why is 𝕏 an ascii character
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Contrail Shadow X
What created this giant X in the clouds? It was the shadow of contrails illuminated from below. When airplanes fly, humid engine exhaust may form water droplets that might freeze in Earth's cold upper atmosphere. These persistent streams of water and ice scatter light from the Sun above and so appear bright from below. On rare occasions, though, when the Sun is near the horizon, contrails can be lit from below. These contrails cast long shadows upwards, shadows that usually go unseen unless there is a high cloud deck. But that was just the case over Istanbul, Türkiye, earlier this month. Contrails occur all over planet Earth and, generally, warm the Earth when the trap infrared light but cool the Earth when they efficiently reflect sunlight. The image was taken by a surprised photographer in the morning on the way to work.
@jeffalo would i get banned for setting up a user script that posts “nighty morning” on my account every day
interesting discovery - if you change the parameters of conway’s game of life to be basically opposite - that is, the cell needs 1, 4, 6, 7, or 8 neighbors to reproduce and 5, 6, 7, or 8 neighbors to stay alive, a single cell will actually generate a rough approximation of a sierpinski carpet. i made a diagram of the process below
@pkmnq I heard somewhere that you’re a Conway’s Game of Life enthusiast, thoughts on this?
this sounds so passive aggressive, Markov knows something we don’t
oh shit you can program the TI-83 Plus calculators that my math teacher uses
shit boutta get interesting
shoutout to 9 year old me who wrote some of the worst formatted javascript i’ve ever seen (I didn’t know what a callback was)
i’m bored, what should I design? preferably a mechanical design like a centrifugal fan, engine block model, water pump, etc
hoooooly shit, I managed to finish with a B in English. a couple days ago I had a C-, and if I finished with a C then I wouldn’t be able to go to the magnet school I was accepted to
untrue, i’m good at math and bad at programming
i find it funny how people say you need to be good at math for cs/programming. learning to program (functions & variables) actually helped me understand math better
time to sit down and write some badly formatted code for several hours just to make a game prototype that would’ve taken a real programmer like thirty minutes to make