Really enjoyed getting this LEGO diorama for Christmas. #starwars

@SNOLAB surface building looked amazing in this snowfall from earlier in the week.

408 is http code for "Request timeout" which is why I lean toward the web server, not peertube, being the problem. However, I am no web socket or server guru, so where to start tracking the cause is a little unclear to me. The art of problem solving is asking the right question, and I haven't figured out the question.

I have a thought now, though: check the URL returning the timeout and see what my server settings are for that specific path....

And for any hard core folks out there, the server is version 7.0.0 and the runners are all 0.0.22.

Note that it could be a problem for smaller files than 500M. That just happens to be the smallest file so far where I have noticed the problem.

Sometimes reuploading the original file and rerunning transcoding succeeds, but it is NOT consistent. It is also not runner-dependent. The same runner can be fine on one job and fail on the next. So weird.

Been having a lot of problems with my peertube instance in the last week. Have not tracked down the issue, though I suspect something in the web server/socket setup that handles transactions between the server and runners on other systems.

The symptom: after transcoding, a runner reports that it "expected 204, got 408" when transacting via http with the main server. It seems time/video size related, happening with files at least 500M in size or larger. Not tied to an obvious file size limit...

Spending some time today catching up on the "Dot Social" #podcast via #Kasts. Really enjoying conversations with @evan and @Gargron. Looking forward to the ones with Ryan Barrett and @molly0xfff.

https://dot-social.simplecast.com/

What a year! 🥳

We had some big moves and even bigger accomplishments this year at Rubin Observatory as we get ever closer to the end of construction!

Check out our incredible year in review 👇 🧵

🤳 The team took a group selfie using the engineering camera — the first time light went through the complete telescope and hit a camera detector!

🔭 The team did important testing and troubleshooting with the engineering camera

Had a lovely #Christmas eve enjoying lamb and druze bread dinner, cookies, and really terrible Christmas-themed movies. This is not the Christmas we planned but it’s the one we needed.

It's not Christmas Eve until the Chipmunks are singing carols on my stereo. #Alvin #Simon #Theodore

Happy holidays to all of you who celebrate long days or long nights, who look at the sky and wonder, who have struggled to apply the critical thinking toolkit to discern fact from fiction. It is good to be together on this small planet, our blue cosmic gemstone, and to do what we can to cultivate peace and knowledge.

Sigh. The holidays. Every goddamn time.

When @SNOLAB earns its homonym!

Really loving the water tower in downtown #Sudbury. I feel like we are being visited by aliens.

Looking for a last-minute #book for someone who is interested in science, especially #physics? Check out "Reality in the Shadows", written with Frank Blitzer and Jim Gates, and "The Friendly Physics Guide to Nuclear and Particle Physics in Medicine"! These are both deep but friendly tours of the #cosmos.

The second book comes in 2 volumes, the first for a general audience and the second for physics students.

https://steve.cooleysekula.net/books/

Had a wonderful time working at the Xenon Still project today @SNOLAB to help the team get ready for more science running. This still is a basic research project designed to help us understand some fundamental information about cryogenic distillation of noble gases.

It is a lovely morning for a day in the underground lab! :-)

Looking forward to getting a computer cable installed today that will take us to the point where we are ready to launch a major run of a cryogenic distillation R&D facility for noble gases.

@kwlug out of curiosity, are these presentations recorded and/or archived somewhere. These subjects are fascinating but, alas, I live in Sudbury.

I really enjoyed seeing the National Ballet of Canada's production of "The Nutcracker". Definitely the most original version I have seen since our love of this ballet was ignited in San Francisco. We struggled to find a good production in Dallas (the Allen Performing Arts Center hosted the best one in the Metroplex... Fort Worth's was awful), but Toronto has just made our entire holiday by hosting this novel and beautiful production.

https://national.ballet.ca/productions/the-nutcracker/