nick_appleyard

@nick_appleyard@mastodonapp.uk

What is space for? 🛰️ 🚀 Still European 🇪🇺🇬🇧 Climate affirmer 🌍 Start: 322.6ppm. He/him 👔

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ai6yr, to python

"A series of tutorial videos on how to access the Sentinel Hub APIs in your Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem Jupyter Lab using Python. Learn how to configure your credentials, search and discover Sentinel-2 L2A imagery and how to visualise them afterwards. Lastly, the videos also show you how to create time series analyses derived from the same data." https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj4KwRQTBlPL3CVwpaBXl3VrO0_V3VX_Q

nick_appleyard,

@ai6yr we are looking forwards to Slovenia, home of Sentinel Hub, becoming a Member a state of European Space Agency in 2024!

pvonhellermannn, to random
@pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green avatar

Does anyone have any advice here on how to make your Mastodon less eurocentric? I do regular searches, follow people from outside Europe/US whenever I come across them, etc, but it’s quite slow, hard work. I was wondering whether there is a more strategic way - ie is there a list of instances that are not Europe/US based, and from which I could follow one person each or something? Not interested in changing my own instance, just to get more global connections.

nick_appleyard,

@pvonhellermannn
Time zones? At different times of day you see people from different longitudes. My middle of the night friends are in Australia.

cstross, to random
@cstross@wandering.shop avatar

NO FUCK OFF GET AWAY FROM ME YOU CREEP— https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/ai-comes-for-your-pcs-keyboard-as-microsoft-adds-dedicated-copilot-key/

nick_appleyard,

@cstross

Always the first question for any new HW or SW "feature": how do I disable this?

glynmoody, to random
@glynmoody@mastodon.social avatar

Big five oil companies to reward shareholders with record payouts - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/01/oil-companies-shareholders-payouts-bp-shell-chevron-exxonmobil-totalenergies just beyond disgusting and immoral...

nick_appleyard,

@glynmoody

I came here to say this but @AliceBHarrison said it better:

“Yet again millions of families won’t be able to afford to heat their homes this winter, and countries around the world will continue to suffer the extreme weather events of climate collapse. This is the fossil fuel economy, and it’s rigged in favour of the rich.”

vicgrinberg, to random
@vicgrinberg@mastodon.social avatar

Today & tomorrow I will be attempting to bring myself to inbox 0 before I go on leave (I am usually and inbox 13 person).

One email will move into the private inbox (since it's more of a private question), but let's see what we'll manage with the rest ...

nick_appleyard,

@vicgrinberg
I usually issue a 1 week warning that time is running out to move your inbox into other people’s inboxes.

markmccaughrean, (edited ) to random
@markmccaughrean@mastodon.social avatar

Fellow nerds: I have the nasty feeling I’m going to be embarrassed when one of you tells me why this equation is printed on the back of the timer I just bought 😬

Or is it just a branding thing? 🧐

nick_appleyard,

@markmccaughrean
I think the ~ belongs with the 250V, meaning 250V AC.
Suggest that cos phi = 1 means that its rating assumes a resistive load. A reactive load (with a phase difference between current and voltage) would draw more current per power and that’s stressy for components in the line.
The mu I can’t explain though. None of the usual mu things make sense (magnetic permeability, coefficient of friction, electron mobility, statistical average…?!) I’m stumped on that.

ZachWeinersmith, to random
@ZachWeinersmith@mastodon.social avatar

Have you noticed that people are taking weekends seriously? I used to be able to get responses on weekends and now I barely do. It's the greatest development in the history of email and we should never go back.

nick_appleyard,

@ZachWeinersmith You are still looking for responses on weekends?

evan, (edited ) to random
@evan@cosocial.ca avatar

Which of these items belonging to a romantic partner is it OK to borrow and use? Choose all that apply.

nick_appleyard,

@evan
I tried to vote but it won’t let me without selecting something.

parismarx, (edited ) to random
@parismarx@mastodon.online avatar

so the dude is richer than humanly imaginable and basically just wants to be a robot, but since he can’t merge with AI he’s decided to create a restrictive “algorithm” to ensure he lives a joyless life that’s as machine-like as possible

https://time.com/6315607/bryan-johnsons-quest-for-immortality/

nick_appleyard,

@parismarx

Whenever I see someone profiled in Time I ask myself: how did this person come to be profiled in Time?

The answer is usually sufficiently depressing that I don’t finish the article.

As in this case.

absamma, to space
@absamma@toolsforthought.rocks avatar

The US has issued its first fine for space junk to a company: Dish Network inc. We need this framework in place or we will lose access to space.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66993647

nick_appleyard,

@absamma

Related: FCC issued this fine 5 years ago for launching satellites without a license. A particular problem was that these were so small they were hard to track by radar. Plenty big enough to cause damage though.

https://spacenews.com/fcc-fines-swarm-900000-for-unauthorized-smallsat-launch/

AstroKatie, to random
@AstroKatie@mastodon.social avatar

Have you heard about JWST seeing galaxies that shouldn’t exist? There’s more to that story!

My latest for BBC Science Focus: https://www.sciencefocus.com/comment/james-webb-space-telescope-ancient-galaxies

nick_appleyard,

@AstroKatie

Noting the caveats about the observations, if this does mess up the cosmological age/distance curve then what are the implications?
Is dark energy then trashed, for example?

nick_appleyard,

@AstroKatie or maybe it’s a Hubble Bubble?

