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 are you modeling real life or an approximation of it?
@efi yes
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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 is this one of those things where the approximate solution that drifts from reality by 0.0004% every year is like 3 lines and the more correct one is 5 pages of dense research and no one who writes about it is concerned with the idea that a reader may be a beginner and not know the difference
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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 I love the way everyone uses different names for parameters, and does everything from the POV of an observational astronomer ... Really useful for simulation work.
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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 i believe all our physical models diverge from reality on a long enough timescale. even quantum mechanics. every model is lossy compression / fitting of reality that we extrapolate from, starting at the time that the underlying measurements were taken.
best thing i can think of is measure exact position of celestial bodies, then run a sufficiently detailed n-body sim with best guesses for all state we can not measure, starting at that point. and then restart every year.
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@aeva is this one of those things where the approximate solution that drifts from reality by 0.0004% every year is like 3 lines and the more correct one is 5 pages of dense research and no one who writes about it is concerned with the idea that a reader may be a beginner and not know the difference
@halcy there's no closed form solution at all and from what i can tell the good solutions need to be rejiggered every few decades to stay accurate
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@halcy there's no closed form solution at all and from what i can tell the good solutions need to be rejiggered every few decades to stay accurate
@halcy the real problem here is that academic astronomy best practice is to tie everything into spherical coordinates on the firmament so they can factor out the earth enough that you can pretend it is a fixed vantage point that doesn't spin, and if god forbid you do need to tie an observation to geographic coordinates for some reason i guess you just burn an undergrad on it and not sully yourself with the indignity
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@halcy the real problem here is that academic astronomy best practice is to tie everything into spherical coordinates on the firmament so they can factor out the earth enough that you can pretend it is a fixed vantage point that doesn't spin, and if god forbid you do need to tie an observation to geographic coordinates for some reason i guess you just burn an undergrad on it and not sully yourself with the indignity
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@halcy the real problem here is that academic astronomy best practice is to tie everything into spherical coordinates on the firmament so they can factor out the earth enough that you can pretend it is a fixed vantage point that doesn't spin, and if god forbid you do need to tie an observation to geographic coordinates for some reason i guess you just burn an undergrad on it and not sully yourself with the indignity
@halcy i've got a feeling that this is what a self taught programmer feels when they try to work out how to sort stuff faster and everything they find is either programmers telling eachother to just use a library or academic formalist nonsense
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Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
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@olsenprime @bsky.brid.gy and sometime some voices came back from the voids !
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@cambria you've got my support for point 5 and 6 🔥
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@Gina
I wish all airlines would universally:1. Allow a single checked bag of <reasonable size here> for free.
2. Additional bags for purchase, or maybe longer trips get more at a discounted rate.
3. Zero overhead storage. All bags that don't fit under seats are now checked bags.
3a. Okay maybe there's a legitimate reason for overhead storage for some people, for accessibility? They sit up front and get to deboard first now.
4. The airplane now boards by seat number, or in a more optimised way than first class first so they can watch us plebs squeeze by.
4a. There is no first class. We have eliminated class.
5. The snack is always stroopwaffles.
5a. Ugh ok fine we can vote on this.
5b. I'd rig the elections though so idk we need someone more ethical in charge.
6. Also we've seized the means of production and universal health care is a thing too.
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@Gina @underseamonkey That is exactly the benefits my family enjoys from our cats! 😃
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mi dispiace molto, e apprezzo il contributo che ha dato
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@AdriBel Buona domenica!
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@feb @heluecht Generell mag ich keine Apps, die nur das Antworten auf Follower erlauben, oder schlimmer noch, solche, die das Antworten überhaupt nicht erlauben. Ich erkenne aber, dass dies eine sehr interessante Funktion ist, da sie Belästigungen einschränkt. Weißt du, ob Friendica auch eine Möglichkeit bietet, das Zitieren von Beiträgen zu verhindern, wie Mastodon behauptet?
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@marcoboh @andre123 @assofante
Siamo sulla linea del 7, pure io
