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Comment · 16 days ago
$80 for a window manager (or $24 / year) ... yeesh. Maybe I will try it when I get fed up with rectangle.
Comment · 16 days ago
Yea, it's advertising their 1-shot hosting like everyone else is doing lately:
Comment · 21 days ago
Thank you!
Comment · 22 days ago
It says receive the link in two minutes but it's been over 4 hours and nothing over here. Just tried again.
Comment · 23 days ago
Fascinating read. Thank you for the link. It's wild to think about how different some people's lives are compared to our own. I couldn't imagine doing that to my child.
Comment · 25 days ago
This question has a ton of varied answers across the internet. The best bang for your buck is a good set of binoculars and a tripod for them. It's really neat how much you can see with just those... clearing up fuzzy spots with naked eyes by revealing clusters of stars.
From there, if you have found out that you enjoy being outside using the binoculars, can see what you expected... then buy a compact scope
see https://telescopicwatch.com/different-types-of-telescopes/
I have two sets of cheap (<$100) binoculars, a cheap refractor from amazon (gskyer, $300), a very nice celestron c8 and a small meade MCT. I bought them in that order as I developed my interests. I use two different eye pieces, both plossals, one with about an inch of eye relief with no eyecup and one with a bit less relief and an eyecup. I use the binoculars more than all the others combined and if I were starting over I would buy a really nice set with a tripod.
For planets and nebulae I use the c8 with an equitorial mount. This is _fantastic_ for general objects in the night sky since once it's aligned it's a single knob to turn to keep up with things as the earth is rotating. For the moon and large planets and tracking things like space craft launching or starlink sats I use the refractor with the standard azimuth tripod. It makes it very easy to manually "point and shoot" objects with irregular travel paths.
So yea... go buy some binoculars.
Comment · 26 days ago
In addition to the sibling:
Comment · 26 days ago
Awesome! Thank you for sharing!
For iOS stargazers that don't already know (we've all been there) xasteria is a great option for your phone to compliment this (it also uses 7Timer!).
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/xasteria-astronomy-weather/id9...
Comment · 28 days ago
Just a few tokens away from a flutter port
Comment · 1 month ago
Good summary about the physical and statutory limits
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/less-300-million-barr...
Comment · 1 month ago
> If it were true, I expect it would be a national security concern, and quickly remedied
I dunno... things happen that expose these risks and lead times for replacement equipment can push out to 2-3 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore_County_substation_attack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2026/09/02/u-s-bulk-power-equipm...
Comment · 1 month ago
Feel like "No Slop November" would be a better name (and easier to succeed in the US since we've got a holiday break.
Comment · 1 month ago
He accidentally got caught.
Comment · 1 month ago
Is the site owners are here: that background and scroll effect is terrible.
Comment · 1 month ago
Can we put "Automattic" I. The title? I had no idea who this was. (Yes it is comfortable under my rock)
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