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still just so jazzed about this, like seeing such a smooth curve made me think i really messed up my data collection. nothing in nature is that smooth right?? and a star that's so distant having such a dramatic shift in luminance?? but no it's real and i saw it by total accident

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so i look at other stars in the same area and saw this Weird Shape, because i didn't realize stars could do that

so here's TOI-5344 b. very cool, transit is basically what i expected when it should be. sick rad

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simbad.u-strasbg.frcoord 04 12 37.89 +20 50 31.6 (FK5, 2000, 2000), radius: 2 arcminThe astronomical object called CRTS J041237.9+205031 is a Eclipsing Binary

that turns out to be simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-c... and til there are binary stars so close they are just in contact: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact...

the previously observed period here is about 8.1 hours. what i saw here is about half of that, which is consistent with one star being behind the other, then having completed half a revolution so the other star is in front. so the time lines up and everything. wild

so here's TOI-5344 b. very cool, transit is basically what i expected when it should be. sick rad

so i look at other stars in the same area and saw this Weird Shape, because i didn't realize stars could do that

but i do think i found it

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so. i don't think it's actually here.

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meanwhile the paper sure says UCAC3 269-003518, which is simbad.cds.unistra.fr/simbad/sim-i... , and the star above is the one just up and to the right. meanwhile UCAC3 269-003518 at the same time looks like:

the problems here, and there are many: i didn't think i'd actually see anything remarkable so i don't have any of the calibration data i'd want. and i never planned on doing photometry so the filters are not what you'd want. and the data processing pipeline is "uh, lol, don't ask"

but i do think i found it

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so. i don't think it's actually here.

if this otherwise matches the characteristics of the exoplanet i think i'm looking at.. i guess uh. i will have to make sure i've got my coordinates right, that the paper's coordinates are right, that the annotated image which clearly points to a different star is right or wrong, who to email ...

i mean. it's a dip. and it's about the right amount? and about the right times. i had an unfortunate software event at the end of the transit but like. huh.

tonight's plan is to look at a planet that is approx 1067 light years away

so. i don't think it's actually here.

7:15pm on a thursday is the worst time to decide you really want a mini gong on the bookshelf in the morning. i cant make it happen

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Spice 💕

@spicedyde.bsky.social

"i wonder where saturn is right now" "oh, it's there"

straw poll: are ".." and "..." different? if yes, what is their difference to you?

wow washington's time to earthquakepost

14 Sept

looking at the prices of both VPSes in 2026 and the used hardware market and the everything feels a little dizzying ngl. they want you to pay WHAT for four cores???

github.comGitHub - intel/SDM: Website for viewing the executable IA specification (external view). This combines data from the SDM and XED with a new executable specifiation.Website for viewing the executable IA specification (external view). This combines data from the SDM and XED with a new executable specifiation. - intel/SDM

4 Sept

wait actually we have commit access to the SDM now github.com/intel/SDM

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hey @amd may i please have commit access to the APM i'd like to document cpuid leaf 8000001A EAX.3 for you (it's "FP512", "The internal FP/SIMD execution data path is 512 bits wide.")

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Robert Simmon

@rsimmon.bsky.social

2 Sept

I am having a particularly frustrating week, so here’s one of the best things I’ve ever done. The eruption of Sarychev Peak in the Aleutian Islands, seen by the crew of the space station. www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

29 Aug

new mastodon is good btw

28 Aug

i took a picture of DAL2854, someone let them know when they land in LA thanks

20 Aug

alright local Sinclair subsidiaries i didnt realize your game. the game is that the only socialization a swathe of elderly get is local news anchors bullshitting in the morning news. its parasocial short form video on the tv

17 Aug

one one shoulder: i need to be angrier on the other shoulder:

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i need to be full of more life and whimsy

flic.krTitan - Dione MutualCassini NAC RGB view taken 2011-12-07 20:53 UTC. Distance to Titan: 3.163 million km Distance to Dione: 1.611 million km Phase angle: 61 deg N1701985446

16 Aug

@quilling.dev you rotated when my notifs updated. spooky

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Gordan Ugarković

@ugordan.bsky.social

15 Aug

Dione photobombing Titan Cassini NAC RGB view taken 2011-12-07 20:53 UTC. Distance to Titan: 3.163 million km Distance to Dione: 1.611 million km Phase angle: 61 deg N1701985446 flic.kr/p/dq6c3J

23 July

@quilling.dev you're upside down it scared me

12 July

the "final sgdq ... before GTA6" almost ended me oh my god

12 July

i guess some other news and shit happened, idc i love gdq week

8 July

among the many other mild insults of interact with llm text, i keep thinking about how i'm losing the option to say "i don't know" in many contexts

8 July

if i am recognized as an expert, and say "i do not know enough to have an opinion on this at the moment", well, then you can swoop in with claude text and say "well, what about this?" - i don't know! i just said i don't know. doing debate club with me on something i don't know means i lose.

8 July

so "i don't know" becomes a way to invite someone to feel like i'm actually incompetent and the llm is actually the Valued Conversationalist. it rules.

19 June

passively suggested that i would open claude dot ai for a bit and one of the zoomers started freaking out asking me to please not because "someone needs to remember how to code"

19 June

instead i'm cooking this shit up organically

dis.yaxpeax.netdis.yaxpeax.net - x86_640x00000000: 33c0 : xor eax, eax 0x00000002: e878563412 : call $+0x12345678 0x00000007: c3 : ret

dis.yaxpeax.net/x86_64/33c0e... now with actual valid html

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i wonder how the unfurl works on bsky: dis.yaxpeax.net/x86_64/33c0e... neat

dis.yaxpeax.netdis.yaxpeax.net0x00000000: 33c0 : xor eax, eax 0x00000002: e878563412 : call $+0x12345678 0x00000007: c3 : ret

dis.yaxpeax.netdis.yaxpeax.net0x00000000: 33c0 : xor eax, eax 0x00000002: e878563412 : call $+0x12345678 0x00000007: c3 : ret

i wonder how the unfurl works on bsky: dis.yaxpeax.net/x86_64/33c0e... neat

oh i really fucked up the html though wtf

me vs copypaste

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eevee

@eev.ee

11 June

Replying to @eev.ee

so codegen LLMs /must/ mostly be trained on code that someone actively decided to share, that its authors wished to contribute to the commons! this industry was just recently fretting over how to support the open source projects it relies on, too. now it exploits them

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eevee

@eev.ee

11 June

Replying to @eev.ee

and this isn't about copyright or whatever, just about common human decency between people who Make Things. artists of all stripes seem to understand this pretty intuitively, that you give nods to those you borrow from, because... because that's why we do any of this, to share and inspire

youtube.comSomething is jamming GPS over Europe. Here's what we foundYouTube video by Veritasium

9 June

when you log on to this website and realize when you stopped looking someone really decided to go whole-chest anprim and all i got is: "woof, another one, huge L"

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ceroro

@ceroro.com

8 June

go, my 10 suckling kittens

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Dannel Jurado

@demarko.org

8 June

I'm on this @techworkerscoalition.org panel repping @kickstarterunited.org next week, if you were at Circuit Breakers last year, it's an extension of the talk of the same name. You can register for it here: twcl.ink/twc-edu-june...

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John Wiseman

@lemonodor.bsky.social

8 June

Speaking of orbital geometry, Todd Humphries and Veritasium just released an excellent video showing the clever detective work involved in tracking down the space-based source of GNSS interference over Europe. Surprise, it's Russian. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz23...

4 June

i am taking it personally that none of you told me about the ace combat 8 trailer