No idea whether that explains anything, I just enjoyed typing it.

clive, to random
@clive@saturation.social avatar

"Let's Stop Calling It 'Content''

I first starting noticing the word "content" in the late 90s

Companies looking to put writing, animation, video or art on their web sites would call it "content"

It flattened innumerable forms of culture into a sort of goo, extruded from a tube

25 years on, the term "content" has metastasized, eating whole the way many people talk about -- think about -- culture.

Let's stop now

My essay: https://clivethompson.medium.com/lets-stop-calling-it-content-8410bf5f94a9

A free link: https://clivethompson.medium.com/lets-stop-calling-it-content-8410bf5f94a9?sk=7a2668c44c31a4359876cfcd25a5f2d0

nick_appleyard,

@clive @tim

Oh “design” is a huge, flabby, inchoate word which has the extraordinary property of having quite precisely defined sub-categories (called “design” and “design”) which are entirely separate from each other.
It’s a brilliant word for constructive ambiguity!

See also “sustainability”.

nick_appleyard,

@clive

“Content” says you are looking at things from the perspective of the container, not of the contained.

beaveinflow, to random

Someone tried explaining NFTs to me and now my headache has a headache.

nick_appleyard,

@beaveinflow

Hey you, like, you had to BE there, man.

aral, to random
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

The fuck kind of headline is that, The Independent?

“OLD Biden has told Zelensky US will give Ukraine long-coveted ATACMS long-range missiles, report says”

https://www.inkl.com/a/WMRGyqcygzy

nick_appleyard,

@aral
This was an “old” draft and the final version was published 20 minutes later. But it shouldn’t be up on the live website.

https://www.inkl.com/news/biden-has-told-zelensky-us-will-give-ukraine-long-coveted-atacms-long-range-missiles-report-says-d050b76b-fe05-4bc3-94f9-1dbaaa91dd02

futurebird, to random
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

A new study has found a terrible bottleneck in human ancestors about 900k years ago. There were as few as 1000 individuals left ... if this is verified further there was a time when we almost didn't make it.

https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.adj9484?casa_token=VS5dMv1ze_YAAAAA:v_FMiEjYJUA2-lPfVrsCOG4Lmaz039L-TwYp2grgDR3NQegiogx55LWUx2hkI9yF_laj_HLllS7S

nick_appleyard,

@futurebird

So this happened just after One Million Years BC?

I have a theory…

craiggrannell, to random
@craiggrannell@mastodon.social avatar

No offence, Dover folks, but I’m not sure that is the solution to avoiding long queues that now occur because the UK left the EU.

nick_appleyard,

@craiggrannell

spaceflight, to space
@spaceflight@techhub.social avatar

📆 Sept. 4, 2022 "Two in the belt between and 🪐 have more , and than exists on . Ultimately these products could be not only ⛏️ but also in , reducing of both the and on " https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-09-04/commercialization-space-earth

"Both have surfaces with 85% such as iron and nickel and 15% silicate material, which is basically " https://news.arizona.edu/story/mini-psyches-give-insights-mysterious-metal-rich-near-earth-asteroids

Picture: on https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prototype-d%27excavateur-de-la-NASA--RASSOR.jpg

nick_appleyard,

@spaceflight

“A NASA study, which looks further afield, supports that the total value of minerals within the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter could be worth an astronomical $700 quintillion”

That is simply not how economics works. “Worth” implies scarcity. Even accepting all the other valuable comments on this thread saying why this is a bad idea, if you were to make available that much nickel and iron and whatnot, what would happen is that nickel and iron become free. 🤷‍♂️

nick_appleyard,

@spaceflight
I mean price = $0.

nick_appleyard,

@spaceflight which would not be worth paying to retrieve more of a commodity which is already plentiful.

ppatel, to random
@ppatel@mstdn.social avatar

You know how X, the site formerly known as Twitter, can't collect your biometric data or other data?

  1. Don't login to the site in any way whatsoever.

  2. Delete your account if you still have it.

  3. Delete the hidden account that you didn't think we knew about.

  4. If you still have your Twitter app installed on any of your devices, delete that too.

  5. Don't be tempted to create a new account.

nick_appleyard,

@ppatel
Done.

TechDesk, to ai
@TechDesk@flipboard.social avatar

A new study claims ChatGPT achieved 72 percent accuracy in overall clinical decision making when reviewing textbook-drawn case studies. Researchers boast the chatbot offered a list of possible initial diagnoses through to final diagnoses and options for treatment. However, medical professionals remain skeptical about its use in a clinical setting at this time.

https://flip.it/ziDVXg

nick_appleyard,

@TechDesk

Reasons not to use Large Language Models for anything involving facts .

josh, to random
@josh@fediscience.org avatar

Today's example of why I don't fear AI or Internet-driven cheating in my classes.

https://www.google.com/search?q=country+in+africa+that+starts+with+the+letter+k

nick_appleyard,

@josh

Reasons not to use Large Language Models for anything involving facts .

Edent, to random
@Edent@mastodon.social avatar

OK, I am properly stumped by this James Bond quiz question in the BEANO!

nick_appleyard,

@Edent

https://whatculture.com/film/11-things-you-learn-rewatching-a-view-to-a-kill?page=8

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