Ed Davies @edavies@octodon.social
Programmer who likes gliding/flying/astronomy, etc, but is focusing for the time being on the construction of an off-grid house.
But I hope Elon puts a china teapot in the boot.
Falcon Heavy and Roadsters: at least two respondents in this https://futurism.com/experts-elon-musk-roadster/ seem to think the aim is to put the Roadster in orbit around Mars. I don't think it's going close to Mars, just a heliocentric orbit out to near Mars' orbit.
Still, none of them mention the only legal issue I can think would matter: planetary protection - the obligation not to contaminate Mars with all the bugs on the car's tyres, etc.
At the moment I use a combination of dd if=/dev/sda … for occasional mass backups, my own Python scripts to tar and gpg key directories and rsync to backup some large, essentially append only, directories like photos. Tar/gpg to a USB stick on my keyring, those and the rest to one of a pair of external 2TB USB drives, one of which is offsite at any time.
Fun (and informative) little video about candles: https://protonsforbreakfast.wordpress.com/2017/12/21/candles-at-christmas-revisited/
Speculating wildly but I wonder if SpaceX is going to do something amusing with the second stage booster from tonight's (UTC, this afternoon in California) launch.
Why do I still remember that 0-8-3 is comma?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keypunch#/media/File:Hand-operated_Card_Punch-2.jpg
“Self-loathing car”. https://xkcd.com/1925/
My attempt to reduce the parenthesis in a Lisp-like language:
http://cycleguide.dk/2010/05/how-to-make-a-right-turn/
“Making a right turn is pretty straight forward.”
How refreshingly non-Euclidean.
It seems to me that nasa.gov has been messed up for hours. DNS failure or something. `dig nasa.gov` works and redirects to www.nasa.gov but that name doesn't resolve. Ditto jpl.nasa.gov. Odd.
OK, so why can't we have a programming language/system which does type inferences like so?:
>>> type(math.e ** (math.π * math.i))
<class 'int'>
Minor press ballcocks no 1276581: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/17/aircraft-helicopter-midair-crash-buckinghamshire ATC at Wycombe Air Park being closed would be completely irrelevant; they wouldn't be being controlled out at Waddesdon anyway. Source: I've done literally thousands of flights from WAP in gliders and aeroplanes (and one helicopter flight).
Can we make this (or another post)
get +500 boosts, proofing that the argument to stay away from the #fediverse because one can here only reach out to a few is completly wrong?
Wondering how high the reach of this post is?
Well, we don't know. We don't track the users.
You only can see the boosts/fav/reply.
If that's a lot, it reached a lot.
If that made one rethink their opinion here you go:
https://joinmastodon.org
(there is also
#gnusocial #plemora #postactiv #friendica #hubzilla..
Oops, if it's actually on the loopback interface it won't accept connections from other interfaces which is less of a surprise.
(Got muddled up between Python code which wasn't working as expected and version written in C to make sure I understood the underlying interface.)
TIL: A Linux IPv6 socket will accept IPv4 connections (unless the IPV6_V6ONLY socket option is set). That's nice.
Such a socket bound to the loopback address (127.0.0.1 or ::1) will accept connections received on other interfaces. That's a bit more of a surprise.
A contemplation of nailing round corners: https://edavies.me.uk/2017/11/offset-nailing/
Last night's aurora in not very good piccies: https://edavies.me.uk/2017/11/aurora/
maple classic™ 
boost if you still use print statements as debug
My caps lock is set to switch to Greek. Handy for λ in my personal Lisp-like language and also for various maths things sometimes. There must be other good uses.
Fuller's "Energy slaves."
