Strange Attractor @strangeattractor@refactorcamp.org

Does anyone know what sort of rose this is? I love it and I want to keep it flourishing at the new house. #florespondence

The #reddit alternative #lemmy is now federating. This is exciting!

Discord is somewhere in the triangle between Twitter, Slack, and Mastodon.

I'm interested to randomly join live video calls of salons.

Most of those I see are in the wrong time zones.

Do you know of a Chat Roulette for salons?

One thing this book does well is provide a logic for the diversity of sauropods— Brachiosaurus, Brontosaurus, Diplodocus, Camarasaurus, etc— a branch of dinosaur evolution that often gets boiled down into a slurry of long necks and flat teeth. The notion is that different species of sauropod are specially adapted to eat certain types of plants, and the traits that differentiate them are, to a large degree, bound to their differences in diet.

"The sauropods weren't competing for the same plants, but dividing the resources among themselves. The scientific term for this is niche partitioning—when coexisting species avoid competing with each other by behaving or feeding in slightly different ways. The Morrison world was highly partitioned, which is a sign of how successful these dinosaurs were. They were carving up almost every square inch of the ecosystem, a dizzying array of species flourishing alongside each other…"

The C Standard Does Not Protect You

https://thephd.github.io/your-c-compiler-and-standard-library-will-not-help-you

"...the behavior of C’s governing body is very clear. We will not introduce warnings into your old code, even if that old code could be doing something dangerous. We will not steer you away from mistakes, because that could shake the veneer that what your old code does is, in fact, wrong. We will not make it easier for new programmers to write better C code."

@strangeattractor 1. I like that I'm adjacent to undeveloped land. 2. I would/will repair/replace all the stuff the previous owner neglected. 3. I would include a soundproof office.

@strangeattractor
1- I lived in several places this year, and I'm moving again tomorrow. The best part of any of them was size (except for cleaning).

2- Full rebuilds. They all have serious structural issues.

3- Avoid yards. Too much maintenance. Avoid ground floor windows. Include decent drainage, sound proofing, and design everything for my height instead of my hobbit sized relatives.

J'adore! 😆

Virtual meetings are basically modern seances.

"Elizabeth are you here?"
"Make a sound if you can hear us."
"Is anyone else with you?"
"We can't see you. Can you hear us?"

#humour #meeting #seance

Narnia is an isekai, right?

Isekai anime is what you get if you take Narnia and replace "Love for Lion Jesus" with "Being Good at MMORPG Mechanics"?

Summary of new developments in geothermal energy:

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/10/21/21515461/renewable-energy-geothermal-egs-ags-supercritical

The potential for scaling up is very exciting. Geothermal would be a great source of baseline load to supplement solar and wind, replacing natural gas or nuclear in the mix.

Also, geothermal involves a skill set (drilling) that fossil fuel companies have expertise in. It gives them a way to use their powers for good, possibly making it easier to get them into a green energy political coalition?

Oh no, the #blåhaj has become a gamer

A Phasey Bean (Macroptilium lathyroides) spotted at Sungei Tengah, Singapore, on 24 Oct. 2020.

Phasey Beans are tropical American plants now found in many area of the tropics. It's bright red flowers caught my attention.

On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/63378043 ].

#iNaturalist #Nature #Singapore #Photography #Plants

Fibonachos (I went to way too much trouble setting up this joke).

A final ginkgo picture to end this walk through #Glasgow.
Thank you for watching ^_^

#autumn
#紅葉
#nature