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sohkamyung

@sohkamyung@mstdn.io

Exploring one universe at a time.
Interested in #Nature, #Photography, #NaturePhotography, #Science, #ScienceFiction, #Physics, #Engineering.

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sohkamyung, to space
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Should be a fun read. Book by Kelly and @ZachWeinersmith

"Blending in history, law, and psychology alongside the hard sciences, the book gives a frank and honest summary of the field. It could have been the research notes for an Ursula K. Le Guin, or a James S. A. Corey story, except that it’s filled with jokes, palette cleansing anecdotes and charming cartoon illustrations."

https://astrobites.org/2023/10/31/book-review-a-city-on-mars-by-kelly-and-zach-weinersmith/

cydonian, to random
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Was reminded of these notes that I scribbled in Spanish class when I was studying in Barcelona.

sohkamyung,
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@cydonian Inconceivable! 🙂

david, to random
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Today we’re going on a boat. This boat to be precise, out to Maria Island.

sohkamyung,
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@david Nice. It might interest @vickyveritas

Sheril, to science
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A woman. An immigrant. A scientist.
A Nobel Prize winner. And thanks to her pioneering research, a #COVID19 vaccine.

Dr. Katalin Karikó. https://www.statnews.com/2020/11/10/the-story-of-mrna-how-a-once-dismissed-idea-became-a-leading-technology-in-the-covid-vaccine-race/ #HistoryRemix #science #history

sohkamyung,
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@Sheril And she's just published a memoir.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/706251/breaking-through-by-katalin-kariko/

@liztai

liztai, to random
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@loke they probably thought our trains have holes on the floors for toilets

sohkamyung,
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@jannem Some people apparently never learned their history. Back when the Apollo moon programme was in progress, there were also protestors with the same message ("Feed the poor instead of going to the moon").

https://www.history.com/news/apollo-11-moon-landing-launch-protests

@loke @liztai

liztai, to Youtube
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I'm starting to wonder if "Kuala Lumpur is not what I expected!" is some kind SEO hack. 😆

I mean it's nice & cute that they are so amazed we are so modern, green and developed, but after a while I wonder if people are actually exaggerating for clicks.

yeah, I'm cynical lol

PS: The latest video I'm watching - the Youtubers were SO AMAZED our trains have....
toilets.

Okay then.

sohkamyung,
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@ubi When I visit a pasar malam in Singapore, one of the stalls I look for are those selling Ramly Burgers. 🙂

@liztai

sohkamyung,
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@ubi The patty is locally sourced and not from Malaysia, apparently.

Info from this article [ https://goodyfeed.com/10-facts-about-ramly-burgers-coz-the-spore-version-is-different-from-the-msia-version/ ].

@liztai

loke, to random
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I remember back in the olden days, when building the Linux kernel we ran make config and went through all the questions, answering yes/no on each one depending on how you wanted to have your kernel configured. Then we ran make to build it.

At some point, when the number of options had grown to make this a bit of a hassle, make menuconfig and make xconfig were introduced, making the process a bit faster.

I haven't built a kernel in a long time (decades?) and I wonder if make config still exists, and if so, how many questions do you have to answer if you were to use it?

sohkamyung,
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@loke I recall doing make config in the old days when I needed to build and include a graphics driver in a linux kernel: I think it was in the days before kernel loadable modules.

Haven't touched the linux config system in many years, but I now find myself using menuconfig again, but not in the context of the linux kernel. Espressif's ESP-IDF system uses menuconfig to build applications for the ESP32 MCUs.

https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-idf/en/latest/esp32/api-guides/build-system.html

sohkamyung, to nature
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"Soham Bhattacharyya has been named overall winner of this year's Mangrove Photography Awards, for his image of an endangered tigress in the Sundarbans Biosphere Reserve, India."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-67155632

#Images #Mangroves #Nature #Photography #MangrovePhotographyAwards2023

sohkamyung, to singapore
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"SINGAPORE – At an ageing block of rental flats in Queenstown, Aiden the robot works as a “butler”. Somewhat resembling a photocopier machine, it has been roped in to deliver meals to a group of frail seniors living in rental flats, under an existing programme that allows them to live independently."

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/robot-butler-trial-launched-at-hdb-rental-block-delivering-meals-to-home-bound-seniors

gregeganSF, to random
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Enjoying “An Immense World” by Ed Yong, on animal senses. I think I heard once before that scallops have up to 200 eyes with mirrors made from guanine crystals, but failed to be sufficiently amazed at the time, so I’m glad to have been reminded.

sohkamyung,
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@gregeganSF I've been reading @edyong209 articles on The Atlantic for ages, before he left the newspaper.

Sorry to inject American politics into this post, but I believe his assessment of how Trump would react to a global pandemic was accurate: and it was written a year (or more) before COVID-19 hit.

His stories on The Atlantic [ https://www.theatlantic.com/author/ed-yong/ ]

matt, to random
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Nilay teasing that The Verge is going to move to WordPress and could federate their continent with ActivityPub thanks to WP’s new plugin.

