Notices by Girl on the Net (girlonthenet@mastodon.social)

Fun fact: the code which took Apollo 11 to the moon is available on github https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/master/Luminary099/LUNAR_LANDING_GUIDANCE_EQUATIONS.agc#L179

And if you look through it you'll see that - joyfully - it also includes original comments.

My absolute favourite thing about the Moon Code is that it includes comments like this: "TEMPORARY - I HOPE HOPE HOPE"

I used to date a developer, and when he was going through a really difficult time - feeling like he was bad at his job and he'd lost the knack for being creatively brilliant with code - I got him a framed photo from the Apollo 11 missions, with this extract of code printed over the top of it.

We all have occasional dips into believing we're gonna fail. But our 'HOPE HOPE HOPE' sometimes makes it to the moon.

I just think it's fun to be reminded that not only are humans pretty cool and brave and badass, making it to the literal moon with technology that was less advanced than the phone you carry in your pocket, but that at least part of that was held together by work that was 'TEMPORARY - I HOPE HOPE HOPE'.

“Services like this rely on a basic level of human decency and trust"

Just the British Museum there, lecturing people about theft.

The British Museum.

Lecturing people about theft.

Well done to this artist who has well and truly made his point 😂

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/article/2024/jul/22/brazilian-artist-swaps-historical-coin-in-british-museum-for-a-fake?utm_source=press.coop

Stages of #Duolingo:

-This is so cool and helpful!
-I’m learning so quickly!
-I can share my progress with friends! 🥰
-I’m so obsessed with my streak haha!
-I want to punt this stupid owl into the centre of the sun

Today I learned that disgraced former Prime Minister Liz Truss got a smaller book advance than me. And my book's got more dick in, so infinitely better value all round.

My biggest pet peeve is restaurants/gigs/events or venues of any kind which have a social media page instead of a website. I don't have fucking instagram, so I literally can't see your menu/lineup? Even if I had instagram, it's an entirely inaccessible format so would be fucking useless? These platforms are for promotion, not for hosting vital information.

"These desperate people are begging so loudly it's distracting me from counting all my money 😭 "