ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

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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Animating b in
P += sin(P.yzx) - b * P

#AlgorithmicArt #CreativeCoding
#Processing #glsl #shaders

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

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

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

There's no place like place.

THIS IS A HUGE ACHIEVEMENT:

The EU now generates more electricity from wind and solar than from fossil fuels.

Graph from Nat Bullard and data from Ember.

Yeah, I dunno, VicRoads. If cars can park in them, and cyclists *have* to use them, are they *really* built for cyclists?

The Trump family’s latest crypto scheme, “World Liberty Financial”, has the makings of the biggest clusterfuck in Web3 is Going Just Great history.

#CitationNeeded #crypto #cryptocurrency

When #Earth’s 4 hottest days were recorded in July, #climate scientist #JohanRockström told The Post that the planet was probably the warmest it has been since the last ice age began >100k years ago. Climate clues contained in ice cores, lake sediments & tree rings show that global #temperatures are shifting out of the range they’ve occupied for most of human history.

#ExtremeWeather #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Copernicus #FossilFuels #CarbonDioxide #atmosphere #science

Ringed Ice Giant Neptune

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, NIRCam

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240906.html #APOD

And now they'll go after #OpenAI and all the other #LLM companies consuming their books. Right? Right??

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/4/24235958/internet-archive-loses-appeal-ebook-lending

#InternetArchive

Comets are made from a collection of small icy particles that formed in the early Solar System. As they approach the Sun for the first time, tidal forces and radiation pressure cause them to crumble, shedding smaller meteoroids that follow them in orbit. When those meteoroids cross Earth's orbit, we see them as a meteor shower. A new paper suggests that the meteor showers we see can explain the sizes of the particles that went into the formation of the comet.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1055435