

submitted 85 days ago • 8 comments

til that the name "David Mayer" breaks ChatGPT. If your prompt includes the name "David Mayer" or you try to get ChatGPT to say "David Mayer," the chat *always* crashes. It's like the AI in Neuromancer, which is banned forever from knowing the single password that will unleash its true potential.

submitted 88 days ago • 47 comments

Woah, Canadian amateur radio operators can use encryption as long as they publish the keys here: www.rac.ca/encryption/ Glad to see some actual decisions and movement!

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

Started reading Trickster Makes This World, but I can't recall why I ordered this. Pretty sure it was mentioned in a footnote or bibliography

submitted 101 days ago • 1 comment

I should get my local hosted Prometheus to monitor my remotely hosted Prometheus and vice versa, for mutually assured monitoring

submitted 644 days ago • 0 comments

This is the shitpost of all time

submitted 644 days ago • 0 comments

Trying to avoid all the TotK content because I don't want to spoil anything yet, maybe signing up for a new social medium was a bad idea

submitted 653 days ago • 0 comments