agree, how do you feel about shitlib?
“cli proficient” depends entirely on what you are doing, other than extremely basic stuff like learning how to use coreutils, really you just gotta try and use it whenever you can to get used to it.
Yeah, switching to Lemmy 100% kinda had me going cold turkey, but that gave me moments to realize I had better things to do; I’ve already finished three books since the Reddit blackout started
That’s a hooker
Yeah it’s crazy the shit we can infer just from light, just from right here on Earth (or from orbit, but y’know, basically the same distance). Doppler shifting, red/blue shifts, astro spectroscopy, etc, it’s incredible.
Well there is at least Gliese 229B which was observed because it was in a solar system, but idk if that counts as a binary system technically
Did you know the Great Red Spot is shrinking? From Wikipedia:
In the 21st century, the Great Red Spot has been observed to be shrinking in size. At the start of 2004, its length was about half that of a century earlier, when it reached a size of 40,000 km (25,000 mi), about three times the diameter of Earth. At the present rate of reduction, it will become circular by 2040. It is not known how long the spot will last, or whether the change is a result of normal fluctuations.[12] In 2019, the Great Red Spot began “flaking” at its edge, with fragments of the storm breaking off and dissipating.[13] The shrinking and “flaking” fueled speculation from some astronomers that the Great Red Spot could dissipate within 20 years.[14] However, other astronomers believe that the apparent size of the Great Red Spot reflects its cloud coverage and not the size of the actual, underlying vortex, and they also believe that the flaking events can be explained by interactions with other cyclones or anticyclones, including incomplete absorptions of smaller systems; if this is the case, this would mean that the Great Red Spot is not in danger of dissipating.[15]
Considering the Great Dark Spot of Neptune has disappeared (other other dark storms have appeared), I think we are lucky enough to have observed such a massive storm on Jupiter for hundreds of years
Jupiter is a big boy, but still 20x less massive than the smallest observed brown dwarf. It’s a certified gas giant, but nowhere near a failed star.
Ehh, don’t mean to be that guy, but Jupiter is pretty far from being a brown dwarf, and I think all the planets formed at a similar time from proto-planetary dust and gas from the Sun’s accretion disk. Still an absolute titan of a planet though! Did you know that the Galilean moons have stabilized into a perfect 1:2:4 orbital period?
I’m pretty sure we’ve seen it before
Wow, what a large search area, I heard about the crash and rescue on my NPR news podcast, but I didn’t think the rescue operation was this large.
Right, the Communist militias in the Spanish Civil War were being influences by Soviet partisans or something. The Anarchist and Marxist militias, which Orwell served in, were of the people.
Saw the headline and thought “wtf those floods are still going? I haven’t heard that in any of my news sources” before seeing that the article is from October 2022
I’ve heard about stuff like this before, Chinese companies basically building apartments/condos that are never 100%/suitable to be lived in, because they know that all their buyers are just people making investments to park their money
Oh damn, maybe my feed is just drowning him out or something, thanks!
I followed George Takei on mastodon when he announced he was leaving Twitter and I haven’t seen a post of his ever 😔
I don’t think it was disproportionate at all, the game was nonfunctional for large swathes of people.
I like this image but I hate bean-mouth “CalArts” Ash