@cosmicray@mastodon.social2025-04-10 01:33:56
Yesterday my schedule and the weather suited a return to gliding for the first time since the fires. I did four flights - the second was a checkout in a new type (the Grob 103), and the third a little soaring trip in the Schweizer 1-26. The first and fourth were just commuting in the Cessna 172.
#aviation #gliding
@kazys@mastodon.social2025-04-09 17:27:10
Watching the markets try and recover is like watching a small animal that has been terribly wounded. It's climbed out of the hole it fell in, but are the wounds too much? Will it fall back in like it did yesterday?
@mszll@datasci.social2025-06-04 07:54:46
PSA: We had some image loading issues since yesterday on datasci.social, soon to be resolved by itself. Thx for understanding.
Reason: Due to migrating to a more stable provider: An additional cache for images was added that also stores the data in an efficient manner, but due to the large initial load some of its requests are timing out to the backend. We are increasing the timeouts, and also manually pushing data into it so it has data before the initial request.
@blackknight95857669@social.linux.pizza2025-06-04 16:25:10
We visited my parents yesterday and I decided to bring along my PS5/VR2 to see if my Dad would be interested in checking it out.
He was, so I hooked it up to their (20 year old and about to quit) TV and got it set up and tested for a minute with No Man's Sky to make sure everything was working as intended.
Dropped the hat on his head and set him up a custom save, all settings tuned to "easy mode", no combat or damage, all slots unlocked etc so he would be able to j…
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca2025-06-08 10:40:30
Good Morning #Canada
As part of my research into yesterday's post, about another Fenian invasion of Canada, this story about the murder of D'Arcy McGee was suggested by that Google thingy. How did I not know that a Father of Confederation was assassinated by Irish terrorists? Or that McGee himself formerly fought for Irish independence before coming to Canada where he fought on the political front for an independent Canada.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History #Assassination
https://youtu.be/ueTqBHfngPY?si=nlfQDL6eRbdsiX4l
@pre@boing.world2025-05-31 12:24:33
On the 10th of December 2024 at about 4pm in the afternoon I had a sudden shivering attack. The room wasn't cold, but I was, so I took to bed and shivered on the electric blanket until I napped for a few hours.
Woke up groggy, and never got better. Feeling light headed and occasionally dizzy and half stoned all the time. Can't handle booze or dope at all any more. Doing the job feels like trying to program drunk, concentration shot and short term memory failing.
Various doctors have ordered batteries of tests and put me on drugs to reduce my blood pressure but nothing that's really helped.
They did an MRI last week. Apparently everything looks normal which is good I guess, but still leaves symptoms unexplained.
There are worse fates than feeling half drunk all the time I suppose.
Given no visible brain damage, about the best suggestion anyone has is to stay off booze and drugs (which is easy, since I can't handle them any more) and get back to meditation. If it's damage so small the MRI can't pick it up it'll get better slowly probably. 🤷
Anyway, they gave me the MRI data upon request, so I spent most of yesterday importing it into Blender and making some visualization.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present: My apparently completely normal brain in an MRI selfie.
#blender #mri #selfie
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2025-06-01 22:59:29
The SDO HMI Sun at 22:23 UTC on 1 June - the two groups aren't that impressive anymore. And the X flare from the upper one did send a nice and fast CME that caused aurora in some world regions yesterday but so far Europe has been screwed ...
@gwendolyn@mastodon.cloud2025-03-28 19:26:05
Let's say, just for fun, that I sexualized a shoe yesterday.
How would you know that I did it? How would I know that I did it? Would the shoe be different afterwards? Would I be different afterwards?
Is this "sexualize" thing really a useful concept?
#StopTheHysteria
@dariaphoebe@mindly.social2025-04-24 13:08:31
Did I miss Marie’s mini biscuits yesterday? Bacon and egg, tea and coffee. Touring Broadway show “Some Like It Hot” in the evening. #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/MRLffZjKULrt3JBV8
@pre@boing.world2025-05-10 11:39:45
The Python library "YFinance" decided to force an upgrade. They did this by making the old version report a rate-limit error on every request.
Confusing.
Would have been better if they reported a "old version not supported" error or something instead. So that wasted some time.
That upgrade had dependencies which have dependencies upon a newer version of Python, so needed a whole OS upgrade really.
Which failed. Bricking the Rasp PI it was running on.
Oh well, complete rebuild of the whole machine and software it runs from scratch then.
That took all day yesterday. At the end I notice that the touch-screen doesn't touch. Needs drivers.
The drivers haven't been upgraded in six years. They brick the machine again when trying to install them on Debian Trixie.
Luckily, I kept good notes and could rebuild it all again much faster with no mistakes and knowing what to do and all the required custom software changes already made and saved.
So now I spent a whole day on annoying upgrade work because a single Python library decided to break the old version, and my Rasp Pi has no touch-screen. Which isn't ideal for a machine mostly operating as a fancy light switch for all the LED strips in the house.
This happens all the time in software. Millions of man hours wasted, so much hardware dumped because the drivers get abandoned.
In other news: Microsoft abandons Windows 10 any day now. Good luck to everyone faced with doing that lap on the upgrade treadmill.
I still have more work to do to bring up this RaspPi's software to where it was, but it'll have to wait, other things to do. At least it's back to sending me the nightly finance report and controlling the LED strips. If without a touch screen now.
#software #upgradeTredmil #python #microsoft