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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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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@carneade che poi non capisco una cosa : ma perché dovrebbero invaderci ? Non mi pare ci sia la fila per venire a conquistarci….
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#Pordenone, domani sera alle 20:30 al circolo @uaarpn di presentiamo Nomina Contra Deum, il primo documentario dedicato alla storia della #bestemmia in Italia, con il regista Luca De Gaspari. 👇
https://www.uaar.it/appuntamenti/2025-09-17-pordenone-presentazione-proiezione-documentario-nomina-contra-deum-storia/
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@oblomov infatti nel video lo dice chiaramente : il richiamo è al clippy di 20 anni fa , magari inutile, ma che non ficcava il naso negli affari tuoi ! Come dire che le big tech devono smetterla con questa attitudine predatoria, che si siam rotti le scatole. Non è certo un inno al ritorno di un novello clippy AI 😉
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@aeva all animal rights activists agree
the search for life's ground zero continues
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Gentilissimi Signori degli 'Altri Paesi',
per favore: invadeteci. Tanto siamo impreparati: parola del ministro della Difesa.
E, con l'occasione, per favore, liberateci di questi idioti al governo.Sentitamente Vostro, porgo distinti ringraziamenti
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@simona teoricamente il farmacista non dovrebbe sindacare sul piano terapeutico prescritto dal medico, ma limitarsi a fornirti il farmaco. Al massimo darti indicazioni sulla somministrazione.
Cmq quando a mia mamma, nei suoi ultimi giorni di vita, la dottoressa aveva prescritto i cerotti da Fentanil, le aveva prescritto quelli a dosaggio più basso (da 25), dicendomi che se vedevo che non fosse stato sufficiente di metterne 2 ogni volta. Magari il farmacista ti sta consigliando qualcosa di simile
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@lritter sure that's where modern humans come from but modern humans didn't just magically appear fully formed one day. we gotta trace this back all the way back to the primordial soup
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@yasun thanks! 🥰 in these challenging times, I feel like we could all use some light
