bolson
@bolson
computer wizard. acrobat. better democracy through computer science.
This is a great infographic about which Python versions are in active development, getting bug fixes, getting security patches only, or past end-of-life. Nobody should be on Python 3.9 anymore @developer.apple.com ಠ_ಠ [from www.python.org/downloads/ ]
The important part: "We get to mock the government however we want" [Farts Washington DC's general direction] Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time
They both make good points A new runtime with no dependencies but the kernel is a great achievement glibc is also seriously solid software worthy of respect
It's Sunday morning and I made fancy breakfast waffle with fresh whipped cream (maple sweetened) and sliced banana
moon flyby today, ~4000 mi above the moon's surface, the moon is ~2100 mi in diameter; this helps me contextualize the field-of-view we're headed for
I don't want millions of people to change their clocks, I want businesses and institutions that care about sunrise to change their start times. This is what sunrise/sunset does in my timezone, with time change bolson.org/sungraph/
got out for a snowshoe, found a bit of winter stream in otherwise silent middle of nowhere Vermont
Hakeem Jeffries thinks reasonable people can disagree about whether it's okay for ICE to full stream bearspray in the face of someone they're kneeling on. I think the D party should be less polite. (Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune)
Interaction I love here, when that author I like also likes that other author I like
public science and public data is good! this is three National Weather Service stations near where I am that I scrape to give myself a sense of what the last two weeks of weather has been. I can do this because the data is free
Space Lasers! Science I missed from September. NASA's space-laser communication system. A video notes "hundreds of megabits at Mars close range" while the furthest tested signal was further than the furthest Earth-Mars distance. www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-d...
here it is as a graph of sunrise/solar-noon/sunset times (from my web toy bolson.org/sungraph/ )
this is in my house now. I will sparkle forever henceforth (whether I want to or not)