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202607 Site Updates
- re-did the main menu
- re-did the footer
- standardized the menus, view and tags a little bit.
Now all the major links are reasonable I think.
Post-mortem on yesterday's downtime
As a technologist, I thought I'd need to write things twice but it's actually three
Irowor Trading Feature: histogram view of a stock price action over 1-mo, 3-mo, 6-mo, and 1-yr windows
The following is a new description of a feature of the Irowor Trading platform. Please refer to the project site for more info.
Note: to follow the accuracy of plot data, the time the screenshots were taken is July 2026.
Annesque Email: New Feature: Bounce Unwanted Emails
Funny paradox: If you pay money and then break the law, it's a bribe, and it's illegal. And if you break the law first and then pay, it's called a fine, and it's legal.I've met this man in dark glasses on the street a couple of times with a huge cat on a leash.
Movie review: Good Luck Have Fun Don't Die (no spoilers)
I've watched this movie in an airplane in 2026, a year after it came out.
Overall, I'll give it a solid 7/10 rating: worth watching.
The basic premise is that the world is overrun by social networks and AI, and all the people have turned into mindless drones and all they do is scroll on tiktok... I'm talking about the movie, not the real life. You can already see how this is great: it's already happening or has happened, and the movie is great social commentary.
Using cursor is infuriating - AI makes you dumb
I just installed the newest cursor (3.11.x) text editor and I hate it. It tries to type in front of me. I can't think straight while that is happening.
If the words on the screen change before, during, and after I type - it is as if I'm not typing at all. But the AI is not smarter than me, I am smarter than it. If some business wants to give the task of writing to the text editor itself - that's their choice. As for me, as a software specialist, I cannot give up the task of thinking. It is my job.
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Because the spacecraft was designed to travel far from the Sun where solar panels are useless, it required a nuclear power source.
Key Features of the Power System
The Fuel: The system uses Plutonium-238 in the form of plutonium oxide.
Heat to Electricity: The natural radioactive decay of the plutonium generates heat. Thermocouples then convert this thermal energy directly into electricity.
The Units: Voyager 1 carries three RTGs, which are mounted together on a long boom to keep radiation away from the sensitive science instruments.
Initial Output: At launch in 1977, the three RTGs combined produced about 470 watts of power.
Current Power Status: due to the radioactive half-life of the plutonium and the degradation of the thermocouples. The power output decreases by about 4 watts every year
Because the spacecraft was designed to travel far from the Sun where solar panels are useless, it required a nuclear power source.
Key Features of the Power System
The Fuel: The system uses Plutonium-238 in the form of plutonium oxide.
Heat to Electricity: The natural radioactive decay of the plutonium generates heat. Thermocouples then convert this thermal energy directly into electricity.
The Units: Voyager 1 carries three RTGs, which are mounted together on a long boom to keep radiation away from the sensitive science instruments.
Initial Output: At launch in 1977, the three RTGs combined produced about 470 watts of power.
Current Power Status: due to the radioactive half-life of the plutonium and the degradation of the thermocouples. The power output decreases by about 4 watts every year