Once again the news and social media are full of stuff about an upcoming #SuperMoon .
🌕 The #Moon's orbit around the Earth is elliptical. Sometimes it's a bit closer and thus looks a tad bigger, but the difference is barely noticeable. It's not even remotely close to "super".
The Moon is always pretty, there's no need to wait for fabricated "events" to look up and enjoy it!
@astro_jcm I wonder if there's not a perceptive difference at play too.
Ask anyone to draw the sun or the moon, and they'll greatly overestimate the actual size (or, reverse, on photos the sun and moon look tiny). This perception is a well known and studied effect.
Maybe our brains greatly exaggerate a difference in size and luminosity too? So that we perceive it as 'much bigger and brighter' than the actual measured difference?
My point is that our brains distort the size of the actual moon very much. And that this distortion may amplify the relative size of a "supermoon" significantly. In your mind.
“0.5% of Dutch cyclists wear helmets, and that’s really just sport cyclists.
They’ve ultimately decided that it’s far more important to build this culture of everyday cycling, and to build safe streets, instead of requiring people to protect themselves.”
I've been doing #python these last days. And I hate it.
Runtime and env management is just as bad as Ruby. Dependency management is even worse than Ruby's.
No brackets, but indentation, means all the bracket pair features in vim, hardwired in my brain, don't work. Auto indentation isn't possible, bc brackets to derive the indentation from isn't there.
Aligning chained methods, large argument or param lists a pain, bc the indentation changes the meaning.
foo.bar() <> foo
.bar()
@zenforyen@Stark9837@Python It baffled me that there was no lockfile. But even with a lockfile, it still sucks compared to statically compiled into a binary like with Java, Go or Rust.
If you grab a Ruby, Python or JS project, with lockfile, 5 years from now, could well be that the package server is gone, a package yanked or the runtime unavailable. But if you grab a rust binary, it will run. Today, or in 15 years.
Hey #webdev. If you replace the "select" item with some fancy client side thing please think again.
Todays gripe: a select list that doesn't go to "The Netherlands" when I type T (And it's already always a random guess if I need N, T, or D for Dutch).
But having to scroll through 250+ countries sucks even more.
Just use the fucking select-field. It may not look as fancy, but at least it always fucking works #rant.
This makes me so angry. If we are to have any chance of surviving as a society beyond 2050, we need to dramatically reduce our car use. This means a massive modal shift to public transport. So what are NS doing to help this? Hiking prices, and taking actions to disincentivise travel. "Most of the day we're moving air" no you're moving people. You're providing a service. Public transport is there to transport the public. We need more of it. And it needs to be cheaper.
E.g. my cities' station (Nijmegen) simply cannot handle more trains without the tracks layout getting an overhaul. This is work in progress, but a giant, multi-year task.
Only once that's done, can the frequency of trains to north go up. Those are the trains that go via Utrecht. So, many trains from Utrecht cannot up the frequency: Nijmegen is a bottleneck for a large part of NL. There are many such bottlenecks. All being worked on already.
Blaming private car ownership for greenhouse gases is at best misdirection. It reminds me a lot of the war on plastic straws.
Yes, obviously it contributes a lot.
However, commercial and industrial sources (especially power protection and industry) far outweigh private transportation (which on this graph is a part of the green wedge; which contains private and commercial transportation).
@thomasfuchs and, as always the obligatory question:
Who buys the stuff that "industrial sources" make?
"Industry" has but one goal: to make money. And but one means to do that "sell stuff to people".
I'm not sure why you post this, but the message it radiates is that "climate crisis is not people's fault, but the industry's". Which is both untrue and unhelpful. Consumers buy stuff. Which is why it's made. Which emits greenhouse gases.
@thomasfuchs@Aranjedeath a very small fraction though. Although maybe in the military it's used more, idk.
AVgas (ll and vll) is only for piston engines and then only a subset of these engines. Many use UL.
So probably the firefighter planes, or these crop sprayers. But not that millardairs turboprop. And certainly not that Airbus A380 that flew you, or your flowers to new York (which is by large and far, the biggest greenhouse gases contributor)
I'm using Ghost's blog software for my website. The only integrated option for the native #newsletter tool is #Mailgun.
Sadly, I don't have the know-how to run my own bulk mail server.
Do I best stick with Mailgun or do I go for option two, use a Czech-based #Zapier alternative (Make) that integrates with a German-hosted newsletter service? Or a 3rd option?
@AimeeMaroux I wouldn't opt for selfhosting an email server. Deliverability is probably the most important feature for a mailinglist. And selfhosting is almost a guarantee for many mails to be blacklisted, caught in spamfilters or get blocked.
You could opt for a delivery service in the EU indeed. But in all cases, I would suggest you weigh delivery against all other "features".
Also, if you need any hands on help, feel free to DM me. I can help you wire up stuff, or migrate data if you need.
Why is there no syntax=python or somesuch attribute on the <pre> and <code> #HTML tags?
Now we're all loading in highlight.js, prisma.js, chroma or whatever library to generate often completely inaccessible tagsoup. Just to have syntax highlighting. Shouldn't that be the task of the browser/client? With maybe some CSS when webdevs insist on controlling the syntax highlighting theme.
Twitter changing their name to “X” is pretty funny, in a “oh god what the hell” sort of way.
If only because in France, generally what we call “X” is… porn. Also way to completely ditch all brand power, history and recognizability for no reason 😂
Do they really think someone who didn’t download Twitter before has even a single chance to download “the X app”??
A friend of mine is thinking about starting a single-user instance. I think Masto might be too much for their needs. Any recommendations for Fediverse instance alternatives?
@kytta@kev additional caution: some features still missing. E.g. polls.
I've been running it for quite a while. Very low in resources, runs fine on a single tiny linode.
Only some additional storage was needed: all the images of stuff I follow is copied local (and purged after a while).
It's truly hands off. Installed it (with Ansible) once, and check back maybe once a month. Installation was very easy (and I say that as long term Ruby/rails DevOps) due to it being in golang.
