I've chosen to interpret "Do not obey in advance" to also mean that I don't preemptively cede my attention and energy to these fuckwads unless it's absolutely necessary.
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A friend was just like, "ohh goddd the fucking news" and asked if I wanted to get the cliff notes on what happened and I was like, "nope"
Basically, it's not really worth it to me anymore to pay attention to the clown show, unless:
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I actually did one of the things the docs suggest to improve mood and exercised a bit. Just walked up and down the stairs long enough to get my heart rate up.
I also spent some time staring at the sun (using eclipse glasses lol)
I do feel a bit better, but still not great.
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I've been thinking a lot lately about how my default reaction to feeling down is to try to talk and logic my way out of it, but that only helps if the source of the pain is my own thoughts.
Often I'm swamped by feelings I can't rationalize with because they didn't come from my mind. I need feel my way out in those situations, but I don't know how to do that. I don't know how to intentionally alter my emotional state with any reliability.
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It isn't so much that I think about how everything I do is meaningless. The problem is when I feel like everything I do is meaningless. It's basically impossible to logic my way out of a neurochemical cascade that's been triggered by something I don't understand.
I woke up feeling empty and worthless. You can tell me my life has value, but I can't feel it. I don't know how to reverse it other than waiting it out. Trying to rationalize away the existential pain only deepens it.
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I'm having one of those moments when I'm overwhelmed with cynicism, nihilism, and grief, and I feel compelled to vent even though doing so will only trash the mood of everyone around me and myself.
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One of the more annoying aspects of the end of the world is how everyone is like, "oh shit, I think it's the end of the world" all the time
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I'm starting to suspect that this vampire business might be bullshit
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If it is specifically light from The Sun, why doesn't moonlight cause issues since it's just reflected sunlight? Is it our Sun or any star? Like, could vampires live just fine in Alpha Centauri? How come starlight doesn't hurt them at night? That's also light from a star. Does diffraction or refraction of the light make any difference? What about radio light from the sun? Gamma rays? Neutrinos?
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So sunlight is supposed to kill vampires, right? Makes them burst into flames or turn to ash or whatever.
Is it specifically sunlight as in light from The Sun, or is it any light at a specific intensity? Is it only a single wavelength of light that's the issue, or a particular spectrum? Is there a threshold, or is it cumulative exposure? Can they go outside on a really dark and overcast day, or is that still too much sunlight?
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I stayed up waaaay too late last night doing #astrophotography and today I feel like I'm dying lol
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Plate solving, in particular, is of interest to me. I wonder if GPU or FPGA acceleration could be applied to the problem. If there's a way to parallelize plate solving it'd be dumb and slow to do it with a single CPU thread. I don't know enough about algorithms to know if it's possible.
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A modern Intel CPU has crazy throughput, but only on moderately powerful systems. So basically that means a mid to high-end mini PC, desktop, or laptop.
But throughput is what FPGAs excel at. I would expect it would be possible to have an FPGA capture system that could perform as well as (or better than) a PC, but with lower power requirements and possibly cost.
That's the idea, anyway. I wish I had the motivation, energy, and focus to actually try it.
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A big reason I think about using an FPGA is to get the maximum capture framerate possible. For DSO imaging, this is basically irrelevant, but for planetary imaging capture framerate is very important. The more frames you can feed into a lucky imaging stacker, the better the end result is. There's always a tradeoff between resolution (pixel or bit depth) and framerate, limited by the maximum throughput the system can handle.
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Another project I've been thinking about is an FPGA-based system for capturing images, guiding, plate solving, and stacking. Like, FPGA talking USB directly to the camera, no PC at all.
To be honest, it's probably not a great idea, but I think it would be neat. It would probably make more sense to use a small embedded platform with a GPU and use that for image processing acceleration.
I often wonder if the ASIair leverages any GPU acceleration. Live stacking has always felt too slow.
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And yes, I know about Astroberry. But again, that's functionally still a complete PC with a full Linux OS, which is overkill, IMO. Not to mention that there's still a bunch of proprietary shit in the RPi boards.
There's probably no technical reason a similar system couldn't be built with a simple RTOS on a low-end microprocessor.
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One project that's been simmering in the back of my mind is an embedded system replacement to NINA or ASIair. A single-purpose, #OSHW device that can do everything NINA or ASIair can do.
I have no idea where to even begin with that — and with my track record lately, I'm unlikely to ever make any significant progress on it — but I think it would be really cool.
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Speaking of NINA, I find it incredibly obnoxious that it's Windows only software. Not only does Windows increasingly suck from AI enshitification, Linux has much lower system requirements. I shouldn't need 16 GB of RAM to operate my fucking telescope.
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For my fellow #astrophotography #astronomy #FOSS nerds:
There's a project to make a touch interface/app for NINA! It looks pretty functional right now, but there's a lot of progress yet to be made. I cannot wait until the real-time stacking plugin gets integrated with this.
I love ASIair, and it works really well, but I'm not a fan of closed proprietary platforms and would love to have an alternative.
https://youtu.be/NMCeTYhAyuw
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Does learning how to play music when you're young make you more intelligent? I don't know.
Does it make you waaaay a more interesting person? In my experience, yes.
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