i nerd sniped myself tonight and i imagine the NSA operative who is assigned to me is very confused by the increasingly erratic and frustrated google searches for HOW DO I CALCULATE THE MOON WHERE IS THE MOON
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This is the best post to read entirely out of context that I have seen in years.
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astronomy math is out of this fucking world btw like want to know where the moon is? great buckle up you're in for a few hundred years of bizarre hacks and lots of exciting questions like "wait, why are they using the julian calendar?"
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This is the best post to read entirely out of context that I have seen in years.
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@aeva god, on the 3rd day:
@halcy :3
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astronomy math is out of this fucking world btw like want to know where the moon is? great buckle up you're in for a few hundred years of bizarre hacks and lots of exciting questions like "wait, why are they using the julian calendar?"
in a way magpie math is kinda refreshing, like imagine not throwing everything away every few years because of industry fads
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astronomy math is out of this fucking world btw like want to know where the moon is? great buckle up you're in for a few hundred years of bizarre hacks and lots of exciting questions like "wait, why are they using the julian calendar?"
@aeva I think part of it is we stopped trying to guess based on date and moved to measurements and short term extrapolation
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@aeva wait, is it your fault that we’re losing the moon in however many millions of years?
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ok so back to the moon thing, i found another resource and i think i understand the why behind the asinine coordinate systems a little better but it also glosses over the math so it's kinda useless at the same time. i'm tempted to just make shit up and move on, but it would bother me that the function was wrong if i did that
@aeva This is why we threw our hands up and said, just use what's already been done. We outsource "where are the space things" to NAIF SPICE: https://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/naif/aboutspice.html (there's also the rust rewrite, ANISE, but we don't trust that at my place of work yet)
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@aeva I think part of it is we stopped trying to guess based on date and moved to measurements and short term extrapolation
@pupxel speak for yourself
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@aeva wait, is it your fault that we’re losing the moon in however many millions of years?
@c0dec0dec0de it might not be!
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@aeva This is why we threw our hands up and said, just use what's already been done. We outsource "where are the space things" to NAIF SPICE: https://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/naif/aboutspice.html (there's also the rust rewrite, ANISE, but we don't trust that at my place of work yet)
@squirrelbaffler it occurred to me that this is one of those situations where one would probably normally use a library, but the problem is I need to prioritize speed over accuracy because it's repeatedly invoked in a real time audio thread, a use case which i'd not expect to be shared by serious scientific or industrial use cases
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I warn you though, if I see the moon is broken tonight, I'll be complaining to you about it.
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I warn you though, if I see the moon is broken tonight, I'll be complaining to you about it.
@CliftonR I will happily accept moon-related bug reports
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astronomy math is out of this fucking world btw like want to know where the moon is? great buckle up you're in for a few hundred years of bizarre hacks and lots of exciting questions like "wait, why are they using the julian calendar?"
@aeva at least now we have the J2000 epoch, which kiiiiinda hides away a bit of the old cruft... but yeah, it's pretty wild.
On the other hand, thanks to these whacky calendar conversions they can apparently use observations made by Chinese astronomers 2000 years ago, so hey, maybe they have a point
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@aeva at least now we have the J2000 epoch, which kiiiiinda hides away a bit of the old cruft... but yeah, it's pretty wild.
On the other hand, thanks to these whacky calendar conversions they can apparently use observations made by Chinese astronomers 2000 years ago, so hey, maybe they have a point
@jon_valdes tbh i respect that modern astronomers decided this was fine and didn't go and add new problems to the pile
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in a way magpie math is kinda refreshing, like imagine not throwing everything away every few years because of industry fads
eee my copy of ｢The Astronomical Almanac 2025｣ arrived in the mail today while I was at work :D my hell spine hurts too much to be fussing with it tonight, but from flipping through it, it looks like it explains most of the information I've been missing and provides ample data to validate against <3
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eee my copy of ｢The Astronomical Almanac 2025｣ arrived in the mail today while I was at work :D my hell spine hurts too much to be fussing with it tonight, but from flipping through it, it looks like it explains most of the information I've been missing and provides ample data to validate against <3
I'm so excited I'm gonna figure out where the moon is :O
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@aeva *points vaguely upwards*
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@aeva *points vaguely upwards*
@rygorous too much light pollution :(
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@FraEmme ma guarda, io la vedo esattamente al contrario. Il non aver POTUTO mollare tutto per andarmene a caccia di un lavoro ben pagato, per necessità familiari, è stato un sacrificio. Che ho fatto più che volentieri e senza pensarci un attimo, sia ben chiaro.
Quindi alla fine generalizzare ha sempre poco senso. La soluzione è sempre: fai quello che ritieni giusto nella tua situazione e fregatene di cosa pensano gli altri. Tanto,qualunque cosa scegli di fare, ci sarà qualcuno che si lamenta 🤣
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@francina1909
Purtroppo in questo caso niente buone notizie. Ennesima morte sul lavoro 😒
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@GiorgiaMecojoni Grande!
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@GustavinoBevilacqua
Mio padre ce l'aveva giallo primula.
Era scomoda ed esosa come non mai...
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Vedo persone che portano come una medaglia il fatto di aver lasciato indietro compagni e figli piccoli per inseguire il posto di lavoro.
Io lo trovo atroce.
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@pierostrada un sistema in cui vale f*tere gli altri nei peggiori modi possibili e poi fare la carità non serve, ma questo si sa, solo gli ipocriti ci credono
Quindi non basta dare più soldi in beneficenza, devono solo smettere di voler divorare il mondo, solo quello già basterebbe
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同行者の方々と話し合った結果、東京の代わりに福岡へ行くことにしました。
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Lo dico? Lo dico. Io trovo ATROCE che sia normalizzato che se uno vuole lavorare deve (DEVE!) essere disposto a mollare famiglia e affetti e spostarsi anche lontanissimo.
E che anzi, se non lo fai vieni trattato come un coglione pesaculo non disposto a sacrificarsi.
