Dogfooding the hell out of this for PicThing btw

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My alternative API is almost ready to ship.

Costs for my solution are over 40x cheaper month 1, ~1000x cheaper month 2 onwards.

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Before I started using a MacBook.

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If someone tells you they run a 7-figure business.

But they won’t tell you what the name of the business is.

They don’t run a 7-figure business.

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There are certain stars that have a lot of Helium distributed throughout their structure. If such a star is hot enough it will ionize that Helium stripping it of one, or even both, of its electrons. A Helium ion with with one electron is singly ionized, and is relatively transparent. A helium ion with no electrons is doubly ionized and is relatively opaque.

Very hot stars will doubly ionize their Helium. The opacity of the ion will absorb the light coming from deeper within the star; and the star will appear to dim. But that absorption also heats the outer envelope of the star which expands. As it expands it cools. Eventually it cools enough so that the doubly ionized Helium will pick up a free electron and become singly ionized and more transparent. Light is now free to leave the star, and it appears to brighten. The freeing of that energy causes the outer envelope to cool and contract until the singly ionized Helium is dense enough to heat up and lose that electron again.

And so the star pulsates, growing brighter and dimmer with a period of a few days. Such a star is called a Cepheid Variable (CV), and there are many around the sky.

In 1921 Henrietta Swan Leavitt was studying these variable stars within a Southern Hemisphere nebula called the Small Magellenic Cloud (SMC)

The reason Leavitt was studying variable stars within the SMC is because that nebula is very far away from us and so all the stars within it are all the same distance from us. This means that distance could be removed as a variable.

What she learned, as she studied the CVs in the SMC was that the period of the pulsations was proportional to the average brightness of the star. This became known as the Period-Luminosity relationship.

Delta Cepheus is a nearby CV with a 5 day period. Leavitt found a star with the same period in the SMC and measured it's magnitude as 10,000 times dimmer. From that measurement, and the inverse square law, she was able to show that the SMC was 100 times farther from us than Delta Cepheus.

Eventually CVs were found whose distances from us could be directly measured, and Leavitt's formula was calibrated. Now, given brightness and period, it was possible to calculate distance.

There are hundreds of globular clusters orbiting the core of our galaxy. These objects are gravitationally bound spheres roughly a light-year in diameter and densely packed with ~100,000 stars. They are some of the most gorgeous objects visible through a backyard telescope. And almost all of them contain CVs.

Using Leavitt's formula, the distance to all the Globular clusters can be calculated, and this allows us to create a 3D model. It turns out the clusters are arranged in a giant sphere whose center is 30,00 light-years away in the constellation of Sagittarius.

If we assume the center of that sphere is also the center of our galaxy, then we are 30,000 light years from that center. If we turn around 180° and look directly away from the center, we see about the same amount of galaxy in that direction. So we can infer that the radius of our galaxy is ~60,000 light years, and that our home, the Milky Way Galaxy is ~120,000 light years in diameter.

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It has been 38 days and Kamala has not deigned to allow an interview. Tarantino is right, if she does she’ll lose.

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The progressive left has reached the point where the Middle East is fighting against them on behalf of human rights. Wow

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Web Developers community is about to hit 50 thousand members.

If you're a member, say hi.

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Re roadmaps: I strongly believe in strategic roadmaps. In my experience, tactical ones are usually a waste of time. One reason I don't really like the term "roadmap" is that it implies a well-defined route to me. I think more in terms of a sea chart. Set a strategic goal, map the hazards, and move towards the goal it in small increments, avoiding the hazards. You can't control the wind, so the route is flexible. You may even be driven backward sometimes, but the goal gets you turned back around.

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State of CSS Survey is up! Take a few mins and fill this out so we can get a good read on where CSS feature usage is at!

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= X

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"Don't Panic!... I'm From a Different Planet" - Elon Musk

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found the crazies* building this: @bennbuilds @4TristanS

*in a good way

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some confusion here - this video is a demo of the experience (seemingly using a drone) - the team does not have satellites up yet. seems they’ve so far tested with hot air balloons.

unsure about ROI of such a project, but it seems the team is seriously looking to build this. human ambition is beautiful and scary at the same time :)

Source: x.com/yoheinakajima/status/1826788028268118357

wait what? you can now buy sunlight at night, via giant mirrors on satellites?

Source: x.com/yoheinakajima/status/1826723726278414413

Built this before for a dynamic UI layout engine. Was an absolute bitch to maintain and nobody else wanted to touch it.

Json ended up being much better. Easier to maintain, “version”, expose new functionality, and much more

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The fact that I can fill this with unused cards kind of disgusts me

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Windows 95 is 29 years old today.

Wait...

How old does that make me?

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rbenv seems to work after uninstalling rvm. Yikes, what a horror show. The intelliJ integration isn't perfect, but it'll do.

I tried installing chruby, but after downloading a couple of different python interpreters, a clojure environment, and an erlang environment, it blew up.

What are these guys putting in these systems? Yikes.

I damned near paid $100 to get the Ruby on Mac tool. I mean this is such a horrific process that people are making money off it.

Source: x.com/unclebobmartin/status/1827697094376796439

When you throw a ball straight up in the air, it will fall back. The harder you throw it the higher it will go before it falls back. There is, however, a speed at which you can throw that ball and it will never come back. It will "escape" the Earth's gravity, asymptotically slowing to zero.

The escape velocity at the surface of a neutron star is very close to the speed of light. Light can still escape from the surface, but it is strongly redshifted by the intense gravity.

If a neutron star happens to closely orbit another star that has entered a red giant phase, then matter from the red giant may fall onto the surface of the neutron star. This can have two effects. First, the angular momentum of the infalling matter will cause the neutron star to spin more rapidly. Some have been seen spinning at nearly a thousand revolutions per second.

Think about that for just a minute. This is an object that weighs more than our Sun, compressed into a sphere less than ten miles in diameter, and spinning at a kilohertz. The sheer amount of kinetic energy is -- mind boggling.

The second effect of the infalling matter is to raise the mass of the neutron star, and therefore it's escape velocity. As this process continues, the escape velocity gets closer and closer to the speed of light.

The infalling matter is, of course, getting accelerated close to the escape velocity. As if falls inward it is compressed, and frictional forces heat it. Hot compressed hydrogen fuses before it reaches the surface, emitting even more energy, much of which is channeled by the spinning magnetic field into vast beams that sweep through the heavens.

At last the crisis is reached. The neutrons in the star have been desperately trying to arrange themselves into higher and higher energy shells to accomodate the infalling matter. But at last there are no more energy shells available. The next highest shell would have the neutrons in that shell exceeding the speed of light.

And so gravity wins. The neutron star begins to collapse under it's own gargantuan gravity. Nothing we know of can stop that collapse, and it probably doesn't matter, because as the neutron star collapses it passes through the radius where the escape velocity equals the speed of light.

There is no amount of energy that can cause an object to come back out of that radius. Anything that falls in must keep falling in forever. That includes light, and all forms of radiation.

The neutron star has become a black hole.

Source: x.com/unclebobmartin/status/1827703431038939143