astrolx

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Why do we do astrophysics?(arxiv.org)
4 points by astrolx 2d ago|0 comments
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by astrolx 9d ago
And those, when they have a target on them (like football theme often seen in pubs in Europe) kinda combine the igNobel prize with the "Nobel" [0] prize on nudge ! [0] not a nobel prize but the prize of the swedish bank in memory
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by astrolx 12d ago
Same, for years. Going to move soon to a EU provider though. If anyone has recommendation, happy to listen!
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by astrolx 21d ago
Is it that different from Source Sans?
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by astrolx 2mo ago
Really? I frequently use Wero but never installed their app. I use it through my bank application on /e/os
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by astrolx 2mo ago
Nice result, but I find they are selling it a bit too much. I'd rather call it an exoplanet (orbiting a brown dwarf orbiting a star).
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by astrolx 2mo ago
Exactly. Chile has a special status as host country of the observatory!
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by astrolx 4mo ago
Hosting forgejo on a cheap Hetzner server is the best and easiest trick that happened in my work life these last years !
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by astrolx 6mo ago
And in France you'd have gotten Clément Ader as reply.
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by astrolx 7mo ago
My phone (Teracube) is running /e/OS now for 2 years. Nearly everything works out of the box (bank apps, e-identity apps etc ..). The only issue I have is that the app I use to take contactless payment on the phone via NFC does no
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by astrolx 7mo ago
Generally, I am supporting of that move. One thing leaves me non-plussed as a non-USA citizen, "the mass domestic surveillance of Americans" exception. That means that Claude can still be used for mass surveillance of everybody el
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by astrolx 7mo ago
Can confirm, I've put tens of zip ties on a Mars lander, and in other science instruments!
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by astrolx 7mo ago
Baudolino from Umberto Eco (an excellent book) is partially about that, I recommend the read !
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by astrolx 7mo ago
I think an unsung hero in making open source broadly known and adopted in France is Framasoft [ https://framasoft.org/en/ ], a non-profit association. They have since many many years an initiative to de-google internet a
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by astrolx 8mo ago
Judging by the amount of people who still suck at Zoom or Teams after 6 years ... I am not that sure :)
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by astrolx 8mo ago
I work at a French research institute and our Zoom contract ends soon so we get to switch to Visio. It's not too bad but quite tier below Zoom. Noise cancellation is not great, being browser based also comes with limitations, in half m
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by astrolx 8mo ago
After many years of Nova, switched to Olauncher. I'm a happy person.
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by astrolx 8mo ago
0.8 Mmol?
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by astrolx 10mo ago
> It might be dumb, but at least it's expensive. Just realizing that the reverse could be a selling point for a phone here: It might be expensive, but at least it's dumb.
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by astrolx 1y ago
After a long day out that started early, I can tell you that our riot police has no budget issues!
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by astrolx 1y ago
"The math". We don't have issue with the math, we just disagree on what to fund to balance things out. An example, 200+ billion euros are given yearly to large companies as tax breaks and the like, without the government aski
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by astrolx 1y ago
For what it's worth, I have a self hosted git forge where I upped the maximum filesize limit. I use git repositories for my science projects, they can each have hundreds of large files (> 25 Mb as described in the article). I don&#x
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by astrolx 1y ago
forgejo [1] works well for me. It can be self-hosted, otherwise e.g Codeberg [2] runs a good instance [2] [1] https://forgejo.org/ [2] https://codeberg.org/
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by astrolx 1y ago
Yeah, the plurral was also just borrowed straight from French
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by astrolx 1y ago
I am at the intersection in this Venn diagram and I love it!
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by astrolx 1y ago
It degraded so much, I remembered how the UX used to be so enjoyable. Now, a forgejo instance hosted on an old raspberry pi at home is where my projects live, and it is fast and snappy in comparison.
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by astrolx 1y ago
In French, I find that translations of Edgard Allan Poe by Baudelaire are really nice. I enjoy them as much as the original version. Sci-fi translations of US science fiction classics (Orwell, Bradbury etc..) are usually excellent too. I fi
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by astrolx 1y ago
I am a "republican", small "r" as you would say. I pay yearly fee to a "republican association" in a country that is a monarchy, the goal is to end the monarchy. Nothing of it has to do with the US or its Repub
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by astrolx 1y ago
The aspen for me, I love how the leaves shake in the wind. My kid used to fall asleep watching them while I was carrying him around on walks at sleep time, good times!
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by astrolx 1y ago
How can someone hate "étui" so bad !?

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