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Aleksey Shipilëv
@shipilev
In love-hate relationship with machines. Doing weird stuff, so you don't have to. Personal account, expect no perfection. Currently: everything OpenJDK at AWS.
- You are Altair, the 12th brightest star in the sky. How many stars are around you? Yes. app.astrobin.com/i/htriq8
- It is one thing to take a hand-held camera or a smart telescope and have a Milky Way shot. It is a whole other experience to have a purpose-built widefield rig and do the Milky Way mosaics! Plate solvers find 300K stars in it! Full: app.astrobin.com/i/z13vp6
- Gradually porting my blog to Hugo, take a look! http://localhost:1313/jvm/make-it-10x-faster-with-this-flag/
- Current astro mounts are designed to carry and slew 10+ kgs of gear with precision and the speed of several degrees per second. This means so much torque, that they take no prisoners and WILL rip out the USB ports if a cable snags. (This one is pretty cheap to fix, phew.)
