Bing webmaster tools asks me to add a <H1> heading to all pages, as it otherwise can't figure what the title of a page is. Apparently Microsoft's AI is not very advanced!
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Schamschula
@schamschula
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Ph.D. Physicist (Optical/Computational), Mac/FreeBSD/*NIX geek/sysadmin, MacPorts port maintainer/committer, Sailboat Racer/Windsurfer, Alpine Hiker
I read some people play replace the CMOS battery roulette on their servers: Replace the battery with a live mother board. I chose the safe route: shut down the machine! Sure enough, I dropped the old battery as I was removing it. I had to retrieve it from below some hardware components. The machine is back in service.
Peter Gleick
AkaSci 🛰️NASA uses a value of π = 3.141592653589793 with 15 decimal digits for interplanetary navigation.
Calculating the circumference of the circle with radius = 32 billion km, slightly larger than the distance of the Voyager 1 spacecraft, and π with 15 digits, gives an error of just 1.5 cm.
Calculating the circumference of the Universe with radius = 46 billion light years, with an accuracy equal to the diameter of a hydrogen atom, requires 37 decimal digits.
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https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/how-many-decimals-of-pi-do-we-really-need/
#PiDay
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Happy Pi Day 🥧
And Happy Birthday to Albert Einstein.
Here are a few mathematical representations of π developed over the ages. Can you identify the mathematicians behind these equations?
Pi (π) is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. It is an irrational, transcendental number; its decimal digits continue infinitely without repeating.
π = 3.1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510 ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_Day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi
#PiDay2026 #PiDay
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A scraper (single IP) has now downloaded the 403 page more than three thousand times and counting.
Shawn King@schamschula Ha! I was at the Macworld Expo that got blown up when Time magazine early announced the lampshade iMac. Saw a guy at the airport with the issue and the iMac on the cover. I asked him, “Where did you get the fake Time mag?” He said at the newsstand. I ran over and grabbed a copy and “broke” the story on it for Macworld magazine. Apple had to move the keynote up one day. :)
Ben
Marc Robinson 
@siracusa It's weird, right? Not just the "X is bad" part, but also being able to run your own server and self-verify, controlling the message end-to-end, protecting privacy, not beholden to another company, etc. Not even as their only outlet, but at least for crossposting. Every tech company that knows about Mastodon should have their own server.
Owls in TowelsIn case you missed it, Owls in Towels has a new home on Mastodon https://mas.to/@owlsintowels
We share pictures of owls (in towels) and stories of wildlife rehabilitation.
Followers on the old instance will need to manually re-follow (since the server hosting us shut down before we had a chance to migrate, and we had to start afresh). It would be a tremendous help if you could boost this or tell someone you know about Owls in Towels! Thank you for your continued viewership and engagement 💛🦉
