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2025-Dec-31 19:43:36 I would post to give an interesting factorisation of 2026 but I think it's just 2*1013. "Have an even but otherwise unremarkable year". |
2025-Dec-31 16:35:00 Last #sunset of 2025.
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2025-Dec-31 15:55:19 1000°C #semiconductor oven operated in #space.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62vx0pgyrgo |
2025-Dec-31 13:34:48 The bog area of the nature reserve was shut but we saw these logs.
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2025-Dec-30 22:25:16 "Thieves used a large drill to break into a safe at a high street bank branch in western Germany and steal an estimated €30m"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4grzz60kp3o |
2025-Dec-30 21:58:52 Interesting video about the F-47 #aircraft
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAB3xUA2aLc |
2025-Dec-28 22:03:23 The Cherenkov radiation blue and ionized air blue are different (but similar) colours, however both are probably bad news unless a device is behind lots of water. #physics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticality_accident#Blue_glow |
2025-Dec-28 15:04:12 Here's the recent questions that have emerged about dark energy: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c17xe5kl78vo
#physics #cosmology |
2025-Dec-28 14:10:30 Saw an egret at the lake. #bird
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2025-Dec-28 14:04:27 Merry Christmas! (Sorry it's late, took me a while to find one with berries).
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2025-Dec-27 16:21:22 Some more pictures of Wimborne Minster. The small cylindrical tower has a spiral staircase inside. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wimborne_Minster_(church)
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2025-Dec-27 16:12:50
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2025-Dec-27 16:10:09 Full river in Wimborne. |
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2025-Dec-26 16:28:24 It would be quite funny if the AI bubble was popped by the high cost of RAM they caused. |
2025-Dec-26 16:25:39 Ah! I finally found where to switch those damn "let Google save your password" popups off. Under privacy -> auto fill -> passwords. #android
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2025-Dec-24 21:18:15 The next #Starship booster is stacked. #SpaceX
RT https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2003871611733295480 |
2025-Dec-23 15:09:02 Some toadstools growing near the patio.
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2025-Dec-22 16:12:00 Walking in the forest near my parents' house.
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2025-Dec-20 16:06:14 This is for drowning witches.
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2025-Dec-20 16:03:40 The lighting in this swan picture seems overly dramatic for some reason.
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2025-Dec-20 15:54:24 The swans
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2025-Dec-19 16:49:57 Woman's shock as #goose smashes through front door.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce3wpwg4e0qo |
2025-Dec-17 23:52:20 #SpaceX are going to be focussing on Falcon Heavy and Starship from launch complex 39A in 2026. "last single stick from 39A for some time" #space
RT https://x.com/TurkeyBeaver/status/2001424468141297900 |
2025-Dec-17 23:49:31 Driving around on #Mars
[video] #space RT https://x.com/NASAMars/status/2001401351117426927 |
2025-Dec-15 02:57:26 Really un-nerving thuds coming from the roof, I think chunks of snow are falling off the tall tree in the wind. I hope it's that, anyway. |
2025-Dec-15 02:53:35 Me 1 year ago: "Don't install Linux from a novelty USB stick that looks like a duck's head, it's very slow."
Me this year: installs Linux from USB that looks like a duck's head, takes 4 hours to write the disk image. |
2025-Dec-14 19:28:47 Some #snow fell last night. ❄️
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2025-Dec-13 01:40:50 Doorbell camera captures moment house explodes in Haywood, California
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c93ww718g2vo |
2025-Dec-12 18:40:45 Went for a walk in the pine forest yesterday.
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2025-Dec-11 20:30:44 Huge undersea wall dating from 5000 BC found in France
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crk7lg1j146o |
2025-Dec-10 20:29:29 Fit test in the vacuum chamber seems to work and I can see the screens. #physics
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2025-Dec-10 02:28:26 Installed Steam and played The Talos Principle 2 on my new Debian system with no issues. #LinuxI say "no issues", the install process is not exactly one-click: sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list add "contrib non-free" after the first two lines sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 sudo apt update sudo apt install steam-installer Run the Steam installer from the applications menu |
2025-Dec-09 21:18:59 Doing a first assembly and fit test of ion trap's next configuration. This time, the electron beam is going through the trap and can be switched on and off rapidly via deflection electrodes and a small hole. The blue plastic is modelling the Micro-Channel Plate that is still in storage vacuum. #physics #accelerators
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2025-Dec-08 18:11:38 Simulation of a long bunch breaking up into solitons in the BNL booster synchrotron. #accelerators #physics This required setting focussing magnets to much weaker than normal and starting with a dense, high space-charge bunch. Doing this experiment in practice could be a precursor to crystalline beams, as when Coulomb crystals are put in place of the solitons here, they heat up by less than 1 Kelvin/second. |
2025-Dec-07 19:51:33 LOL this was why my lawnmower was vibrating a bit.
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2025-Dec-07 19:28:12 Added an extra extension lead so now the lights can go four times round the tree without any wasted going up to the top.
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2025-Dec-06 21:54:10 Put lights on the tree in the garden.
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2025-Dec-06 21:53:12 Nice winter #sunset on a walk just now.
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2025-Dec-05 21:24:33 Space charge solitons forming in a simulation of the BNL booster (with unusual magnet settings). #accelerators #physics I was trying to figure out if the stability of 3D crystalline bunches I'd found was because they were solitons and it appears to be the case.
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2025-Dec-05 03:12:54 The moonlight is very bright right now - being a full "super" #moon, clear night and near midnight and midwinter, making it higher in the sky. Jupiter, near Gemini is also impressively bright. It's cold though, -4C and falling. #astronomy |
2025-Dec-05 00:34:59 Another of my backup scripts ported to #Linux. This one searches for various source code files scattered across the disk, makes a 7z archive and ftps it to my website each night (hopefully, I'll have to check if the scheduled job works next). |
2025-Dec-04 19:56:32 Behold: some stuff.
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2025-Dec-04 03:12:14 Interesting free online book about constructing objects in Conway's Game of Life. #maths #computing
https://conwaylife.com/book/conway_life_book.pdf |
2025-Dec-04 02:15:58 Oh, Juk just crashed nevermind. |
2025-Dec-04 02:14:55 QMMP in skinned mode looks like a great WinAmp-like for #Linux, but the sound doesn't work, so that's a minus point. Juk it is. |
2025-Dec-04 01:49:37 You have to jump through some hoops to get a script in #KDE to pop up a console like Windows would do. I eventually made a desktop shell script
----- #!/bin/bash konsole -e /bin/bash -c "echo Testing; sleep 3" ----- ...and chmod +x on it. If you're running a program you can just do konsole --workdir /path/to -e /path/to/program #Linux |
2025-Dec-02 23:42:49 https://poki.com/en/g/level-devil |
2025-Dec-02 22:45:35 Glucose and ribose (RNA precursor) found in bits of #asteroid. #NASA #space
RT https://x.com/NASASolarSystem/status/1995896692462301235 https://www.nasa.gov/missions/osiris-rex/sugars-gum-stardust-found-in-nasas-asteroid-bennu-samples/?utm_source=TWITTER&utm_medium=NASASolarSystem&utm_campaign=NASASocial&linkId=884357106 |
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