Posts by dakkar@s.thenautilus.net
 (DIR) Post #AUzWfAevjfpE4joOn2 by dakkar@s.thenautilus.net
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       I do not wish direct harm on members and voters of the Conservative and Unionist Party of the United Kingdom (and their cognates in other polities), even as they very much wish harm on my friends.I wish them laughed out of public life. I wish them scorned by every not-evil member of society. I wish them disgusted with themselves and with each other. I wish them and their whole ideology to be now and forever recognised incompatible with freedom, life, and happyness. I wish that, now and forever, the words "I voted Conservative" be met with the same horror as a confession of the most abject crimes. I wish the party, members, voters, to be declared Hostis humani generis
       
 (DIR) Post #AUzWfAkxNGe6NQdDBQ by dakkar@s.thenautilus.net
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       After about 3 years, I'm re-starting my vaguely-monthly "get friends to my house, feed them, watch #anime together"If I know you, and you would like to join us, ping me with your email address and I'll add you to the mailing list I use to organise these things.(negative LFT required before getting into my house…)
       
 (DIR) Post #AUzWfB7e0unHVnFKXw by dakkar@s.thenautilus.net
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       Dear brain, these two are not the same person
       
 (DIR) Post #B4vzNgBLSmVSIudDHc by dakkar@s.thenautilus.net
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       https://pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/article/94/4/264/3383703/Higher-multipoles-of-the-cowThe spherical cow approximation is widely used in the literature but is rarely justified.Here, I propose several schemes for extending the spherical cow approximation to a full multipole expansion, in which the spherical cow is simply the first term.This allows for the computation of bovine potentials and interactions beyond spherical symmetry and also provides a scheme for defining the geometry of the cow itself at higher multipole moments.This is especially important for the treatment of physical processes that are suppressed by spherical symmetry, such as the spindown of a rotating cow due to the emission of gravitational waves.I demonstrate the computation of multipole coefficients for a benchmark cow and illustrate the applicability of the multipolar cow to several important problems(via @badastro@mastodon.social on bsky)
       
 (DIR) Post #B5NknHqqUKGTUEfojw by dakkar@s.thenautilus.net
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       Every once in a while I download the latest @servo@floss.social build and point it at my SharkeyToday, it mostly works!(it complains about the lack of IntersectionObserver, and can't build blurhashes for reasons that are not completely clear to me, but it can render the frontend and I can interact with it!)Impressive results, I'm very very glad that @servo@floss.social exists!
       
 (DIR) Post #B6UkZYxNV5PIOIQ5RI by dakkar@s.thenautilus.net
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       Any robotgirl looking for a new chassis? We have a Starflower Lily MK3!
       
 (DIR) Post #B7cfhxC39kgDDbSN2O by dakkar@s.thenautilus.net
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       Crunchyroll: we tried charging you for another year's subscription, but the transaction failedme: uh, I thought I had cancelled that subscription! no matter, the card has expireda few minutes later, my bank: there's been a technical glitch processing your payment of £69.99 on card ending XXXX and it's been declined. We're sorry about this - please try againme: "glitch"? that card expired four years ago!I'll cancel Crunchyroll properly, to avoid future noise…
       
 (DIR) Post #B7h9btCuq0OUNLj3Ue by dakkar@s.thenautilus.net
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       https://adelaide.casa/divacore/a mini-CD album, published this year, includes CD+G and CD+EG data that produce a slideshow of great photos of the performers… but you need a karaoke machine or a Sega Saturn to see it!give these people an Grammy for «impressive technical achievement in niche formats»