I want to use Galileo on this GNSS module. So I need to upgrade its firmware. So I need to use wine, because you can only upgrade its firmware with the official Windows software. So Linux puts the device at /dev/ttyACM0 and wine maps that to COM33. So the upgrade software asks the device to reboot in safe mode for the upgrade. So Linux detaches it but then sees a new device appear, which it puts at /dev/ttyACM1. So I’m going to write a script to poll for ACM0 disappearing so it can relink th
@tmcw Okay, dude. By your logic, we shouldn’t even drink bleach.
I would read a chewy, opinionated, old-fashioned-magazine-feature-writing–style nonfiction book about tannin. https://mapstodon.space/@SatelliteSci/109724406615397406
@grantimatter [science voice:] We theorize that the ingestion of the crab tissue and the leafy material was intentional but that getting whanged real bad right in the torso was not.
[nodding thoughtfully:] As true of me today as it was of hadrosaurs 75 million years ago.
I’m not big into dinosaurs generally, but there’s some hard-to-define quality of paleontology detective work that’s a special delight. This is a prime example: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-11538-w
@ingrid In this essay I will
In conclusion, all the science happening in the heat index field is extremely normal and definitely absolutely nothing to be worried about.
This seems sloppy, but if you think about it, the perceived temperature at infinite wind speed would also be infinite, due to ram effect heating and so on, so this actually has the correct sign for almost all wind speeds.
Also, there was a standard wind chill index that was just a quick polynomial fit, and for really extreme winds, it inverted and modeled increasing apparent temperature: https://meteo.lcd.lu/papers/windchill/newwindchill.html
Reading about heat indexes, which reminds me to let you know that there are two competing units for how much clothing a person is wearing – the clo and the tog: https://ergo.human.cornell.edu/studentdownloads/DEA3500notes/Thermal/thcomnotes1.html
New Calm Covid, unexpectedly soon: https://calmcovid.substack.com/p/xbb15-does-what-now-brief-update
XBB.1.5 *does* look very transmissible, but I keep seeing weird claims that "our tools don't work" anymore, which just isn't true.
Prior immunity (from shots or infections) does seem not to be preventing transmission, so for people trying to avoid covid, this is a perfect time to upgrade/go harder on precautions for a bit.
@hans Yes! I also wonder about adjusting it with simulated annealing. I’m sure someone’s already tried that in the literature, but why not try again?
Stipple of a hillshade of Tahoma.
The point placing algorithm is freely adapted from @BartWronski’s version of Ahmed, Ren, and Wonka’s stippling: https://bartwronski.com/2022/08/31/progressive-image-stippling-and-greedy-blue-noise-importance-sampling/
The data is from the WA lidar portal: https://lidarportal.dnr.wa.gov/
The hillshade is a mean of 1,000 angles from which the sun actually illuminates Tahoma over the year. (None of that top-left stuff for me, thanks.)
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