Jason D. Clinton @jasondclinton@scifi.fyi
Software engineer at Google working on Chrome OS with open source, Beowulf, GNOME and Ruby background; history of LGBT activism.
I'm a software engineer working on Chrome OS in Boulder. I like peaceful passtimes with friends and my husband @brandonward and our dog: hiking, dinner and board games, and watching TV.
I organize a science and sci-fi book club that meets online. We read about 1 book per month.
Also, I'm vegetarian and I meditate.
In former lives, I had a radio show, was a GNOME module maintainer, published a book on Ruby, and worked in Beowulf computing.
Welcome, newcomers!
I’m sick to death of people being precious about #GMO produce. Functionally there is no difference between a grape bred to have little or no seed and a grape that has been modified in a lab for the same thing. Y’all are just scared of science.
You wanna talk about #Monsanto charging for “licenses” for their crops, ok. Talk about agribusiness killing the planet, ok. Talk about corporations copyrighting genetic code, ok. These are all valid concerns.
But the science is sound.
The Apollo astronauts left laser retro-reflectors on the Moon which allowed us to measure the distance to the Moon to an accuracy of a few centimetres.
This is the Hubble extreme deep field. With the exception of (from what I can find) 3 foreground stars, every object you see in this picture is a galaxy. Can you find the foreground stars? Know the trick?
"What do feel you get out of your minor in electrical engineering?"
Me: "A constant sense of wonder at the fact everything is not currently on fire."
USB over USB
Scary.
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#webcomics #comics #skeleton
Dungeons & Dragons is in the business of selling fantasy. Not the stuff with the magic and monsters -- the part where you *actually believe* that you and several other likeminded adults will be able to coordinate your schedules on a regular basis.
The hell is this bullshit, MIT?
Attention Duelists:
I'm doing front-end web dev and I'm using probably the best tools available for it (React/Redux and Typescript)
and it's still ABSOLUTELY AWFUL.
Why is this not Rust?
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I completed Headspace Pro yesterday and moved on to Insight Timer today. In the end Headspace Pro pack 5 and 6 out of 6 were somewhat useful for teaching resting aweness. Not so much so that I would recommend Headspace to anyone: it took way too long to get to the point and the beginner lessons are much better in Calm. All in all, I spent ~100 days using Headspace and probably never will again; that was enough.
This lady on the bus had someone in her phone she was calling just listed as "Liar"
Noëlle the 8-Bit🏳️🌈🎄
Happy Father’s Day!
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So, here's a couple of decisions made by algorithms already used by YouTube for a very similar purpose.
You tell me if this makes sense.
1. NASA's Official Mars Landing Video Got Taken Off YouTube Over Bogus Copyright Claims
https://gizmodo.com/5932089/nasas-official-rover-landing-video-got-taken-off-youtube-over-bogus-copyright-claims
"The Curiosity Rover may have landed safely on the surface of Mars, but like all good things, it's not invulnerable to completely bogus takedown requests.
(...)[T]he video was rendered unavailable due to a copyright claim by Scripps Local News."
12 weeks in to working out, twice per week after never having worked out in my life. Things I've noticed:
* I look forward to gym time; did not expect.
* It still hurts afterward but in a good way.
* Chronic back pain is lessened because posture.
* Body is responding by adding both muscle and fat. Was already underweight before so that isn't alarming.
* Helped my meditation and karate practice.
* Gym culture is interesting: we're all fighting entropy together; somehow find commonality in that.
Stars with a mass greater than 8 times that of the Sun die spectacularly. Once the matter in their cores is fused in to iron, fusion shuts down and the star then explodes in a supernova explosion.
The Crab Nebula, shown, is the remnant of a supernova recorded in 1054 by Chinese astronomers.
