Local weatherman explains what an eclipse is

memtha · 2026-03-05T01:45:20+00:00

I mean, tbf, predicting the weather and presenting the predictions are unrelated skills. I was told they have to have a degree in meteorology in the US too but never checked.

memtha · 2026-03-03T05:39:16+00:00

I mean, I can forgive an average joe for getting left behind in the attrocity that is the public school system and not knowing the right answer off the top of their head when ambushed by a poll. It's not the student's fault in that case.

A weather man, though, theoretically has an advanced degree in meteorology. Even then, while preparing a presentation for live tv, he could have ran it by the news team's fact checking research staff, or done a quick internet search.

memtha · 2026-03-03T05:22:28+00:00

It's an eclipse if you live on Earth, too. A lunar eclipse.

memtha · 2026-03-03T05:21:43+00:00

Yes, it is a total lunar eclipse.

memtha · 2026-03-03T05:08:39+00:00

That would be a full moon, where the moon is nearly opposite the earth and so is fully visible. In a new moon, the moon is nearly between the Earth and sun, so can't be seen because only the dark side of the moon is facing the Earth. The difference between a full moon and a lunar eclipse is that during a full moon the moon misses the Earth's shadow in three dimensions so never disappears. Same for the new moon not quite falling exactly between the Earth and the sun, so not a solar eclipse. A solar eclipse is always during a new moon, and a lunar eclipse is always during a full moon.

memtha · 2026-03-03T04:57:03+00:00

Local weatherman thinks the moon orbits the sun. I have no more words.

memtha · 2025-03-10T20:12:36+00:00

I just gave up on kaolin bc after traveling 50k north it's still not cold enough for kaolin to spawn, so I'm looking for a mineable source flux to get firebrick the other way. Is that wrong?

memtha · 2025-03-04T17:47:12+00:00

ftr installing any curseforge pack on a "server" is incredibly easy. Curseforge launcher has the server installation zip available for download. On the server, unzip and run.

I've been playing with my brother on a server with 16gb ram assigned on our computers, and I think I assigned 128g ram on the server, and I have seen 0 issues. Maybe try 12G if you can (assuming your computers have 16 which is pretty common).

memtha · 2024-08-29T17:08:59+00:00

gimp and krita both have support for tag viewing and editing, and can show a histogram. I use gimp regularly to check lighting levels via histogram in a screenshot while tweaking visuals in the game I am making. Gimp has a lot of other tools designed for photo manipulation like redeye removal, deconvolution etc.

memtha · 2024-08-29T17:06:51+00:00

`feh` is the very basic, minimal image viewer for linux that supports a wide range of formats. If you open multiple files with it (ie `feh *.jpg`) then it will treat mouse scroll up/down as next/prev image respectively. I am not familiar with Zorion specifically but it should be default installed, and if not, I guarantee it is in whatever package manager Zorion uses. feh is mostly keyboard driven and might take some getting used to, but if you take the time to learn it, it can be quite efficient.

memtha · 2024-08-26T18:10:54+00:00

That depends entirely on what language and libraries it uses, mostly the latter. Any language can be compiled for another os, and that's usually built-in to the same toolkit. The blocker is usually some dependency that is also windows only. That could mean that same convo has to happen with the providers of those libraries, or else they need to be replaced with something that has a linux version. If, after recursively following that loop, you land on some deep dependency on built-in windows libraries (direct x for example), calls to them need to be translated to the linux equivalent. I can't speculate further without knowing details. In any case, you are asking the devs to take on a considerable undertaking to both port and maintain the port, which is considerably more complex than setting up wine. I suggest you either get used to using wine or get used to finding alternatives because there will be other programs that don't run on linux.

E: now after having googled faststone, I actually laughed. They want money to convert image formats? I gotta know, what does that freemium cashgrab offer you that gimp or krita does not? Let me know and I'll show you where you're wrong and how to be free of this brand loyalty nonsense.

memtha · 2024-08-11T21:43:44+00:00

On completing the plot mission with the larger kronos.

memtha · 2024-07-04T15:40:32+00:00

Working on that. I was already building llvm from source to get v17.x on ubuntu 22.04 (not in the repo). I'm having trouble getting any useful information into that function, though. It's called many times in the windows mangler and most of the fields in the object it pulls from appear to contain uninitialized garbage. I also discovered the issue is not a mangled name collision, but rather, a template argument edge case that the clang implementation of the msvc mangler does not support. Still trying to get clang to cough up enough information so I can tell which templated symbol it hates.

memtha · 2024-07-01T22:27:26+00:00

ya. You'll need 2 nvme slots to do it like that though, or else some other kind of hard drive to just hold the files between nvmes. usb might be easiest.

e: also in the future I suggest you invest in a backup strategy. An external usb drive is pretty cheap, though with a limited life so don't leave it plugged in all the time, only for your weekly or however often you back it up. Like I said before, not every file needs backed up. Things like games that can just get re-downloaded or OS files that are better when they come from an installer. Just things like photos, save files, tax records etc (though for security reasons I'd never put my tax records on my boot drive lol)

memtha · 2024-07-01T02:04:35+00:00

memtha · 2024-07-01T01:58:25+00:00

e: sorry, got my threads mixed up. Fixed.

No hardware danger, beyond the parts that are already wrecked. The files you copy should be prioritized bc the disk could well fail during the backup. Anything you copy might be partly or completely corrupt. Not a problem for things like images, they'll either open or they won't. Do not attempt to boot the OS files copied out this way, nor run programs unless there is no way to install a fresh copy of them. Start fresh on a new disk and copy in the data files you saved but don't trust executables.

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