New mile world record set in London: 3:42.66
https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/articles/cx2jl1wge2po
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Interesting that the Beta Pictoris system is sending a dust stream our way. #space #astronomy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_Pictoris#Dust_stream
My tree hollyhock is flowering, it has grown quite tall.
The 40000 M_sun intermediate mass black hole postulated to exist in the Omega Centauri globular cluster is large enough that a human being can get to the event horizon without being pulled apart, although they *would* feel the tidal forces (comparable to +/-1g over your height).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_Centauri#Evidence_of_a_central_black_hole
#space #physics #astronomy
Spent a while trying to find a bug in a complicated routine, only to discover it was a bug in a much simpler routine that I'd *assumed* was correct because it was simpler. This happened twice. #programming
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@dpiponi@mathstodon.xyz Yes, when you try and consider the whole free group, you realise there are far more "recipes" than results!
Found out today if you set marker fill colour to 95% transparent in #Excel you can make it shade the density of points if you have too many to plot (like 10^5 green ones here).
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@catsalad@infosec.exchange (looks suspiciously at the cat-coloured blanket in the background)
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@gabriel@mstdn.starnix.network Under these circumstances the pol suddenly becomes a staunch privacy and "right to be forgotten" advocate.
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@gabriel@mstdn.starnix.network Thing is, you don't need to say anything yourself to make a bad politician look bad. You can post literally what they said and did.
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@dpiponi@mathstodon.xyz Algebra is based on unknowns: e.g. x being a variable instead of writing 3. These examples are what happens when multiplication operator is an "unknown", and when a bilinear function is an unknown. They're just more complex unknowns.
Bug spray in my mailbox so the ants don't try and put their eggs in there like they did on several previous years.
Another reason I may have had ants in my recycling bin is I put it on top of an ant nest when I put it out last week.
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@wolf480pl I didn't intentionally vectorise that code but it seemed power hungry for some reason. But that was back in 2010.
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I can't believe England beat France 6-7
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@fell@ma.fellr.net At work I'll only run Microsoft Teams inside a browser and never have it always running in the background because I don't like interruptions.
Either i fix this, or i go insane
Oh yeah, and BBC News has switched from a nag screen to an actual paywall but all the articles are still readable in the HTML source so
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@eric --[it's seen as a hybrid mouse/keyboard input device.]--
This is the correct interface.
The deuterium-hydrogen ratio in comet 3I/ATLAS suggests it formed under different conditions to our own solar system. #space #astronomy
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-026-02850-5
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@fell@ma.fellr.net I use WhatsApp for family but tend to minimise messaging at work (e-mail is fine for most things).
Mouse living in a tennis ball.
https://x.com/domdyer70/status/2078388977787089039
You can see Earth from #Mars (at least, through this telescope).
https://x.com/NASAMars/status/2046931058084782348
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@wolf480pl https://stephenbrooks.org/muon1 is only for Windows and no longer updated, but it was the one that blew the fuses in someone's rack when they tried to run it.
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@fell@ma.fellr.net Intellectual property is the least of my worries. Privacy might be more important. But mostly it's the implied threat that the company can take the service away (or even ban you specifically from it) at any time. Usual software-as-a-service problem.
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@ryan@m29.us Maybe it could be unlocked with quantum computers, if they ever do anything useful?
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@loke Most of this thinking comes from thinking about AI in the abstract and not considering the details. Often it does not do what you were planning to do without considerable additional effort.
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@ryan@m29.us Video pans around an egg sitting on a grassy hill on a sunny day, enjoying the great outdoors.
Orion Artemis I/II heat shield comparison. #space #NASA
RT https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2078665527166455875
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@wolf480pl I've had floating point specifically heat CPUs up in ways other things don't.
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@fell@ma.fellr.net @torvalds@social.kernel.org The main reason I'm reluctant to use these is the "power dynamics" with having to go through a big tech giant to use the actually useful models.
Also the intrinsic error rate, but that seems to slowly be going down.
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@xkcd@mastodon.com.br At work we used something like this to stop magnets sticking together.
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