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Ted Driver

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I write analytical software in .NET, and I'm also a GPS navigation SME. Interested in anything physics or space related, or any C# topics. You'll likely find me currently enjoying books, woodworking, cooking, gaming, cats, gardening, meditating or kites.

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Ha!

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What a great idea.

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don't risk it! Take some time.

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📚💙 Just finished Katherine Chen's: Joan. This is a great historical fiction novel about a Joan of Arc- a young woman who became greater than a King. I've always been intrigued by her story. Chen brings her short time on Earth to life with realistic scenarios that define her utterly unique character.

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Summertime! Local garden visitor this afternoon.

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Same crap in Trumps party over here.

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In case you're a time traveler, needing to compile some C++ code in 1990. (Printed on my faithful dot matrix printer!)

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Congrats! But, that's what they said about Eros too.

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Emily L. Hauser's avatar Emily L. Hauser @emilylhauser.bsky.social
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Seems like a good day to reup this tweet from two years ago:

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Sorry to hear this - I have great memories of me and my Grandpa going to see the Giants play in the late 60's and meeting Willie Mays.

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RIP William Anders - and thanks for the endless inspiration.

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...and when the fascists win, you don't vote.

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Some crazy Aquilegia this year! Grown from seeds last year, they set themselves as small plants. This year - wow - this blue one is about 14 inches tall.

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⛈️ Calling all #weather and #ClimateScience experts: Scripps Oceanography is hiring a Weather and Climate Extreme Events Professor who will help us grow our Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences curriculum! Learn more and apply by July 26. ⬇️

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David Dickinson's avatar David Dickinson @astrodave.bsky.social
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Venus and Jupiter meet tomorrow in one of the closest bright planet conjunctions for 2024; closest approach is on May 23rd at ~9:00 Universal Time (UT) at just 0.2º or 12’ apart (less than half the size of a Full Moon). You can catch the view courtesy of SOHO’s LASCO C3 view:

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Wait - 6th graders have phones?

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That sucks! I love jury duty.

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That's one of the weirdest computer problems I've heard of. With the universal fix!

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Spotted this yesterday - it's a small smudge with the naked eye, but HUGE in terms of sunspots.

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This is the Colorado State flower, called the Columbine here.

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Need an easy to use .NET plotting library? Check out ScottPlot. Tons of features, performant, easy to use. Love it!
scottplot.net

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Pasque flowers at 7300' finally blooming!

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Matt Novak's avatar Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social
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The U.S. Forest Service has purchased land from private owners in Colorado that contains 134 fossilized dinosaur footprints, the longest continuous trackway in the world.

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There're many different Time Standards on Earth, with UTC being one of them. These are different than Time Zones, which are all referenced to UTC. Other Time Standards include International Atomic Time (TAI), Terrestrial Time (TT) and Universal Time 1 (UT1). I recommend TAI on the moon.

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I'm amazed when people share their screens, how they don't care what's showing. You can learn a lot about how someone spends their time from just the bookmark order on their browser.

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I can't wait for this series!

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I'm guessing he used chatGPT during the interview too. That's frustrating as hell.

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Ooo! I'm in a postgres db somewhere!

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi's avatar Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com
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In case it helps those wanting to learn @skyfeed.app, I've created this thread to show you an example of how I created a simple custom feed based on an already created List of users. If YOU know of a good how-to Skyfeed resource or tutorial for non-techies, pls reply with link.

cont'd 👇🏼

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Emily Hunt's avatar Emily Hunt @emily.space
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One of the most useful little websites is symbolsalad.com, which has a huge range of mathematical and scientific unicode characters (like ¹ ₆ ≈ × ∞ + all Greek letters) on a simple webpage that doesn't have ads.

There's something so nostalgic about simple websites that just... work.

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Back in 2017, Dr. David Dao was forcibly dragged off of a United flight he had a ticket to fly on, because a computer picked his seat to deplane in their oversold situation. I speculated then that Asimov's 1st law of Robotics was likely broken. rightsideleftside.teddriver.net/post/the-fir...

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Yep, agree. That was the long term effect i was thinking of. Short term EMP?

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Except for the permanent ruining of large orbital regimes for millennia. I'm with you - these leaders need to take a step back.

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