avolkov

@avolkov@floss.social

I'm a python programmer I like to run, mess with 3D printers and openscad, sometimes I even make videos out of that.
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leigh, to random
@leigh@ottawa.place avatar

Can someone wake me up from a long nap (or maybe it’s the simulation) when we get this AI stuff figured out?

avolkov,

@leigh @molly0xfff Why do I imagine that being weird on linked in involves growth hacking, chering how AI would take everyone jobs, being hypercompetitive and promoting various MLM schemes?

moira, (edited ) to 3DPrinting
@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net avatar

i decided to try a vacuum hose attachment on the sander

this kind of design is kind of hard in tinkercad but i think it’s okay

eta: nobody will ever need this but here it is if you have a ... who even knows how old electric palm sander - https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6355952

avolkov,

@moira I did a similar thing for my jigsaw, and it didn't really work out, the hose attachment is nowhere near the blade where sawdust is created. Some of the chips are collected by the contraption, but not nearly enough to justify its existence. I hope yours works out better than mine.

pamelafox, to random
@pamelafox@fosstodon.org avatar

Tip: Customize your VS Code files.exclude setting to avoid seeing auto-generated tool caches show up in file explorer:

https://github.com/Azure-Samples/azure-search-openai-demo/pull/876

avolkov,

@pamelafox I'm slowly switching from Sublime to VSCode, the biggest hurdle is to re-discover all the plugins and settings that I've set up in sublime over the years.
This is one of those things. Thank you.

aral, to Israel
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

According to Israel:

The UN Secretary General is “supporting terrorism” and should resign.

https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2023/1024/1412756-israel-calls-on-un-chief-to-resign-over-comments/

Amnesty International is “antisemitic.”

https://www.politico.eu/article/israel-calls-amnesty-international-antisemitic-and-biased-after-it-criticized-war-crimes-by-all-parties/

The president of Ireland is “misinformed” and “legally wrong.”

https://independent.ie/irish-news/israeli-ambassador-overstepped-line-in-criticising-president-michael-d-higgins-over-gaza-war-comments/a536624053.html

Y’know, maybe if you think everyone is in the wrong but you, it’s time to consider what the chances of that are versus the chances that you’re the one in the wrong.

avolkov,

@aral Every public figure or organization that had a terrible stance on Ukraine at the beginning of the war also seems to have a poor position on Israel. There appears to be a clear pattern of behavior.

This includes the President of Ireland, which is quite strange, and he should really know better, but it is what it is.

pamelafox, to random
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Slides from my guest lecture today about using OpenAI GPT models from Python:
https://pamelafox.github.io/my-py-talks/gpt-python/

avolkov,

@pamelafox I'd like to see you going in a bit of detail a on setting up RAG.

Is there a recording available somewhere?

avolkov,

@pamelafox not a big deal though, im curious about chat gpt, but doing entire talk again sounds like way too much work

avolkov, to 3DPrinting

I made a breakout board/soldering jig/ header jig for Raspberry Pi Pico.

https://www.printables.com/model/623098-parametric-breakout-board-for-raspberry-pi-pico

It was really easy because someone else did the heavy lifting of designing the model. I just had to tweak a few parameters to make it work for a different board. That's why I'm a fan of OpenScad.

dabeaz, to random
@dabeaz@mastodon.social avatar

Wondering if I should move to a different mastodon instance. I've had a number of cases where I've responded to someone I know, but then I just never hear back. Makes me wonder if my response even got to them. Is it being blocked somewhere along the way?

avolkov,

@dabeaz Many instances mute mastodon.social due to the server sometime lax moderation policies so that might be a problem.

Things still should work if you are interacting with someone within a conversation thread, however if you are replying to someone with whom you havent interacted before, and the server is muted, that message may disappear.

pamelafox, to random
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A good way to get deeply, deeply familiar with a Python package: attempt to mock it in your tests!

(I think GitHub is going to start rate limiting my search queries soon...)

avolkov,

@pamelafox Ah, all corner cases, these leaky abstractions do nothing!

mariatta, to random
@mariatta@fosstodon.org avatar

Son just asked if I want boba tea, because "It has caffeine and can help with your jetlag".

🙈

Last night I went to bed from 5 PM - 2 AM 😵‍💫

avolkov,

@mariatta Crush melatonin into it and see who wins.

b0rk, to random
@b0rk@jvns.ca avatar

working on a very short list of helpful command line git tools. so far I have:

what am I missing?

(I think GUI git tools are great too but that's not my focus right now)

avolkov,

@b0rk I second gitk. Nothing works as well as a tk tool that can be run from command line.

It gives very handy visualization of what is going on with branches in a repository.

kissane, to coffee
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Hey coffee fedi, my aeropress has died again (plunger shrank, is weeping gross oil 🙃) and I kinda don’t want to keep making coffee in plastic, even when I’m traveling.

