🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Antonio Vivaldi, Wynton Marsalis, Raymond Leppard, Raymond Leppard & English Chamber Orchestra:
🎵 Concerto for 2 Trumpets in C Major, RV 537 (Arr. by R. Leppard): III. Allegro
https://open.spotify.com/track/50pf4zJQLWyFo6dIlEyI8P
Reminder to boycott the Eurovision Song Contest. One thing you can do for yourself is mute the terms "Eurovision" and "Song Contest" on social media.
It's been a while but I was reminded that Java is shit.
Python is better, but has issues, mostly because of macOS.
And macOS permissions for user-created applications are a nightmare!
But a big, big thanks goes out to tools like Platypus.
"Platypus is a developer tool that creates native Mac applications from command line scripts such as shell scripts or Python, Perl, Ruby, Tcl, JavaScript and PHP programs."
Randomly reminded of the time that me and my brothers decided that a hypothetical mixture of Coca-Cola and toilet paper (which as far as I know was never actually created) needed a name, and dubbed it "garblax".
South Africa reminds Musk that there are other countries in the world where he can peddle Starlink if he doesn't want to comply with their laws.
"There are currently 193 member states in the United Nations. Surely, there's good money to be made out of 192 markets. It's okay to move on!"
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Reminders that you are in an International #DarkSky Community (for 9 years now) pop up in numerous places on MŸn and neighboring Nyord: an exhibit at the GeoCenter MŸns Klint - https://moensklint.dk/en/ - and a sign at the Nature Center Hyldevang on Nyord.
Every now and then, it's worth reminding yourself that every single crisis of Trump 2.0
-- the economic downturn, the chaos in our cities, the rising health crisis, the foreign wars
-- has been a direct result of their own actions.
If they'd done nothing at all, they'd be coasting comfortably.
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After a lot of other poking and prodding at other stuff failed, the PAM edge detector got a 30% speedup and the sin(x)/x upsampling filter is about 4x faster just by restructuring some stuff to change memory access patterns.
As a reminder: a GPU is a device for turning compute bound problems into memory bandwidth bound problems.