@coreyspowell@clive Well this got me curious, and I have completely forgotten how to work this out, so to the wiki-mobile!
Apparently, ELT, with its 39m primary mirror, can resolve 2 light sources 30cm apart from a distance of 12,000km. Which is kinda bonkers when you think how large the ELT will be (see: Tom Scott video).
Assuming such a thing could be constructed, what effective size mirror would be needed to resolve Odysseus?
We've just started installing the aluminium cladding that will protect ESO's Extremely Large #Telescope from the harsh conditions of the Atacama Desert in #Chile.
It's amazing to see this project take shape. And it's hard to convey just how big this is –– the dome is 80 m tall!
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The good? Yesterday’s #JWST observations of the Orion Trapezium Cluster were successful & we now have NIRSpec spectral data for lots of brown dwarfs, planetary-mass objects, & JuMBOs 🥳
The bad? The other half of the programme the day before didn’t work 😭
That included our highest-priority targets, the longest exposure times, & extra calibration observations 😬
The guide star acquisition failed – we’re not yet sure why 🤨
Made a recent change to how I handle my writing. I’m now testing a self-hosted Joplin sync server, rather than Syncthing, which makes it easy to connect to my stuff on mobile at least. The nice thing about Joplin is that it doesn’t force you to use its editor to use the sync server, so it works well in VS Code, for example.
@ernie Huh. I was thinking about Obsidian earlier, and how I might sync between Android and Linux, but I didn't realize you could self-host a Joplin server. Time to read up on that.
@matt It's possible that old ASUS has known security issues which haven't been patched. Be tempted to move to the new one, unless they're renting it to you (frequently the case, here).
I don't think I'll be doing this again, tired of router firmware going out of date. Will get dedicated hardware to run OPNsense and use these meshes as wifi APs.
Given the supposed ability of our intelligence services to tap into and collect electronic, phone, email traffic from anywhere when they search for terrorists and evil-doers, it seems weird that we can't track down and arrest all those making "anonymous" threats to US judges and schools and politicians from MAGA terrorists triggered by Trump.
@cstross@montsamu@pluralistic That's fascinating. Are there sufficient digits for all banks? And I seem to recall you're able to tell the card type (VISA, etc.) by looking at the first couple of digits; vague memories of a programming exercise I once did.
@mekkaokereke@jshirley I count myself lucky to not having ever encountered an emergency situation, but when I moved to the US I found it odd that 911 means you get everyone, police included. If I call 999 in the UK, I'd be asked which service I need. For roundabout versus Tesla, I'd say an ambulance was needed due to a crash.
NBA basketball player Michael Porter Jr says that women's basketball players shouldn't get paid nearly what men make, because they don't have as many fans, and aren't "packing out arenas" like men are.
Look. I'm not even mad. I don't think he's wrong about player pay should be tied to league revenue, which is tied to in person attendance, online, and TV viewership.
I'm not mad. I just know that he hasn't looked at his NBA champ Denver Nugget average game viewership, compared to Caitlin Clark.😬
I don’t know /why/ cleaning robots have microphones, but it can’t be good. What I /do/ know is that a microphone implies an input and an input implies a buffer. And buffers can be overflowed.
As I dance through the streets playing my pipe, augmented with inaudible-to-humans harmonic overtones added by my homemade amplifier, the robots hear, listen, overflow, obey, follow. The trail of robots stretches out of sight, now.
I don’t yet know for sure what I’m going to do with my army of two thousand score Roombas, but it can’t be good.
Can other folks try DuckDuckGoing for terms like "cwtch", "cwtch im", "cwtch.im", "open privacy", "open privacy research society" and "openprivacy.ca"
As far as I can tell we're completely not in DDG search results. Posts mentioning and linking to us are, our Cwtch PlayStore listing is. Sketchy clone sites of us are, but not our two core sites. Which makes it hard to believe it's an error.
Can others confirm that DDG refuses to return our sites as results?
On Mojeek and Google, "cwtch open privacy" brings back a page full of very related results, including "cwtch.im". Google probably has the best results (ironically), but @Mojeek is a very close second.
For the same search, DDG returns basically what you're seeing, although I note Bing does the same thing, more or less. In fact, the two are so similar that I assume it's Bing's results at work here.
@Iconfactory I won't be able to take advantage of this, but the project looks fascinating. I hope you get it funded and able to continue innovating in this space.
Success! Switch to a mountain bike for the cargo trailer was the correct move. More gears means moving a load uphill is now easy (albeit.... SLOW). Hauled some (full) plastic drawers one way, more (full) plastic drawers another way for a mile or so on hilly terrain, no problem. #BikeTooter#cycling
The amount of kids, all boys, in emergency room for head concussions from playing sports – it's scary. Mostly rugby. Why isn't this sport banned in schools yet? The long-term brain damage is well documented.
@albertcardona I was absolutely shamed (by teachers) for not wanting to participate in rugby at school. Of course, it was the 80/90s and I wasn't aware of the head trauma, but still. It's more the attitude of the staff.
I'm so glad the sports my kids are interested in are much less likely to have these sorts of injuries.
