Steph (crisis version)
Took advantage of the first sunny weekend day in a long time to get out for a bit of a walk.
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Tnergu
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Staring into space
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If anyone is hiring or knows of someone who is hiring remotely in the UK or locally in NI for an astrophysics PhD who is cracking with Python, knows a bit of SQL and cloud computing, is experienced in both data analysis and software development, and is ALSO uncannily quick to learn new things, then hit me up.
ETA: Just to be clear: I'm not looking for astrophysics jobs. My experience in astro was largely in big data wrangling and software dev so that's what I'm after now!
By the standards of the borders it was pretty crowded; I think there may have been four people in view at the same time at one point.
Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫Computers aren't supposed to be friendly. If a computer is pretending to be friendly to you someone is up to no good.
Computers are supposed to be horrible, obtuse, exacting, rude. You are supposed to wring answers from them through the dread ordeal of Understanding What The Question You Thought You Were Asking Actually Means.
All you get out of the bargain, all that was ever promised, is then being able to ask them to do it again millions of times very fast, if that is useful to you.
mhoyeTo spell this out clearly, the reason RAM has quadrupled in price is that a huge quantity of RAM that hasn't been produced yet has been bought with money that doesn't exist to populate GPUs that also haven't been produced to go in datacenters that haven't been built powered by infrastructure that may never exist to meet a demand that doesn't exist at all to make profit margins that mathematically can't exist while economists talk about this thing they call the "rational markets hypothesis".
Me to my partner: If you're going to [shopping place] could you have a look and see if they have any [clothing item] on offer?
Them: Do you want flowers or pockets?
Me: Both! Pockets for all, and roses too!
Them: Do you want flowers or pockets?
Me: Both! Pockets for all, and roses too!
IllegalhexI will not talk with a chatbot
I do not want it while I shop
I do not want it on Windows X-box
I do not want it in Firefox
I do not want it in my house
I do not want it on my mouse
I do not want it here or there
I do not want it anywhere.
I do not want AI and Spam
I do not want them Sam-Alt-Man
Prof. Sam LawlerIt's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch.
A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out a fact sheet about them to a bunch of journalists, but very few are going to write about this. So, let me try posting it all here.
Here's what I know about Reflect Orbital and all the downsides:
Tomasz Oryńskihttps://www.theguardian.com/world/1825/sep/24/transport.uk
I love that info on the top:
THIS ARTICLE IS MORE THAN 200 YEARS OLD :)
