endrift 🏳️‍⚧️

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Professional Cyberentomologist, Hobbyist Emulator Developer. Purveyor of cursed technological information.
Pronounsshe/they
Primary dev onmGBA
Websitehttps://endrift.com
GitHubhttps://github.com/endrift
Fucking Limited Run Games strikes again. This time they stole mGBA! Time to break out this classic from @foone again...
So, uh, I saw this today. I never thought I'd lay eyes on one.
wtf
Reusing this photo I took 5 years ago.
Been working on some things.
So tired of "your package has shipped" lies
How far we've fallen as a civilization

Sometimes I nerd-snipe myself with things that are suspiciously close to word problems.

To put into word problem form the question I just nerd-sniped myself with:

If you have a cylinder of diameter 2.5cm and height 10cm composed of pure cobalt in some proportion of isotopes Co-59 and Co-60 that decays at a rate of 3540 Ci, what is the proportion, by mass, of Co-60 in the cylinder? Assume that the density of Co-60 is the same as that of Co-59.

I just wanted to estimate how much of this rod was actually Co-60 (at time of engraving), at least by mass. I'd previously calculated that it was only ~1 Ci remaining, though the exact number will be lower than when I last calculated it, and that measures decays per second, not absolute mass.

A story in 4 parts (but I'm still waiting for the fourth to be written):