Particle Census xkcd.com/3247/

Feels weird getting early summer showers with early spring temperatures

Makes me feel real cozy that the only part of my SSD that's going bad is my boot partition :/

Love it when a webinar I'm watching for Project A coincidentally answers an unrelated question from Project B!

Someone reset the "days without embarrassing code mistakes" sign back to zero, please

As _markdown notation_ keeps getting implemented into stuff, I hope that $\LaTeX$ notation does too.

It occurs to me that Jenga would be impossible to make if all the blocks were precision-manufactured too high tolerances

Will someone please invent a pen/ink that writes well and dries fast enough that a lefty can use it without a mess!?

If you can't replace a bus line with a medium-to-long walk, it should be a train line.

Sometimes I think about that little girl Data saved, and that anxious questioning towards the stars, "Is anyone there?"

I'm at the "seeing smiley faces in data" level of sleep deprivation now, yay

Why does my UTF-8 Jupyter notebook replace "ö" with some arabic character every time I restart my computer? I mean... HOW? That shouldn't even be possible in the encoding!

gosh why did i have to fall in love with a career path that's so damn hard to find and get into?

You know that thing where your brain is supposed to sort of neurally map a tool to be an extended part of your body as far as coordination and intention goes? I wonder if anybody has studied if this applies to the "Greater Internet" for a terminally online person.

I just realized that almost all of my contact with a particular person somehow coincidentally happens almost exclusively on Thursdays

I had thought that the major workflow-altering bugs Jetbrains had fixed would be worth updating, but it broke the minor plot inversion feature and apparently that's way more important to my confusing brain so...

I fell into the trap of just poking into some modded Minecraft for the weekend and now I'm three days behind on stuff lol

Windows makes the weirdest partition tables

We really take matplotlib for granted, don't we? It's been a bedrock for years. There are so few libraries or tools out there that have been so useful for so long.

"The Dagger Footnote and You: Reducing Violence in Academic Literature"

"How great my doorbell buzzer is nice and loud so I can hear it anytime" Me, a clueless idiot, circa three years ago

Is it just me, or are laptop docks almost as temperamental as printers?

Let's see if I can find the right parts of the sky to look at today

Days since last mixing up degrees and arcminutes: fucking 0 again

arcmin to deg, deg to arcmin, `hms` `:::` `°'"`, illegal combinations of these... why #astro... why?

Will someone please invent smooth-flow spice jars?

I keep getting distracted by marveling at the HST imagery I'm supposed to be studying... looks like I need to switch to a columnar format 🙄

Due to publishing a boring and way-too-wordy project, I now have multiple "add pizazz to..." entries in my todolist for the next few days...

Really cool to see people are still returning PII in API results that should never be send to the end user. Other webinar attendees really do need my email address sent to their browsers /s

Does anyone have any experience with obsidian sync? I thought it'd be better than my current solution but someone implied it has a deal breaking lag or something and then refused to elaborate so I don't know what they meant :(

Your branch is behind 'origin/main' by 678 commits, and can be fast-forwarded Yeah git. I've been travelling.

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The cool part about scratching the surface of knowledge, though, is that there is always more knowledge to gain, and as I keep digging deeper, I feel like I've gained more knowledge from two months on this scicomp track than I gained from two years of trying to push gamedev past hobbyist stuff.

TouchDesigner is so cool, I just wish I knew what I was doing with it

Not that there is ever a good time, but I can't imagine a WORSE time for "no boot device found" than right now :|

Normalize alternate extremely un-technical names for advanced academic research. One example for today: "Modelling how potato-shaped asteroids fragment and fracture" :D

dont overthink it dont overthink it dont overthink it am i overthinking not overthinking it? crap thats overthinking

other than proving conclusively my research project is dead, it's been such a nice day today

Just had to hand-filter and delete all cloudy images from an allsky camera in a city where it's ALWAYS FUCKING CLOUDY! Literally, kid-you-not, 90,000 out of 113,000 images in a particular subset of interest.

I wish that the heat decay of food was independent of when you cooked / picked up the food, and only dependent on when you started eating it. I keep grabbing food and then getting busy with stuff :(

Why do jobs in academia take so long to hire? I'm sitting here hoping on a dream job for a month and it's driving me crazy!

I don't get how so many Dataspell features can be so clearly almost-perfect for scientific-computing usecases, and then flub key stuff. Their visualization cells are so much quicker to set up than writing plotting code, and then render a chart that's so unconfigurable I can't show it to anyone.

"I wish you dark skies" is an ominous curse to everyone but astronomers

Climbing after astronomy on tap is the best evening combo

There should be a cross-genre book category called, "books with sass" because that's what I'm interested in reading!

Getting stressed about this dream job being in the "In Consideration" status for 2 weeks without any interview request or next steps.

Ohhhhh darn I did not pack for this weather

Me reviewing code: No lavacode ever! Me writing code: I NEED THIS COMMENTED CODE LATER

Bad Duquesne! Might as well go to bed early!