The Official Status Thread
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Camping status: storm blew our tent away
Edit: and now the hail is starting
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@error DFW is in for a rough time. Tornado watch in effect. Storm chasers from across the country are converging there.
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Status: Wait, there’s a new X-Men cartoon that’s, well, not new-shit but same-as-the-old-shit?!
Why didn’t anybody tell me?!
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Why didn’t anybody tell me?!
You're not 11 anymore
I'm kidding. I'm not going to watch it but it is nice to see cartoons made now that look like 90s cartoons and not either modern cartoons or the sort of cartoons that @DogsB watches
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@loopback0 the 90s (and late 80s) art style was pinnacle. And not just because I happened to watch it back then.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Why didn’t anybody tell me?!
You're not 11 anymore
Also:
:sadbuttrue.mp3:
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I christen this tent Unsinkable II.
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Status: Thunder. That was not in the forecast. Not for this part of Texas.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Thunder. That was not in the forecast. Not for this part Texas.
Even the storms are bigger in Texas
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@izzion How serious is it? I just checked weather.gov, there is a Severe Thunderstorm Watch in Travis and surrounding counties. Please be safe! Will there be flooding?
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@Gearhead So far, at least, I haven't heard anything more than a little distant thunder. It's weird; there's a watch, but the hourly forecasts don't have rain or thunderstorm icons. If you look at what they're actually predicting, the predictions vary quite a bit depending on the source. AccuWeather shows a ~50% chance of rain, increasing to 60-something percent around 01:00. wunderground.com shows only 15% for the same hours. "A stray severe thunderstorm is possible." Radar shows one storm passing to the north of me and another south of me. There's no flood warning, and I'm not worried even when they do issue one. My house is on pretty much flat ground, but with enough slope that water drains away quickly; there's never water accumulation more than large, shallow puddles.
Edit: I just walked outside, and the ground is completely dry. If we got any rain at all, it was just a few scattered drops, but I don't see any sign of even that much. And the radar doesn't show any further rain approaching.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Why didn’t anybody tell me?!
You're not 11 anymore
Also:
:sadbuttrue.mp3:
I also rue having a sad butt.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Why didn’t anybody tell me?!
You're not 11 anymore
I'm kidding. I'm not going to watch it but it is nice to see cartoons made now that look like 90s cartoons and not either modern cartoons or the sort of cartoons that @DogsB watches
You sound really defensive for someone who allegedly does not watch instructional cartoons.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Why didn’t anybody tell me?!
You're not 11 anymore
I'm kidding. I'm not going to watch it but it is nice to see cartoons made now that look like 90s cartoons and not either modern cartoons or the sort of cartoons that @DogsB watches
You sound really defensive for someone who allegedly does not watch instructional cartoons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJutO3D_EF8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m7WUwCVdvc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1x0kXBKC-c
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Why didn’t anybody tell me?!
You're not 11 anymore
I'm kidding. I'm not going to watch it but it is nice to see cartoons made now that look like 90s cartoons and not either modern cartoons or the sort of cartoons that @DogsB watches
My Midori no ... I mean WWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEBBBBS!!!!
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Status: Le Sigh....
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
WWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEBBBBS!!!!
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Supposedly there's going to be a visible aurora
tonightat this time of day, at this time of year, in this part of the country, localized entirely within the far north but visible from the Northern US and Canada
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STATUS
The next Lovecraft story is three hours long. Send help!
*edit
One of the specs a recruiter sent me.5+ years’ experience as a Fullstack Engineer. Excellent frontend & design capabilities (React). Java/Spring Boot experience. Exposure to cloud technologies. A creative “ideas” person. Excellent communicator, able to work closely with the other engineers. Startup experience would be a big help.
Sounds like they need an entire it department, design and marketing!
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
Exposure to cloud technologies.
: Yes, I've been exposed to cloud technologies.
: Can you tell me more about it?
: I'd rather not, if you don't mind. It was a pretty traumatic experience for me.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
Exposure to cloud technologies.
: Yes, I've been exposed to cloud technologies.
: Can you tell me more about it?
: I'd rather not, if you don't mind. It was a pretty traumatic experience for me.This one might be better:
Technically speaking you will be experienced with the following:
The Senior Full Stack Engineer will have passion for clean code, a hunger to take on challenging and exciting projects as well as an unrelenting drive to learn and deliver. Will enjoy leading projects and assist with guiding the team alongside the technical lead, mentoring as required.
The company itself is quite large, works at huge scale, but each team has a startup feel so best of both worlds. 2024/2025 is going to be a huge year for them.
We can create shit and hit corporate bullshit at breakneck speeds! This sounds likes ten pounds of shit in a five pound bag. I'll put my CV forward and report back if they bite.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
This sounds likes ten pounds of shit in a five pound bag
Don't ever settle for less
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
The company itself is quite large, works at huge scale, but each team has a startup feel so best of both worlds.
You mean, all of the bureaucracy of a large company, with all of the lack of resources of a start-up? Sign me in!
