Formerly a climber; a cycling commuter (WFH now); nerding out - mostly infra and backend; relativistic view on what’s right and usually it’s not k8s; o11y and cloud economics; swinging between tech and management.
Montreal; RL snow day for some weird reason; Home Assistant, mostly Zigbee. Quad-line kites.
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Just what you need for the holidays... the coziness of a crackling and roaring rocket engine! Technically, this fireplace packs the heat of the SLS rocket’...
Hey #Canadians: we support each other, we stand up for each other, and we show up for each other. Here is how we do that right now, today:
https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7027
Even if you only read the petition, learning about what the Saskatchewan and Alberta provincial governments are attempting is a step in the right direction. Signing the petition is a step. It is going to be a long journey, but this is not one we can sit out.
Brent Mckean captured this amazing moonlit scene with three combined exposures on an icy winter morning in Manitoba, Canada.
The colorful rings are a corona caused by diffraction by ice crystals near the direction of the Moon.
Outside those rings, a 22-degree halo was created by moonlight refracting through ice crystals shaped like hexagonal prisms.
On the left and right are 'moon dogs', caused by light refracting through thin, flat, 6-sided ice crystals.
At the top and bottom of the 22-degree halo are 'upper and lower tangent arcs', created by moonlight refracting through nearly horizontal hexagonal ice prisms.
A few minutes later the halo and arcs disappeared and the sky returned to normal -- with the exception of a single faint moon dog.
Image source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200224.html
For more on tangent arcs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangent_arc
RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@britown/115735432936733307
This is a fun game! I showed it to my kids 20 minutes ago and they've been playing it ever since.
posted about my Apple ID woes, please share widely?
Summary: A major brick-and-mortar store sold an Apple Gift Card that Apple seemingly took offence to, and locked out my entire Apple ID, effectively bricking my devices and my iCloud Account, Apple Developer ID, and everything associated with it, and I have no recourse. Can you help? Email paris AT paris.id.au (and read on for the details). ❤️ Here’s how Apple “Permanently” locked my Apple ID. I am writing this as a desperate measure.
Apparently Jim Henson had a pretty serious change of heart about who he wanted to be at some point early in his career.
Actually I think they might be using JS to inject the signature. FFS, I don't want to spin up a browser in HomeAssistant.
links:
- https://donnees.montreal.ca/en/dataset/patinoires-historique
So... I was looking at enabling my rink conditions home assistant templates, and maybe porting to a blueprint now that I've got more experience and... IIUC Montreal now puts it into a google bucket and requires a signed URL to access. I can probably automate scraping the page to get the signed URL but this shouldn't be necessary, its not really #OpenData.
Original: https://mastodon.social/@Jlongman/113658698750691962
Also 80MB of rink conditions isn't really an ideal format.
Emma needs ☕️ and paying work
David Gerard
Ben Zanin
John Carlos Baez
Sean Heber
Dr Paris (he/him)
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