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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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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I'm so excited I'm gonna figure out where the moon is :O
@aeva *points vaguely upwards*
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@aeva *points vaguely upwards*
@rygorous too much light pollution :(
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@rygorous too much light pollution :(
@aeva it's probably for the best. Being an astronomer, it's a young man's game. If I were to eat something like that now, I'd be in a food coma for the rest of the day
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@aeva *points vaguely upwards*
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I was looking for information online and ended up on a tech stack I did not know. Out of curiosity, I opened the website.
The first thing I noticed was a series of clickable AI logos with the label "Summarize $PROJECT with AI".To me, this is one of the clearest examples of the failure of a certain modern web. It means the page is so full of useless content, marketing language, hype, and buzzwords that even its authors realize it is impossible to extract meaningful information from it. In short, communicative bloatware.
This raises two questions.
First: if you realize the content is impossible to understand, why not rethink the entire site to make it actually communicative?
Second: if you realize an AI is needed to explain it, why not use it yourself once and publish a simplified page, instead of making every visitor click a button, generate essentially identical prompts, and create load, consumption, and environmental impact that are entirely avoidable?
This is not an argument against AI. It is an argument against the useless, costly, and harmful abuse of it, to the point of delegating even the decision of how to sit on a couch.
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@Tigrillo Tigrillo coccolone ❤️@Fabio@nonoino.masto.host
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@LeleGroot finalmente!
Buongiorno Lele bello 😘🤗
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If I were a digital rights activist, I would see this time as a golden opportunity.
#Grok, the #AI "assistant" powered by Musk's xAI, has become an engine of non-consensual image and video generation at a mass scale - including pornographic and pedopornographic content. Creating and distributing this imagery has never been quicker or easier. All one has to do is reply to an image posted by someone on X with a mention of Grok and a prompt. This feature was restrained recently but people who pay an $8 subscription to X can still do it. As Sam Cole writes on @404mediaco : "Masterful Gambit: Musk Attempts to Monetize Grok's Wave of Sexual Abuse Imagery" https://www.404media.co/x-premium-grok-paywall-images-ai-generator/
How many politicians pushing for #ChatControl are still using X? How many official government accounts? You know, the same people who screamed WE NEED TO PROTECT THE CHILDREN and pushed for the scanning of all digital communications and files (including E2EE encrypted ones) of European citizens? An "Orwellian nightmare" as @Em0nM4stodon wrote on Privacy Guides: https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/09/08/chat-control-must-be-stopped/#act-now
In the Privacy Guides article by Em, the French, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and Irish governments (amongst many others) were in full support of Chat Control. As far as I can tell, prominent politicians, Prime Ministers and official government accounts from these countries are still posting on X.
Is there anything we can do to point out the hypocrisy? Or have the abuse machine that is Grok sanctioned and fined? And - this is key - use this horrible incident to push politicians to FINALLY quit X? It's about time.
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@mariosiniscalchi Borca di Cadore, Villaggio ENI.
A parte un intera montagna edificata, in realtà un ghiaione che fu disboscato rendendone le pendici fragilissime.
Il legno fu utilizzato per le casseforma del cemento armato, poi per le strutture dei tetti degli stessi fabbricati, poi per i pavimenti della chiesa in cima alla montagna.
E il mobilio anticipò di 50 quello di Ikea, disegnato per essere trasportato.
Essere ammirati da quel design splendido e parlare dei problemi concettuali è fango?
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@valhalla @sabrinaweb71 @phabrizio sì non mi era chiaro il sotteso che c'era (se c'era) nelle tue parole
Il barista è sfruttato, così come sono sfruttato io (di più, di meno)
Lo stesso barista sfruttato finito il lavoro coi quattro spiccioli del suo lavoro sudato adesso che ci fa? Può portare la famiglia fuori per cena una volta al mese, o fare una vacanza normale?
Dire che non ce la faccio io non vuol dire che non ho presente la situazione di altri, più che altro va ricordato ad altri
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@mariosiniscalchi Oltre a Stefano Nazzi, in quel podcast parla una giornalista de Il Post che è nata e cresciuta a Metropoli in una famiglia di dipendenti ENI.
Sin dai tempi di Olivetti, è difficile separare l’dea di un avanzatissimo welfare aziendale dal ghetto dorato; alcune cose anche se fatte con le migliori intenzioni finivano per dare un approccio totalizzate all’azienda.
Non si lavorava per, si viveva in, h24.
Certo l’Italia usciva da una guerra, quelli erano paradisi.
Fango? Bah.
