uh oh!
The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon:
Device: /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3320620AS_3QF00BSV, Self-Test Log error count increased from 0 to 1
$ readlink /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3320620AS_3QF00BSV
../../sdd
Maybe you don't make your 15th birthday, sdd. 🙁
Need to speed up with getting shot of this machine.
#Linux
I wrote up a rather silly story about Aaron Cometbus, Richie Bucher, and The Clash (from 30 years ago!)
➡️ #punk
"Experts worry a recent rise in long COVID cases — fueled by a spike in winter holiday infections and a decline in masking and other measures — could continue into this year."
Spoiler: it will continue for years and years to come, if not into the next century.
https://www.
On this day ( #OTD ) 21 years ago U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell presented a model vial of anthrax to the United Nations Security Council accusing Iraq of a chemical weapons and weapons of mass destruction (WMD) program. This was later found out to be a
I'm still trying to understand what the compelling use case for "throw apps on the walls of your house" is when the downside is an expensive, warm weight that you have to hang on your face that makes you see worse.
We already had apps with us at all times for the last 15 years or so, without those downsides.
It’s been 3 years that I’ve been with my current employer as of tomorrow.
Time flies. I know this position will help when I move to the U.K. because I’ve learned a lot in a very high-stress and physically demanding role.
Thank you to @… for being my listening ear this last few years. You have helped me to not quit.
Scientists developing water-based 'aqueous metal-ion batteries' that should be cheaper, recyclable and won't explode -- but they think it will be at least 10 years before they're ready for widespread use https://www.sciencealert.com/new-water-bat
After years of delay, Boeing to try again with Starliner space capsule
A decade after NASA awarded Boeing a contract to fly astronauts to the International Space Station, Boeing will finally attempt to fly its Starliner spacecraft with people onboard.
According to plan, at 10:34 p.m. on Monday, the company is set to fly a pair of veteran astronauts, Sunita Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore, on a mission that will be one of the most significant tests for Boeing’s space division…
Bad news on climate: the March average of atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa was 425.4 ppm, a massive 4.4 ppm higher than in March of last year.
The cause: record high global emissions, probably combined with an El Niño effect.
#emissions #co2
@… I've seen it a few times as a user (Not recently, but 5 - 10 years ago) on high value sites (I.e., banking).
I've never actually heard from anyone who implements this, why they do so. I assume it's a misguided notion of protecting the end user.
Absolutely not a fan.
Daily Inspiration: "Seize every moment of magic!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
The first edition of the Canadian Internet Handbook launched 30 years ago today!
The arrow in today's inspiration image points directly at the first book of many in a magical voyage in which I found myself in the 90s - the 1994 edition of the Canadian Internet Handbook. Looking back, I've learned that if you ever have the chance to have magic happen in your career, grab it with all you'…
Honestly, when people start talking about what AI will be in 20 years my concern is really whether or not we will even have an inhabitable* world by then.
I've been reading way too much (not possible but you know what I mean) on the climate crisis over the past week and if I've been talking about an AI bubble that will burst then the climate crisis awakening terrifies me so much more.
My patience for magical thinking is reaching its limits.
*Footnote: Adding t…
Sheffield Algorave coming up on the 29th March ! https://patternclub.org/sheffield/
Just booked my trip to #SOTMUS2024 in Salt Lake City, very excited to catch up with all the US #OpenStreetMap stuff after missing this conference for the past mumble-mumble years. Not doing a talk or anything but very interested to catch up with anyone thinking about Parquet geodata general…
I am lucky to have worked with
#NTUSingapore PhD student Yilin Zhang for the last two years. She teased apart complicated clouds microphysical processes using measurements and modeling of the 17-O composition of water.
#Clouds processes like these are of paramount importance in determining the equilibrium #climate sensitivity (how much warming CO2 causes) of models as well as bits of the hydrologic cycle like extreme rain.
Her first in a series of 3 papers is out:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/yilin-z_climate-tropics-singapore-activity-7192064590942277636-NTd3
At the Roy Lichtenstein 100-years retrospective in the Albertina.
Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies- God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.
— Kurt Vonnegut https://glass.photo/shacker/6K8UtDBx2X
Happy #FirstContactDay! Only 39 years and one world war to go... #startrek #firstcontact
Gotta say, watching Monday episodes of The Daily Show has been a really nice nostalgia bath. A throwback to 20 years ago when everything was also going awfully, but it was a different presidential race, and a different war that Jon Stewart was ranting about.
Something something Orwell was right about Eurasia something.
