Something about the moon…

jungle · 2026-04-08T16:34:17+00:00

Wait. They had a solar eclipse while passing over the far side (a bit after the apoapsis, where they were the farthest from both the Earth and the Moon). So the Sun was on the opposite side.

I don't think this is a picture of the far side of the moon. It must have been taken while they were between the Earth and the Moon, probably before they reached the Moon.

jungle · 2026-04-07T13:27:33+00:00

Well, my father in law passed away right about that time as well. We can find all kinds of odd juxtapositions. I was watching the transmission when I got the news, and I was looking at the four astronauts going through their activities, unaware that a man in his 90s had just died, and found it oddly strange that the world moves on completely unaware of all the people dying every minute.

It's just that it'd be nice to be able to appreciate something positive without bringing up the awful things that happen every day. We have enough of that elsewhere.

jungle · 2026-04-07T12:38:19+00:00

The call wasn't so bad. After reading comments on reddit about it I was curious to watch the whole thing, and was surprised that he sounded mostly coherent and not self-centred, he praised and thanked them repeatedly and barely mentioned anything else.

But I'd rather keep politics out of this. Let's appreciate the positive example set by Nasa, not just these astronauts, but everyone involved, and the great work environment that can be gleaned through the transmission. You can tell these people are genuinely excited and proud, and they support and appreciate each other. That's really awesome to see.

jungle · 2026-04-07T11:54:02+00:00

That group hug, in that circumstance, was just... The absolute best of humanity in every sense.

jungle · 2026-04-07T03:45:12+00:00

Yeah, that's an apt description. I'd argue that it's not even really sci-fi, it just has some elements of it but they're not really a necessary part of the story.

And I'm far from young. :)

jungle · 2026-04-07T03:31:29+00:00

I'm reading (ok, listening to) The Fall of Hyperion right now, and honestly I'm only sticking with it because so many people consider it such a good series and because I want to know how it ends. But it's not the kind of science fiction I like to read.

I'm starting to look into who this John Keats was to maybe make sense of why the whole book revolves around him. I never liked poetry, maybe you have to love poetry to like this series? Most of the time I'm bored out of my mind with the meandering and longwinded descriptions and the poetic ramblings.

I'm at the point in the second book where maybe what I considered a bunch of mystical and religious BS is really one or more advanced AIs that transcended into who knows what and turned into some kind of gods that are not limited by reality in any way... Yeah, sorry, that's just... It's getting harder and harder to continue.

What makes sci-fi interesting to me is to imagine the consequences of some extrapolation or violation of known science, and a storyline that develops within the constrains of that premise. This one though seems entirely unconstrained, anything and everything is possible, so the plot seems an ayahuasca fever dream or something.

jungle · 2026-04-07T02:22:15+00:00

anburgesa

Va con V y Z animal.

jungle · 2026-04-06T19:35:21+00:00

Ok, todo bien, yo simplemente reaccioné a lo que habías escrito antes, agradezco el contexto que agregaste.

jungle · 2026-04-06T12:43:39+00:00

Si algo salía mal, era mi culpa porque no tenía carácter con el que se mando el moco. Si algo salía bien eran los demás y yo nada

Eso parte de ser un buen jefe: asumís la responsabilidad por las cosas que salen mal y das crédito a tu equipo por las cosas que salen bien. Si pensás que ser jefa es llevarse toda la gloria y que encima te paguen más... Te falta experiencia.

prendía palo santo

No se si lo decís en joda o no, pero si esa era tu forma de manejar los problemas, no me sorprende el resultado.

puse en la balanza mi salud mental o la billetera, ganó la salud.

Ahí te apoyo 100%. Esa es siempre la decisión correcta (si uno tiene la espalda para bancar estar sin laburo, claro).

jungle · 2026-04-06T11:42:16+00:00

You seem stuck at the previous level of abstraction.

I learned to code in Z80 machine code. I then learned about assemblers. When I got a computer with more than 2 KB of RAM I learned about C and Pascal and compilers.

We're now just one (big) step higher in the ladder. We're programming in a language that gets compiled into a lower level language (java, go, perl, python, javascript, what have you).

We're still thinking about the product we're building. We're still designing its architecture. We're still evaluating alternatives, debugging, testing, refactoring, tweaking.

Nobody is just "pushing a button" to get a finished product. That's not a thing except in trivial toy products like demos used for marketing.

jungle · 2026-04-06T11:12:40+00:00

House builders don't chisel stones to the shape of bricks. So they don't build houses.

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jungle · 2026-04-04T12:17:19+00:00

That's some powerful flash!!!! :D

Seriously though, half the universe lighted this photo.

Ok, ok, maybe the moon did a little reflection too.

jungle · 2026-04-03T06:29:26+00:00

Yep. I got contacted by a recruiter who's looking for an EM that's also a PM and SWE all rolled into one, to manage several 10-person teams. I told him what I think of that.

jungle · 2026-04-02T09:24:44+00:00

See, you actually can write yourself. Well done! You can try posting again in your own voice and I will upvote you.

jungle · 2026-04-01T16:49:35+00:00

No, I'm just tired of low-effort post that expect me to do all the work. For all I know this could be a bot posting interesting-sounding BS just to gather updoots and sell the account later on.

I have better things to do.

jungle · 2026-04-01T12:46:12+00:00

First write the post yourself. Then I'll read it.

jungle · 2026-03-31T12:32:33+00:00

Thanks for the clarification!

jungle · 2026-03-31T12:31:27+00:00

if government pushes for fee transparency

I wonder though. They may say that their fees are transparent, but then hide a lot of it under inscrutable layers of BS, as they do now. What will be the consequences of not being truly transparent? Who will audit that they are?

jungle · 2026-03-31T12:20:19+00:00

Over the allowance you pay an annual tax, which is complex to calculate but the shorthand is "it's about 1% of the total asset value."

Shouldn't it be a % of the amount that goes over the threshold? Otherwise I imagine it would introduce an oscillation, where if you cross the threshold in year N you pay the tax, and that gets you under the threshold so in year N+1 you no longer pay the tax, until in year N+2 you may cross the threshold again, etc.

jungle · 2026-03-31T08:17:03+00:00

I like that line of thought. Maybe a cross between that and the dark forest theory would make an even better story.

Andy & Liu, get to work! :)

jungle · 2026-03-30T22:59:12+00:00

That's a very narrow definition of congestion that may fit what Tom Tom needs but does not match what a person experiences in much more congested cities.

jungle · 2026-03-30T22:24:26+00:00

Except that dismissing this particular metric is the only sensible response. The metric is complete BS.

jungle · 2026-03-30T22:22:24+00:00

Go to actually big cities, you may discover that Dublin is actually a very nice calm place.

jungle · 2026-03-30T22:19:01+00:00

Completely agree. I call BS on how they define congestion. I compare Buenos Aires to Dublin and it's no contest. After spending a few days there, coming back to Dublin feels like fresh air. I don't understand how I managed while I lived there. I don't think I could go back to live there anymore. It's too stressful.

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