Excellent 💪

https://overcast.fm/+QN1pUGKrI/40:29

video/mp4

sohkamyung,
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@matt I didn't know The Verge has become so big, it is now a continent. 🙂

Deus, (edited ) to photography
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Friend shared this. Asked her to send the file so you fine folks can zoom-in and enjoy it in all its glory.

Location: ,

sohkamyung,
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@Deus Nice. An Oleander Hawk-moth (Daphnis nerii).

@ubi

sohkamyung, to technology
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"[Y]ou will almost certainly leave behind digital traces. Almost everyone who uses technology today is subject to “datafication”: the recording, analysis, and archiving of our everyday activities as digital data. And the intended or unintended consequences of how we use data while we’re living has implications for every one of us after we die."

https://spectrum.ieee.org/digital-afterlife

sohkamyung,
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@mansr Sorry, I never watched Black Mirror.

sohkamyung, to singapore
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Nice.

"SINGAPORE – The rare Raffles’ banded langur is slowly bouncing back from the brink of extinction and its numbers are likely to double from 75 to more than 150 in the next 15 years, said experts."

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/environment/once-nearly-extinct-rare-raffles-banded-langur-numbers-in-s-pore-set-to-double-to-150-by-2038

Study at [ (PDF) https://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/RBZ-2023-0041.pdf ]

sohkamyung, to singapore
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Ugh. Today's air quality map shows fire hot spots. Forecast is for hazy conditions.

BrentToderian, to random
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Never forget that when Seoul, Korea removed the Cheonggyecheon expressway in 2003 and replaced it with a restored stream, 1000 acre park and improved transit, not only did it transform the city’s public life & economic success, but the traffic got better.

The traffic got BETTER.

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sohkamyung,
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@BrentToderian A search got me this paywalled research article about the effects of removing the highway.

"Whereas travel speed declined and traffic volume increased immediately after the construction work, the number of subway passengers increased and the number of road trips decreased simultaneously. This implies that travelers change their behavior patterns and are self-compliant, even in response to major travel disturbances."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0967070X12000108

@maxeddy

skinnylatte, (edited ) to Recipes
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How to make Singapore / Malaysia-style soft-boiled eggs for breakfast:

  • Bring pot of water to a rolling boil
  • Turn off the heat
  • Take eggs out from fridge, drop them gently into the pot
  • Cover
  • Let it steep in this hot water for 6-7 min (small/medium eggs straight from the fridge), 8-11 min for large eggs
  • Crack into bowl, add white pepper and light soy sauce

It's supposed to be v runny. Add a min if you don't like runny eggs; reduce a min if eggs are room temp

sohkamyung,
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@skinnylatte I remember buying a 'gadget' to make soft boiled eggs in Singapore.

It's basically a container with a hole at the bottom. You put in eggs, pour boiling water and by the time the water drains out, the eggs are soft boiled.

I may have a picture of it somewhere...

sohkamyung, to physics
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Maybe not practical, but interesting. Compressing boson molecules in a container, then letting them expand by turning them into fermions.

"Instead of heat, this proof-of-principle microscopic engine runs on the energy difference associated with the statistical properties of quantum matter."

https://physicsworld.com/a/no-heat-quantum-engine-makes-its-debut/

@gregeganSF @johncarlosbaez

TheSpaceshipper, to random
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Now watching

sohkamyung,
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@TheSpaceshipper How many 'A's are there in "Khaaaan!" for you? 🙂

skinnylatte, to singapore
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The abandoned buildings of Tanglin Halt (everyone got moved to Margaret Drive, these apartments, some of the oldest public housing projects we've got, will be torn down. These 10-12 floor buildings will be replaced with probably 50 storey apartments). I grew up around this neighbourhood

(Yashica 124G, Portra 400, dev and scan by Whampoa Colour Centre, Singapore)

sohkamyung,
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@skinnylatte Remember Singapore is a wonderful website that posts about historical sites in Singapore. Here's one they did on Tanglin Halt.

https://remembersingapore.org/2022/10/24/tanglin-halt-sers-redevelopment/

sohkamyung, to books
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Such wonderful timing. A memoir by Katalin Karikó, who just won the Nobel Prize, to be out soon.

"Breaking Through isn’t just the story of an extraordinary woman. It’s an indictment of closed-minded thinking and a testament to one woman’s commitment to laboring intensely in obscurity [...] because she believed her work would save lives."

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/706251/breaking-through-by-katalin-kariko/

sohkamyung, to Medicine
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"Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman have been awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries leading to mRNA vaccines, such as those that protect against Covid-19."

https://www.quantamagazine.org/covid-19-mrna-vaccines-win-nobel-prize-for-medicine-2023-20231002/

sjvn, to random
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No! No, no, no. My partner Mary and I were just talking about him the other day. We've both loved him from The Man From Uncle to NCIS.

https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/david-mccallum-dead-ncis-man-from-uncle-1235734772/

sohkamyung,
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@penguin42

I found the series fascinating and, at the time, occasionally scary.

The episodes can be viewed on YouTube.
@sjvn

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