@mjd My objection to the sun moving clockwise across the sky is not that I think it moves counterclockwise, but that it obviously doesn't move at all. If you look at it, it's clearly stationary. Yes, it's at different places in the sky at different times of day, but it's definitely not moving.
(This is pretty much my instinctual feelings about the sun, I think because I spend so little time outdoors in a single place paying attention to it, so I effectively never experience motion.)
@gruber I don’t think you’re wrong that Apple execs didn’t know it was happening, but I’m delighted by the idea that Apple’s low-oversight capricious App Store management is screwing them for once rather than some poor developer.
“There’s a religiosity around vitamin D,” says Clifford Rosen. “The evidence is out there. People don’t want to pay attention to it.” (Jan 2024)
h/t LizHighleyman
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https://web.archive.org/web/20240105192139/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-much-vitamin-d-do-you-need-to-stay-healthy/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-much-vitamin-d-do-you-need-to-stay-healthy/
I wrote up my impressions of Zig after using it for this year’s Advent of Code, check it out!
In a delightful Americanism, you have to pay for passports by swiping a card and then signing the receipt. Feels like home!
Having been here a number of times (the new embassy opened in 2018), it’s a very nice place. I think the old location was better — hard to beat the heart of central London — but the citizen services room was cramped and they were clearly struggling for space.
It’s Start the Year Off Right Day in the Gortanian household!
Every year, we take December 31st to do all those lingering chores that we’ve been putting off forever, so that we don’t need to bring them with us into next year.
Hang up those photos! Sort through that pile of paperwork! Mop that floor! Answer those emails!
It’s a great tradition.
Finally done! I ended up doing day 21 part 2 in a much more involved way than lots of other people, but I'm pleased with the structure of my solution.
I'm almost done with #adventofcode, only have 21 part 2 and 24 part 2 left.
I had a really nice, elegant solution to 24 part 2 that I coded up all the way, and it even works on the sample input, but it doesn't actually work on the input because it doesn't quite have the right structure. I think I have another idea that should work, but it's so much less elegant.
21 part 2 I just am having a hard time caring about figuring out how to solve.
This mind-bending timelapse with the Milky Way stabilized shows the Earth is spinning through space.
Video credit: Eric Brummel
Eric's Website: https://www.ericbrummel.com/
Watch the full HD version on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8OK7M2_hUg&list=PLc4W06G5-v7BDRHoh7n3QkUKUDJmgMO0n
Software engineering manager at Cord. Counterculture-adjacent. Strong opinions, rarely tooted. (he/him)