1/2 I still struggle getting used to the fact that the smallest mirrors of the Extremely Large Telescope are similar in size to the primary mirrors of many current telescopes!
The M5 – the fifth mirror in the optical path – has reached a key milestone: its blank, the piece that will be later polished, has been finalised.
@astro_jcm absolutely cannot get my head around a mirror that size tilting 10 times a second. Bonkers engineering. I remember getting a hold of a little CCD that had tip tilt adaptive optics as an undergrad, and that seemed like witchcraft.
@ifixcoinops Aye, I had the Samsung 720p 27" TV around the time of the Xbox 360 launch. Used DVI if memory serves, not HDMI, was the screen they'd always show off that system on.
Anyway, shield on speakers knackered and that weird color effect on the picture I literally thought could only affect CRTs suddenly appeared. Out of warranty, obviously. Absolute shite.
@ifixcoinops mind, we've got a house full of excellent Samsung phones, have done for years, and so "it's a Samsung" effect in full swing I bought all their appliances. They're all slowly imploding like that old telly from nearly 20 years ago.
@thomasfuchs I mean, for years Terry Wogan would try not to reveal how drunk he was and spend the evening remarking on the politics, as he commentated for the BBC. It has always been nakedly political, as seen by who votes for who.
Gotta respect the doubling down! Replying to me posting some dude saying "Trump is worse!" then blocking me, with saying "Trump is worse!" then blocking me too! The commitment to the bit is impressive!
Listen, you can get as mad as you want. You can call Black folk criticizing Biden "Bitching" if you want. We're still going to do it.
The CDC under Biden dropped the Covid isolation period from "5 days" to "vibes days." Not Trump.
@mekkaokereke I didn't read the blocked guy, but I do wonder if the prospect of things broadly getting worse is too much to deal with for some. Or, I guess they're just solidly bought into the team rhetoric that Teri Kanefield wrote a great blog about.
I mean, I had a good chuckle at the little Biden group when I caucused for Sanders, but I voted Biden and I'll vote Biden. The CDC stuff has been a shit show. Gaza too. Lots of good things, student debt and the environment. We can call out both.
@evacide I fear the replies of "glad I've still got my old XYZ car" don't scale very well. Plus, of course, I assume they're still carrying their privacy-invading phones.
All this shit needs to be legislated into oblivion.
Has the Trump campaign coordinated with the Netanyahu government to keep the war in Gaza going because it hurts President Biden's re-election prospects?
@evan No, although who is arming Hamas? The West has a long, storied history of geopolitic interference, wouldn't surprise me if someone else was returning the favor.
Could someone please help me out? We have two #NintendoSwitch , one our family one and the other is my wife's. I want to buy a game for Mother's Day. I'm not logged into her Switch, it's hard to get a physical copy, and my only option seems to be eshop. Except, you can't gift games because Nintendo. I want the game to be hers.
I could sign in to her Switch and buy it on my account, I guess. I don't think I can sneak a payment method onto her Switch account and pay for it that way.
What if we feed every film, documentary, TV series, cartoon, and so on into an LLM. literally, every piece of media we can access. Run YouTube-dl and dump out everything there, too. And then let people pay to generate something interesting. That's ok, right? That's theft at a scale we can get away with.
I see where Altman is going with our needing to redefine ethics.
I told y'all, cops don't do what you think they do.🤷🏿♂️
Black folk know this from lived experience. Some white folk only learn this when they go to report a theft or sexual assault and find out that the $11B/year NYPD are not equipped to handle that.
@mekkaokereke they're just a constantly deployed paramilitary force, at this point (always were?).
That chart someone made showing the progression of Lego police mini figs over the years tells an extraordinary story. One which I was frequently blind to, in my incredibly privileged position.
@w7voa Wow, ok, Mr Mayor. When I celebrate Saint David's Day each year, I'll no longer fly my Welsh flag. Wouldn't want any locals thinking we're surrendering our way of life, perhaps rejoining the Commonwealth.
I assume you'll all do the same for Saint Patrick's Day. Right?
These absolute fartwaffles can’t conceive of anyone having moral objections to bad things, because they don’t think people who aren’t like themselves have any value.
No, there must be some other reason.
Peer pressure. Not enough sex on campus (yes, really, Google it). Soros paying them. Antisemitism. Brainwashing.
Anything but the simplest explanation: good people demanding that bad people stop what they’re doing.
It’s just been pointed out to me that the reason Apple runs a trade-in programme for older devices is so they can reduce the size of the used market, and has fuck all to do with recycling.
Severe weather continues today on the heels of destructive tornadoes in Nebraska and Iowa yesterday.
"Severe thunderstorms are likely today and tonight across the southern and central Plains into the lower to mid Missouri Valley. The most numerous/intense storms are expected from north Texas into Oklahoma and southeast Kansas, where strong tornadoes, very large hail of 2-3 inches in diameter and damaging winds of 60-70 mph are all possible."
@AkaSci the SPC feed is one of the few accounts I miss from the other site. I mostly remember to check it a few times a week, living in this part of the country, but still.
@omgubuntu excellent! I haven't tried this yet, appreciate the guide. I assume LibreOffice can just access standard office files from this remote location?
