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This is fantastic.

I immediately wondered how he managed to seamlessly mosaic together what is surely hundreds of images and thousands of subs. Here are the details: https://space4everybody.com/processing-details/

And equipment: https://space4everybody.com/technical-details-equipment/

Nothing too fancy (in astrophotography relative terms). A decent refractor and mono camera (such parameters have come down in price by 2-3 times, ASI2600MM is comparable) and most importantly, a solid pier/mount.

  267 Individual panels (including reshoots)
  12,816 Individual light frames
  65,000 x 35,000 in it’s entirety
  5 States traversed to image
  640.8 Imaging hours
  500+ Editing hours
  2.5 Gigapixel Image
  1.6 Pixel scale
  5 Years
  1 Mosaic

Just WOW

Just found out about this feature, enabled it and it is brilliant. This ought to be the default. So I'm happy and sad at the same moment :)

You should look up "Conjoined Triangles of Success". It might do something to heal that PTSD.

You just put me off Sqlite for life. I can't believe someone thought this to be a good idea.

> file:///C:/Users/jansan/Downloads/metallstaenderwaende_w11_20_04_ger.pdf

I literally just now spent some time explaining to a colleague, why the file "does not open for me".

You pasted a path to a local file in your computer.

As an amateur astronomer and astrophotographer, I'm biased against the massive cost of the StarLink pollution fleet to our ability to gaze at the wonders above. I think the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a much higher priority project for humanity, than StarLink.

That said, I think Elon needs to travel the world a little more. Several of his attempts to solve purported world-relevant issues may be founded in limitations present in the US.

1) I have been to the jungles of Cambodia, trekked across Myanmar, stayed in villages of central Iran, driven across the deserts North Africa. Never have I felt deprived on good connectivity, even in the deserts of Iran. Everyone glued to their smartphones like everywhere else. And I had a pretty strong case of FB-itis myself back then. Where there is a human settlement, there seemed to be a connection. As an anecdote, I recall having Skype calls with my folks from the Shwedagon Pagoda - it had excellent wifi ~7 years ago. Walking across a salt lake one can and should expect to drop our for a while. The only exception I recall is some village in Tunisian Sahara where locals made a point of not being connected (mostly expats). Ksar Ghilane, perhaps?

How is it that in rural US there is no alternative to satellite internet? There seems to be some local systemic failure. The rest of the world will be left holding the bag, so that people do not have to dig down some cables in Arkansas.

2) Building the self-driving car. It already exists everywhere. It is called the metro, tram, bus, tuk-tuk, rickshaw, whatever. It exists, and works great, servicing billions and if you exclude the latter options, safe. But not in N.America, where you cannot even cross a street without a vehicle. Thankfully, this seems to only use up VC money, without any externalities for the rest of the world.

Thanks! I will!

Please don't. This is unsubstantiated bullshit at this point. It is a lot more likely that they fought the plane (or their own somatogravic illusion, or ..?) to the bitter end. To put pilot suicide out there, requires some supporting evidence on your part.

Elevator are hydraulically operated, while trim is actuated by steel cables + electric trim. I imagine an electrical short with the trim mechanism cannot be ruled out. But this is all pointless armchair speculation, borderline bad taste.

Excellent hiking routes in Estonia: https://www.loodusegakoos.ee/where-to-go/hiking-route

MS Teams is down for us as well. Possibly a spike related to people looking for a backup.

That seems to be the plan, in the sense that there is no plan for what exactly to listen for. Just start listening.

That said, there are some signals (like the 21cm hydrogen line) from the Universe's Dark Age that have redshifted to what we can expect to listen for in the multiple meter wavelengths, even 10m or more. But what we will learn from this? I agree with you, it will be exciting.

What a sad day for our species.

John Michael Godier made an interesting interview with Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay regarding placing a radio telescope on the far (silent) side of Moon. Notably, our moon is also obviously devoid of the ionosphere, but what is less obvious, is that this would allow us to observe wavelengths that have so far never been studied by humans.

https://youtu.be/8c8tG1sAK78

I feel you, it is horrendous seeing your work being torn up like that. Having anything public-facing on the internet feels like running a liqueur store in a bad neighbourhood.

I am the co-founder of a SaaS in the higher-ed-tech sector (universities, 300+ of them). Going to make sure we implement support for Fathom (in addition to GA, GTM, Matomo) and reach out to our customers. Hope it helps a bit. Our users would also benefit from stuffing less data to G.

With 10%, I believe you are overguesstimating the share of users that know/care about CVE-s.

Anecdotal evidence, but in my school the afternoon shift was associated with more "problematic" behaviour, both boys and girls. More rough and tumble play, that is the technical term I think, more abuse and fighting. Might have something to do with all those mornings without parental supervision.

Here is a good start: https://donatstudios.com/Go-v2-Modules

With the relevant HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24429045

The argument for Go being a simple language that naturally produces code everyone can easily grok comes up time and time again.

I have never gotten it. I find Go code somewhat easy to write, just just give up on trying to be concise or elegant, but not at all easy to read. The excessive boilerplate just makes me feel like my brain does not have the working memory to piece it all together.

The constructs are simple, true, but if you are trying to write anything non-trivial, then simple syntax will not make your problem simpler. It is just expressed in tens of times more lines than in Elixir, Haskell or even PHP. This takes a toll on the reader.

As an example - you can accomplish interesting projects with Lego. And it is easy to get going for sure. But at some point, when you are trying to do something non-trivial, it becomes a hindrance, despite it's simplicity. Hence "I built a life-size XYZ in Lego" becomes impressive in it's own right.

Oh, and Go modules is a story of a train wreck.

How did they make sure that the entire backpack was returned, not just the tracker tossed?

From the article:

> A software engineer’s job is not to write code, it’s to solve problems, by writing code when necessary.

This is a good litmus test to detect the presence of a senior developer.

Cannot edit any more, but it is important to clear this up. Apparently the repo did not vanish, it was deleted by a member of the team, who decided to keep silent about it for some reason.

Tip - there is a "deleted repos" section in GitHub UI where they will appear, apparently with an option to restore them.

In short - all I said seems to have been nonsense. Apologies!

I will send the repo URL in a few hours. Thanks for following up.

You are right. I have a hunch. In the local repo there is a file that was was probably produced by running wget github.com im the repo directory. Unsure what it was meant to achieve, but accidentally pushed, it may have flagged the repo down somehow. Maybe the HTML contained some secret token?

Still, the main issue was the process how they handled it. Your build breaks. This is how we found out.

Should qualify that. I never said it doesn't sadden me to miss out on cool things. But professionally they are indeed irrelevant.

All of GH improvements have become irrelevant for me since they vanished one of our repos. No notification, no warning, no recourse. Just gonsky. It was just a simple library we wrote to talk to a public IP2Country REST service. Pushed to GitLab, end of.

This is like a self-administered "slow lori attack" then - making it easier for an attacker to keep connections up until things start getting tight on port 443.

Press space to unmute, no?

No other programming language has cost me that much time, figuring out vendoring for a few dependencies.

The v2 story is just broken. It is nice to have a possibility to have multiple versions of the same package in this 0.1% of projects. The cost of it is anguish and frustration for 99.9%.

On the other hand I am seeing libraries teetering on the border of introducing breaking changes to point releases, or holding back progress, just to avoid going v2.

Nonsense

+incompatible

Thanks, I guess. Another pit of awe-inspiring procrastination.

I was ready to give it a go ona few devices laying around, but the Google Groups signup story is a turnoff.