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Aim for 80% inside the path. The couple extra seconds you'll gain from being dead center is usually not worth the hassle. clouds is your biggest enemy day of.


One small town near not too far away has its Main Street almost perfectly aligned with the path of totality -- just offset by a few hundred feet.

I'm absolutely sure that it is completely coincidental. And yet: It is also very alluring.


> I'm absolutely sure that it is completely coincidental.

In the same way that the city streets in DC coincidentally lay out to the mason's square and compass shape. The forfathers of this city were probably travellers from the future that knew the significance of this event, and laid out the entire city based on it. They just forgot to carry the one somewhere, and missed the alignment


Perhaps.

But do you really think the rather small city of Norwalk, Ohio was planned for a nearly-perfect alignment for the center of the 2024 NA total eclipse? (Feel free to look on the eclipse map of your choice -- I'm not trying to deep-link or screenshot that, and it would be beneficial to the viewer to be able to pan around. And it's easy to find: When panning around the eclipse map, Norwalk is about the only city directly on the center-line up North in Ohio.)

(That said: The alignment of Main Street to the center path of the 2024 eclipse in Norwalk might indeed be planned. Sandusky, Ohio is not far from there, and is said to have been designed around masonic symbols[a]. I don't discount the idea. And that's part of what makes it alluring to me, even though I tell myself that it must be a coincidence.)

a: https://freemasonry.bcy.ca/history/sandusky/sandusky.html


Here in Perth, Western Australia we have a few main streets aligned for the sunsets and sunrises. They get... very bright.


This happens in a lot of US cities with grid-planned streets, the most famous example probably being "Manhattanhenge": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattanhenge


How bad are clouds though? Doesn't that just make it more dark?


Clouds ruin it. Seeing a black spot surrounded by pink whisps where the sun should be is the thing.


I viewed a partial eclipse in 2017 in Columbus, Ohio, through heavy clouds and whatever random communal eclipse-viewing glasses that someone handed me.

It was weird and spectacular, and absolutely worth spending some time (in a tightly time-tracked job) to go outside and have a good long look at: There was absolutely a crescent-shaped sun visible behind those clouds, and that is a thing that I will never forget.

I don't think it was a ruined experience at all, though I certainly hope that this next eclipse is a lot better for whatever viewing-point I decide to choose and I understand that a cloudless sky is ideal.



Don't panic, you didn't get hacked


There a GitHub page for this?



I'm on xfinity $35 a month for 75mb down. Video meetings are the most demanding part and it's not an issue at all when working from home. The lowest tier Internet these days is more than fast enough. Having lower priced tiers would be nice. Greater Seattle area if anyone is wondering.


Yeah I'm in a similar boat on one of the islands and power outages are a much bigger problem for me than the internet speed.


Requires iPhone 15 pro



"Developed exclusively for Apple silicon (M1/M2) - The app is NOT compatible with devices running on Intel chips."

I guess the app store redirected me to the desktop store?? Does not indicate an iphone 15 being required at all


The description is written by the software developer. The "Information" section near the end lists requirements for supported devices. iPhone and iPad say "Requires iOS 17.1 or later and a device with the A17 Pro chip or later", and the first iPhones with A17 chips or later are the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max.


I like how when I first opened the link, App Store said I need iOS 17.1 or greater.

So I updated to 17.2.

And only then does App Store let me know that it’s not compatible with this device anyway.

Thanks, Apple!

(I have an iPhone 14 Pro.)


One of the reasons why most job spam from recruiters is absolutely garbage, there's no pay ranges listed. I'm already not interested and good luck getting me to dig deep to see what the actual pay range is


I just respond to the recruiter with something like this - that sounds like something I can do however I am currently making X - so I'm not really going to be interested in moving for less than X + Y or some other benefits combination that equals that kind of increase in value.

This then generally leads to another message where they say oh we can't and I say hey that's fine, best of luck.

Basically for me to consider moving I would need to make at least 1 extra month's worth of money every 6 months, so two extra months per year.

on edit: maybe it is different for people in the U.S / Bay area? That is to say maybe there are regulations or just a general cultural thing that means the recruiters here (Denmark) are more straightforward


the problem outlined in this research is also that when pay ranges are listed, they diverge from reality.


What LLM is best for giving it your entire code base and database structure and then using it to help with your project?


Maybe Refact? They have a self hosted version that can index your repos. They have their own LLM or you can use others. Nice tooling for VS Code as well


Where can I report Google Voice and Text Mail subscribers? Those are usually the sms spam accounts


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