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badosu··on SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_lens

See [32]-[35]

badosu··on The oldest company in almost every country (that is still in business)
Actually, the patriarch at constantinople had the dominant authority at the early christendom.

There's a very informative youtube video about the schism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6rWf0k8d78

badosu··on Neovim v0.4.0
Also, if I am not mistaken, the code that handles the multiplexing (multigrid) was not made only for this feature, but a generalization that improves a lot of capabilities for GUIs.

Thanks for all the work Neovim team!

badosu··on LIGO detects probable black hole merger event
I wonder if, as we get to smaller scales, do things start quantizing? Are we far from it?
badosu··on A New Blend of Rock and Plastic Is Forming on a Portuguese Island
I wonder if at any point, given the quantity of plastic available, organisms will evolve to consume it as food since it would be an advantage.
badosu··on The poisons released by melting Arctic ice
> Controlled volcano eruption, generate the effects of nuclear winter without the radiation and contamination.

There you have it: a blockbuster holywood catastrophe plot.

badosu··on Servo, the Parallel Browser Engine Project
I still hope someday servo gets mature enough to be used as a backend for anything webkit is used for these days: electron, etc...
badosu··on Female Toronto rapper/producer releases FOSS mixtape on GitHub
That is a great initiative, and I wish more producers release more content like this, my remark was due to expectations related to the "FOSS mixtape" title.

That said you should use what is best for your workflow (not for the sake of it being FOSS).

Although Ardour is perhaps almost there in terms of maturity, LV2 plugins (open source format) are not anywhere close. You can still use VSTs and AU in the windows/mac versions IIRC.

There is kinda community around releasing music with available session files with FOSS tools, although not many as polished as yours (see [1]).

1: https://libremusicproduction.com/music

badosu··on Female Toronto rapper/producer releases FOSS mixtape on GitHub
I see OP used Logic Pro X, which for the educational purposes on the README makes sense (targeting a wider audience), but for me it feels like a misleading title. That said, I am happy to see not-hobbyist producers releasing content like this.

For those interested in music production with FOSS tools, I highly recommend checking out Ardour and Unfa's videos with session files and all you need to get started: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgw7mNBEZlQ

badosu··on Earliest known signs of cannabis smoking unearthed in China
Probably residues from high potency parts like flowers.
badosu··on Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal
It seems ':pipe' sends the data to stdin, I was trying to see a pdf file and the programs I tried (evince, mupdf) do not seem to support this (or perhaps usage is different?).

Seems like a good patch to implement a command that saves to a temporary file and opens with provided program, will certainly follow development, great work!

badosu··on Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal
I was looking at the git page and wondering where I could see discussion on features/bugs etc, I did not find it and was a bit frustrated.

I found out reading this comment that not only it has a todo page but it works great! Not sure if it's a design choice but perhaps making the resources accessible in a single page (e.g. like a project home) would be something worth of consideration.

badosu··on Aerc – An email client that runs in the terminal
Pretty amazing! Some observations:

- Attachments that don't have a filter can't be visualized. For this case would be interesting to open with 'xdg-open' when hit <Enter>, and/or '.mailcap' support.

- Account password is stored in plaintext

- Occasional rendering artifacts when switching tabs/folders

If those above are fixed plus theming, unread, etc. I can easily see myself using it as my daily driver.

badosu··on Ways to travel at nearly the speed of light
Isnt a torus curved? What's the argument?
badosu··on Ways to travel at nearly the speed of light
You come back around on a sphere too, e.g. traveling by the equator.
badosu··on BigInt Shipping in Firefox
For pretty much the past decade (specially the last few years) I feel the culture has shifted to consider core monkey patches as a pretty bad practice.
badosu··on Brain Drain Across the United States
I'd say there's brain drain even if the workers stay at their country, working remotely for US companies.

The most qualified people around me on previous jobs moved to US, Europe or are working remotely (myself included).

It's sad because it increases the difficulty of local companies to grow a good team, continuing the cycle.

badosu··on Joe Armstrong has died
I rewatched this so many times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRbY3TMUcgQ
badosu··on What Is a Manifold?
f(x) = 0 (x < 1, x > 1)

f(0) = 1

badosu··on An epidemic of fake influencers and the death of meritocracy
Further reference: https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths
badosu··on SpaceVim v1.1.0 released
Seems like a convention of standard set of plugins and configuration.

I am very interested, seems like it has good defaults for having an IDE-like experience on vim but was not able to find a nice video tutorial explaining it.

Definitely gonna try it later.

badosu··on Low-earth orbit satellites threatened by debris from Indian anti-satellite test
All your bases are belong to us
badosu··on Can a Person Learn While Sleeping?
Muscle recovery (protein synthesis) rate is increased at sleep.

Doing exercise before bed is not a good idea if you have difficulties sleeping though.

badosu··on Can a Person Learn While Sleeping?
At least 3 hours before bedtime is usually a good practice, as others noticed though it may be possible for one to exercise just before and have a good nights sleep.

Exercising in the evening is optimal for muscle growth as power is maximal[0] and it's better for recovery, though there are other factors such as daily schedule and I've often heard people saying that working out at morning has a good psychological effect.

Whatever is best for ones consistency and goals.

0 - https://youtu.be/zOMR73FC4Qw?t=638

Further references:

- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28704882

- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27863207

badosu··on Sway 1.0
I would say it's the case in both accounts.

Whereas before installing nvidia proprietary drivers was just a nuisance, now I am looking for alternative GPUs as I use Linux on all my machines.

badosu··on Nasa Happily Reports the Earth Is Greener
It is, although replacing forests with pastures should not be indicative of CO2 sequestration, but the opposite.

In Brazil there's a biome called cerrado[0], characterized by low trees and shrubs, from the sky might seem brown but there's a lot of biodiversity and flora. Replacing it with soy fields should not be a net gain in my book.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerrado

badosu··on It Looks Like Ibera Is Gutting Travis CI Just a Few Weeks After Acquiring It
This is really sad, I can remember the days where Travis was the only CI solution free for open source projects.

It raised the standards for a well-maintained project, farewell.

badosu··on Show HN: On the fly color scheme selection for rxvt-unicode
In case you need something more generic: https://github.com/dylanaraps/pywal
badosu··on How the US has hidden its empire
If it's a shape preserving projection, the usual ones, the opposite happens.

The closer to the focus of the map, the better it's area representation.

badosu··on In the foundations of physics we haven't seen progress for the past four decades
Not OP, but I have a similar feeling.

I was on my way starting masters on Mathematics when I discovered I would be a father, I had to find and start a career so that I could make ends meet.

From my perspective I am glad that happened, I was excessively ambitious, comparing myself with the great ones in the field, measured my self-worth on regard of my ability to solve problems.

Having to swallow my pride, learn to talk with other people as equals so that I could provide for my family made me a better person. I am not sure I would have done this breakthrough isolated on my intellectual bubble, not even talking about the difficulties of engaging with egos at the academia.

Sometimes I miss the excitement of learning something really difficult or solving some problem from a new perspective, but I am glad I am mentally healthier. I am not saying that it's not possible to be healthy and pursue a high level on Mathematics or other intellectually challenging field, but that can enable bad patterns for some people.

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