Slide deck for my #monkigras talk 💬 "I Didn't Grow Up Speaking Code": GitHub Copilot as a Programming as a Second Language Tool 💬 is now live and accessible via my website!
#astronomy#astrodon
Well, folks...I think this is it. today something odd or terrible is going to happen, and the omen is that I just coded that stuff from scratch in #Julia
...and it just worked, giving me results in the right units, at the first attempt.
I have a script that is hosted on Discord and gets called from an executable that I made with ps2exe. That script downloads some other PowerShell files and runs them. They all run fine. I don’t understand how I have a line that is that long.
ERROR:
Cannot process the XML from the 'Error' stream of 'C:\windows\Systen32\MindowsPowerShelZ\v1.0\powershell.exe*: cannot begin with the '#’ character, hexadecinal value 0x23. Line 1, position 718800.
@bazcurtis it is likely(?) that one of the files names you mention above has '#' (Hex value 0x23) as the first character in the filename. Make sure the files being manipulated don't have such unallowed characters in their name... perhaps you can log the actions of your script to catch the culprit? Good luck debugging! 🤞
I'm trying to integrate some public air quality data into my study. During a sanity check of the data I realized 3 of the measurement columns contain negative values! Does anyone have any idea if having negative value in such measurements is valid and how they should be interpreted?
Contacting the data manager is not as easy and might take me a week or two of emailing to get some answer. I wonder if #AirQuality folks here on fediverse have a quick answer.
@Mehrad Common sense tells me the negative measure can be bad data/uncalibrated data .. However, on a very unrelated-topic, I see the notion of *differential mass *being +/- depending on particle density http://manalis-lab.mit.edu/publications/godin_APL_2007.pdf
Not so much more to tell..
Emissions from computing are apparently higher than for air travel, and that’ll only go up in the coming decades.
“As a society we need to start treating computational resources as finite and precious, to be utilised only when necessary, and as effectively as possible. We need frugal computing: achieving our aims with less energy and material.”
A regular theme of my recent reading has been the indigenous Americas before and during European colonization.
This 3D reconstruction of #Tenochtitlan from @thomas_kole is a pretty amazing addition to the genre. I can’t speak to its accuracy (though a lot of work does seem to have gone into it) but there is important power in nudging the imagination to question history as you’ve received it.
@dwarmstrong Thanks for the post, did not know the VoCore 2 had a space purpose 🚀. MIne has been collecting *dust *for a while; maybe I should bring it up again 🛝
@dwarmstrong I honestly can't tell the difference between normal and the ultimate version, except that from the documentation (https://vocore.io/v2u.html) seems the latter is plastic enclosed? I bought it like 5 years ago, but did not do much since then... I have been playing with other MCUs using #RISCV architecture
'Touring the Solar System in Your Underpants' is out now!
We talk about double planets, highway seismology, Lunar volcanoes, the mystery over the age of the universe, Ariane 5, Euclid and of course we have our monthly skyguide!
Explanation: Why would clouds form a hexagon on Saturn? Nobody is sure... nobody has ever seen anything like it anywhere else in the Solar System. Acquiring its first sunlit views of far northern Saturn in late 2012, the Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera recorded this stunning, false-color image of the ringed planet's north pole.
