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@@Gigi@kolektiva.social
2025-01-13 17:51:49

I have to go to the bathroom, but I also have to finish this damned article.
I suspect that if I get up to go to the bathroom, I'm going to get distracted by 200 other things and not finish writing.
Also, it will disturb the cat.

@mpsgoettingen@astrodon.social
2025-01-14 15:19:08

Well doesn't this look interesting: #MPSGöttingen's renowned dynamo experts Manfred Schüssler and Robert Cameron together with Paul Charbonneau, Masumi Dikpati, Hideyuki Hotta, Leonid Kitchatinov have edited the new Space Sciences series of ISSI #book
"Solar and Stellar Dy…

A bookcover: 
Space Sciences series of ISSI
Solar and Stellar Dynamos - A new era
Manfred Schüssler, Robert Cameron, Paul Charbonneau, Masumi Dikpati, Hideyuki Hotta, Leonid Kitchatinov
Editors
Springer

On a light blue background, the above is set in white text, with the title and the editor list separated by an illustration of two stellar spheres with complex magnetic field lines drawn around them set against a black image background
@dankeck@a11y.social
2024-12-15 02:43:00

@… updated his browser extension "Social Visual Alt Text" to add Bluesky support.
I install this addon whenever I can to quickly see what alt text people have written on Mastodon.
Go get it for Firefox or Chrome:

@scottmiller42@mstdn.social
2025-03-13 14:42:34

Can the ai components (NPU) of new processors be used for non-ai work?
What I'm thinking is along the lines that the vector-processing components of GPUs have also been used to speed up non-graphic mathematics on large arrays.
#NPUs #AIProcessor

@migoettingen@academiccloud.social
2025-02-13 12:45:19

Happy Birthday, Dirichlet!
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Gu

@@Gigi@kolektiva.social
2025-01-15 06:24:23

"White guy window dressing" is a little better. I just wish it was one word.
I bet, if they weren't white, the Germans would have a word for this.
reddit.com/r/todayilearned/com

@@Gigi@kolektiva.social
2025-01-15 06:20:40

Related:
I wish I could remember one of the terms for a white guy they hire in Asia (it actually happens enough to merit a term) to pretend to be the boss just because he looks the part.
I'm going to have to look one up so I can throw it out there every time someone uses the term "diversity hire".

@scottmiller42@mstdn.social
2025-03-12 16:02:04

True story time, from about 8 years ago.
After work, I joined few co-workers for happy hour. I had 1 or 2 alcoholic drinks, then cut myself off and drank soda rest of the night, for many reasons including I wanted to be 100% sober to drive home.
One guy was rude, insisted I keep drinking, said I was ruining the fun.
Kids, be your own person. Be stubborn. Don't let someone pressure you into doing something you don't want to do. No means no.
1/x

@scottmiller42@mstdn.social
2025-03-12 19:58:47

On the same day I signed an initial IEP plan, I find out the US Dept of Education has cut half its staff.
Fuck POTUS47 and anyone that voted for him. And fuck any #ProgressivesForTrump that didn't have the maturity to vote for a better future. There's a million ways we will suffer for your single-minded refusal to see the future. You think people will "try harder&quo…

@@Gigi@kolektiva.social
2025-01-09 23:46:34

There is a long and storied history of whistles for protection. Ancient Egyptian guards used to place a blade of grass between the thumbs to alert other guards of issues that were transpiring. Later, shells were used to the same end. In China, acorns with holes drilled in them were used similarly.
As a dedicated instrument, whistles have been made of wood, bone, metal, and later, plastics. British bobbies have used whistles to communicate over distances since the 1880s. They are a commonly used tool for boatswains, crossing guards, and referees.
I wish I knew more about rape whistles, but they seem similar in functionality to hikers taking whistles with them in case of injury, as the sound carries much further than yelling, and is much less tiring.
As someone regularly stalked by a large creepy harasser, I am grateful for the whistle I was given for self-protection, even if the creeps who it was given to defend against resent the fuck out of it.
Fin.