Microlensing optical depth and event rate toward the Large Magellanic Cloud based on 20 years of OGLE observations
P. Mroz, A. Udalski, M. K. Szymanski, M. Kapusta, I. Soszynski, L. Wyrzykowski, P. Pietrukowicz, S. Kozlowski, R. Poleski, J. Skowron, D. Skowron, K. Ulaczyk, M. Gromadzki, K. Rybicki, P. Iwanek, M. Wrona, M. Ratajczak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02398 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.02398
arXiv:2403.02398v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Measurements of the microlensing optical depth and event rate toward the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) can be used to probe the distribution and mass function of compact objects in the direction toward that galaxy - in the Milky Way disk, Milky Way dark matter halo, and the LMC itself. The previous measurements, based on small statistical samples of events, found that the optical depth is an order of magnitude smaller than that expected from the entire dark matter halo in the form of compact objects. However, these previous studies were not sensitive to long-duration events with Einstein timescales longer than 2.5-3 years, which are expected from massive ($10-100\,M_{\odot}$) and intermediate-mass ($10^2-10^5\,M_{\odot}$) black holes. Such events would have been missed by the previous studies and would not have been taken into account in calculations of the optical depth. Here, we present the analysis of nearly 20-year-long photometric monitoring of 78.7 million stars in the LMC by the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) from 2001 through 2020. We describe the observing setup, the construction of the 20-year OGLE dataset, the methods used for searching for microlensing events in the light curve data, and the calculation of the event detection efficiency. In total, we find 16 microlensing events (thirteen using an automated pipeline and three with manual searches), all of which have timescales shorter than 1 yr. We use a sample of thirteen events to measure the microlensing optical depth toward the LMC $\tau=(0.121 \pm 0.037)\times 10^{-7}$ and the event rate $\Gamma=(0.74 \pm 0.25)\times 10^{-7}\,\mathrm{yr}^{-1}\,\mathrm{star}^{-1}$. These numbers are consistent with lensing by stars in the Milky Way disk and the LMC itself, and demonstrate that massive and intermediate-mass black holes cannot comprise a significant fraction of dark matter.
I wish could travel back 30 years so I could tell my teenage self that in the future we will have smart home heating systems where you can set a schedule that it will completely ignore and just turn on randomly when it feels like it.
#SmartHome
pokec: Pokec online social network (2012)
The online social network of Pokec, a popular OSN in Slovakia, from 2012. Date covers about 10 years and more than 1.6 million people. Profile data contains gender, age, hobbies, interest, education etc. Profile metadata are in Slovak language. Friendships in Pokec are oriented.
This network has 1632804 nodes and 30622564 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Metadata
I was introduced to Chantal Mouffe’s «agonistic politics» today in a workshop on artistic collaboration and feedback. It’s been 30 years since I last read anything by her, but apparently it’s time to make up for that.
https://monoskop.org/images/3/31/Mouff
Hrmm, just finished setting up Immich on the homelab and it is pretty damned impressive so far. Got it saving the libraries to NFS, certs all setup, and up uploading all the photos. The iOS app is pretty solid as well. No issues so far, but we'll see how this goes. Also, that poor, poor VM... #homelab
It is weird, but it’s a Reagan-Carter callback aimed at people that were in their primes 43-and-a-half years ago.
In that light, it is really just … limited. (And limiting.)
From: @…
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I've spent some of today finding bottlenecks in my world-simulating cellular automaton, and I can now simulate 10,000 years of history from the middle of the Ice Age to the middle of the Iron Age over 40,000 square kilometres (at kilometre scale) in slightly under two minutes of wall-clock time. It's utterly caning my poor computer, but it doesn't crash.
#Clojure
#SeniorFitness
It's been a couple of weeks since I did an update. I post these because I found #calisthenics four years ago on my way out (so to speak) of the E.R., and the sudden love saved my life — to use only a bit of hyperbole. (The cardiologist who did save me seems more …
I mostly dislike the Digital Foundry videos about consoles. These guys (well, excluding Oliver) compare everything with their jewel encrusted 4090s, and instead of fun and games, talk about frames per second, or how 10 less frames per second make your existence on this planet devoid of meaning, or why playing without RT means you don't actually play a game. They "discuss" rumors. They benchmark the same hardware for three straight years. Basically, they've run out of things…
Love how a tailbone injury inspired this research: How humans lost their tails — and why the discovery took 2.5 years to publish
An elegant run of experiments in mice reveals the genetic changes that led humanity’s ape ancestors to lose the appendage.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024<…
One of my proudest contributions to YouTube, 13 years later. Just gave a thumbs up to every comment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEHZJNQ5Y4A
A look at the AI revolution, reminiscent of the industrial revolution but unfolding over years rather than centuries, and the views of AI optimists and doomers (Michael J. Totten/City Journal)
https://www.city-journal.org/article/something-like-fire
At the Roy Lichtenstein 100-years retrospective in the Albertina.
from: Jennifer Keesmaat
Montreal's pedestrian streets - in just three years (now 11 of them) are coveted by business and touted by the Tourism Board. No one wants to live in or visit a city that is choked w traffic, causing annoyance, air noise pollution.
