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jannem

@jannem@fosstodon.org

Programmer and computational neuroscientist, now HPC support engineer in Okinawa, Japan.

Photography, bouldering, recreational programming and playing the sanshin are things I do.

Sweden, Osaka and Okinawa are places I particularly care about.

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alexwild, to SciComm
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Several of us overly online biologists spent years quietly doing an experiment on Twitter, trying to find out if tweeting about new studies from a set of mid-range journals caused an increase in later citations, compared to set of untweeted control articles.

Turns out we had no noticeable effect; the tweeted papers were cited at the same rate as the control set.

Our paper, headed by Trevor Branch, was published today in PLOS One:

#X

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0292201

jannem,
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@alexwild
So, people who would cite your paper will usually find it without any social media self-promotion on your part. That'll be a relief for quite a few people.

cadey, to random
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"No way to prevent this" says users of only programming language where this regularly happens

jannem,
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@cadey Rust is getting accepted as part of the Linux kernel. Should be entirely possible to do it.

Be the change you want to see!

RickiTarr, to random
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I am bothered by the fact that neither the person asking the question or the person answering, understand the true horror of this post.

KETCHUP ON RICE!

jannem,
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@RickiTarr
Ooh, ketchup on ramen - that's a good idea!

A bit more serious, we do flavour rice with tomato sauce in some few dishes - paella for one, and japanese omuraisu (not exactly haute cuisine but still).

jannem, to internet
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I don't think really cares if they lose advertisers or if they have to pull out of EU. They don't care about being a global platform, and money is just a possible side benefit.

What they do want is to control the political discourse in their home country.

The same is likely happening with ; expect similar changes to other platforms. Same about stopping non-US platforms ( ).

The long-term goal is to deplatform anyone not on the political far right. And it's working.

futurebird, to random
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Are there therapists who specialize in helping children who are stressed out giving tech support to their parents?

My mom is a mathematician. She can program w/ punch cards. But, she & Dad just don't keep up with tech anymore. Drives me nuts.

Gave my dad an iPhone for Christmas. They HATE it. Probably would hate any phone. Now they say it's recording their conversations.🙄

Dad holds down the buttons on the side when he picks it up. Activates the voice assistant... they think it's a hacker.

jannem,
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@futurebird @kritischelezer
Never mind parents - I'm 55 and I want that for myself.

Cars, appliances and so on have "safe" UIs; you can't really break anything.

Industrial machinery, power tools, servers and so on are dangerous, but also clearly signal that you better know what you're doing.

Smartphones are the worst of both worlds: their UI tells you it's all safe and easy, while really being dangerous and fragile.

jannem, to tesla
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All maintenance personnel in Sweden - 130 people - are on after Tesla has refused to sign an agreement with the . If they refuse (and they say they will fly in workers from abroad) this will spread to other areas; cars won't get unloaded in the harbors, parts won't be transported, and so on.

Toys R Us tried this 25 years ago. After a year they gave in and signed. But by then their reputation was so damaged the Swedish branches later closed.

https://www.aftonbladet.se/ledare/a/xg09MR/elon-musk-vill-komma-till-sverige-och-forstora

jannem, to random
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New studio movie from Hayao released with no advance notice or promotion:

https://www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/articles/14957697

jannem, to music
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Is there by any chance a piece of software I could put on a that lets me:

  • Connect a keyboard and use as an electric piano;

  • Do simple sequencing and playback - not a full but just let me record and edit a piano sequence; then add another voice, or let me play live over that sequence.

  • As a bonus, possibly let me record a live track, but that's not really needed.

Basically a tool to help me better learn and practice a live .

jannem, to fediverse
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, the instance I'm on, is now invite only. The reason is to slow its growth and avoid becoming a huge server.

This is good! The point of the is to have lots of different instances, after all, not a couple of giant ones.

And yes, huge instance == huge problems. Problems with moderation, with funding, and with culture. Stay a reasonable size and it's still all manageable for a small team.

lauren, to random
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Probably coming soon: "AI FOOD! Have conversations with your meats, fruits, and vegetables before consuming them!"

jannem,
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@lauren
Restaurant at the end of time?

cstross, to random
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Hypothesis: they followed a very strange polytheistic religion where places of worship were presided over by a "designer" and a high holy ritual was the "dungeon crawl", a bloody and lethal elimination contest in which rival teams of worshippers competed to reach a final sanctuary and receive their blessing. Human sacrifice awaited those who failed but nobody wanted to kill their friends and family so it was all automated: pits with spikes, crossbow traps …

@futurebird https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/112331734445593954

jannem,
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@cstross @futurebird
"So yeah, word got around that we had a lot of gold. Bands of well-armed psychopaths started showing up for some light murder-robbery.

