I think I’m a fan too
Hbd dude
Does this mean you are not captain obvious?  It is in my Netflix queue I will watch it again. It's on my storage (EDIT: NAS) and it will be there forever  Wow rent a scope for southern sky photos.
I have a very close friend that is amazingly a flat earther.
I don't argue with him about it.
But I prefer a deep vast universe over that.
Flat earthers are cooler than the rest of the conspiracy people, because of the close relation to Discworld (Terry Pratchett). Maybe he should go on a round-the-world trip with a compass? This musk be a joke. It's a joke, right?  |
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When we would go out onto the deck from a flourescent lite computer room, it would take close to 30 minutes for your pupils to be fully dilated plus it was the southern sky so the stars are different.
To a native New Yorker like myself.
It was nice really nice.
700 foot ship had three red lights bow , stern and radar stack .
One of the best parts of being in the Navy was looking at those stars.
I remember the southern night sky. I was in NZ for a while (southern island) in a rural area. I was dj-ing at a private party and went outside the barn for a smoke. As i had finished i was knocked out of my socks by the weed and the look of the sky There are some big gaseous nebulas on the south sky and the milky way's core is in sight all year. Maybe i'll rent a remote scope on the southern hemisphere for a month, but i should make sure to have enough free time to use it, when the kids are grown ups, for example. |
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can you link the telescope you use please
and for that matter the camera
finally do you live in a rural area?
As far as OpSec allows: I am using a 430mm Apochromatic Refractor with 72mm front lens diameter. I have a second 750mm reflector scope, but it's much more sensitive to wind and not protected as good against dew. The camera is a ZWO Asi294MC Pro, a peltier cooled astrophotography camera. Living in a rural area (Class Bortle-3), i sometimes travel to a place in the mountains (Bortle-2), but i tend to avoid it, because if i get a problem with the software or hardware, or forget anything i need at home, i'm all fucked in a dark, cold night with no option other than to return home. There's also stronger wind, which makes the scope shake, degrading picture quality. thank you I will be checking this out. I was in the Navy and traded across the South Pacific on ships set to black out conditions. you could see stars right down to the horizon. your photos sometimes remind of those nights looking at so many freak star it was amazing This is a scpecial occasion, because at new moon, you have Bortle-1, like in the most dark environments on earth. Some places in deserts or higher mountains are the same. It's a pity that you can't do long exposures on a ship because of the movements. Of course, our eyes aren't made to see so far out and gather as much light, and this is what finally drew me to astrophotography. But looking at a full star-blown milky way expanding from horizon to horizon is as breathtaking as all these photographs, at least. When i'm in a city and get a chance to look up at night, i even feel a little sorry for the people, because many of them probably never experience observing the surrounding universe (half of if, tbf). |
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can you link the telescope you use please
and for that matter the camera
finally do you live in a rural area?
As far as OpSec allows: I am using a 430mm Apochromatic Refractor with 72mm front lens diameter. I have a second 750mm reflector scope, but it's much more sensitive to wind and not protected as good against dew. The camera is a ZWO Asi294MC Pro, a peltier cooled astrophotography camera. Living in a rural area (Class Bortle-3), i sometimes travel to a place in the mountains (Bortle-2), but i tend to avoid it, because if i get a problem with the software or hardware, or forget anything i need at home, i'm all fucked in a dark, cold night with no option other than to return home. There's also stronger wind, which makes the scope shake, degrading picture quality. |
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OT: Messier 3 (open star cluster). Total exposure: 92 Minutes. One of the few objects that made sense, standing about opposite to the nearly full moon at the time of exposure. Had to zoom-crop about 80% of the original picture, because i was using only 430mm scope and i shot the - comparably bigger - horsehead nebula just before, but the result was shitty because of the strong light pollution from the moonlight, so i switched to darker areas.  |
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That Datasette above the 1541 is the hidden gem in this picture 1 MHz (!) clocked CPU (afair) |
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Buddy seems to need a defibrillator, urgently  |
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 Bart will help us Obviously a (bear-) traB EDIT: I'm out for today. The skies are clear, i cleaned the correction lenses of my favourite telescope, time to go combat the nearly full moon. May post OT images soon... #GN |
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+1 WOsMerit
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frankly... I'm only about 70% sure that your post is not meant sarcastically ... ... (2). I wouldn't credit a WOsMerit if i didn't mean it, would i? ... And I didn't know what to make of the fact that you wrote about sending a sMerit but did not actually send any... 1 WOsMerit is a virtual sMerit i don't have (yet) but will send in the future, probably. (I actually did) Other things you might not know:
I am rarely aware of things i don't come across regularly, because of my fucked up Working Memory. This excludes facts and things i had learned before my Chronic Fatigue adventure, which started back in 2010 after a viral infection. It's a strange way to live through the days, being smart and intelligent but not able to hold information effectively in memory, which i was also very good at, before 2010. I come around slightly dumb to most "normal" people i personally deal with daily, which i find pretty ironic, but still - there is no irony.
