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astronomer, telescope wrangler, grizzled pythonista, bluesky boomer
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dire warnings unheeded generally don't turn out in one's favor. ymmv.
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we’re thinking about it. depends how long we decide to stick around in ak.
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we plenty of both earlier in the drive. just not at their namesake viewpoint, ironically. this was our first time thru since 2003. we wanted to do a glacier hike to compare with the one we did then, but it was pouring rain there...
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check the price tag on that bear lol
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it's stunning! i love it. if you're ever in the baltimore area, definitely visit www.avam.org.
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quite
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huh. looks like NUCs shifted to asus in late 2023. the last batch i got was early 2023. the seeing monitor software acquires and analyzes 5 gb image cubes so needs fast ssd, ram, and as many cores as possible.
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properly scoped, NUCs are pretty handy. one of the few options that’s available identically both here and in 🇿🇦. the other option was dell and i’ve had way too many issues with them being unstable under linux. rpi5 is almost beefy enough to handle this task, but not quite…
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well, you boil the water to make beer so it’s all good lol
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i’m drinking coors banquet like a local…
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i knew it would be, but reality far exceeded those lofty expectations…
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bullock’s oriole
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i dabbled in SPP when i had to, but def not by choice…
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if i ever need to flex, i recount programming differential equations in postscript using emacs. the things i made those old laserjet printers do for my coursework…
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new band name just dropped
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i’ve seen linear regression branded as machine learning…
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i indeed meant principal component analysis. i’ve seen techniques branded as AI that are literally just PCA.
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120 minutes literally gave us the band garbage. steve, the guitarist, was watching it and saw shirley manson in an angelfish video. showed it to the rest of the guys, had their agent make some calls, and the rest is history...
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or, if you were an insomniac with cable, 120 minutes on mtv and night flight on usa were huge avenues for discovery…
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It's a brutal time for young men
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well, they certainly haven’t been honoring tribal lands in the tohono o’odham nation so i’m not saying it’s off the table. just a lot of easier options in the area like canyonlands and bears ears…
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it’s tribal land, though, so any such sale would have to go through them. more likely that the NPS would divest and it would become a tribal park like antelope canyon and monument valley.
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exactly
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yup, have to go with a guide to go into the canyon. people still live down there. time and elderly dog in tow prevented us from doing a guided tour on this trip…
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pics do NOT do it justice, either…