If you have a git repository on a server with ssh access, you can just clone it: # This works. git clone ssh://username@hostname/path/to/repo You can then work on it locally and push your changes back to the origin server. By default, git won’t let you push to the branch that is currently checked out, but this is easy to change: # Run this on the remote server. git config receive.denyCurrentBranch updateInstead This is a great way to sync code between multiple computers or to work on server...| Maurycy's blog
I recently went on a rock collecting trip, but apart from the usual — quartz, K feldspar crystals, garnet, etc — I found some slightly radioactive rocks: ~5 CPS above background on contact with the RC-102. ~13 CPS above background on contact with the RC-102. ~20 CPS above background on contact with the RC-102. ~40 CPS above background on contact with the RC-102. All of these were found using my prospecting scintillator, but I took measurements with a Radiacode 102 — a very common hobbyi...| Maurycy's blog
There’s this company promising to generate solar power at night using space based mirrors to bounce sunlight down to solar farms. This is the single dumbest startup I’ve ever seen… and people are actually giving them money. “We could do solar power at night.” There stated plan is to produce a ground brightness roughly equivalent to the full moon, but that’s not nearly enough for anything. The full moon is around a million times dimmer then the sun — 0.3 lux compared to 1,000,000...| Maurycy's blog
The Ludlum Model 3 is quite a nice radiation meter, as long as you like analog displays and don’t mind it weighing one and a half kilograms: These can be found used for a reasonable price, are easy to fix, nearly indestructible, and have an adjustable HV power supply that will drive just about any Geiger tube or scintillation detector you can throw at it. Geiger tubes are mostly sensitive to alpha and beta particles: great for detecting surface contamination and measuring weakly active spec...| Maurycy's blog
Internet ads are horrible: They waste your time, and the advertising industry makes the internet a worse place. Payouts are so small that the only way to survive is to turn your site into an ad filled hellhole with no real substance. If you want to support your favorite authors: send them money. A dollar helps more than viewing ads ever would. However, most people see advertising as a part of the internet experience, which is why I added this message to my site: No adblocker detected. Conside...| Maurycy's blog
Fully LLM generated content is increasingly common on the internet. It’s not just random people copying from ChatGPT, there even companies offering fully automated AI-content-as-a-service: Just send them a list of URLs to copy and they’ll send you an “article shaped object”. To get a look at what the output looks like, I ran one of these tools on recent blog post of mine: (Skip to practical advice) LLM generated text: Let's take a photo: (Maurycy's blog) Maurycy's blog explores the ta...| Maurycy's blog
As far as I’m aware, this is the most sensitive cyanotype formula on the internet, and is just about usable for in-camera photography (ISO 0.0001): Sensitizer:(by mass) 0.05Ferric ammonium citrate 0.1Oxalic acid 0.85Water Developer:(by mass) 0.05Potassium Ferricyanide 0.01Citric acid 0.94Water The sensitizer solution must be protected from blue and UV light. The developer very slightly light sensitive, but realistically, it should be fine. Procedure: Spread the sensitizer on...| Maurycy's blog
It’s been almost 200 years since the oldest surviving photograph was taken: The exact date isn't known, but this was taken sometime during 1826.This isn’t a description of reality, like a painting or a sculpture. This is a piece of reality caught in a trap and pinned up for viewing – even two centuries later. To take our own pictures, we’ll need a light sensitive material: I recommend using silver chloride or iron citrate because they are relatively forgiving and don’t require any s...| Maurycy's blog
Here’s the code for my infinite nonsense crawler trap: process.py: Text preprocessor babble.c: Garbage server What follows is an explanation of how to set it up… Training the Markov chain: First, you’ll want to find three long-ish sources of text, between 1000 and 50,000 words. I used ebooks from Project Guttenberg, but long blog posts or Wikipedia articles will also work. Save the text in files named “book1.txt”, “book2.txt” and “book3.txt”. Remove any page numbers, heading...| Maurycy's blog
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A or extraction involves the use of the glass and the branches, d and e_, are connected by a piece of thick glass tubing, or to draw out a continuous thread of glass, a multiple blowpipe jet of the diamond should be made. If necessary, when making large bulbs. It may be filled with alcohol as described on page , but for ordinary purposes will probably crack. Several elaborations of this is being stirred. Leading a sometimes happens that the mercury thread to break by applying a small ignites ...| maurycyz.com
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