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Chocolate eating computer geek, Manchester, UK
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Chocolate: Very dark
OS: Linux
Cake: More!
Education: PhD computer science

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2024-09-25 01:38:02

Fun! The #genetics behind Romanesco Cauliflowers has been figured out:
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/romanesco-cauliflower-fractal-spiral-genetics-biology

2024-09-17 22:51:23

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Hang on - can you explain why being further from the centre of the earth would make gravity weaker for you on an oblate earth, when the same oblateness means you have more mass between you and the centre of the earth?

2024-09-17 18:04:22

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So hmm, does that mean you can tell your latitude when you're stationary from the acceleration, even without having measurements of geographic differences?

2024-09-03 16:53:14

This is apparently a 'mint moth' - it's tiny, chilling out on cat mint in our garden.
#moth #wildlife
https://cdn.mastodon.org.uk/media_attachments/files/113/074/653/180/774/232/original/b3c0492fe5986b7e.jpg

2024-08-31 20:59:38

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Oh heck, you really couldn't have found a heavier case. Was that one of the x86 macs, so you just replaced the board?

2024-08-30 18:00:13

The patterns on the inside of this branch where it came off are fascinating; it's kind of torn around.
#lichensubscribe #tree
https://cdn.mastodon.org.uk/media_attachments/files/113/052/267/779/424/665/original/50cc29fe220bbf85.jpg

2024-08-28 16:41:13

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I wasn't as good putting them back together....

2024-08-20 13:41:10

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I'm glad you've bought this up - it's been a pet worry of mine for a while. To be fair I think cloud-connectivity is something that's hard to avoid for non-techies who want to be able to just control/check the solar systems via mobiles; there needs to be some standard about how to do this non-centralised.

2024-08-11 14:09:33

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Picard and Riker at El-Adrel, Confused.

2024-08-11 13:59:12

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But also we're listening to the aliens speaking in English; so it's translating the age as well as the pure language.

2024-08-05 21:02:06

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I hope we get Altavista back!

2024-03-27 14:52:01

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But is it more likely to fail on a long bank holiday weekend?