The Event Horizon Telescope is an array of telescopes the size of the Earth, to achieve the highest angular resolution of any astronomical facility yet.
Every night they've been gathering million gigabytes of data. It’s the largest amount of recording in any other experiment in astronomy to date. "Five years ago we couldn't even afford the hard drives for this"
The difficulty of this task can be compared to “taking a picture of a DVD on the surface of the moon from the surface of the Earth”
Tomorrow, at 9 AM eastern standard time, for the first time in human history, we're going to have real images of a black hole.
The livestream will be broadcast here, and I will have a thread to talk about the results of it right here on this alt account as it happens!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnJi0Jy692w
re: stackoverflow dev survey results
most important job factors: men and women named the same top 4 (languages/technologies, office environment/company culture, flex time/flexible schedule, opportunities for professional development),
women assigned a higher priority to environment/culture because [see OP], and both men and women ranked diversity very low (7th out of 10 for women, 10th out of 10 for men)
non-binary respondents’ priorities were similar to women’s except that they assigned *much* more importance to diversity, bumping “opportunities for professional development” out of the top 4
I've told my own students how programming conventions are about appreciating reading code and not about making it easier to write, and my frustration at CS curriculum that "doesn't teach you how to read, yet grades you on your poetry" https://twitter.com/leftoblique/status/1114951714807791616
this train of thought comes off the heels of the absolute brain geniuses in r/privacy who think we should protect CEOs from oh-so-evil Elizabeth Warren who says CEOs should be jailed when personal data is stolen.
wealthy sure, fine, whatever, but
executive?
come on, have you _seen_ the people you'd have to rub shoulders with in that position?
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