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I posted this pic to FB a few weeks into covid lockdowns, saying i was "throwing a few beers back with my buds", and one of my family members scolded me for acting irresponsibly

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Video of Hurricane Milton captured from the ISS. Its size is surreal.

Credit: Steve Spaleta, Space.com

#Hurricane #Milton #ISS #Space #AstroPhotography

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Meta has been storing 600,000,000 Instagram user passwords in plain text for anyone to see since 2012, but the Irish Dates Protection Agency is not having it, and has now fined Mark Zuckerberg USD 101 million.

engadget.com/big-tech/meta-fin

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I recently had a client tell me my rates were too high and offer to pay me $1 a minute.

Okay, agreed. $1 a minute, based on how many minutes I trained to provide the experience and education needed to do my job. I practiced 2 hours a day every day for the last 40 years of my life. That's 1,752,000 minutes.

I also attended a university and completed a 6-year graduate degree. At 30 credit hours a year, that's another 10,800 minutes.

I also attended private classes post-graduation with Sir Wladimir Jan Kochanski. I won't charge you per minute for HIS experience, but my own study with him included 8 hours of study a day 5 days a week for 6 years. That's another 748,800 minutes.

So, totalling all that up, that comes to...
Just over $2.5 million dollars.
I accept cash, credit, or cashier's check.

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My first day of rain in Spain. Contrary to what you may have heard, there is frequent precipitation in the mountains.

#RainInSpain #Spain #travel #WritersLife #AmWriting

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🤩 NEW SESSION ADDED FOR THIS AFTERNOON!

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Join our Session Selection Co-chairs @saera and @kattekrab for tips and tricks to write a compelling proposal.

📅 Session 3: Saturday 21st September 2024 - 1pm-2pm AEST

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Scatter 2 million particles and move them as
P += sin(P.yzx) - 0.19 * P
and the shape they form is strangely attractive.

#AlgorithmicArt #CreativeCoding
#Processing #glsl #shaders

@scdollins I wonder what happens if the constants are slowly changed over time - does it morph or does it simply become chaotic jumble

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The - 0.19 * P term pulls the particles back towards the center. By weakening that constant, we can see more of the sine wave motion. Too weak just looks like noise, but 0.08 looks particularly nice.

P += sin(P.yzx) - 0.08 * P

#AlgorithmicArt #CreativeCoding
#Processing #glsl #shaders

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RIP David Graham. Goodbye Aloysius Parker and Grandpa Pig. A great voice artist.

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