he had a pretty good idea of the relative speeds at different points in the orbit- the interval is longer if jupiter and earth are traveling away from each other, and shorter if they're traveling towards. like the doppler effect

found the wikipedia page right after i posted this which also has a pretty detailed explanation. thank you to everybody who answered my dumb question though!

Has nobody posted the 3blue1brown /Terrence Tao collab video yet?

Sweet corn, mushrooms, onion, probably some sort of grain - rice I think and some herbs

so given the texture - a mushroom and sweet corn risotto?

Probably very tasty

Close! the thing that's probably throwing you off is that it's wholegrain rolled oats (and a can of lentils), not rice. Spiced with cumin, coriander, fennel, chili powder, garlic, and also some sliced jalapenos.

I know what you mean, but the thing is, it doesn't need to a perfect substitute by any means. I'm approaching middle age now: I have watched many of my beloved internet communities come and go, I understand there's no point in clinging to them forever because they all ultimately will be lost like tears in rain, etc. I accept that, I don't need Tumblr 2. But an acceptable Tumblr replacement needs:

• to not be a microblogging service (even one which technically allows longposts), because those cause immediate and terminal brainrot
• to not be a regular blogging/publishing service, because it has to facilitate direct back-and-forth interaction reasonably well. I could just have a self-hosted blog (and probably will, one of these days), but I'm here because I like conversations with people, and not just in comment sections

That's really all I ask, and it doesn't feel like two requirements is too tall an order, idk.

It does seem like a niche that’s terribly underserved on the modern internet. You’d think at least one or two companies could figure out a way to make that sustainable.

We build a bluesky client which handles seamless threading/dethreading (for macroblogging) and markdown?

Item: incomprehensible hovering dark pillar that burns away sickness with beams of light

This is totally a thing that exists and it's crazy to me that it's not already standard in indoor spaces

@binary-bluejay (now deactivated on Tumblr but still regularly posts on Twitter) was looking into this for a while and went to at least one conference about it. The short answer is, it's because it's very new and the health ramifications aren't completely known yet.

The main thing is that far-UVC inevitably produces ozone. I know the link you provided said that ozone wasn't a concern and that's kinda true, but there are a bunch of asterisks and daggers on that statement which probably got elided in typical "university press release" fashion. The ozone levels produced by far-UVC are small, and way below the levels typically associated with health risks, but they are nonzero and there's some uncertainty as to where the cost-benefit ratio comes out on net, since we're not even sure exactly how much disease transmission comes from aerosolized viruses in indoor spaces.

Presumably an HVAC system with a combination of far-UVC irradiation and some kind of aggressive neutralization of ozone would solve both problems at once, but that's a much bigger infrastructure upgrade than just putting a UVC lamp in rooms.

If you’re doing it inside an HVAC box you can just use UVC that is too long a wavelength to generate O3 but short enough to mess with biological stuff. But this includes human skin/eyes so it can’t just be a lamp shining where there are people around. (it can be a lamp that’s only lit when the room is empty though)