Charlie Loyd @vruba@everything.happens.horse

Me describing the cat: This is our cat, whom I love very much and mildly spoil.

The cat describing me: Him? The man? That man? It is he. It is he with whom I am locked in this endless match of wills, a psychodrama that spills beyond consciousness, an alveolar maze of intrigue and deceit, a time-traveler’s 17D chess game, a fractal mental war that extends from dreams to beyond life and death, a struggle that encompasses each combination of my cells, even to be fed one tiny bite of too-cold food.

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Thinking of starting a service where you Venmo me $1,000 and I tell you some reasons why your pansharpening paper isn’t very good before you put it on arXiv. The market for this is actually pretty big.

Eventually, the whole Rube Goldberg machine worked! And then the device’s flash memory wouldn’t flash. Turns out this is a known problem that means it’s counterfeit :)

I’m going for a walk :)

I relish every moment I get to do low-level things with computing hardware. Joy courses through my entire being as I realize that the official device controller software doesn’t even check the device’s chipset and firmware for you. I’m glad I chose to spend my day off like this.

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

@npseaver

Heck, it doesn’t even have to be about tannin.

I would read a chewy, opinionated, old-fashioned-magazine-feature-writing–style nonfiction book about tannin. https://mapstodon.space/@SatelliteSci/109724406615397406

[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

What even is the point of having the cat’s bad teeth removed if I can’t get her a set of human dentures.

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

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.)

Of all the ways to be cursed, I am lucky that my main hex is to be interested in weird little corners of image processing where you need some niche domain knowledge and are, with overwhelming likelihood, forgotten in the deepest dungeons of academia or industry and have no interest in discussing it with a rando like me.