The most amazing thing I experienced during the last annular eclipse was the thousands of crescent-shaped shadows from wherever a pinpoint of light shone through, say a pair of tree leaves. It was legit astonishing; literally every surface was covered in these crescent refractions of the eclipse.

I doubt very much you'd experience anything like that on an airplane, but possibly that's just me having sour grapes this time.

I thought the same thing! Even cooler was that I noticed them before the eclipse and took a picture. Walking back to my car after the eclipse, the crescents had flipped!

Just for you, I created an Imgur account. Cheers.

https://imgur.com/a/TwlmbDw

Thank you!! I haven't seen this and was having trouble picturing it, now it makes perfect sense. It's not the edges of the leaves but the pinholes between overlapping leaves that allows the shape through.

Thanks for sharing this; I wasn’t able to picture what they were describing.

Yeah, I was amazed to learn that dappled sunlight is actually thousands of pinhole images of the sun, and during an eclipse all the little circles turn into crescents!

You can experience them anywhere the sunlight is passing through small holes. Punch a bunch of holes through paper with a needle or pencil.

Last eclipse I was similarly fascinated to discover that the lens flare on my iphone timelapse showed the same crescent, and turned the timelapse from boring to worthwhile.

Because the same movie doesn't flood the market with hundreds of different names. Similarly, the content of a movie doesn't change from year-to-year while the name stays the same.

I bought a 3060 Ti in late 2019 :-D. About as well-timed a purchase as I've ever made.

So true. Thank goodness for Microcenter and B&H. Especially the latter still has a hand-curated product selection.

I always thought both of those books would make excellent graphic novel or anime adaptations.

Yikes, talk about normalizing violence in political discourse.

It's also a bit different from learning to play music in that almost everyone appreciates music even without being able to create it themselves. There's a much more direct connection between the craft and its outcomes than with math.

I don't think anyone is arguing that getting usage metrics from your tools in a professional setting is a big value add. The argument is that it requires internet connectivity, a heavyweight client, and third-party cloud services. If you just want to track basic metrics like torque and battery, stick an OpenTelemetry server on the wrench.

Everyone knows that once you've addressed a problem it goes away forever and no further attention ever has to be paid to it. That's how we fixed racism in the United States back in the 1960s!

I have a friend in this industry and I think your response excessively misses the point GP made. Auditors who actually succeed in flagging child labor find themselves without work -- either because of actions of their employer, or because their employer gets a reputation and businesses who employ child labor don't want the spotlight.

It isn't that Nike (or whoever) wants to employ children, what they really want is to not get caught employing children. And they also don't want to pay higher wages, and they don't want to pay supply chain auditors. So if they can get away with paying a rubber-stamp auditor, they can claim they did their due diligence and wash their hands of it.

Don't look at Dyson Sphere Program.