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Robin Leroy

@eggrobin.bsky.social

𒉭​𒄿𒈾​𒀀𒀊𒁀​𒊭​𒁾𒎌​𒉈𒁍𒌑𒌝 An egg drowning in a sea of papers 𒉭​𒀀𒀊𒁀​𒁾𒁀𒅗​𒁀𒀭𒋢𒋢 一颗在论文海中的蛋 𒄠𒋛𒆠 https://mastodon.social/@eggrobin

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Luna@moonbase.lgbt · 2mo ago

chat is it good when i have to change the browser zoom to 50% to fit github's entire incident report in a single screenshot?

screenshot of a firefox window at 50% zoom, showing just an absolute fuckload of github outages from today
Gro-Tsen@gro-tsen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

So, IBM publishes machine-generated translations of AIX documentation on its Web site, and the French translation of awk documentation translated “sin” and “log” (the math functions) as if they were the words for a religious transgression and a journal respectively. 🤣

« Fonctions arithmétiques Les fonctions arithmétiques suivantes exécutent les mêmes actions que les sous-routines de langage C sous le même nom: atan2( Y, X ) Renvoie l'arc tangente de Y/X. Cos ( X ) Renvoie le cosinus de X; X est en radians. Péché ( X ) Renvoie le péché de X; X est en radians. Exp ( X ) Renvoie la fonction exponentielle de X. Journal ( X ) Renvoie le logarithme naturel de X. Sqrt ( X ) Renvoie la racine carrée de X. »
Gro-Tsen@gro-tsen.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A linguistic point about French vs English: I recently retrieved an item from an Amazon locker, and the locker thanked me, in French, with “merci d'utiliser Amazon locker”. I would argue this is a bad translation of “thank you for using Amazon locker”. Let me explain. 🧵⤵️ •1/17

Paul Byrne@theplanetaryguy.com · 7mo ago

This is a cliff on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. It's about 1 km tall. If you jumped from the top, it would take you 47 minutes to reach the bottom, and you'd probably be OK.

On the right of the image is a sheer cliff face marked with vertical striations; talus lies at its base. The left of the image is in almost total darkness, and the background is deep space.
rahaeli@rahaeli.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Okay, this is the very rare Substack post that's worth loading the Nazi newsletter site for. I am *incredibly* surprised I kept about 90% comprehension until I hit the 1100s.

Colin Gorrie@colingorrie.bsky.social · 8mo ago

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle. It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get. www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

Bloup@blipbloup.bsky.social · 9mo ago

J'avais jamais fait gaffe à celle-là mais elle est vraiment pas mal ! Ce que j'avais adoré pour ma part : les camions remplis de "métaphores ethniques" (εθνικές μεταφορές = transports nationaux) et le "centre pneumatique" à l'intérieur d'une église (πνευματικό κέντρο = centre spirituel).

Kacem Le Moël@kacemlemoel.eurosky.social · 9mo ago

(Je ne résiste pas à vous montrer quand même, sans autre commentaire, cette devanture de magasin d'articles pour animaux domestiques -- il y en a autant que de pharmacies, semble-t-il).

Devanture de magazin d'articles pour animaux domestiques. Le nom du magazin, en lettres vertes sur fond bleu, dans une typographie qui était moderne dans les années 1980, est ζωοφιλία.
Barry Dorrans@blowdart.me · 10mo ago

Enabling Source Control integration in Windows File Explorer

Enabling Source Control integration in Windows File Explorer

Isn't this pretty? That's Windows Explorer, showing Git commit messages, the last changed date, and a version status of the file is modified and needs to be committed, why there's even branch information in the status bar. This was announced in May 2024, made it into insider builds a year later, and snuck into Windows 11 with no fanfare in the September feature update. To enable this, open the Settings app, click System, click Advanced, then click on File Explorer. You might be prompted to "U

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Catherine@whitequark.org · last yr.

did you know? teleost fish maintain neutral buoyancy with their swim bladder, which they pump with gas as they descend into depths. specifically, they can pump it with hyperbaric oxygen at partial pressures of *several hundred atmospheres*

The swim bladder rete mirabile represents a very efficientcountercurrent exchanger. Oxygen and carbon dioxide mole-cules returning to the venous side of the rete mirabile will there-fore diffuse back to the arterial side, resulting in a countercur-rent multiplication of the initial increases in oxygen and carbondioxide partial pressures. The back diffusion of carbon dioxideagain is of crucial importance for the initiation of the Root effectwithin the swim bladder tissue because it results in an acidifi-cation of the arterial blood of the rete mirabile, induces the Rooteffect, and elevates oxygen partial pressure in the blood sup-plying the swim bladder tissue. The metabolic activity of gasgland cells causes further acidification, which enhances theRoot effect and the increase in oxygen partial pressure. Modelcalculations demonstrate that this dual acidification, togetherwith the very efficient countercurrent multiplication of theincreases in blood oxygen partial pressure and blood oxygencontent in the rete mirabile, can readily explain the generationof oxygen partial pressure values of up to several hundredatmospheres in swim bladder tissue of deep sea fish (10).