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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@jon_valdes my hope was that the moon's position relative to the earth would be the one situation where geocentrism still holds enough water for a useful approximation, but I'm starting to think that this is a problem space where people don't typically seek useful approximations
@aeva what I found is most methods for calculating these things are approximations that break down if you deviate from the year 2000 by more than 5 millenia or something. It just depends on what you consider a "useful" approximation
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@aeva what I found is most methods for calculating these things are approximations that break down if you deviate from the year 2000 by more than 5 millenia or something. It just depends on what you consider a "useful" approximation
@jon_valdes oh that's great. I figure for my use case it only has to be moderately accurate for the remainder of my lifespan however short or long that may be, and it's not really my problem if it accumulates a bit of drift after that
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@jon_valdes oh that's great. I figure for my use case it only has to be moderately accurate for the remainder of my lifespan however short or long that may be, and it's not really my problem if it accumulates a bit of drift after that
@aeva perhaps the easiest way would be to look at how other programs do it. I spent a bunch of time reading code for Stellarium, for example. Perhaps that, or a website like this could help you?
https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/orrery/#/moon?time=2025-09-10T04:57:12.041+00:00 -
@aeva perhaps the easiest way would be to look at how other programs do it. I spent a bunch of time reading code for Stellarium, for example. Perhaps that, or a website like this could help you?
https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/orrery/#/moon?time=2025-09-10T04:57:12.041+00:00@jon_valdes i found this a few hours ago http://www.geoastro.de/elevazmoon/basics/index.htm haven't had a chance to look at it in detail but it looked promising at first skim
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@jon_valdes i found this a few hours ago http://www.geoastro.de/elevazmoon/basics/index.htm haven't had a chance to look at it in detail but it looked promising at first skim
@aeva @jon_valdes I'm trying to remember what program we use to generate location accurate star charts in Avatar and Division... Maybe it can do the moon as well, will look it up later.
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@aeva @jon_valdes I'm trying to remember what program we use to generate location accurate star charts in Avatar and Division... Maybe it can do the moon as well, will look it up later.
@aeva @jon_valdes alright I think we just use data from sdss and reproject it for alpha centuri, blindly extrapolating for the correct date using the star velocity. so no complex orbital mechanics. However for the planetary bodies in solar system we use code derived from https://stjarnhimlen.se/comp/ppcomp.html
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@aeva @jon_valdes alright I think we just use data from sdss and reproject it for alpha centuri, blindly extrapolating for the correct date using the star velocity. so no complex orbital mechanics. However for the planetary bodies in solar system we use code derived from https://stjarnhimlen.se/comp/ppcomp.html
Word of caution about calculating these things on the GPU: implementations of trigonometric functions on the GPU are less accurate than you'd hope, and if you calculate a bunch of sin() and cos() for your view direction per pixel, they turn out not to be accurate enough for stable movement across a 60° fov on a 4K screen. Particularly Intel, which seems to barely pass the D3D precision requirements there...
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Word of caution about calculating these things on the GPU: implementations of trigonometric functions on the GPU are less accurate than you'd hope, and if you calculate a bunch of sin() and cos() for your view direction per pixel, they turn out not to be accurate enough for stable movement across a 60° fov on a 4K screen. Particularly Intel, which seems to barely pass the D3D precision requirements there...
@jon_valdes @aeva right, yeah I should also mention all that is done on the cpu, and with double precision. I'm not really sure if you can even squeeze it to work with f32.
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@jon_valdes @aeva right, yeah I should also mention all that is done on the cpu, and with double precision. I'm not really sure if you can even squeeze it to work with f32.
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@jon_valdes @dotstdy blessedly I'm planning on doing this on the cpu, but
Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
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@las_lallero quelle situazioni in cui speri profondamente che si tratti di un caso di pubblicità ingannevole
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Cosa odio di YouTube: l'offuscamento di alcune parole, per monetizzare.
Se racconti un fatto di cronaca alcuni scrivono "m0rt0" invece di "morto". Gli zeri al posto delle o. Idem l'oscuramento delle parole, ottenibile con tagli o eufemismi. Poi però disinformazione e odio girano liberi.
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@Otttoz dove si può seguire la diretta?
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@extratrek si sicuramente, trovo solo che questa stagione sia un po' più debole ma insomma, bel lavoro. @thegib @Godai71
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@francina1909 io invece protagonista nel Truman show...troppe coincidenze impossibili!
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@informapirata @eticadigitale anche adesso spesso e volentieri invece di fare "menu contestuale -> nuova cartella" se devo creare una directory nuova, apro il prompt di comando e digito "md [nome_directory] ci metto meno
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Una volta, dovevo comprare una licenza di un software; c'era il video con la mail a schermo in sovraimpressione. Almeno leggila a voce alta dico io! PiccyBot me l'ha data, e io gli ho scritto un messaggio dicendogli: "salve, sono una persona disabile visiva. Ero interessata al tuo programma, ma il tuo video-tutorial mi ha fatto capire che i soldi dei ciechi per te puzzano. Mail solo a schermo, video poco verbale, l'AI mi ha spiegato quello che avresti dovuto dirmi tu. (2/3)
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@datak @internet @cipper @filippodb Non so cos'è peggio: i video di 30 minuti o le pagine con due righe e cinque screenshot (spoiler: vanno benissimo le schermate, per chi è più pratico; ma non devono essere l'unico canale)
io ormai ho imparato a comportarmi così, sbagliato quanto sia: c'è il video? Do l'URL in pasto all'app PiccyBot, questa me lo descrive. Poi io "chatto" con l'app per chiedere info che sfuggono. (1/3)
