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I can't figure out how to use Amazon AWS. I am trying to set up the simplest possible thing (https-protected access to a s3 bucket) and failing. Can anyone give me advice :( https://cohost.org/mcc/post/1453305-please-help-i-am-baby

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Note: For full accuracy, please insert the words "in AMERICA" into my previous post whereever feels appropriate

mcc, to random
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I open the Toronto Public Library app.

I type: "Season of Skulls".

I tap the autocomplete: "Season of Skulls".

"1 result"

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Mastodon has had more useful engagement for a while. But it's now looking like Mastodon gets more engagement, period.

mcc,
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@rysiek it was supposed to be a reply to something…

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How is Steam so widely used and yet a barely functional piece of software, why does it have no viable competitors

mcc,
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@seldo Have you tried the Epic Game Store? Inexplicably it replicates every one of Steam's Issues, but worse

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Single data point: One week ago I made a blog post on Cohost that got decent reach, it got on like, lobsters and hackernews. I initially posted links to it here (Mastodon) and on Twitter.

Since I went Mastodon fulltime last year, I sometimes go back and mirror links on Twitter. Up until now, the Twitter one usually gets more attention.

This time?

Twitter, 53 retweets, 223 likes.
Mastodon, 396 boosts, 532 likes.

Wait, really?

I have three times as many followers on Twitter, still.

Mastodon post: 396 boosts, 532 likes.

mcc,
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I keep hearing people speculating about an inflection point where Twitter starts to actually empty out (instead of everyone just claiming to be done with it). My extremely anecdotal evidence from my "I will only post here if it's to link to my content on another site" policy on Twitter seems to suggest that inflection point has happened, and recently… and, anecdotally, right around the time they started sorting alt-righters with blue checkmarks to the top of every reply thread.

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Every time I use Gradle I am shocked by its ability to generate totally novel-feeling errors and failure modes. I've seen Gradle fail in ways no other program fails.

Went just now to rebuild an old project.

First problem I hit was "{ not expected. On "dependencies {". I assure you { is expected after "dependencies".

Real problem, it turned out:Much later in the file, between the { and }, was a >>>>> (a merge error indicator). But I didn't see that because Gradle directed me elsewhere.

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Once that was in, I made a very small change. I upgraded the version of our "exoplayer" library from "rc-1.0.0" to "1.0.1".

Trying to build, I get the error it can't build because: My version of exoplayer is set to "1.0.0-beta03". But a newer version is available: 1.0.1.

What? The string "beta--03" did not even appear in our project at that moment.

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The solution to THAT problem was that I had to click a tiny button in the upper right of the Android Studio window saying "gradle sync". Which I know, I should have known that. But I didn't think it at first cuz that's a tiny link in the corner and meanwhile the ERROR!! Was big and red-iconed in the bottom left.

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I then spend a minute or so staring at this bank of errors (left screenshot) and a whole column of "gradle sync needed". All these errors, theoretically, are fixed by the gradle sync. You can sort of tell that the gradle sync is still ongoing. The only way to tell is that in the bottom right is a very small blue bar. Using Android Studio means training yourself to understand "if there is a small, intermittently flickering blue bar in one corner, disregard absolutely everything else on screen".

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I'm going to eat carrots. And none of you can stop me

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Uncertain how to respond to this survey question

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Wow this actually does look pretty helpful https://mastodon.social/@huesm@tilde.zone/110339787140266231

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@thisismissem @ivory https://tilde.zone/@huesm/110339787121397253 ?

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@thisismissem @ivory Hey ivory bug report, Mastodon.social and some other servers allow accessing other servers' posts "indirectly" through their servers, aka https://mastodon.social/@thisismissem@hachyderm.io/110340050152372327 , this works as a web link but apparently not in your client. Seems possible to work out. (In Tusky it "works" but only by linking to web.)

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Exactly what was Erin Esurance's job

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Good news everyone you can frap tools on cunsa now

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Interesting to see the rise of ChatGPT-enabled Github spam.

The screenshots below are from one account, but if you search a bit it's very easy to find other examples.

Github doesn't appear to be on top of this at all, e.g., the account mentioned in https://github.com/swarna1101/VeChain-Thor/issues/1 has been spamming repos since last year and hasn't been banned (I reported a bad account once and got no response and nothing happened and haven't bothered since).