Imagine trying to call out your neighbor's name to get his attention, but you can't remember it, because it is stored somewhere in your brain, but not accessible at the moment you need it. It's unreliable storage and retrieval of information in Longterm Memory, hard to explain how it "feels" like, so i use examples to make interested people better understand.
There are some Supps that help, but sustainable cure is yet to be found.
OT:
Speaking of Supps, i found some interesting Amino-acid lately: c, which is derived from green tea, works remarkably well at dosage of 100mg daily.
WO brothers suffering from mood swings, anxiety, problems to keep focus and feeling stressed out or unrelaxed should more than just benefit from that stuff.
L-Theanine is the active component found in green tea, but the Caffeine contained in the tea is elevating restlessness and alertness, pushing heart rate and thus working like an antagonist to L-Theanine effects.
I have read that it really helps peeps suffering from anxiety of all sorts, who also don't want to take these emotionally flattening antidepressants (SSRI).
A few days of taking that shit and it started to work a charm for my focusing problems. It also got noticeably harder to get me upset and/or angry.
#NOMEDICALADVICE
That's interesting. I experience similar memorizing problems, although maybe not as intense. It's actually right on the edge, so that I can accept not being able to remember certain stuff at certain moments. I almost tend to feel that there is a reason that my brain does not dig out the stuff I want it to. That reason being actual importance. I wonder, maybe it just knows better than me what info I really need. And I somewhat came to trust my brain to some extend in that regard. (Trusting it to save the right resources) For example, I have hard times remembering peoples names, but I came to the understanding that names are just not that important, when you are interested in a person's inside instead. On the contrary I rarely ever forget faces. I can recognize individuals in the street with whom I had the last contact over 10-20 years ago. And I can approach them and say hi. For me that is far more important than to remember their name. So I started to trust my brain a bit more that it put its resources where it seems appropriate. And thanks for the Theanine info. I guess I will drink more green tea again. Was a big fan but got lazy having to prepare it. Btw there are some studies about coconut oil preventing Alzheimers. Maybe it's good for memory in general. The difference is that if you really want to memorize, and it doesn't go well but it went well some time before, it means some trouble. There are many possible causes, like my wife being pregnant five times, giving birth four times, she was just under-nutritioned. Vitamins brought her brainpower back up. In my case it was heavy brain-fog first, and the memorization problems seem to be the remains. But if you remember faces much better than words and sounds, melodies... I'd suggest you're just the more visual type of thinker in general. If you often use terms like "i saw that coming", "i can see what you mean", " look, i'll exlain it to you", "let's see" etc. it would give a strong hint you are experiencing this life more visually than auditive or sensitive (kinesthetic). I also can't remember numbers well anymore by listening, but if i have the time to look at them and try memorize the pattern of it on a keypad, i can remember it better. Age also plays a role. After 24, your cell reproduction slows down, slowly, until things start to get ugly at 80+ As of green Tea, if you want to keep most of the good stuff, boil the water to no more than 70°C and soak it for at least 5 minutes. I can recommend "Benfuki", which is low in Caffeine. Coconut Oil, i love ir. But i have bad luck and i don't tolerate it well, it gives me quite some stomach ache  Seems to be related to my Fructose Malabsorption. |
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It would seem that Bitcoin is, once again, dying. I don't know if it can make it this time.  1. Keep trusting Bitcoin, respect the cycle(s) and avoid uber-bullishness. 2. Hang out in WO to pick up interesting info and entertaining memes. |
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I missed this dip but DCA'ed on 1st of March for the higher price  Going to lump in some spare change, at least. |
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+1 WOsMerit
I was completely blind for these poverty / forum rank / signature campaign aspects, man.
