The ATLAS Cavern, Toroidal Magnets, and Calorimeter
It is impossible to see the ATLAS detector all at once when it is assembled. It's too big, it's too enclosed in its cavern, and it has too many pieces hidden inside and far from sight. The photo only shows you the barrel magnets at the time of the installation of the calorimeter. This picture gives you a sense of scale for the experiment (there is a person standing near the bottom-center of the photo - look closely). The photo is from the ATLAS public website and was captioned originally with the following text: "Installing the ATLAS calorimeter. The eight torodial magnets can be seen on the huge ATLAS detector with the calorimeter before it is moved into the middle of the detector. This calorimeter will measure the energies of particles produced when protons collide in the centre of the detector. ATLAS will work along side the CMS experiment to search for new physics at the 14 TeV level. November 2005" http://www.atlas.ch/photos/images/1.jpg
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Andy C at 2013-07-13T14:52:17Z
Imagine that. You've worked tirelessly over the last 6 months to migrate a ton of data. You got up early and went to bed late to persevere with this bloody data migration.
Inevitably, you keep finding minor, irritating problems with the data. You have to fix them and repeat the entire migration from scratch,. Again.
You promised a date which slipped. People keep hassling you for a new date. You worked even harder. You got up earlier and went to bed later.
You had a holiday booked just as the migrated system launches. Shit timing but what can you do. Your wife looks accusingly as you creep to the corner of your hotel room and extract a laptop. You login and fix an irritating problem with password recovery that previously worked fine.
Finally, you finished, you won, you are triumphant !
identi.ca is finally migrated to Pump.
And all these ungrateful bastards can muster is
'What do you mean ? There are no groups'.Greg Grossmeier, Kevin Renfrow, Olivier Mehani, jpope and 10 others likes this.
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Due to the super federated nature of pump I could Groups being an instering technical challenge to implement. Maybe as a psudeo user on the originating pump that people follow and post to. But then that group is tied to a single pump and not really federated. If that pump goes down the group evaporates.
I suppose a group property could be added to the note object. But then there is little or no control over who can post to a group
Other problems, how do you prevent group name colissions? Keep track of who's subscribed? And do all this in a robust, federated manner.
Suppose there could be some kind of “groups” object that gets replicated and stored on each pump that has people sub'd to said group. But then how to keep it all in sync..
@evan is a bright person, I'm sure he has a vision of how it will all work.. but I know (as does any programmer/engineer/etc.) that vision and implementation are two very different animals.
Best advice:
People wanting groups - wait for it.. it'll come
People Developing pump.io - don't cave to the pressure of the few and rush something out prematurely. I think the larger percentage of users are very appreciative of what you've accomplished and want to see it fleshed out properly
I think Evan mentioned that some work on groups has already been done, but it is not yet exposed to the API and WebUI.
pseudo users is how it's implemented in friendica ... problem is, if the group founder closes down his instance the group dies. think for a federated network something like tags would be more feasible, together with a cross site search (which would be a very cool feature on its own) you could just search for all posts containing a (group) tag
That's rather presumptuous of you. I can talk about bugs or missing features a lot without ever forgetting the devs' hard work. Two totally separate issues.
Ev Bogue at 2013-07-13T18:43:12Z
Pumping from Arch Linux! Finally got it up and running on the Macbook Pro. pacman -Syu bitchz.Kevin Renfrow, jpope likes this.
Arch on a Macbook ... that's pretty damn hardcore :)axel668 (inactive) at 2013-07-13T20:40:50Z
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It was a lot of trouble to get it to boot. What we did for Gwen Bell's new box. Go to Walmart, get a Acer S3 ($393 plus tax) and put Arch on there. Boots in an instant. Macbook Pro took a hell of some fiddling. I'm tempted to offload it and get an Acer because I have so much built up resentment for Apple now.
Hell yeah! :)Freemor at 2013-07-14T01:21:44Z
Thoughts After day 3 on pump.io:
Real conversations, thanks @evan for freeing us from 140c limits Federation galore, can't wait till a pump.io instance is as drop in ready as postfix/exim Control, can send to: person, list, followers, public.. nice fine grained control of what i share to whomAll things considered I am really loving pump.io and can really see a lot of potential. I'm even inspired to do some hacking myself. Yes, the clients and web UI are a bit buggy. Yes the features aren't fully fleshed out. But it's early days and things only get better from here.. Hang on and enjoy the ride!!
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Wow! Thanks!
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Arthur Schiwon at 2013-07-13T08:46:43Z
and mine from Tags and Groups. I am not only interested in people, but also in topics.Kevin Renfrow, axel668 (inactive), Susan Pinochet, McScx and 1 others likes this.
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