ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

We've got this cheap egg cooker that plays the loudest, most terrifying alarm you've ever heard when it's done cooking. My wife requested that I make it "less aggressive" so I hacked it into the most gentle egg cooker of ALL TIME

(warning: probably loud)

computers used to scream when you connected them to the internet. this was correct

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

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@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/

Just for fun. I added together all of the images I took of Comet Pons Brooks a few weeks ago. The session was just after astronomical twilight and every single frame I took (68) had at least one satellite trail. To really piss me off, a whole train of freshly launched Starlink satellites joined the "party". This, friends, is the price we pay for "progress". #notostarlink #savethesky

They... they let it read The Onion 🤣

From Scarlett Johansson re OpenAI stealing her voice:

@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