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futurebird

@futurebird@sauropods.win

pro-ant propaganda, building electronics, writing sci-fi teaching mathematics & CS. I live in NYC.

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NanoRaptor, to random
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The one true USB3 connector.

futurebird,
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@NanoRaptor

EW can you imagine the footprint of this beast on your PCB? Mad that you have to make space for a headphone jack on your board in Eagle? Look at this and weep. Might as well just go home and not make a gadget at all.

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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Tulip, the ant says hi!

futurebird,
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@llewelly

She's probably like a person who was abducted by aliens and her sisters are just not buying her stories about "other worlds outside of the sky" and "a place with infinite sugar" or "giant monsters that paint dots on you while you are sleeping"

futurebird,
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Aw jeez Tulip has started this futile “digging project” in the corner and roped a bunch of minors in to help. Sometimes it’s like she knows there is a “world beyond” and can’t help looking for a way back— like a child who once saw Narnia who, as an adult, keeps climbing into cabinets … just in case.

Landa,
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@futurebird seems like she shares some experiences with the guy in this engraving:

😁
@llewelly

futurebird,
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@Landa @llewelly

I think that's exactly what she's dealing with. There is a a whole other place... it was dangerous and huge... but how to get there again?

futurebird, to random
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Homo naledi is the most interesting new human like primate. They are from South Africa, little people. walked upright, but primates walking upright goes way back.

They had hands just like modern humans but longish arms and powerful shoulders ... so they could probably zip up a tree.

They have small brains half modern size. This has made people astonished that they may have had fire.

I'm glad I'll never meet one, a smart little firebug with powerful arms sounds terrifying. 1/

anilmc,
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@futurebird https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-are-living-in-the-pyrocene-at-our-peril/

llewelly,
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@futurebird there are 3 species of birds, the black kite (Milvus migrans), whistling kite (Haliastur sphenurus), and the brown falcon (Falco berigora), which are known to deliberately pick up burning branches, fly some distance, and spread them about to start new fires:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/wildfires-birds-animals-australia

lukito, to random
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I’m curious, northern hemisphere folk. If you were able to see Aurora Borealis last night:

  • Was this your first time?
  • How far ‘south’ are you (roughly - I’m not in the business of doxxing you)?
  • How old are you (again, be as vague as you feel)?

Please do reply and boost. I get the sense that there were a lot of first-timers and a feeling of shared awe last night and I’d love to know just how far that was felt :neofox_heart:

ElleGray, to random
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Wow he's going to be tired but good for him

sollat, to Cats
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Happy morning, West Coast!

yurnidiot, to Dogs
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captain of the S.S. WHARRGARBL catching some waves

dog with its head in the water over the side of a boat as the boat is moving

futurebird, to random
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Its always remarkable to me to think about Descartes and Galileo being contemporaries: so we know how the former reacted when the latter was imprisoned:

“I inquired in Leiden and Amsterdam whether Galileo’s World System was available, … I was told that it had indeed been published but that all the copies had immediately been burnt at Rome, and that Galileo had been convicted and fined. I was so astonished at this that I almost decided to burn all my papers … .”

18+ rubinjoni,
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@futurebird I was cursed with seeing this output, and now I only think of him doing power squats...
https://beige.party/@Kierkegaanks/112393999941333175

Wolfie_Rankin, to random
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Here's today's serving of bollocks.

futurebird,
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@Wolfie_Rankin

All these people scared and mad about being put in a pod and having to eat bugs but we got fools out here already saying water equal nutritious fruits and vegetables.

You don't need plants to eat! Drink your electric water that does nothing.

fulelo, (edited ) to climate
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V WaPo:
Why you should let your grass grow
https://wapo.st/3wtRxhO
#Climate
#GiftLink #NoPaywall

alexwild, to Texas
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Austin is paying up to $3000 in rebates to homeowners who replace grass lawn with low-water alternatives.

https://www.austintexas.gov/news/austin-waters-waterwise-landscape-rebate-program-helps-residents-save-money-and-conserve-water

futurebird, to random
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Has anyone read any good math and science history nonfiction books recently? (pop nonfiction please) Are there any really good ones out?

kimlockhartga,
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@futurebird there's only one book anywhere close to your quest which I've read this year. It's about the problems which have been plaguing us for decades in astrophysics, and how anomalies actually help in finding solutions.

It's called SPACE ODDITIES: THE MYSTERIOUS ANOMALIES CHALLENGING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE UNIVERSE, by Harry Cliff.

I found it to be well-written, engaging, and smoothly presented.

kottke, to random
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Seabike is an “underwater mobility device” that can propel you through the water at “superhuman speed”. You pedal with your feet, driving a small propellor. https://newatlas.com/marine/seabike-swimming-propeller/

tedfolkman, to random
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We could not make the bed this morning ... early #caturday

futurebird, to random
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I love the fedi only more for being the only place I know full of exasperated FORTRAN defenders. How can we insult the original word? Yea, when it was first written we were not yet even born! 🥰

futurebird,
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The ancients walk among us even now and boy are they cranky.

18+ futurebird, to random
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I have a list of 3 python objects w/ 4 attributes. If exactly 2 are identical (not all 3, not none) I want to return False.

mylist=[ob1, obj2, obj3]

if len(set([x.attribute1 for x in mylist]))==2:
return False
if len(set([x.attribute2 for x in mylist]))==2:
return False
if len(set([x.attribute3 for x in mylist]))==2:
return False
if len(set([x.attribute4 for x in mylist]))==2:
return False
return True

feels clunky. what am i missing?

(can you guess what card game?)

18+ Alon,
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@futurebird Can you transform the attributes from strings to numbers? Then three cards form a set iff they sum to 0 in (Z/3Z)^4.

futurebird, to random
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Thicc Descartes isn’t real and he can’t hurt me.

…

Sharksonaplane,
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@futurebird @ptmesis he thicc, therefore…

irizoris, to random
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@futurebird Brood XIX cicada and ants at my Nashville bus stop this morning

Cicada and ants

MichaelTBacon,
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@futurebird @irizoris I don't know of any rigorous work on it, but I assume the basic eco-evolutionary theory on why the broods come out so rarely and in such numbers is the same as trees masting—that the sheer abundance of a prey species all at once and not that often just overwhelms the predator ability to consume, so that even though it's a feeding bonanza more cicadas get to mate and reproduce than get eaten?

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