ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

For a long time people thought noble gases were too snobbish to form compounds, but in 1962 Neil Bartlett produced xenon hexafluoride.

Most xenon compounds involve fluorine, chlorine and oxygen - elements so aggressive they ignore the standoffishness of this noble gas, slap it right on the back and say "hey, pal! I'm moving in!" But as a result, some of these compounds are dangerous. Xenon trioxide and xenon tetroxide are explosive. Xenon oxytetrafluoride, shown here, is extremely reactive, and it forms hazardous and corrosive byproducts when mixed with water.

A much more mellow chemical is tetraxenonogold - the first discovered compound involving a noble gas and a noble metal! But to make it, you use fluorine.

As far as I can tell, all these xenon compounds are created by chemists just to provide interesting Wikipedia articles for me to read while sipping coffee in bed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenon_compounds
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenon_oxytetrafluoride
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraxenonogold(II)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organoxenon_chemistry

@aram
I’ve been on a bit of a maths binge recently, and either of Hannah Fry’s books (“The Mathematics of Love”, “Hello World”) she reads both of them herself and does it well.

Also Matt Parker’s “Humble Pi: a comedy of Maths Errors.”

I’ve listened to all three of the above at least twice.

so far "How Git Works" has sold more on its first day than any other zine except "The Pocket Guide to Debugging" and it's only been 3 hours https://wizardzines.com/zines/git/

appreciate you all, hope the zine helps with your git woes ❤

#change

https://www.avclub.com/google-s-ai-feeds-answers-from-the-onion-1851500362

perfect.

Innovation macht sinnvolle Dinge kleiner - Überkonsum macht sie größer und sinnloser
#Verbrenneraus schnellstens

When i hear root cause… the image that comes to mind

Image from: https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2022/01/wageningen-root-archive/

@simon_diamond

See this?

@dgar 🔗 https://aus.social/users/dgar/statuses/112467119440187197
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The existence of Norway implies...

“I could rewrite #curl”

Here's my collection of some less cheerful quotes to keep me firmly grounded. Blogged three years ago today:

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/05/20/i-could-rewrite-curl/

A few more from Friday night / Saturday morning. The first one is looking east with Bennachie on the skyline #Aurora #Aberdeenshire #Scotland

Should you wish to watch the eSafety Commissioner vs X Corp in the Federal Court of Australia today, it’s at 1030 AEDT (in about 45 minutes) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYBUmsonfPg

Bitwarden on mobile has been improved!

https://news.itsfoss.com/bitwarden-passkeys-mobile/

Landowner David Hampton planted larch pines in a Douglas fir forest in Oregon in the shape of a giant, 300 feet smiley face 🙂

Every autumn, the larch pines turn orange, and the smiley face stands out.

As it's been 20 years since I made the original, I thought I'd recreate my "Monitor Slapping" GIF. Except now I'm slapping myself through time....

I keep seeing this article posted about how a place in the UK is eliminating apostrophes in street names to avoid database issues.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-68942321

In Australia, we adopted a policy of doing exactly this, but way back in 1966. The only logical explanation here is that at some point an Australian DBA got their hands on a time machine.

did you know that the default Windows 10 desktop background is a photo, not a digital effect?

it's a Kvant Spectrum laser projector with Saturn 9000 scanners beaming light into a sheet of transparent acrylic with black cardboard masks.

there's even a short video showing an animated show variant of it here: https://www.precisionlasers.com/projects/windows10

From a friend's discord

#infosec #starWars