Radio Telescope
@radio-telescope.bsky.social
30s He/Him Up North. Incoherent posts; mainly 📡 Radio Astronomy, 🍁 Canadian Politics, 🖥️ Computing, 💸 Hobby Machining, ⚙️ Factorio, and 🥤 Caves of Qud. No longer really an astronomer but not calling myself an engineer for Important Legal Reasons.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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It's either six megs of whatever Twine used or every page a very complicated SVG?
November 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
It's either six megs of whatever Twine used or every page a very complicated SVG?
I have the luck of working for an FFRDC which managed to get its funding moved to months in advance after a previous shutdown, and we're all keeping one eye on the calendar counting down to "nobody gets paid". Better than most but still nerve-wracking.
November 8, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I have the luck of working for an FFRDC which managed to get its funding moved to months in advance after a previous shutdown, and we're all keeping one eye on the calendar counting down to "nobody gets paid". Better than most but still nerve-wracking.
Incomprehensible.
November 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Incomprehensible.
Thank you; this was a very interesting read, more so that I generally expect from the Post.
November 8, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Thank you; this was a very interesting read, more so that I generally expect from the Post.
twitter shit (derogatory) (laudatory)?
November 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
twitter shit (derogatory) (laudatory)?
Gerrymandering involves playing with the votes-vs-seats distribution in a way that boosts the 'payoff' where you expect to be. The downside is mathematically unavoidable if you mis-judge the actual distribution.
November 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Gerrymandering involves playing with the votes-vs-seats distribution in a way that boosts the 'payoff' where you expect to be. The downside is mathematically unavoidable if you mis-judge the actual distribution.
As an update, as-yet-unverified photos and video suggest that the entire damn #1 engine came off; more than an internal engine problem, it suggests a fundamental structural failure which is much more unusual. AAL191 keeps coming up as a comparison.
November 5, 2025 at 4:56 AM
As an update, as-yet-unverified photos and video suggest that the entire damn #1 engine came off; more than an internal engine problem, it suggests a fundamental structural failure which is much more unusual. AAL191 keeps coming up as a comparison.
But, but if I miss a second unrelated bus....
November 4, 2025 at 1:24 AM
But, but if I miss a second unrelated bus....
Oh yeah, especially as you get into more compact objects the surface gravity goes nuts, you end up with some very tight constraints on how out of round things can get.
November 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Oh yeah, especially as you get into more compact objects the surface gravity goes nuts, you end up with some very tight constraints on how out of round things can get.
And if you move somewhere poorer, you're the vanguard of a wave of further gentrification.
October 25, 2025 at 10:58 PM
And if you move somewhere poorer, you're the vanguard of a wave of further gentrification.
I mean, it's Doug Ford, I don't feel like it's that much of a stretch.
October 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I mean, it's Doug Ford, I don't feel like it's that much of a stretch.
I am going to walk out onto the ice for a bit. This is just too on-the-nose for me.
October 22, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I am going to walk out onto the ice for a bit. This is just too on-the-nose for me.
The point was about broadening my horizons, at a time when I was starting to burn out pretty badly, but it does shed some light on the assumptions which are built into the academic perspective.
October 22, 2025 at 12:05 AM
The point was about broadening my horizons, at a time when I was starting to burn out pretty badly, but it does shed some light on the assumptions which are built into the academic perspective.
My supervisor once pointed out to me that if the number of faculty positions was roughly constant and if no-one ever left academia, each professor would only need to train a single doctoral student in their entire career.
October 22, 2025 at 12:03 AM
My supervisor once pointed out to me that if the number of faculty positions was roughly constant and if no-one ever left academia, each professor would only need to train a single doctoral student in their entire career.
There's a first time for everything
October 16, 2025 at 1:43 PM
There's a first time for everything
You're in a starter pack that's going around.
October 16, 2025 at 1:49 AM
You're in a starter pack that's going around.
The logical endpoint of "we can disagree as long as we're all civil" is, as ever, "not being nice to me is inherently uncivil".
October 16, 2025 at 12:31 AM
The logical endpoint of "we can disagree as long as we're all civil" is, as ever, "not being nice to me is inherently uncivil".
Absolutely. If I'm presenting in person, I find that an image or plot with a title is about the limit that will actually be useful.
October 14, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Absolutely. If I'm presenting in person, I find that an image or plot with a title is about the limit that will actually be useful.
(the original)
October 14, 2025 at 2:22 AM
(the original)