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Huh, as a cis man, I didn’t know this was a thing.

I write code for a living. I certainly complain when I find a bug in one of my dependencies.

Would the six planets ever perfectly align with one another? That would be pretty cool if every so many years they all foed a line!

It might include infrared, but this instrument only has three visible channels (red, green, and blue) and one near-infrared band that is sensitive to methane at about 890nm. So, most of this would be visible light.

It looks like a lot of the work of bringing out the beauty of these images is done by citizen scientists. It would be interesting to find out what was done to produce this particular image.

I might try my hand at some of this, actually. My job is to do data processing for satellite imagery of the earth. I’m curious to learn more about what is being done here.

Link to the article this comes from.

By Code do you mean VSCode? I use it all the time with VIM key bindings. It offers so much more than VIM with less finicky configuration. It’s the first IDE I’ve ever actually liked. Before now it was VIM or nothing.

At one point I had a plugin for MS Word that added vim key bindings because I kept leaving stray vim commands while editing other people’s documents.

Thank you for asking this. I’ve been wondering the same question for quite a while but have been too lazy to actually find the answer.

If I lived in Tokyo, though, I certainly wouldn’t want to be a 30+ minute walk from a train station. That makes leaving home a pretty big task.

What you said and your statement that “it’s a bit like grief” are dead on. I wasn’t kicked out by my parents, but I lost my dad when I was 27. I’m 40 now and still miss him but the feeling dwindles with time. I’ll always miss him but the impact of that feeling will always lessen as I gain more experiences. I suppose the same is true for any trauma of a similar magnitude. I imagine there are traumas that surpass the loss of parents in magnitude, though, and some of those may not pass in the same way.

How does the archive.org exemption work? When is it voted on next?

Unless you are salaried. Being salaried normally comes with flexibility but gives no guarantees for breaks and number of hours worked.

Palestine gets new rights from this but it also triggers a vote in the security council on whether Palestine will actually become a full member. The US will veto and has already signaled as much.

Palestine gets new rights from this but it also triggers a vote in the security council on whether Palestine will actually become a full member. The US will veto and has already signaled as much.

This CNN article has a lot more information and context including who voted against the measure (nine countries including the US and Israel), the practical effects of the measure (new rights for Palestine to sponsor and support resolutions but still no vote), and what can be expected in the near future (a vote in the UN security council on whether to actually admit Palestine which might pass but which the US will veto).

The name comes from the name of the person who first proposed the Julian Calendar, Julius Caesar.

Hah, now I feel disconnected. I had never heard that song before! I like it! Sorry for accusing you of being angry.

Well, me and the people who have up voted me for starters? Why are you so angry?

I want my oxford comma back…

Wow, $2 for a pack of cigarettes. I’m glad it’s not that cheap here. It would have made it harder for me to quit!