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Article @hungrier linked in The Official Status Thread:
Supposedly there's going to be a visible aurora
tonightat this time of day, at this time of year, in this part of the country, localized entirely within the far north but visible from the Northern US and Canada
On April 8,
MSN, et tu with the AI nonsense?
Oh, wait, Microsoft can't tell the difference between Created date and Modified date...
Correction — May 10, 2024: An earlier version of this story misattributed information and a quote to Andrew Gerrard of the New Jersey Institute of Tech. The most extreme estimate of aurora and where they can be seen in the US came from Alex Young.
Nubes.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
Supposedly there's going to be a visible aurora
tonightat this time of day, at this time of year, in this part of the country, localized entirely within the far north but visible from the Northern US and CanadaNaked eye or long-exposure photograph? They repeatedly tried to trick us with that last winter.
This is practically guaranteed to not be visible here because we're too far north and it's mid may so it doesn't get dark enough.
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the military airbase at walking distance from my house will start receiving comercial flights cause the POA airport is a bit wet
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lots of noise, if I didn't travel towards a place with supermarkets working (cause the ones near my house are a bit wet)
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
Naked eye or long-exposure photograph? They repeatedly tried to trick us with that last winter.
No idea. It's cloudy here and I'm in the city, so
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Status: I just got home from a meeting of the local astronomy society. We had a guest speaker, who talked about cosmic distances. I think his talk broke my brain.
According to current standard theories, the universe is 13.8 billion years old. The oldest, most distant galaxy observed, HD1, is just about as old and distant as a galaxy can possibly be. The light we observed was emitted 13.5 billion years ago, when the universe was only 300 million years old; before that, there hadn't been enough time for galaxies to form.
How far away is that galaxy?
Yes.
When the light was emitted, HD1 was 1 billion light years away. However, as those photons have been traveling toward Earth at the speed of light, Earth has been moving away from that location at nearly the speed of light. Had the Earth not been moving, it would have taken a billion years for the light to reach Earth, but it has been moving away, so it has taken 13.5 billion years to get here. (And we went and stuck a telescope in the way of those photons, ending their multi-billion year journey.) So HD1 is 13.5 billion light years away, right? No. Because it's also been moving in the opposite direction for 13.5 billion years. At this moment, it's roughly 33 billion light years away.
It is so far away and moving away from us so fast that light it emits now cannot ever be observed from Earth. HD1 and the Milky Way are moving in opposite directions at a relative speed that exceeds the speed of light. (Somehow this doesn't violate Special Relativity. This is where my brain started to break.)
There is a certain distance from Earth beyond which we simply cannot observe. However, light from outside that radius that is emitted in the future may cross that radius and become observable (in the much more distant future when it reaches Earth). But there is a further distance beyond which the light can never reach the radius of observability. (My brain just noped-out at this point.) Observers at distant points in the universe would experience the same limitations at the same distances from themselves; these spheres of observability might or might not overlap ours, depending on those observers' locations.
There's yet another important radius, but I won't try to explain it, because I can't remember it myself (and because it's almost 01:00; my brain is shutting down not only due to cosmology overload, but also due to sleep deprivation).
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@hungrier so apparently that was visible here, too. A friend sent me a picture.
Of course, I thought that’s only about North America so I had no idea and didn’t get out. From my place, it was of course way too bright, so the only thing I could see besides street lamps was the moon. Would have gone out to where it can be seen if I had been aware earlier.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
At this moment
There is no at this moment. There is only the timespan from when light was emitted there, which was seen here, until the returning pulse arrives there again. Because relativity. Not sure which kind.
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status: my hate for Hallmark suddenly has a value.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier so apparently that was visible here, too. A friend sent me a picture.
Of course, I thought that’s only about North America so I had no idea and didn’t get out. From my place, it was of course way too bright, so the only thing I could see besides street lamps was the moon. Would have gone out to where it can be seen if I had been aware earlier.We had just enough thin cloud that it wasn't worth looking. A couple of the brightest stars showed through, but that was it; I'd normally see far more than that despite being in the city.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
There is a certain distance from Earth beyond which we simply cannot observe.
Sure.
@HardwareGeek then said in The Official Status Thread:
However, light from outside that radius that is emitted in the future may cross that radius and become observable (in the much more distant future when it reaches Earth).
o_Ô ? Now I'm confused.
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Never mind. I've thought about it some more and I think I got it.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
There is a certain distance from Earth beyond which we simply cannot observe.
Sure.
@HardwareGeek then said in The Official Status Thread:
However, light from outside that radius that is emitted in the future may cross that radius and become observable (in the much more distant future when it reaches Earth).
o_Ô ? Now I'm confused.
Me, too.
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
Never mind. I've thought about it some more and I think I got it.
Ok, can you explain it to me? My brain was already broken by the time he got to that point in his talk.
