@calvin
North: 66°03′N, Húsavik, Iceland
East: 178°1′4″E, Gisborne, New Zealand
South: 45°52′27″S, Dunedin, New Zealand
West: 175°12′0″W, Nuku'alofa, Tonga
It was actually fun to review all those. I was surprised to see NZ on there twice. I had thought Tasmania might be farther south. Also, I was expecting Tonga to be the farthest east I had been, not the farthest west.
These are the farthest in each cardinal direction I have visited so far:
North: 56° Fort McMurray, AB, Canada
East: 178° Nausori, Fiji
South: 35° Surf Beach, NSW, Australia
West: 158° Waialua, HI, USA
What's the farthest in each cardinal direction you have visited?
#Travel #FarthestPoints #CardinalDirections #Maps #Geography #Latitude #Longitude
Guided by the Stars — A Journey Through Historical Navigation Methods
A brief #history of #celestial #navigation long before the #discovery of the #magnetic #compass
Merry Janson for #Medium
❛❛ A sailor could determine the #latitude of the ship on the #Earth, during bright starry nights in the #NorthernHemisphere … by estimating the angle between the #NorthStar and the horizon. ❜❜
https://Medium.com/the-quantastic-journal/guided-by-the-stars-a-journey-through-ancient-navigation-methods-1335a3e74d9d 2025 Jan 23 https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_navigation
Starting in 
2025, at least two #European 
launch startups (#IsarAerospace and #RocketFactory Augsburg) expect to offer more choices for both institutional and commercial customers. The field will continue to widen toward the close of the decade, with #MaiaSpace, #Latitude, #HyImpulse, #HyPrSpace, #Orbex, #PLDSpace, and #Skyrora all working toward an inaugural flight of their respective vehicles. https://europeanspaceflight.com/arianegroup-already-working-to-secure-iris2-launch-contract
A bit of advice…get rid of your latitude card. The support in handling ongoing illegal transactions is terrible and they keep taking the card off hold but still allow the same guys doing the illegal transactions to go through. Also you can’t contact them to get it fixed on a weekend. What a useless bunch of tossers. #latitude
Life's a bit shit at the moment as I've been in a car crash which was not our driver's fault and am living on painkillers and muscle relaxants.
But after weeks and months I am finally, FINALLY at the right #latitude, free of clouds, and free of mountains to see C/2023 A3 #Tsuchinshan-#ATLAS. And just as I have my binoculars in the right spot, not knowing it's the right spot yet, a #meteorite streaks through my field of view.
Probably the first and last time in my life I see a meteorite at 10x.
Well, you may all have been watching the Olympic opening ceremony, but I was watching fish projected on to a screen made of sprayed water over a lake at the Latitude festival. We had a lovely crowd for our #CosmicShambles event this evening, and there's more to come tomorrow.
#Latitude #Shambles #science
What I could do instead of making breakfast?
I could be fixing Polish city names in the Python #Faker package. Apparently they've used the data from #latitude.io. The website aggregates data from random sources and it is full of errors: districts of Warsaw are listed as separate cities, some city names are randomly missing diacritics (and I'm not talking about being written entirely without diacritics — say, they have "Białołeka" instead of "Białołęka").
Yep, that's the kind of thing #Gentoo devs do in the morning.
https://github.com/joke2k/faker/pull/2057
https://latitude.to/map/pl/poland/cities/
So, yes.
Yes, you can fit 3 SSD in a Latitude 5490 using the WWAN slot for a SATA m.2 M+B key 2242 drive.
You can have PCIe m.2, SATA m.2 and a regular SATA with the HDD caddy cable.
have you ever tried navigating the center of Earth?
the core of the problem is that all latitudes and longitudes become one
#OutsideOffice for the day.
#Dell #Latitude laptop with a #Chinese pocket-fold laptop stand, a #Logitech #M570 Trackball #Mouse, a #Keychron #K8L2 keyboard, and a recent batch of #Apple #WaterKefir ( #Kefir ) all here in the lovely #SequatchieValley #Tennessee
The World As They Knew It - The Legacy Of Greco-Roman Mapmaking
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https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/01/science/legacy-of-greco-roman-mapmaking.html <-- shared media article
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https://isaw.nyu.edu/ <-- Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #geography #surveying #history #ancienthistory #cartography #mapmaking #Rome #Greece #AncientRome #Roman #Greek #AncientGreece #solarsystem #measurements #antiquity #milestones #romanroads #geometry #earth #longitude #latitude
@APoD Amazing image, but please let us know whether any sampling done - #microalgae or #zooplankton ? And #moon trajectory as recorded, or #photoshopped ? #Latitude #timelapse #moon #bioluminescence
@parismarx
So #Latitude was experimenting with stuff like this back in 2020 with #AIDungeon. I don't remember the details, but I remember they had a feature at some point that would have an AI try to summarize the story from before where the story-generating AI could see. They moved back to just having the player manually enter it at some point, but that shows that this technology isn't new, and has been deemed to not be worth it in the past.
The main issues I can see here are that having an AI analyze a ton of input and generate a textual summary creates a lot more room for hallucination: it doesn't know what any of this means, so it doesn't know what's actually important, or even how to lay that out in such a way that the main AI, ChatGPT, isn't going to have its own hallucinations from it.
I can definitely see it picking up that a user wants to be lied to, and telling GPT to lie. I can also see executives selling / using this AI generated user-info as if it's reliable.
What is your latitude?
Please 
boost so that we obtain a good panel.
Greg Cocks 
