Stephen Brooks 🦆 @[email protected]

I went outside around midnight and the street lights looked weird, it's foggy

They've found a certain amount of water even on the sunlit side of the Moon: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-sofia-discovers-water-on-sunlit-surface-of-moon/ #astronomy #space

Duck
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"First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you. And that, is what is going to happen to the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America." - Nicholas Klein

^ that is the correct quote, check online if you want

This is an interesting paper on antibody prevalence to COVID. Note this data is up to July, so numbers probably higher now. Also note NY state in figure 2!

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)32009-2/fulltext

Getting some autumn leaf colours here

I 3D printed some ball bearings for steel balls

Retweeting mainly for the photo...

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Idea: open source game where different regions of the map are different forks of the game rules. Regions gradually expand/contract depending on popularity.

There was some bioluminescence when I went to the beach this evening. Green spots lit up in the sand where I walked and at the edge of larger waves.

https://www.youtube.com/c/TechTechPotato/videos
A channel that might appeal to computer nerds on here

When you put your username @sjb in a thread, it gets "reply-all"ed, leading to snowballing threads. Perhaps if there was an "antimatter" ~sjb tag that annihilated the original @sjb it would let you exit the thread without having to mute/block it?

I had a nightmare last night about a tsunami. With only a few minutes warning, all the roads were blocked, I had to just run generally in the direction away from the water, but then found I'd accidentally ran towards the water and saw this 100ft+ wave in the distance.

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Here's the SSD I got: https://www.newegg.com/xpg-sx8200-pro-2tb/p/0D9-0017-00188?Item=9SIA2W0BH14621

I let AnandTech do the thinking for me and just bought their recommendation from here: https://www.anandtech.com/show/9799/best-ssds

While the CPU cooler was a bit pricey, I saved some money on DDR4-3600 with this new cheaper brand, reviews say it's OK https://www.newegg.com/oloy-32gb-288-pin-ddr4-sdram/p/N82E16820821222?Item=N82E16820821222

From NY state coronavirus site:

"Movie theaters outside of New York City can reopen starting October 23 at 25 percent capacity with no more than 50 people allowed in front of each screen."

Been waiting for this for a while!

Just ordered this https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07Y87YHRH/