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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@aeva "fun", isn't it
@ireneista no
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i just want to calculate my current ecliptic coordinates from my current geographic coordinates is that so wrong
i wonder to what extent astronomy is an insomnia friendly career still, or if it's mostly just diurnals looking at spreadsheets in fluorescent offices these days
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i wonder to what extent astronomy is an insomnia friendly career still, or if it's mostly just diurnals looking at spreadsheets in fluorescent offices these days
now that I'm a bit further down this rabbit hole I'm realizing this isn't much different from the terrestrial cartography I did one summer in college about 16 years ago, except that your benchmarks are all moving a lot faster
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now that I'm a bit further down this rabbit hole I'm realizing this isn't much different from the terrestrial cartography I did one summer in college about 16 years ago, except that your benchmarks are all moving a lot faster
one of the benchmarks we wanted to use had a typos where two digits were transposed preventing us from using it because otherwise none of our math would have added up. the professor rejected my proposal to simply interpolate the error across all our data points to make the more convenient benchmark work out lol. so instead we had to chain our data points to a much less convenient datum which iirc involved us trespassing into a reservoir.
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one of the benchmarks we wanted to use had a typos where two digits were transposed preventing us from using it because otherwise none of our math would have added up. the professor rejected my proposal to simply interpolate the error across all our data points to make the more convenient benchmark work out lol. so instead we had to chain our data points to a much less convenient datum which iirc involved us trespassing into a reservoir.
anyways, somewhere in peru there's a town that is legally somewhere between 100 meters and 1 km off from where it actually is, and it'll be really funny if it ever gets big enough for that to actually matter
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anyways, somewhere in peru there's a town that is legally somewhere between 100 meters and 1 km off from where it actually is, and it'll be really funny if it ever gets big enough for that to actually matter
time is fake, but as it happens space is also fake
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anyways, somewhere in peru there's a town that is legally somewhere between 100 meters and 1 km off from where it actually is, and it'll be really funny if it ever gets big enough for that to actually matter
@aeva wouldn’t it matter more for smaller cities?
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@aeva I mean borders and locations of civil territories are actually definitively imaginary so that tracks.
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one of the benchmarks we wanted to use had a typos where two digits were transposed preventing us from using it because otherwise none of our math would have added up. the professor rejected my proposal to simply interpolate the error across all our data points to make the more convenient benchmark work out lol. so instead we had to chain our data points to a much less convenient datum which iirc involved us trespassing into a reservoir.
@aeva at least all the measurement units are nailed down.
https://www.nist.gov/pml/us-surveyfoot
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@aeva wouldn’t it matter more for smaller cities?
@luana I figure the smaller the city the lower the odds you end up with grosstopically overlapping structures, legally speaking
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@aeva at least all the measurement units are nailed down.
https://www.nist.gov/pml/us-surveyfoot
Well, ok it could be worse.@kevingranade they did eventually redefine the kilogram as something other than robespierre's evaporating left nut at least
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it's a good thing countries are pretty short lived geologically speaking otherwise plate tectonics would cause a lot of problems
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it's a good thing countries are pretty short lived geologically speaking otherwise plate tectonics would cause a lot of problems
@aeva I mean, we already see similar issues with geographic borders. Especially rivers, because rivers really don't like to stay put.
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@aeva I mean, we already see similar issues with geographic borders. Especially rivers, because rivers really don't like to stay put.
@ataylor nothing a liberal application of hubris can't pretend to fix
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@aeva "We shall put this river in a box and then everything's fine!"
Cue decades of flooding.
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@demofox @dotstdy @jon_valdes assuming I didn't screw anything up adapting Jon's shader toy, the 30 iteration soft sin also has the surprising property of being able to clip out of the expected -1.0 to 1.0 output range https://github.com/Aeva/mollytime/blob/af58e9237903856b6193a116ae6408038dc47d4a/src/patch.cpp#L319
@aeva @demofox @dotstdy
Yeah, I should have mentioned I'm not 100% sure of the quality of that SW sin implementation. I grabbed it from the internets and hoped the kind stranger that wrote it knew what they were doing.I was more interested in the GPU differences at the time, and this impl was good enough to show those clearly
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@aeva @demofox @dotstdy
Yeah, I should have mentioned I'm not 100% sure of the quality of that SW sin implementation. I grabbed it from the internets and hoped the kind stranger that wrote it knew what they were doing.I was more interested in the GPU differences at the time, and this impl was good enough to show those clearly
@jon_valdes @demofox @dotstdy well I can tell from eyeballing it that it definitely produces a smoother gradient than the hw version
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it's a good thing countries are pretty short lived geologically speaking otherwise plate tectonics would cause a lot of problems
@aeva I mean it's causing enough problems with gps they have dedicated stations just to measure it and to recalibrate
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@aeva I mean it's causing enough problems with gps they have dedicated stations just to measure it and to recalibrate
@aeva oh and the whole maps rescanning the whole city every now and then thing
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@aeva oh and the whole maps rescanning the whole city every now and then thing
@pupxel i think they continuously re-map cities because of construction not plate tectonics
Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
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@G3rt
Capitano queste cose .
Io in qualche modo cerco di distrarmi , anche con piccole cose .
Per esempio ti voglio proporre questa canzoncina che è la sigla di una associazione di Firenze : le rondinelle .
Si riuniscono tutte donne , molte già esperte e mature , per fare lavori all'uncinetto , con condimento di chiacchiere di tutti i tipi . 🤣
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@SANKOFAB @blackmastodon
Buon vento a voi 💚💚💚
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@matz
Anch'io ti ho sempre letto senza problemi, sia con Moshidon che con Fedilab, e l'istanza di @snow a cui sono loggato è su masto host. 🤷
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Usare qualcosa è diverso da promoverne l'uso, nel primo caso si riconosce l'utilità di qualcosa e nel secondo ci si impegna per convincere altri a fare altrettanto.
Io non ho mai visto un suo impegno per la diffusione dello schwa, ha spiegato perché alcuni gruppi lo usano e ha spiegato come andrebbe usato (spiegazione che dev'essere caduta nel vuoto perché vedo che molti continuano a pensare che basti metterlo in fondo ad una parola...).
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@matz@y.cubalibre.social
ok, io leggo te...
bisogna vedere se:
tutti quelli su masto .host hanno problemi a leggerti o è un problema specifico dell'utente o specifico di fedilab.
Se è un problema di masto. host si segnala a loro, altrimenti a fedilab, altrimenti vediamo le impostazioni dell'utente.
Ora però esco che devo andare a sentire uno che fa i madrigali.
@adriananselmo@caffeohibo.it @PaoloParti@snowfan.masto.host
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Ogni tanto mi torna la voglia di fare video, poi mi passa tutto.
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Gli omicidi razziali in Italia vengono spesso raccontati come casi di cronaca slegati l’uno dall’altro. La natura strutturale del razzismo per molti è una «forzatura ideologica» da rigettare
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