Thanks for shedding a light.
frankly... I'm only about 70% sure that your post is not meant sarcastically ... Two things: (1). I know you don't know my habits too good (yet), but i really try to mark sarcasm and irony (for reasons) using emoticons (grin and twinkle, mostly). Since there is no emoticon, you can be 99,9% sure that i meant it. 0,1% are reserved for the rare occasion of me forgetting to emoticonify irony. (2). I wouldn't credit a WOsMerit if i didn't mean it, would i? Other things you might not know: I am rarely aware of things i don't come across regularly, because of my fucked up Working Memory. This excludes facts and things i had learned before my Chronic Fatigue adventure, which started back in 2010 after a viral infection. It's a strange way to live through the days, being smart and intelligent but not able to hold information effectively in memory, which i was also very good at, before 2010. I come around slightly dumb to most "normal" people i personally deal with daily, which i find pretty ironic, but still - there is no irony. Imagine trying to call out your neighbor's name to get his attention, but you can't remember it, because it is stored somewhere in your brain, but not accessible at the moment you need it. It's unreliable storage and retrieval of information in Longterm Memory, hard to explain how it "feels" like, so i use examples to make interested people better understand. There are some Supps that help, but sustainable cure is yet to be found. OT: Speaking of Supps, i found some interesting Amino-acid lately: L-Theanine, which is derived from green tea, works remarkably well at dosage of 100mg daily. WO brothers suffering from mood swings, anxiety, problems to keep focus and feeling stressed out or unrelaxed should more than just benefit from that stuff. L-Theanine is the active component found in green tea, but the Caffeine contained in the tea is elevating restlessness and alertness, pushing heart rate and thus working like an antagonist to L-Theanine effects. I have read that it really helps peeps suffering from anxiety of all sorts, who also don't want to take these emotionally flattening antidepressants (SSRI). A few days of taking that shit and it started to work a charm for my focusing problems. It also got noticeably harder to get me upset and/or angry. #NOMEDICALADVICE |
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at jjg I give a lot of merits out.
many to newbies.
I understand why we sell adds and why we have merit farmers.
Some sections are obviously designed to sell signatures.
But others like this for instance are designed to not have a lot of shit posts to earn coin.
So the farmers look to earn our merits.
I always ask for a one or two week signature vacation rather than curb merits.
But that will never happen.
Ya can't trick out an old hat Signature campaigns are way out of my awareness, since i only hang around in this here parts, with a few posts in 4-5 other threads (over the course of almost six years). I appreciate clever merit farming, just a little bit. If a newbie posts some good shit i haven't seen yet on Twatter, i would well spend a sMerit. But it's a very rare occasion. Now to something completely different: We seem to finally have lost our slovenian beggar EXPhorizon's attention? ChartBuddy's engagement is going to be harder to lose. Maybe just ignore the hourly Bot-posts? |
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You are right though, I'm a bit disappointed by so much copypasta in the WO recently. I liked it better without the merit system.
The merit system wasn't established for us to take it too serious, though. ... That's exactly the point.... If you live in a low income country getting merits can be a very serious thing. It may provide you at least with a 2nd income the wellbeing of your family might depend on. I can tell ya, if I lived under such circumstances, I would rather do some posting on Bitcointalk than being exploited in a badly paid and exhausting 3rd world employment. And that creates some very "motivated" merit farmers. I don't think any of the older WO participants take Merits very serious. But merit farmers do, for sure +1 WOsMerit I was completely blind for these poverty / forum rank / signature campaign aspects, man. Thanks for shedding a light. |
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You are right though, I'm a bit disappointed by so much copypasta in the WO recently. I liked it better without the merit system.
The merit system wasn't established for us to take it too serious, though. However, imho you're very right about the pasta. |
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... I had not heard of this. A company called TeraWulf is going to mince BTC with a nuclear reactor in NE Pennsylvania. (Not really that far from E. Palestine, Ohio.) I'm kind of amazed that the greenies (and PA regulators and voters ) are going to let them do that. Once they have the 15,000 miners planned, they will run about 0.5% of the world's total hashing rate. This kind of thing is going to make home mining harder. https://decrypt.co/122264/terawulfs-nuclear-bitcoin-plant-one-piece-green-mining-puzzleIs home mining still a thing? I mean, average homes, not the bigger homes, probably built on bigger wealth. If anybody starts mining at home nowadays, i think he will mine Shitcoins and convert them to Bitcoin, most of the time at least. But regarding existing setups (in moderate homes), aren't times (current difficulty levels) hard enough, so that an increase of 0,5% of global hashpower, by a single miner, wouldn't add much of imbalances to the already existing ones? Well, it's definitely not positive for home based miners, true that. I have 14 cent power in New Jersey in