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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after a good night's sleep and reflecting on what I've learned so far, I've decided to follow the classic computer science strat: when faced with a problem you don't know how to solve, simply do something else, and pretend that is what you meant to do all along.
not only are horizontal coordinates the choice reference frame for backyard astronomers, the "altitude h" angular measurement is probably closer to the solution I wanted than my earlier framing of the problem. narf
the math's not quite right, but i managed to get the moon more or less working
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@aeva god, on the 3rd day:
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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.
@CliftonR :3
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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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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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@globalistIT afoneggiano
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OpenAI study reveals who uses ChatGPT and what they use it for https://blog.quintarelli.it/2025/09/openai-study-reveals-who-uses-chatgpt-and-what-they-use-it-for/
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Su Twitter i compagni mi dicevano fosse assurdo considerare Roger Waters "tankie adiacent" ovvero vicino agli stalinisti. In effetti non è più soltanto vicino, si è proprio sdraiato su posizioni fascio comuniste. Sí ha scritto il concept album ispirato a Orwell ok ma era pure 50 anni fa, perchè non accettare si sia rincoglionito?
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@bruces Same old story: Hollerith.
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@FraEmme ahahahah sì, ma boss molto divertente secondo me, ho smadonnato anche io!
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Oggi sarebbe dovuta uscire una nuova puntata del Podcast a tema workshop, ma mi sono incasinata come al solito. Ma cose da ascoltare ce n'è e se non l'avete ancora fatto le trovate tutte a questo link
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@courtney awesome!