Does anyone have better, ideally non-plastic travel press recs from personal experience? Search results are hard to trust and I can find little french presses but they are so goopy and messy. (And I love you, pour over people, but I cannot deal with all that on the road.)

avolkov,

@kissane
you can probably find something like this in the picture made out of metal, but that’s going to be difficult.
it has metal mesh screen at the bottom, sort of like basket like in mr coffee style coffee maker.

the biggest downside — it’s a bit slow, especially after some coffee grounds get in the mesh.

the same setup from the size. this contraption has metal mesh cone

avolkov, to Bloomscrolling

I went for another walk in the park, this time I took my camera.

I don't have a macro lens, but something that roughly approaches it.

Purple yellow flower, this could be Symphyotrichum novae-angliae
Orange-red flower I found in some swampy soil. I have no idea what it's scientific name.
mature dandelion (white) that still has all of its petals

jacob, to random
@jacob@jacobian.org avatar

I’ve been reflecting on the concept of “seniority” this afternoon. I’ve realized that one big thing I look for when I’m looking to hire someone “senior” is someone who has made consequential technical decisions, and then had to live the consequences of those decisions.

I’ve also realized that I don’t have questions that get right at this in my interview bank. Something to develop!

avolkov,

@jacob It could be also a situation when someone need to make a suboptimal technical decision and then never being able to go back and fix or spend more time on studying the problem.

pamelafox, to random
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I got burned today by only pinning direct dependencies in requirements.txt. Lesson learned, time to pip-tools compile!

avolkov,

@morgaelyn @pamelafox Pamela only pinned dependencies that her app used directly, while dependencies of the dependencies broke during upgrade creating an annoying situation when one needs to figure out which dependency broke, how, the last stable version and then write it out in requirements.txt.

Or avoid all that and just use a tool to solve this problem -- pip-tools

Neat tool, I should use it too -- https://github.com/jazzband/pip-tools

dabeaz, to random
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It's really too bad that "anti-pattern" typically means bad code as opposed to being opposed to a pattern for some reason--like having good taste.

avolkov,

@dabeaz Something like pasta / antipasto.

Pattern for organizing code, anti-pattern for... organizing data...

On a related note. I'm hungry.

blinry, to random
@blinry@chaos.social avatar

What do y'all use for time tracking?

Until now, I've always manually written stuff down in text files or spread sheets, but I'd like something that makes it easier to add up the hours I've spent on a project.

I don't need any syncing across devices. A command line interface would be neat!

avolkov,

@blinry you might want to try out taskwarrior -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tijnc65soEI

annika, to random
@annika@xoxo.zone avatar

my daughter has procured the alcoholic Sunny D :blobhyperthink:

avolkov,

@annika Alcoholic Sunny D as in screwdriver cocktail or via fermentation?

avolkov,

@annika I guess she's just a normal teenager who not that interested in chemistry or biology...

amy, to photography
@amy@jawns.club avatar

ricoh gr digital i (2005, 8.1mp)

it’s sluggish but fantastic b&w jpegs. i tweaked curves but otherwise didn’t do a thing!

@ShittyCameraChallenge

black & white photo of a black & white cat doin a BIG STRETCH in a hallway. behind him the house fades into utter blackness

avolkov,

@amy @ShittyCameraChallenge The cat photo is amazing.

I like the intensity of light reflecting off white smooth surfaces.

annika, to Youtube
@annika@xoxo.zone avatar

This UI change feels like a dark pattern to make people turn on "watch history"

avolkov,

@annika I got the same message today. it won't let me see videos under 'Home' section. Which is fine, I always preferred 'subscription' section anyways.

dark patter #1: let users go to 'home' instead of 'subscriptions'

dark patter #2: force off users from home until they enable watch history.

tca, to 3DPrinting
@tca@genart.social avatar

Parametric pulley:
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:16627

avolkov,

@tca i used thouse to make a temporary pulley for x-axis on my 3d printer. It woeked surprisingly well, I only replaced it with a meral one because i didnt know how long will it last.

rysiek, (edited ) to sysadmin
@rysiek@mstdn.social avatar

Okay, let's settle this, .

Choose your fighter. Explain why.

avolkov,

@rysiek restic because backblaze had instructions on how to set up backups for linux

christianp, to 3DPrinting
@christianp@mathstodon.xyz avatar

Stages in the design of a 3d-printed part. I did some very thin slices first, to check I'd got the shape right, then thought about how the whole thing should look.
Bonus points if you can guess what it's for!

avolkov,

@christianp Printing thin slices is a nice trick of checking if the dimensions are accurate without wasting too much filament.
I only once printed something with correct dimensions from the first try.

This looks like some kind of attachment to an aluminium rail or an edge of a table.

mattgrayyes, to random
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In case you were wondering about threads, the timeline is full of shit I don’t follow and it isn’t chronological. So it’s just Facebook made to look like twitter.

Screenshot of threads with loads posts I don’t follow including the archbishop of banterbury

avolkov,

@mattgrayyes That's how my feed looks like, so I mostly has given up on it.

A bunch of old post drowned out by a lowest-common-denominator memes on the subject of 'programming'.

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