The ESM visible during the Artemis 2 mission.
@esa.int isnn't marketing itself enough. All the world praises only NASA for the Artemis mission, even though the European Service Module (which is like half of the ship, good luck flying w/o it) is visible in almost all mission shots... (that circular thing to the left of the Moon here). Humanity.
How unlucky, that an article on how to depart from proprietary software be hidden behind a proprietary paywall.
Cover image of the ERCOFTAC bulleting (with a fictional issue number coming from 2029). The image shows a color-manipulated turbulent flow.
As I'm sure nobody has any idea about: 15y ago I have designed the cover of the ERCOFTAC (#ERCOFTAC) bulletin. (The graphic, seen below, has the color-manipulated foaming waters of the Polish Oder river.) As I have just been asked to redesign it, here's a goodbye look. New one premieres soon!
Second stage of the Chinese rocket ZQ-3 R/B is scheduled for an uncontrolled reentry today. Latest trajectory estimates touch Denmark and Poland. To add weight to the situation: it comes in at 11 tons, bus sized, and can hit land...
www.eusst.eu/newsroom/new...
newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/uncontr...
A policing action, and by the way, a small diversion from the Epstein files. Whatever works.
AFAIK Congress needed to also to accept the Venezuela gig first?
Denmark should demand EU (optionally +Canadian) forces deployed to Greenland. Just as a gesture.
On an unrelated note, here's water coating a perforated solid at Re=46. There's a high-Re air coflow too, eventually a film is established though. Such processes take place e.g. in cooling towers's heat exchangers. Fresh out of the oven, simulated in Basilisk.
Today, I replaced a leaky/cracked adapter in the hot water outlet of a 300l boiler. I wonder what motivated whomever had previously decided to install this part made of... plastic. (Makes for a great non-AMD Threadripper, if you catch my drift). Darn, AI ain't replacing no plumbers I tell you.
A screenshot from a Linux system with an image made by S.C. in the background.
Greetings from the fanclub! Yeah this one works for me after necessary modifications :) Keep'em comin' :)
By having two nearly identical pieces of document here, one of which has a stamp while the other doesn't, the author really made it harder to understand what the "tip" is about...
Is that a Petri Dish? No, it's viscous liquid in an (unnecessarily violent) rotational flow inside a solid cylinder. Color is vorticity. Simulation in Basilisk (www.basilisk.fr and bview).
BTW, fixed a car radio. Off the bat I hear some rattling in it, and inside I discover ...4 euro coins (see? fixing stuff *does* pay off!), turns out prev owner's kids used the CD slit "as a vending machine"... A coin stuck in the CD changer's magnet, others were randomly shorting the circuit. Nice.
J'ai trouvé dans la forêt près de Vernon (27) une tonne de betteraves sucrières déversées là par des chasseurs afin de nourrir les sangliers, les chevreuils et autres animaux. Je suppose que ce genre de phénomène se produit dans tout le pays. Je vous laisse en tirer vos propres conclusions.
A great Polish sci-fi writer, S. Lem, said once that even if the Moon was literally covered with diamonds, it still wouldn't pay off to excavate them. The Apollo program was expensive and happened principally for political reasons, which then expired. Once pragmatism requires it, we may return.
Well, yeah. That's an example of how the users mix LLMs into they work with poor results. It's nowadays just a tip of the iceberg. Students in the universities (some of them) go as far or further, pff, even the researchers do, e.g. for writing code snippets, thereby un-learning the language used.
7.003 is great. There's also (search bandcamp) the pre-environments-8 ep that I don't have but is highly regarded. Never been a huge fan of post-Isness Amorphous (btw. Trip Maps is a bit like them), still, haven't heard of that sneakpeak!
I don't know, things like Trip Maps 3 have Gary written all over them (fsol.bandcamp.com/album/trip-m...), and on Environments 7.003 they're both credited. Gaz leaving never crossed my mind...
The thing I'd like more is if him or Gary (or the two as FSOL) were finally on bluesky...
Note to self: using LLMs (colloquially known as "AI") as ChatGPT for creative tasks such as writing *does*, after all, decrease your brain activity (colloquially "make you stupid"). Take it from the MIT: www.media.mit.edu/publications... (The link has both an arXiv paper and YT vid.)
The newly made cabinet (on the left). This is the painted furniture with four visible drawers, placed below a tabletop. Portions of the image are blurred.
Three shots of the wooden cabinet. (Left) the pine crate with four drawers (no side walls), some of them partially drawn. The center image has the side walls (palette wood pine/spruce) and drawers inserted. The third image (on the right) has the cabinet w/o drawers, with a fresh coat of paint (parts of the interior have transparent varnish).
A montage showing one of the four drawers I made for the project. I started with two large drawers found in a dump. Each of them was cut in half, resulting in four new drawers; these needed reconstructed walls as shown here, same goes for the wallnut fronts. Also, keyholes had to be made/remade and new locks bought. An old keyhole is visible above in the insert. While this one was re-filled and cemented, I made 4 of new such lock-nests in different locations...
Four images showing: the dovetail joint used in the crate (Upper-left), the assembled crate with two inner walls (upper-right), the crate while fitting drawer rails (lower-left), the cabinet design in Blender (lower-right).
Made this cabinet, on and off over the last 7 mo. As usual, *all* wood is palette/garbage/dumpster_finds. So its cost was 0 (but the man-hours would take you back some 4k€ easily). Some tech infos in the image alt-texts. Had tons of fun - and that's why it was made. #DIY #woodworking
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Mainstream media takes stories like: dx.doi.org/10.1139/apnm-2023-0594, and runs FAR with them ("meat is good for you!"). Risky. A talented statistician can use NHANES data even to prove the existence of Atlantis. Oh, and the work is sponsored by National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. No kidding!
I find it actually touching that 70y ago they took a column in a physical newspaper to write this sort of a thing. You can imagine a guy reading it at a cafe, nodding in wonder... I doubt if, in today's media world, we would stop our 'rat race conditioned brains' for a moment for a column like that.
It might do "much more", but it does NOT allow you to tune into a FM/AM station *on its own*. This Sinclair and the Phillips watches did. Apple Watch is a sensor-equipped front-end to the iPhone, not much more. These old devices were standalone, hence in a way much more ambitious.
He just signed a major deal with Palantir (P. Thiel's AI corporation literally named after Tolkien's evil artifact) he might've just as well sign all defense to Skynet, at this point I think noone cares anyway...
By the way: If anyone reading this has some serious sources on the stats for the probability of thermal runaway in li-ion (aka spontaneous combustion), I'm a taker.
Witnessed a skirmish with an anti-nuclear activist about what the lack of river/sea water means for a plant (coal vs nuclear). He says: "obviously, the coal plants do NOT use water for anything, while the nuclear do". Humanity is lost
Very impressive. It's almost a shame it's an engineered E. Coli strain, so hard to assess how 'industrially realistic' this process will be. We will see. (Also trauma warning for non-biologists: do not open the 45p. PDF appendix)
