@tfb It was super calm one moment, no sign of rain or wind. The moment I thought of going out, the clouds rollled in. ๐
HK is structured as a few cauldrons separated by mountains. At least for a few hours, the weather in one part can be quite different from the weather in another, even if the whole region is just a couple of dozen kilometers across.
A few hours later again, as I picked up kid from after-school tutor, the weather was fine for a two-hour walk.
Cataloging asteroids is tricky because they are faint and they don't stop to be photographed as they zip along their orbits around the Sun. Astronomers recently used a trove of archived Hubble images to snag a largely unseen population of smaller asteroids in their tracks. (1/6)
@polotek My gut says that most *people* don't, because the VC bubble has taught us that apps are free. Software engineers just aren't that different.
It doesn't help that many of us are building free apps for consumers, internal tools, or B2B stuff. Those environments don't necessarily teach the intuition that, yeah actually, it makes sense to pay $50/yr for YNAB or $200 for OmniFocus or whatever. Because what we learn from our jobs is "apps are free" and "paid software is for businesses".
I know that most people's first pithy thought is "they think they can build it themselves". But I don't buy it. Most software develops know how hard it is to build solutions that actually feel polished and usable. Our laptops are literally graveyards of projects that never get completed.
What I'm saying that if anybody in the world understands why good software is worth paying real money, it should be us. But that's often not the case. Why?
havign done a bunch of API design and implementation on a considerable quantity of drugs yesterday, and then having read the preadv2 manpage today, I'm going to assert that the Linux people are doing more, and worse, drugs
person1: my husband might have Parkinson's. my sons see the need for their help, but they won't step up person2: how old are they? p1: 18 & 19 person3: well there you go. they're still kids me: part of it is also that our culture doesn't expect that kind of caregiving from boys p2: oh but they're still teenagers p3: you can't expect that from them p2: remember when *you* were a teenager
Yeah, I remember when I was a teenager, 18 & 19. And that kind of help *was* expected of me. I was a girl
And no, kids shouldn't be expected to become caregivers. But "even" boys can be expected to do the laundry and wash the dishes and vacuum the floors when they live at home,.pay no rent, and their mother is taking their father to neurology appointments.
Anyway, stop making excuses for boys and men when it comes to not taking on domestic shit.
I feel like I need to design some #QSL cards. I keep getting unexpected cards in the mail. I need to work up a design in #LaTeX cuz I donโt understand how to use those fancy design programs. And they are so expensive.
@sergio_101 I had mine printed by a service, which greatly simplified and sped up the process. I could have done it all myself in Photoshop etc. but it would have taken a lot of time and I couldn't be sure how it would turn out until they were printed.
@radiofreefedi Just read the blog post, and appreciate the new site! Looks pretty clean and shows all the permission info clearly even on mobile! The recently played history is a great addition too!
Glad most of your interactions have been with people who get it, but it's unfortunate there are some who don't and end up being negative. To give one more note of positivity in your direction, I want to say I sent about $100 in total supporting several artists' discographies this Bandcamp Friday. I let each of them know I discovered through Radio Free Fedi, and have gotten a couple nice emails back already! You achieve exactly what you set out to, a perfect jumping point of discovery for Fedi artists!
Been a bit "light" on our positive posts and very heavy on behind the scenes project planning and boring infrastructure works. IRL as for many has been a bit pummelling on the hamster in the wheel but here we are, together.
Keep lifting each other up to survive and thrive sharing our art and love in comradery.
Please enjoy a positive RFF project update with something new you may have already spotted...
Biochemist Marie Maynard Daly, who studied correlations between heart attacks and cholesterol, and between smoking and lung disease, was born #OTD in 1921.
She was the first Black woman to receive a chemistry PhD in the US.
@mcnees thank you for sharing this! I have been deeply thinking about my contribution to the world around me and it is really uplifting to see reasoning about fundamental science
I just finished โThe Shadow Historiesโ duology by H.G. Parry and it was wonderful. Happened upon it in my neighborhood used bookstore while looking for something that might scratch the same itch as โJonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell.โ
A marvelous alt-history of magic and human rights set against the French Revolution and then the Napoleonic Wars. Highly recommended.
@level98 I found โA Declaration of the Rights of Magiciansโ in our used book store, then bought an ebook of โA Radical Act of Free Magic.โ A great read. Also, I feel like adding vampires is almost always clumsy and dumb, but not here. One of the few times Iโve really liked how it was integrated.