About five hours from now, the sections of Europe indicated on the map will experience a total solar eclipse, with other regions of the continent experiencing a partial one.
Today there is a eclipse, the map shows where the eclipse will be. In the path of the eclipse, there are also a ton of live webcams, and this map shows those and let you preview the webcams. Does it make sense now?
Even more specifically, it will start off over Greenland, continue over western Iceland and then finish with the sunset in northeastern Spain and the Balearic Islands.
That area (Taymyr Peninsula) looks crazy remote and inaccessible. It would be wild to be there, let alone experience an eclipse there. I think it might even be illegal to do so without a permit, though I'm also curious what enforcement looks like in an area so far from what we think of as normal infrastructure.
> I think it might even be illegal to do so without a permit
Do what, just visit? Seems to be public land as far as I can see, and very empty on top of that, I don't think anyone would mind you being there to see an eclipse :)
It’s like kik or twitch stream but for nerds (that’s us btw), the live stream is a bunch of live cameras in different cities/countries, these locations today will experience something called totality sun eclipse, it’s when the sun is totally covered, day turns to night, and you see a pretty yet scary ring in the sky instead, it lasts for minutes at best, and it’s a really cool thing to witness in person, but in case you can’t, at least you see it through someone’s lens in a live stream, like that site!
Normally, quicksort works best on random data. But with 90% already sorted and 10% random, it actually becomes harder to pick a good pivot. Sometimes the pivot ends up too large, which creates very uneven splits. When that happens, the algorithm switches to heapsort to avoid worst-case behavior, but heapsort is slower. Now, instead of immediately switching, it tries to partition again. Only if it’s still bad does it fall back to heapsort. That’s why performance improves.
Perhaps the change that I'm most excited about is official support for using sdboot instead of grub (something I have been manually configuring for the last 7 years):
I had just spent the past 2 years mastering lilo and thought on top of the world, and then suddenly this new fangled thing called grub came along with all its weird commands and sytanx.
It's been what, 20 years now? I finally feel comfortable with grub. And now you're telling me there's a new kid on the block? sdboot?
I'm too old to learn another bootloader. Maybe I should go back and dig and old copy of Debian Potato or Woody and stick to that...
I have been using Fedora Sericea since it came out (it's basically Fedora Silverblue, but uses Sway-wm instead of Gnome-wm). The system is actually pretty usable, and you don't really need to reboot after each rpm-ostree install command (`rpm-ostree live-apply` takes care of it via systemd-based overlay).
in the last two weeks I've been using Fedora Workstation, I haven't use Linux in 20 years and i have to say this is an incredibly improved experience.
I haven't yet needed to boot back into windows! If it stays like that for the next 6 months I'll cut over to Linux permanently and wipe the windows partition.
Lutris has installers for those too, and Flatpak makes Lutris' installation a breeze.
Those are propietary, but you have Krita, Only Office, Inkscape, LibreOffice, Blender...
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