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You probably heard about me because I am the founder of the Twisted python networking engine open source project. But I’m also the author and maintainer of several other smaller projects, a writer and public speaker about software and the things software affects (i.e.: everything), and a productivity nerd due to my ADHD. I also post a lot about politics; I’d personally prefer to be apolitical but unfortunately the global rising tide of revanchist fascism is kind of dangerous to ignore.

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gwynnion, to random
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Musk and Dorsey want to turn every bar into a Nazi bar so they can force people to hang out and listen to them.

They can sense how much they suck as human beings, but their egos make them incapable of grappling with it. So they try to make it our problem instead.

glyph,
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@gwynnion @jwz the real tragedy here is that in objective terms, they have millions of fawning fans and could easily be surrounded by nothing but obsequiousness if they so chose. But to do that they would have to have confidence in their selfhood, real self-esteem and self-respect. Instead the whispering, gnawing void at the core of their beings knows that we are right, that they do suck ass, and thus they are driven interminably to silence us all by a self-loathing they can never escape

tef, to random
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finding out that it's still called kernel32 on 64 bit windows

glyph,
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@dreid @tef from what I can tell the first version of kernel32 was released as part of windows NT 3.51 so I assume it's "kernel 3.2" from the internal 3.2 build of NT

glyph,
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@crzwdjk @dreid @tef Ah, bummer, I didn't see that in this quickly-googled table: https://www.geoffchappell.com/studies/windows/win32/kernel32/history/index.htm

glyph, to random
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New version of Fritter today: https://pypi.org/project/fritter/0.0.9/

Containing this fun new API: https://fritter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api/fritter.drivers.datetimes.html#guessLocalZone

glyph,
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It tries very hard to get the correct answer to this question: https://github.com/glyph/Fritter/blob/fe349f48f7fd87b3f44cdc8fd800c98de5b4e564/src/fritter/drivers/datetimes.py#L23-L54

glyph,
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(If anyone knows how to call Windows.Globalization.Calendar::New().GetTimeZone() from python directly without a gigantic dependency for this one function please let me know, happy to accept a PR for this)

glyph,
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@xgranade Ideally both; I need to call literally a single function, once. There's winsdk, I think, which is a community fork with recent updates: https://github.com/pywinrt/pywinrt but I have no idea how to interpret "Moving forward, the bindings will be generated in a modular fashion and published as separate packages, one per Windows SDK namespace". Okay, sure, but like… what packages? What do I pip install? winsdk itself has nothing but prereleases

glyph,
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@tef beautiful, I love it

glyph,
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@matt looks like @tef already found one that does this :). I think I prefer ctypes in this situation given that it is highly platform-specific and is literally one function

glyph,
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@xgranade truly, the Hi-Fi Rush of APIs

glyph, to random
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Culture is defined by what leaders reward and what they tolerate, not by what they claim to want: https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/8/24152137/xbox-hi-fi-rush-tango-gameworks-matt-booty

mathowie, to random
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In 2003, a friend ran her first 5k and raised money for a great cause, Guide Dogs for the Blind and I gave $20 happily. To this day, Guide Dogs mails me postcards every few months, no matter how many times my address changes. Today I got this text from the nonprofit 21 years after my sole donation.

My point is Customer Relations Management (CRM) software like Salesforce is too good at what it does and must be stopped.

glyph,
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@mathowie @jalefkowit you can reply STOP any time you like, but you can never leave

glyph, to random
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It seems like editing one's answers on Stack Overflow is not an effective protest vote, but perhaps upvoting https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/430135/where-is-the-opt-out-option-so-my-answers-dont-get-used-by-openai could be one signal that would be legible to the site's owners

glyph, (edited )
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FWIW, I am in the top 1% of Stack Overflow participants and I am likely to never ask or answer another question on the site if it's going to be intentionally turned into machine-generated sludge

glyph,
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@Yhg1s The site has been in decline for quite a while but this does feel like crossing a final threshold.

glyph,
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@aeva I would quibble with you on the semantics (I have seen beautiful procgen art that did use linear algebra and/or neural networks, that was not sludge, and I do think that LLMs are "procedural") but out of respect I will avoid calling it that in the future. I don't want to do it the respect of calling it "GenAI" since it is not AI either, and "LLM" doesn't cover the equally-problematic image or song generation stuff, so the terminology continues to be annoying…

glyph,
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@aeva "linear algae", maybe

glyph,
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@aeva for now, updated the original post to "machine-generated"

lazerwalker, to random
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regular brain: the collective mass of microbiota living in and in your body is greater than that of “your own” cells

galaxy brain: the effect your gut microbiome has on your neurochemistry is so large, your core personality and behavior are fundamentally the result of symbiosis

glyph,
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@lazerwalker we were all trill, all along

hynek, to random
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I’m gonna have a relaxed pre-PyCon time if I don’t have a talk thought past Hynek.

Greetings from desperately editing an overdue video, agonizing over PyPI releases before PyCon, and a huge project at work on top. At least it’s a public holiday today. 🙈

glyph,
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@hynek “oh good, a day off work so I can work”

glyph,
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@hynek how very American of you

glyph,
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@hynek yep, we mostly make it on evenings and weekends

eb, to OpenAI
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There's something funky with hacker news' moderation. Here pictured is a graph:

The black line represents the rank according to the published algorithm: upvotes^0.8 / (age+2)^1.8

The orange line is its actual position on the front page.

And I'm just saying... this was a story on the backlash to at .

Publish your moderation logs.

glyph,
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@eb @Phyxis there is something endearing here about thinking that HN is an institution with a degree of integrity which could be held to account for some sort of ethical standards

Maybe this worldview is even correct, but I cannot help but have the more cynical view that it’s an obvious scam to indoctrinate impressionable early-career engineers to break their bodies and minds upon the rocky shores of improved VC margins

tef, to random
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have seen a new startup advertising "ci, but without yaml!" and "if it runs on your machine, it passes in the cloud!"

and like i know i'm old but "writing a shell script" and "not needing root to run a test suite" feel like problems that can be solved without writing integration code for a cloud based test SDK

glyph,
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@tef sometimes tests needed public network access, so I tied an onion router to my belt, which was the style at the time

hotdogsladies, to random
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Here's that Maggie Mae Fish video I mentioned:

"How 'Anti-Vaping' ads trick you into vaping"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbV6I8VRMG8

glyph,
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@hotdogsladies SUCH a good video

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