Jeffrey Kaplan 🚀 @JeffreyKaplan@mastodon.cloud
Standard nerd
#nobot
Science Times Newsletter: Tuesday, April 25, 2017
http://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/2017/04/25/science-times
https://mastodon.cloud/media/n2TDHFpagkiEDqyMn8I
It's going to be a 100 cup of coffee day.
Americaspace: 20 Years Since Columbia's Landing-to-Launch Record
Part 1: http://j.mp/2prrBev
Part 2: http://j.mp/2prCj4T
Image of Hale-Bopp seen from STS-83 via: http://j.mp/2prusEi
Science Times Newsletter
Tuesday, April 11 2017
http://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/2017/04/11/science-times
https://mastodon.cloud/media/FMpaq2coi9gm5V_Gu24
From the Thinking Mathematically text book, a way to kill time:
"...one billion, or 1,000,000,000 can be written as 10^9. In terms of exponents, 10^9 might not look very large, but consider this: If you can count to 200 in one minute and decide to count for 12 hours a day at this rate, it would take you in the region of 19 years, 9 days, 5 hours, and 20 minutes to count to 10^9!"
Now reading Chris Hadfield's book. On his first mission he controlled the Canada arm and installed the Shuttle / Mir docking module. It's the orange bit in the middle.
Source: https://images.nasa.gov/#/details-9702743.html
Mission wrap up video: https://youtu.be/0vzv3lz_PxE?t=34m57s
Twitter sued Customs and Border Protection for trying to unmask one of their pseudonymous alt agency accounts. Within 24 hours of Twitter filing the lawsuit, the government withdrew its subpoena. What happened here?
I explain it all: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/alt-twitter-account-trump-customs-lawsuit
What's the typical Mastodon instance configuration look like? Are people running all these services on one host? Some of the requirements seem ideal for use in AWS.
trying to run an instance of mastodon out of a pringles can
Would Mastodon sue the government to protect your Identity? 🤔
Mastodon the band’s response to Mastodon the platform is metal AF http://mashable.com/2017/04/06/mastodon-band-social-media/#kxAoUh0dP05P
Still doing interests?
#Ingress #Enlightened
Guys, what should I make for #dinner
Content?
Content?
Still wish there was an edit button on tweets/toots. How about a 30 second rule.
Not even sure what Twitter was for TBH.