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@HardwareGeek
Imagine a bus stoplight coneants on a balloon.(The common analogy here is: the ants moving on an inflating balloon move away from each other faster than they are walking. The inflating balloon is the fabric of space, and its expansion isn't limited by the light-speed limit. Also, things that are farther away move away from us faster. Well, that's as far as I understand it, I really just wanted to post the first line, not make a comprehensible post.)
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
At this moment
There is no at this moment. There is only the timespan from when light was emitted there, which was seen here, until the returning pulse arrives there again. Because relativity. Not sure which kind.
Fine, .
However, the light was emitted 13.5B years ago. The two galaxies (ours and HD1) have been moving for the last 13.5B years. At the (non-constant) speeds they have been moving, they have moved a combined distance of 19.5B light years further apart.
An observer halfway between the two galaxies might observe both moving away from itself in opposite directions at roughly 0.7c. However, an observer in either galaxy would measure the other galaxy's speed as 2 * 0.7 / (1 + 0.72) = 0.94c. It can move 19.5B light years away in only 13.5B years without exceeding c because time dilation. A clock that is moving runs slower that one that's stationary. So the 13.5B years isn't really 13.5B. Or something like that. My brain is broken again.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
the fabric of space, and its expansion isn't limited by the light-speed limit.
That makes sense. Well, as much sense as anything in modern cosmology, anyway.
not make a comprehensible post.
I never expect that anyway.
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If you've still got your eclipse glasses there's a sunspot visible to the naked eye. Last time there was one THIS LARGE was in 1859.
There. For the mod who claimed my post was pseudoscience.
And if it's not cloudy, and it's daylight where you are, and if it's still there; this was posted a while ago. Alas, it's daylight here, but it's much too cloudy to see the sun, much less any surface detail.
Edit to add this reply:
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
I didn't expect astronomy nerds to advertise new age bullshit (or whatever kind this is) that belongs on an astrology site.
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@topspin I don't think they're claiming any new age bs special properties about the necklace. They're just saying it's special because it's the only such necklace that was launched on a research balloon during an eclipse. Kind of like how something is unique because it was carried on Apollo 11, or went to the ISS, or something like that. Nothing intrinsically special about the object itself, just special because of the circumstances surrounding it. But not as special, because lunar darkness isn't that special a circumstance.
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Status: Appointment cancelled.
Several months ago I saw a doctor and had another appointment scheduled with him yesterday at 12:30 PM. At 9:30 AM, I got a phone call telling me that the appointment has been cancelled. It's a little weird to have an appointment cancelled with only 3 hours notice, but whatever, shit happens.
When I asked about re-scheduling, I was told that the doctor no longer works at the hospital and has permanently left the country.
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@Gern_Blaanston maybe he died and left in the biological sense rather than the geographic.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Ok, can you explain it to me? My brain was already broken by the time he got to that point in his talk.
Oof. Good thing it's rhetorical. It made sense at the time, but I'm not so sure again. I'm too tired for this at the moment.
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
A clock that is moving runs slower that one that's stationary.
Except it doesn't. At least, not locally. Because locally, the clock isn't moving.
As I understand it, anyway.
The thing that breaks my brain is that when A moves away from B at velocity v, you can also look at if as if it's B that's moving away from A at velocity -v. Or that both are moving at speed |v/2| from each other. Comparing times gets weird.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
An observer halfway between the two galaxies might observe both moving away from itself in opposite directions at roughly 0.7c. However, an observer in either galaxy would measure the other galaxy's speed as 2 * 0.7 / (1 + 0.72) = 0.94c. It can move 19.5B light years away in only 13.5B years without exceeding c because time dilation. A clock that is moving runs slower that one that's stationary. So the 13.5B years isn't really 13.5B. Or something like that. My brain is broken again.
I can't parse this at the moment, but I'll try to make sense of it tomorrow. Maybe.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
An observer halfway between the two galaxies might observe both moving away from itself in opposite directions at roughly 0.7c. However, an observer in either galaxy would measure the other galaxy's speed as 2 * 0.7 / (1 + 0.72) = 0.94c. It can move 19.5B light years away in only 13.5B years without exceeding c because time dilation. A clock that is moving runs slower that one that's stationary. So the 13.5B years isn't really 13.5B. Or something like that. My brain is broken again.
I can't parse this at the moment, but I'll try to make sense of it tomorrow. Maybe.
Every time I look at it my brain runs away at 0.7c, screaming.
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Status: Such an amazing political shit-show. Really, at this point I'm only watching because it's fun that it's such a shit-show.
This time, we weren't actually on the receiving end of it. Which is surprising, I was fully convinced we could send Elvis Presley and still get zero points. Scoring somewhere in mid-field was actually quite fair, for once. There were far worse songs than ours ahead of us, but also better ones below us, so that balances. Just when the scores we awarded were announced, the audio filters couldn't handle all the pro-terrorist booing.
No idea how the UK managed to fuck up so hard to get zero points. I mean, they're used to it, but Ireland made my ears bleed.
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@topspin I almost thought you were talking about but I'm not sure...