I still remember back in 1984, when talking about the same-titled Orwell novel, pundits were confidently declaring that such a surveillance state couldn't happen simply due to the sheer manpower required to monitor everyone in real-time.
I just love this image - it highlights why we need all the different telescopes: each of them looks at the same object in different ways. And only when working together a complete image emerges.
Here, #Euclid's wide field is combined with #Hubble's zoom-in and #JWST sharpest IR image we ever obtained, allowing us to study how radiation interacts with interstellar matter.
@Hypx@respectmyplanet they're responsible for about 70% of my submissions flagged as duplicates on Hacker News but I still keep posting them because they are responsible for a disproportionate amount of karma but I won't give you a number because my current HN stats crawler doesn't give accurate numbers for a reason I recently determined but haven't got around to fixing (plus dupes on Tildes sting more so I want a Tildes crawler more...)
@Hypx@respectmyplanet I do think it is sad though that Eric Berger, who is the best journalist working on space today, is getting typecast as an Elon Mask fan in a situation which makes that terribly polarizing.
There are other sites that I get more complaints about that center around intrusive advertising, dark patterns, and allegedly predatory journals
"The new measure, called "outdoor days," is the number of days per year that outdoor temperatures are neither too hot nor too cold for people to go about normal outdoor activities, whether work or leisure.
When we think of climate change, Eltahir says, we tend to look at maps that show that virtually everywhere, temperatures will rise. "But if you think in terms of #OutdoorDays, you see that the world is not flat. The North is gaining; the South is losing.""
@CelloMomOnCars sometimes I worry about the day when the population flow reverses; I think the winter is a big reason why we can afford to live in upstate NY.
"The government is being warned that tight electricity supply situations could become more frequent, especially on cold winter mornings and evenings.
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The briefing said the government's dumping the aspirational goal of 100 percent renewable electricity by 2030 - and the Lake Onslow 'battery' project along with it - gave the ministry more room to work on the problem."
@strypey@phlogiston@lotneuv read that paper, it seems like H2 reacts with -OH (not O2) which means -OH eats less methane (so methane goes up) plus as you point out the water vapor contributes to heating too.
Job 1 for green and pink H2 I think is replacement of H2 in industrial processes such as ammonia production or to even replace CO in iron refining
what i am wondering about is the buffering of seasonal insolation of an H2 plant for on site consumption (ammonia factory), it doesn't seem hard to store a day's production but you might need to buffer a month or two of production if you want to keep the (expensive) factory running all winter
Question for people who regularly use alt text. How would you prefer someone to describe the relative size of something, like the core of a galaxy compared to the total galaxy, or an area of an abstract painting?
Should the description be something like: "one-ninth the size of the total frame", or "no larger than an enclosed fist held up to a large screen", or something else?
@kellylepo I stick to describing the image in alt text; when I post sports photographs for instance, I will say in the body of the toot who the pictures athletes are, who won the game, etc. In the alt text I'll say "there is a woman in a red shirt with the white number 20" If she "takes up 30% of the frame" that's not her attribute but a matter of how I composed the photo and if I want someone to "see" what they can't see that's what I can do. (See my "media")
@khalidabuhakmeh how? i tried making okonomiyaki in a pan after seeing it cooked in Cardcaptor Sakura and it didn’t come out so good. I know good okonomiyaki restaurants in San Francisco, NYC (close to where I met Gus Hall at the CPUSA headquarters) and Montreal and also a few places in LA that advertise having it but don’t really make it.
About once a month or so, someone in my feed will come up with the idea to create a website that serves as a human-curated directory of the web and I'm like, ah we have reached full circle. We're now reinventing the Open Directory Project.
(Which I think is a good idea, but it's interesting to see people come back to this idea over and over again).
@zalasur (1) where are the little ones aimed at particular domains? (2) what would it take for directories to succeed today? and (3) wasn't ODP killed by corruption? (e.g. SEO spammers got many of the editor slots, the others didn't stay active)
@rasterweb No, there are two kinds of companies you can work for: (1) ones that have a business plan that makes sense (no struggle w/ positioning) and (2) ones where the business plan doesn't make sense (may or may not have problem w/ positioning; I mean Uber spent $25B on "half-priced taxi rides" which is a popular position to have, it's just questionable that there is any business left when the music stops.)
Tomorrow I'm teaching this paper https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2022.0029 about how probably every civilization on every planet marches faster and faster toward burnout, UNLESS they realize that collapse is coming and radically restructure.
This is a possible solution to the Fermi Paradox: most civilizations don't last long, and the ones that do are undetectable: "A sufficiently advanced civilization is indistinguishable from Nature."
Welp, my mind is totally blown for the day. Time to go snuggle some animals.
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