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richard

@richard@noctalgia.space

Johns Hopkins alum. Book collector. #HiRes audiophile. Passionate about #ecology and following shared interests. Posting new non-fiction, scholarly or otherwise. Inspired by the night sky. Interested in the latest research and readings in #astronomy. Fan of all things #StarTrek. Also a fan of #Babylon5, #TheOrville, #BattlestarGalactica, #Foundation, and #ForAllMankind. Avid reader, mostly non-fiction, but also #TrekBooks / #TrekLit.

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I imagine it is very unlikely they have comfortable exotic contact lenses in the 60s.

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In The Autobiography of James Kirk, there is much more elaboration on Kirk's relationship with Gary Mitchell.

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Love sonnets. Of course.

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This Voyager episode is a classic reason why you have to separate the art from the artist.

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And the Worf becomes part of the House of Martok and then Ambassador and Kurn misses out on ALL of it!

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Odo going godfather, “you’ll find I’m a man who collects on his debts”

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Typical relationship, fighting

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If anyone can prove Riker is guilty it is Data. I wonder if they filmed this with the intention of fooling the viewers into thinking he was guilty.

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"I'm not a man and I can do anything!" - and Charlie doesn't even have orange skin...

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"Gotta slap the floor" Kirk-Fu in action.

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"Lute O'Chapel"

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"Take this free kid"

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Our solar system map may need an update — the Kuiper belt could be way bigger

https://www.space.com/solar-system-map-kuiper-belt-extended-new-horizons-nasa

"[N]ew findings from New Horizons threaten to upend much of what we thought we knew about the outer solar system to begin with. ' New Horizons is making the first direct measurements of interplanetary dust far beyond Neptune and Pluto, so every observation could lead to a discovery,' astronomer Alex Doner of the University of Colorado"

richard, to fountainpens
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I want to apologize ahead of time, because over the next two weeks I am going to be posting posts, out of necessity. I've budgeted for next paycheck and am very short. I will be posting items for sale until they are gone. Two (images to come later), Sailor Pro Gear Fountain Pen - Imperial Black, and, LAMY 2000 Fountain Pen, as well as an older in perfect condition, but I still have to find out the year (images later). Sorry for the sales ads in advance!

richard,
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@paradoxmo You must have 100 comment "karma" to post there. I am not a reddit user, so I do not fit those silly rules.

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@paradoxmo I have no interest in being a reddit user.

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One thing that sucks about being so broken and a vector of domination rather that cooperation is that, in the best case, they can be skillshares as much as anything else. In some code reviews I have given and received, I have taught and learned how to do things that I or the other person wished they knew how to do, but didnt.

That literally cant happen in the traditional model of review, where reviews are strict, terse, and noninteractive. Traditional review also happens way too late, when all the projected work is done. Collaborative, open, early review literally inverts the dreaded "damn reviewers want us to do infinity more experiments" dynamic. Instead, wouldnt it be lovely if during or even before you do an experiment, having a designated person to be like "hey have you thought about doing it this way? If not i can show you how"

The adversarial system forces you into a position where you have to defend your approach as The Correct One and any change in your Genius Tier experimental design must be only to validate the basic findings of the original design. Reviewers cannot be considered as collaborators, and thus have little incentive to review with any other spirit than "gatekeeper of science."

If instead we adopted some lessons from open source and thought of some parts of reviews as "pull requests" - where fixing a bug is somewhat the responsibility of the person who thinks it should be done differently, but then they also get credit for that work in the same way that the original authors do, we could
a) share techniques and knowledge between labs in a more systematic way,
b) have better outcomes from moving beyond the sole genius model of science,
c) avoid a ton of experimental waste from either unnecessary extra experiments or improperly done original experiments,
d) build a system of reviewing that actually rewards reviewers for being collegial and cooperative

edit: to be super clear here i know i am not saying anything new, just reflecting on it as i am doing an open review

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@jonny Javascript is "hype." Thank you. I took a class on javascript back in the day and I hated it. I was not impressed. That being said, I hated PHP, too, but at least I could respect that.

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@thunderbird Hi. I lost Jason's email or I wouldn't bother you here. Are you getting reports of Thunderbird using extremely large amounts of RAM recently, like the last week or two all the sudden? It may be a separate issue as I just added a new, large backup drive so that may be it, but it is only Thunderbird that is using the intense amount of RAM. Like, more than I have. It is really mysterious.

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@thunderbird It's probably my fault. After all I have 5 backup drives connected to my iMac, including an 18 TB backup drive on top of the others, and only 8 GB of memory on my iMac. It seems likely that may cause some problems. Why it is picking Thunderbird to cause problems I do not know.

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Two predictions on the next coming years:

Unpopular opinion: people are going to be surprised by how many jobs *don’t get taken over by

Popularish opinion: people are going to be surprised by how fast becomes a major factor in everyday life

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Climate change has brought forward the flowering period in Doñana National Park by 22 days

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1034665

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@jonny I thought I would ask you as I bet you will remember this and I am having a hard time describing it. Do you remember that tablet that was taking pre-orders on their website, but they never shipped, the tablets were never produced and it turned out all their claims were lies? It was a tablet with a wall/background that you could scroll through for infinity and place apps and folders miles apart. It was all a lie, even though they had demo videos. Know what I am talking about?

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@jonny I think it was 2010 or 2011.

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@jonny It was new company that was introducing a new tablet that could do what no other tablet could do, endless scrolling through the background wall/OS platform. Lots of people were saying it wasn't possible, but they were getting thousands of pre-orders. I was almost one of them. I think the background was a graph that just went on forever. I do think they did try to get refunds to people, but the product was never released and the company vanished.

richard, to conservative
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Reforestation programs could threaten vast area of tropical grasslands

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1034016

"A study published in the journal Science reveals that an area the size of France is under threat by forest restoration initiatives due to inappropriate restoration in the form of tree-planting."

"They warn that planting trees in these grassy areas [..] could be a risk to wildlife such as rhinos and wildebeest, as well as people who depend on these ."

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