Eric Carroll

Can my SPARC server host a website? The little corner of the internet owned by Darko!

Last weekend I did something fun! I thought to myself “Can I get this 25 year old Sun Microsystems server online?” Better yet, can I have it host a website? 🤔

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Listen to the man.

I've seen a few cruel posts on Twitter / X recently, and, as a result, I would remind you all of the following:

If you're trying to avoid infection with SARS-CoV-2, you're being smart.

Mask harassment - online or irl - is done by uninformed, resentful and insecure people. Ignore them.

Long COVID symptoms can last a long time. Years. Even after a mild bout of acute COVID.
Long COVID sucks.
If you don’t get COVID you can’t get long COVID.
So don’t get COVID.
Get vaccinated.
Wear an N95.
Clean the air we all breathe.

It's an even more apt one in that, circa 1920, you needed to put radium into everything to get attention/funding. If you didn't have a way to do that then, by jiminy, you damn well better find a way to work the word "radium" into the name of your product/service/company.

Bullshit never changes.

It's called Moltbook, it's like when your exes get together and share notes, but instead it's the machines you watch pörn on.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

It's become a tradition for me to post this short video I recorded of a Barred Owl for #SuperbOwlSunday!

#birds #photography #PhotographersUnited #EastCoastKin

Red owl on a black bowl

A Superb Owl on a Super Bowl (Attica, c. 450 BCE, British Museum) for whatever your game this Sunday #SuperbOwl

My #SuperbOwl experience:

bryanwjones.com/2021/12/west...

Northern hawk owl flying by.

Happy #SuperbOwl Sunday!

Snowy owl, perched on a light pole, looking at the camera.

Happy #SuperbOwl Sunday! 🪶

Six burrowing owlets in their burrow. One is standing up with a feather in his mouth and the other five are further in the burrow down below.

Happy #SuperbOwl Sunday! 🪶

An owl with short ear tufts sitting on a mound in a marsh turns its head to look at the photographer. It is surrounded by brownish yellow marsh vegetation.

Happy #SuperbOwl Sunday to all who celebrate! Here is a nice Short-eared Owl that we found last month in a marsh on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. They are hard to come by.

Snowy owl perched on a barbed wire fence watching the sun go down.

Happy #SuperbOwl Sunday! 🪶

#SuperbOwl day is perhaps my favourite day of the social media calendar

So many Superb Owls to see!

Burrowing owlet tilting his head all the way to the side.

Happy #SuperbOwl Sunday!

Small woodpecker with white breast and belly, black stripes on its head and surprisingly impressive toe nails is perched on a diagonal branch looking off at something to the right of the frame. Evidence of woodpecker activity is clear on the branch.

Downy Woodpecker is visiting the yard again, enjoying the suet. A nice surprise on a very dull day #birds 🌿

A sweet Tufted Titmouse watching the nature trail.

Just north of Toronto....

Low tonight -23C
Wind chill of -30C

Not a single thing we were told about #COVID turned out to be correct. A long thread 🧵

Very interesting thread thank you

YouTube video by Al Haddrell How Does CO2 Concentration Correlate with Exhaled Aerosol?

For a variety of reasons, CO2 may not be a good proxy for exhaled aerosol. eg, it will underestimate the risk when people are talking, or overestimate when filtration is used.

I walked through some of this in my explainer video (excerpt shown below):

youtu.be/mRPh06y6hIU

The risk of the airborne transmission of disease correlates with the amount of infectious exhaled aerosol. Since people exhale CO2 with aerosol, its conc has been used as proxy for exhaled aerosol

In this article, researchers propose a new way to estimate risk of transmission

my mom, when telling me about a post she's seen where she's not sure if it's AI, will say "I'm not sure if it's real or stupid"

'The AI capex spending multiple has collapsed and gone negative.' paulkedrosky.com/chart-of-the...

SpaceX Delays Mars Plans To Focus on Moon Elon Musk’s rocket company had aimed to reach the red planet in 2026

Hahahaha rugged

I did not know there was a food recipie radicialization pipeline.

a man with a beard is holding a stick and a sword and says you shall not pass . ALT: a man with a beard is holding a stick and a sword and says you shall not pass .

My wife's view of the dishwasher is it is a Zone of Anarchy - Never The Same Load Plan Twice.

My response is consistent.

One load plan to rule them all
One way to place them
One way to organize them all
and in the dishwasher bind them.