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We actually did remarry 5 years ago.

Therapy and maturity and ditching some bad friends made a world of difference.

We've both matured quite a bit since then :)

In the early 2000s someone (drunkmenworkhere is what I remember) made a blog post generator that you could sign up for, add some names, some interests, and it would generate blog posts with Markov chains and some other magic. I signed up, not fully understanding how it worked, added some friends and family as names, played around with it, it wasn't what I thought it was and moved on. Meanwhile it kept generating entries about me and my family doing fantastic things.

At some point my then ex-wife (we've since reconciled) was google-stalking me and came across these entries. At some point they became outlandish enough that she contacted me to ask what was going on in my life. There was a very confused conversation where I had no idea what she was talking about and she was somewhat concerned about my health and safety. It wasn't until I talked to a relative and started googling myself with some specific terms that I came across the entries and was able to figure out what was happening. I emailed the individual running the project and asked to end the entries and if possible remove them from the internet to avoid further confusion.

Old LCD monitors with high voltage backlights would like a word with you. I have no idea what this monitor was using but before white LEDs were good there were some serious voltages for whatever lighting tech some of those panels came with.

I got up early this morning to take a look and try to get photos. Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn were spectacular and quite visible. I never did see Mercury, we had high humidity after rain last night and maybe that combined with the brightening dawn made it difficult.

Photographing these was a challenge. My widest non fisheye lens (18mm on APS-C sensor) just doesn't capture more than a couple of planets and the moon at a time. Saturn is way off high in the sky to the south while Venus, the Moon, and Mars are all to the east. I snapped off a panorama sequence but Lightroom wasn't able to automatically combine them so I'm going to be manually picking out control points in Hugin to try to get most or all of these into one image. I should have tried at least a couple of shots with the fisheye but I don't have much experience with that and was a little sleepy.

I came across this video from 2020 that demonstrates a couple of ways it works on iOS:

https://twitter.com/Kristy_Viers/status/1287189581926981634

You can turn on the various accessibility features and try them yourselves. While I was already aware of the 'voiceover' features, I was blown away by the braille keyboard and how quickly she could type with it.

Blind people use TTS set at ridiculous speeds that make my 1.5x podcast playback seem glacial. Even back in the late 80s I remember a blind classmate who had a portable electronic typewriter thing that read her entries back to her at rapid speed.

Looks like the Ghost blogging engine with the Casper theme. More than just the theme, the images and graphics are great too.

Great name! waves

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Digital photos are inherently computational, I think the distinction is where you stop processing and how much human control is exercised over the final product. Even film has some carefully developed characteristics that are used by the the photographer and developer to influence the image.

I love the full spectrum of it, from my DSLR to my iPhone. I'd love to see camera companies embrace the ability to capture the raw data to make deeper processing available and to open up the pipeline and let me tweak to my preference.

bro let's start this!

Seriously though, I have enough empathy and awareness from supporting elderly friends and family navigate the digital world that I could help build seriously awesome on-boarding experiences.

I’m glad I wasn’t the only one!

I have a 5 year old microwave purchased from a retailer with a reasonable expectation of quality (Costco) with no visible issues with the door seal that significantly interferes with 2.4 Ghz WiFi. I'm sure my neighbors don't enjoy the occasional internet issues that must result.

Yes, my first visit to the Met in NYC really opened my eyes to how impressive these works are in person and how much a photo on a screen does not convey. Not just the masters, but some of the portraits of people I've never heard of and by relatively unknown artists in styles I didn't particularly appreciate.

This is awesome, a great resource!

I've been watching the College of Dupage's satellite weather view [0] for the past year with wildfires and atmospheric rivers coming through.

Select a sector to zoom in to and a data product or combination and you have a nice animation of the recent satellite view [1]

[0]https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/

[1]https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/?parms=local-Tahoe-truecolor-...

More accurately, these quakes are on a strike-slip fault (named the Blanco Fracture Zone) on the other side of the Juan de Fuca plate from the Cascadian Subduction Zone. This fault won't directly produce 'the big one' but this movement will be building pressure and tension in the subduction zone.

https://www.npr.org/2021/12/08/1062365995/50-earthquakes-hit...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sci...

An acquaintance of mine is a big fan of Nick Zenter's videos on Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/user/GeologyNick

Mini Metro is a lovely little game designed in this style of transit map.

https://dinopoloclub.com/games/mini-metro/

I miss the old WeatherSpark visualization of past conditions and the future forecast.

They had a wonderful graph of various weather parameters in a nice slippy zoom interface that made it easy to visualize the forecast. It was built in Flash and they decided that a HTML version wasn't viable due to declining ad revenue.

Some appreciation and screenshots of the old version:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/sad-day-weatherspark-dashboar...

https://flowingdata.com/2011/03/14/weatherspark-for-more-gra...

https://www.reddit.com/r/weather/comments/4hkbq4/rest_in_pea...

https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/2016/20160004.pdf - The interface was even noted in a NOAA paper.

The slightly inflammatory title makes more sense in the context of their database, which sits on top of PouchDB, with adapters for IndexedDB in the browser and a variety of stores on the server side.

Based on the series of blog posts / documentation opinion pieces that have been posted so far, I'm quite interested in playing around with this despite being mostly in the relational SQL camp. Everything I've read is thoughtful, well reasoned, and rather practical and the author is exploring a rather interesting problem space.

I'd love to see a mashup of RxDB[1] and absurd-sql[2] that brings a distributed SQL datastore to the browser.

1) https://rxdb.info/

2) https://github.com/jlongster/absurd-sql

A custom language for the 6502 reminds me of the Action! language for the Atari computers. Wikipedia describes it as an ALGOL like language that included an editor, compiler, monitor, and runtime on a bank switching 16k cartridge. It was open sourced in 2015.

Looks like a great service, and it monitors quite a bit more than SSL / domain expiration.

My singular experience with Best Buy as an Apple partner was similar to the experience described. Not much leeeway in handling things, no satisfactory resolution.

Website and models available at https://beehave-model.net/

Original model implemented in NetLogo (as described on the page).

Some papers I found looking for the model:

https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111...

https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111...

Wish I had some time to explore making a game out of something like this while preserving as much of the accurate simulation as possible.

Venn diagrams accurately describe set operations but most joins in common use in SQL are filtered Cartesian products.

https://blog.jooq.org/2016/07/05/say-no-to-venn-diagrams-whe...

Plenty of options, one I haven’t seen mentioned is Shutter Encoder. I don’t think it covers all of ffmpeg functionality, it focuses on format conversions useful for video professionals and does a fine job of it.

https://www.shutterencoder.com/en/

'real time' generally means latency guarantees and trading some throughput for consistent low latency for interrupts and scheduling. So faster in some dimensions and slower in others.

The Arch Linux wiki has some description of their real time patches:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Realtime_kernel_patchset

My dad watches the Stellar’s fly in with peanuts and hide them in his yard, sometimes deciding that the spot they choose isn’t right or possibly another observed their hiding spot and moving the plant to a new location.

The mirror line would be a circular orbit, this plots each tracked orbiting debris with two dots, the blue dot being the lowest altitude of the orbit and red the highest.

There's also https://cgsql.dev/

This allows for stored procedures in a T-SQL variant that gets compiled to C. It is on my list to check out but I don't have any experience with it yet.

It is a massive FERPA violation, according to the the following from a student privacy organization:

https://studentprivacycompass.org/pasco/