the winter the heat is worth maybe 3-4 cents so lets say 11 cents a kwatt a s19pro doing 100th makes 7 cents a th or 100 x 7 = $7.00 3kwatts an hour = 72 kwatts maybe 75 kwatts x 11 = $8.20 for power vs $7.00 for earn means a $1.20 loss. summer is far worse power is 17 cents and cooling is 3 cents to 20 cents x 75 or $15.00 power cost. earning $7.00 means a 8 dollar loss a day for summer. NJ power rates of 14 cents winter and 17 cents summer are decent rates for many states in USA. Those numbers above kind of mean home mining is pretty much dead. Only gear making money for a home miner is not a Sha-256 like the s19 pro it is the L7 it makes $21 a day it burns in my home $8 in the winter and $15 in the winter. so $13 profit a day in winter. and $6 profit a day in summer just think of it as shoveling shit to exchange for btc. Thanks for the insight. You're still lucky: Hereabout it's a tad over 30 (Euro-) Cents per kilowatt * hour. And i'm really blessed, as prices among power companies are as high as under 50c, plus the jump from 13c just hit me recently, others are paying the higher prices for some months already. It's a PITA that my PV system is not finished yet, because of snow on the roof, or i was sick or occupied doing other things  This is going on since mid December, about 20 hours of work untill the system ccould go live Shit happens. |
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... I had not heard of this. A company called TeraWulf is going to mince BTC with a nuclear reactor in NE Pennsylvania. (Not really that far from E. Palestine, Ohio.) I'm kind of amazed that the greenies (and PA regulators and voters ) are going to let them do that. Once they have the 15,000 miners planned, they will run about 0.5% of the world's total hashing rate. This kind of thing is going to make home mining harder. https://decrypt.co/122264/terawulfs-nuclear-bitcoin-plant-one-piece-green-mining-puzzleIs home mining still a thing? I mean, average homes, not the bigger homes, probably built on bigger wealth. If anybody starts mining at home nowadays, i think he will mine Shitcoins and convert them to Bitcoin, most of the time at least. But regarding existing setups (in moderate homes), aren't times (current difficulty levels) hard enough, so that an increase of 0,5% of global hashpower, by a single miner, wouldn't add much of imbalances to the already existing ones? Well, it's definitely not positive for home based miners, true that. |
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People are already compromising their Privacy on Exchanges. Look at this image, please.  This is the last 24h BTC trading volume. Only 0.0237% of trades are on Decentralized exchanges. If I am not wrong, the rest happen on centralized exchanges, and people are doing it, buddy. If the government wants to regulate Bitcoin, It's scary for us. But, Do you believe it's possible to regulate? I think regulating anything on the internet is not easy, especially for Bitcoin. Hodlers are safe, in my opinion. Interesting, i didn't assume the DEX rate to be lower than 0.1% in trading volume ,SOMA. So, it's apparent that the very most users either trust (way too much) in DEX or they are just not knowing. One could assume they are "too dumb", though. Regulating BTC would include huge efforts to track and monitor accounts and identify address holders, black- and whitelist (connected) bank accounts, based on sane metrics, and if you think through it, much more. Even if BTC markets get regulated, and at international scale, they could only get it as far as existing regulatied markets do, which is also not perfect. So let me refine my statement: Authorities could try to regulate the Bitcoin/ Crypto markets to some extent, but it probably isn't worth the effort. Neither they can effectively ban Bitcoin (and offsprings). I consider that as a nice outlook, even for hodlers, who wish to sell a lil bit every now and then. Permahodlers are not really effected, as long as buying stuff using Bitcoin isn't monitored by authorities (which would probably be an effort of too high magnitudes, too). EDIT: For those wondering about my unusual low posting rate, i got a job in an electronics B2B company for a couple of weeks.
Congratulations! Thanks! I have been friends with the staff (and the CEO) there for ages, and they know i'm reliable and competent. It's perfect for my sensible lil ass, only short durations (project based), almost no brain-heavy tasks, free to work when and where i want to (home or office). Just need to deliver quality results and respect the deadlines. One of the most positive aspects is the social life. Feels good to be surrounded by friends, brutally honest but respectful communication, working without much distraction in a very quiet environment. Just feeling a bit tired every evening, but more in a good way. |
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They say they have no intention but they know even if they wanted to, they couldn't ban Bitcoin I'd say the exact same thing as an official if i plan to "regulate" Bitcoin (and Crypto) through KYC (and worse) and tax the shit out of sellers (even hodlers, in the worst case). I'm also suspecting, if governments don't "ban" bitcoin/Crapto, it's of some good use for them. At least regarding the fiat-centric governments like the US, which do issue a global currency, namely the USD. EDIT: For those wondering about my unusual low posting rate, i got a job in an electronics B2B company for a couple of weeks. |
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Define being rich…
HODLing to gain more Fiat?
Naaaaah, that’s not the way.
you always go poor with inflational fiat say it isn't so #HODLSLEEP |
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