A couple of elders devised a plan: plant something expensive at the end of an obvious cave or pyramid, fill it with traps and let them kill themselves trying to get to the thing."

"What? Fight them directly? What part of 'psychopath' is difficult to understand? No way we're dealing with those people directly. You get hurt doing that." 🧵

jannem, to random
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Got my copy of by @mwichary delivered here on Okinawa without a scratch.

And it's beautiful! 2½ volumes full of all you wanted to know about keyboards. It's like a slice of the very geekiest pre-social media internet condensed into book form, and I love it.

Shift happens, three volumes in a slipcase.

jannem, to Malaysia
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coffee roasters in is really very good. The coffee is good and the store is cool and spacious.

A coffee bar with metal chairs.

jannem, to Ansible
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We updated a certificate for an internal tool. It's a web app, deployed as a . To update the certificate we have to rebuild the container from scratch.

We also have a nice internal tool for changing user settings such as cluster access rights. It runs fine. But it's an playbook run through a CI/CD pipeline that builds, runs, then destroys two containers for every user change.

"This container could have been a shell script" feels more true every day.

jannem, to Osaka
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The tourists are back. Ebisu bridge in Doutonbori, Osaka. The Glico sign is a popular background for pictures.

jannem, to Malaysia
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and question: To get from the KL to KL Sentral you pass through Nu Sentral shopping mall.

Can anyone tell us if that walking route is open in the morning before the mall proper opens?

futurebird, to random
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One of the more confusing concepts in evolutionary biology is when biologists call a particular species "primitive"-- for example the bull ants (genus Myrmecia) are often call "primitive ants" because they tend to be solitary hunters. Diacamma is described as "primitive" for being solitary hunters and for having gamergates. (workers that become queens.)

The concept is that these species have retained some trait that has largely vanished from other ants. 1/

jannem,
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@futurebird
Correct me if I'm wrong: you could have convergent evolution where we have two species; one is still solitary from before ants started building large nests, and the other evolved from a social species to specialize as a solitary ant.

They could be all but indistinguishable in morphology and behavior, yet one would be "primitive" and one "highly evolved".

ianbetteridge, to random
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Why look, I could spent all weekend farting around with Emacs to get it to work as a writing tool...

https://fedoramagazine.org/emacs-for-writers/

jannem,
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@ianbetteridge
You're saying the title should have been "Is Emacs Great for Writers?"

jannem, to music
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I got a new "ti-ga-" (body belt) for my . It's a traditional textile from , handwoven on Ishigaki. An instrument that looks better also plays better!

The standard belt on the left, the minsah belt on the right.

The body (drum) of a sanshin with an orange, red and white woven belt (called "ti-ga-") wrapped around the edge and tied at the top where the neck begins. The belt is handmade in a traditional Okinawan pattern.

jannem, to Malaysia
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Going to on holiday, for the first time in 20 years. Dumb-sounding question: Do you need cash on a daily basis (fares, food etc)?

If not, is credit cards fine, or is there some other payment system that's better - and accessible to non-residents?

jannem, to Blog
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Wrote my first new post in almost a year!

It's basically a lament that the web is broken, and a resolution to start blogging again, and to stop taking it so seriously.

https://janneinosaka.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-web-is-broken.html

popey, to random
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Just realised, it's been a couple of weeks and I haven't run "Hugo's Random Benchmark" on this M3 MacBook Pro yet!

2.6s - not bad. Can you do better?

/cc @darkling
https://popey.com/blog/2020/12/counting-to-100-million/

jannem,
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@popey @darkling

Academic supercomputer: 4.3s

Not built for single-core performance :)

saja0486, to random
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Most faved Flickr photo of 2023
https://flic.kr/p/2oqqX9t

jannem,
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@saja0486
As a coincidence, my most favourited image was an Okinawan male rock thrush:

People like birds I guess. Or rock thrushes.

AAKL, to vr
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    @AAKL @markv @AP
    Trying to own the mindshare, I believe. If you can establish a new term, you're the first, fresh entrant and not another attempt in an already crowded field.

    kushal, to linux
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    How to install on servers to secure them 100%?

    Correct answers only.

    jannem,
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    @kushal
    Wrap the chain around the server, attach the blocks, and throw it into Nybroviken.

    That server is not gonna talk to anyone again.

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