But a city rapidly transforming with spaces for walking, lingering cycling? That is a place to go, a place to be. And a much better place to live.
Density isn't our problem, Toronto. Cars are our problem. We ne…
I am very, very glad I am a data pack-rat. Question came to us why we are running those reports and who authorized. Pulled up the files and told them it was over 10 years ago and runs every year and we didn't keep the request document from their team authorizing, just a person on their team gave us the "GO".
@… @… Working for 5 years for a US company now. And while I feel the same in general. It depends on the company. Would likely not make the choice myself, but this happened through acquisition so it was find a new job or stick around a…
#writerscoffeeclub 1 What inspired you to begin writing?
The magic of the written word, the ability to send your mind a hundred years into the future or the past, has been an urge with me ever since I wrote my first word. I was 3,5 years old, and I wrote "Papa". I can honestly say that I've written all my life, I can't remember a time when I didn't write.
Here’s a view from Apple Park I took two years ago. I enjoy looking up at the distant hills knowing Montebello Road runs along the ridge line.
“William C. Robinson, a pastor working for Chi Alpha Campus Ministries in Corpus Christi, received 10 years probation after sexually abusing an underage family member [for years].”
Probation? Sounds about white… He molested his own relative and the court ordered him to take parenting classes! Unreal.
How did #life start on Earth? 2/2
Having these ⬆️ compounds heavily diluted in some puddles billions of years ago does not create suddenly create life, even when we can wait for millenia.
But warm rocks with cracks could have increased such concentrations and transported them together, new research suggests. 😊
#chemistry #biology
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/rock-fissures-may-have-gathered-key-chemicals-for-early-life/
Can’t believe it’s been 16 years since I organised the world’s first virtual web conference (it was called <head>, it took place over 3 days, had 4 simultaneous tracks, over 70 speakers, and local in-world conference hubs in London, Manchester, Brigthon, Fribourg, and San Francisco, as well as as pre-conference party and a separate virtual hub in Second Life).
#ContentNation Backlash Highlights Mastodon's Toxicity
"Over the years, #Mastodon’s user culture has become incredibly insular and hostile towards outsiders. Despite repeated claims of “People are just nicer here!” and “Everyone is just so welcoming!”, often those preaching abo…
It is impossible to 100% know Vim, you’ll continue learning it as you go for years.
Example 789517: More than a decade using Vim, I just became aware of the difference between <C-d>/<C-u> and <C-f>/<C-b>. The latter pair moves down and up one whole screen, the former pair only half a screen.
It always made sense to me to use D as in Down and U as in Up, but using F and B is way more faster.
The EU's crackdown on Huawei shows an EU-wide TikTok ban will likely take years of diplomacy, as the bloc lacks a formal say over national security concerns (Pieter Haeck/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/us-style-tiktok-ban-nowhere-close-euro…
Scholarships or not, this is not as strong an argument as they’d like to believe.
“Dartmouth … argued that the control it exerts over athletes is also common in other student activities and even in high school sports. Moreover, Dartmouth noted its basketball.
"’In three or fewer years, the entire team will be composed of Student-Athletes who had no part in these proceedings, and who had no voice in the election,’ the Trustees wrote in their motion.”
From:
@… @… It grew over those 5 years as I grew as an SWE/SRE, but not US 500K total comp levels of growth. Still an NL employee working from NL. Not complaining at all tho. Honestly I have no idea what Dutch IT standards are at this point…
“William C. Robinson, a pastor working for Chi Alpha Campus Ministries in Corpus Christi, received 10 years probation after sexually abusing an underage family member [for years].”
Probation? Sounds about white… He molested his own relative and the court ordered him to take parenting classes! Unreal.
An interview with Andrew Bosworth on the 10th anniversary of Reality Labs, the past and future of VR/AR/AI, Meta's next AR glasses prototype, and more (Scott Stein/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/ten-years-aft…
As Gmail turns 20 on April 1, a look at its impact on online communication and its future as other messaging apps have come to dominate how we communicate (Victoria Song/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/24113616/gmail-email-20-years-old-internet