I hope this message finds you well. I wanted to reach out to you regarding my recent pull request to your repository. I have made several improvements to the code, which I believe would benefit the project as a whole. Firstly, I have included unit tests, added try-catch blocks, and simplified the multimap-by function to enhance the code's reliability and prevent potential errors. I also have added docstrings to make the code more understandable and easier to navigate. Moreover, I have used a threaded ->> macro to simplify the code and replace the println statement with proper logging to improve the code's readability. Finally, I have enhanced the code's modularity and conciseness, making it more maintainable and easier to modify in the future. I believe that these changes would greatly improve the project's overall quality, and I would be honored if you could review my pull request and consider accepting it. Thank you for your time and consideration. ... tonsky Apr 3, 2023 Here you just delay printing warnings, adding extra data structure that’s passed between widths and its call site. That’s one more thing to keep in mind, which makes it harder to follow ... tonsky Apr 3, 2023 Giving name to #{"0" 0 1200} is good. I would’ve move it inside the function with let, though, to keep everything local ... tonsky Apr 3, 2023 I think java will fail and die on trying to open file anyway, giving you adequate enough exception. But the code remains simple ...
What is path-seq? Did you use ChatGPT to generate this path? ... Why would you suppress exception like this? It is kind of important ... ZoneId/UTC does not exist. Is this really ChatGPT? Have you even run this code? ... I did a review, but overall quality is very bad, sorry. Code uses non-existing functions, which indicates you didn’t even run it, and probably generated it with ChatGPT?
KennethCho-CKH commented Mar 25, 2023 I made several changes to improve the code: Defined constants for file names to make the code more maintainable. Used with statements to ensure files are closed properly when deleting them. Used pathlib consistently throughout the code for better readability and to avoid errors. Added comments to explain the purpose of the code and functions. Reformatted the code to comply with PEP 8 style guidelines for better readability. Moved the imports to the top of the file for better organization. It would be very helpful if you could test the code I write, as I am not entirely certain if everything is working as it should. ------ Nifury left a comment I can't find any with statement in the code 😂 ... It's necessary to add this path to ensure filescfg and _common are imported properly. ... - # We need to remove these files, or they'll end up in the zip files that will be generated. Member @Nifury Nifury Mar 25, 2023 I think this comment is pretty important. ...

mcc,
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@danluu Really alarming part to me is Microsoft probably can't take action against this without in the process admitting neural network code generators (a product they are selling) are not fit for purpose

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Hey uh, just checking. It is the year 2023. Can Linux reliably mount an NTFS drive read/write yet?

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The rust-analyzer language server is pretty nice but a thing that drives me nuts is I type "let x = 5;" and IMMEDIATELY it underlines in irritated green and announces that the variable x is not used. Yes I just this second typed it how could it possibly be used. Mom I'm WORKING on it

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Today, in unusual things a Cloudflare customer support representative has tried to convince me

mcc,
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@sr3 Right, the support representative believes somehow that this has already come to pass

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For the last year I've been semi-daily posting "What I'm Listening To Today" links in this thread:

https://mastodon.social/@mcc/108199886340178151

The thread is now so long it is increasingly breaking Mastodon, so I am making a new thread, starting here.

To recap, here's the entirety of the year-one thread in the most impractical possible format: A YouTube playlist containing 246 songs and running for just over 47 hours:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLIjft6ja7DP_GwDs3XuTbiFmHYTwJWa7

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What I'm listening to today: "Polyend Tracker Untitled Electronics Jam", Risa T

This is a short trip-hop jam on a portable hardware tracker. (Like, the kind of tracker one would normally associate with text-mode DOS or the Atari ST. There have been a couple attempts recently to put one in a standalone hardware device.) Skittering, glitchy beats and a kind of mysterious air.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFeyfladlEY

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What I'm listening to today: "Battle Against Belch", Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka (Nintendo)

Earthbound is the game that famously managed to permanently change how every millennial video game hipster thinks about games, without being what Nintendo would consider a financial success. This dark jazz track from the equally influential soundtrack stitches a series of samples and leitmotifs which appear before and after it in the game, together with a grinding bass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtCtagbcwUk

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