I remember a significant snowstorm (15cm) on April 22 one year.

Useful table summarising the various ways to pass resource descriptors to a shader via a root signature (from static.graphicsprogrammingconference.com/public/2025/...)

Legendary play. Hawerchuck, Gretzky, Lemieux.
What made it so iconic, aside from the massive stakes, was that each showcased their particular strength.
Hawerchuck: solid centre, team player
Gretzky: vision and playmaking
Lemieux: goal scoring magic

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The Beatles - The Beatles - Can't Buy Me Love (Remastered 2015) YouTube video by TheBeatlesVEVO

April 4, 1964

The Beatles hold the top five spots on the Billboard Hot 100 chart with the following singles:

5) "Please Please Me"
4) "I Want To Hold Your Hand"
3) "She Loves You"
2) "Twist And Shout"
1) "Can't Buy Me Love"

#ClassicVinyl
#MusicSky

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Oof 790. It's all relative innit

Yes! Without context it's very problematic

Cloisonné pin similar to the NASA logo, but reads “NOT FLAT”, with “we checked” underneath l

NASA’s Earth photos from Artemis inspired me to put this on today… 🙂

Getting lots of positive comments on it as I run errands…

Saw the same in Seoul

True story: the idea for my dissertation, which became Uncivil Agreement (my first book), came to me as I was staring at my first dissertation proposal (on a different topic) that I hated. To distract myself, I opened a folder on my computer where I had stored articles I wanted to read later....

Partial blame to Microsoft and Zoom for normalizing the need to install new software just to make video calls, despite browsers being perfectly capable. They make it extra hard to even find the web-only links.

simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/3/s...

And then, just as he predicted, Thag became the spiritual channeler for a two-million-year-old gibbon named Gus.

And then, just as he predicted, Thag became the spiritual channeler for a two-million-year-old gibbon named Gus.

Thank you both! I wondered where the lighting was from, and thought "gee if that's the moonlight then that must be a great sensor"

I want to point out that this night-side shot was impossible the last time we had people up there.

This was taken on a Nikon D5 (arguably the best low-light DSLR...ever) at ISO 51200. Apollo went up there with 160-speed color film.

This is a first.

A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)

More context on this #Artemis II image:

* This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right

* The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon:
☀️🌍🚀🌕

Monkeys paw moment:

It's finally warm enough to sit outside. Praise be.
However I think I'm getting a pollen allergy headache.

typing "show me the good posts and not the bad posts. make no mistakes" into @attie.ai

Hm. "Nobody uses Linux" is all down to perspective. That's a relative statement. I'd say the Linux community is bigger than ever and actually very vibrant.
Comparison is the thief of joy, however.

I used AI. It worked. I hated it. I used Claude Code to build a tool I needed. It worked great, but I was miserable. I need to reckon with what it means.

I just read this super thoughful essay on the tradeoffs, in this case of LLM-assisted coding tools.

taggart-tech.com/reckoning/

this is an incredibly thoughtful post

That's home. That's us.

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew.

Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right.

Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

Spectacular high-resolution image of our home planet viewed through the Orion Crew Module window by the Artemis II astronauts as they continue their journey to the Moon on Flight Day 2, 3 April 2026 (pic: NASA)

A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)

😮 Awesome views from Day 2 of #Artemis II this morning.

@exploration.esa.int @esaearth.esa.int

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you design a system and 50% of its users are using it wrong, that is not user error.

You cannot blame users for that, you built a terrible system.

if you’re maintaining or working on/at something that is serving/being used by millions of users per day it’s just negligence to not be using a yubikey or similar

Gemma 4: Byte for byte, the most capable open models Gemma 4: our most intelligent open models to date, purpose-built for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows.

Woah hold up.

Gemma 4 is open source Apache 2?

That's interesting.

(Genuine surprise, I'm not shilling here)

blog.google/innovation-a...

NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft’s window after completing the translunar injection burn. There are two auroras (top right and bottom left) and zodiacal light (bottom right) is visible as the Earth eclipses the Sun.

Earth.

From Artemis II’s Orion spacecraft after translunar injection burn.

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Wait, how is the Earth lit? By moonlight?

thinking of cooking up a highly tendentious argument for human (interplanetary) spaceflight being important for the same reason LLM writing is boring, where the wonder comes not just from seeing something but from seeing it through the eyes of another person

Absolutely.

The web

(I understand that Wendell Berry is problematic in certain respects, but I believe these principles are sound.)