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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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grumpygamer, to random
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A Kickstarter adventure game one of the Return to Monkey Island animators is working on. They had me at "Set in 1970s southern France". I lived in France in the 1970s, I wonder if I'm in the game.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pierrefeuillestudio/chronique-des-silencieux

jannem,
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@grumpygamer
Reminds me of a detective mystery "book" my English teacher lent me in, oh, 1985 or so: a box full of police reports, plastic bags with physical evidence, photographs, interviews, maps and so on. Go through all of it and figure out the killer. Amazing, but apparently way too expensive to become a commercial success.

AAKL, to random
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    jannem,
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    @AAKL @pcworld @MichaelCrider
    As pretty much everyone has commented, more pixels is a bad thing, not a good one. A high-quality replacement (OLED?) with the same resolution would be fine.

    liztai, to books
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    This is probably going to be controversial but what the heck.
    I avoid Asian lit that the West celebrates because they tend to be "Harrowing Tales of Sad, Traumatised Asians". I'm not sure why the West find them so fascinating (though my mind thinks of rather uncharitable ideas). I especially despise stories set in colonial times.
    I'm totally fine with "Tales of Murderous Asians", however.
    To which I will happily recommend Keigo Higashino.

    jannem,
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    @liztai Higashino Keigo is OK. Nice page turners (the later "masquerade hotel" series more than the earlier one). Something for the hotel pool or airport.

    For Japanese mysteries I'd recommend Miyabe Miyuki. Still people getting murdered, but with more thought put into the books, and a much more fascinating angle of "why?" as much as the usual "who?" or "how?".

    In fact, in "Reason", one of her most popular ones, the "who" and "how" is never much of a mystery. It's all about "why".

    andypiper, to random
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    Do we know whether 2K Drive will be OK on yet? I'm guessing the Denuvo DRM may kill it... don't want to pre-order if it isn't going to work on the Deck...

    jannem,
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    @andypiper
    Don't preorder games. Wait for initial reviews. It's not as if they will run out.

    johncarlosbaez, (edited ) to random
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    The surprising part is not that math grad students named Cox and Zucker would come up with the idea of writing a paper together just as a joke.

    It's that they followed through after they became professors, and wrote a paper that was actually rather significant.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cox%E2%80%93Zucker_machine

    jannem,
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    @johncarlosbaez They can even claim alphabetical order as to why they want their names in this sequence.

    fasterthanlime, (edited ) to random
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    Mhh

    jannem,
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    @fasterthanlime
    Something tells me this is not the best possible source for development advice.

    grumpygamer, to random
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    I'm not interested in a bunch of "algorithms" for Mastodon, but I would like a feed in the sidebar that showed me posts from people I follow that had more than X reposts or Y stars.

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    @grumpygamer
    "All subscribed posts in chronological order" is an algorithm.

    I have nothing at all against algorithmic ordering; I just want it to be explicit and understandable. Big bonus if I can choose from a selection the one that suits me best.

    arrdem, to random
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    I DO NOT WANT TO CALL YOU FOR A QUOTE. I NEVER WANT TO CALL SOMEONE FOR A QUOTE. LIST YOUR PRICES OR LOSE THE BUSINESS

    jannem,
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    @steely_glint @arrdem

    All of which you can find out just as well through email.

    Or, really, better through email. You won't be glad-handled by an asshole with great people skills. You won't be put off by a customer whose broken English is their third language.

    jannem,
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    @steely_glint I don't know what business you're in so take the following with the appropriate amount of salt.

    We buy reasonably large amounts of hardware and software every year, and when a potential vendor doesn't disclose prices right on their website they go to the very end of the line of whom we contact. Same at conferences - you're either upfront with the installation and licensing costs or we will not bother talking further.

    jannem,
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    @steely_glint Doing custom projects for a client is obviously different.

    But while putting a price on a compute cluster (a per-client custom project) is infeasible, I'd still expect to see the price for single units of, say a high end workstation; or upfront get the per-seat license costs of a piece of software.

    If a vendor doesn't disclose pricing information, but the competitors do, we're contacting that vendor only if the others can't provide what we need.

    jannem, to random
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    is on sale. Buy it for or not?

    Context: I love and but find many similar games to be pretty frustrating. is just not a favourite for example.

    fasterthanlime, to random
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    tell me your website is LLM-generated without telling me

    jannem,
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    @fasterthanlime
    To be fair, if English isn't your first language you're really stuck between a rock and a hard place. Write it yourself or use online translation, it's always going to sound off to a native speaker.

    fasterthanlime, (edited ) to random
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    the linux experience in a nutshell is seeing "Skipping BTF generation for foobar.ko" in the terminal, googling that, and finding pages and pages of people trying to fix the error with NO ONE bothering to explain what the acronym means or if it matters.

    The bar for technical writing is six feet underground

    edit: it means BPF Type Format https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/bpf/btf.html, thanks @omni !

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    @fasterthanlime
    I do userland documentation for a living. It takes time. Enough time that trying to make a concise, easy to understand summary or everything a system may spew out at you just isn't even remotely feasible.

    seandick, to random
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    easy there, pup-casso

    video/mp4

    jannem,
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    @seandick Add tire squealing that's sampled from excited puppies.

    lauren, to random
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    Greetings. Let's cut to the chase. The freewheeling "anything goes" days of social media and the Internet more broadly are ending.

    Government regulations, mandated moderation and other topic and content controls, ID and age requirements for access, and a whole range of other changes are coming that will utterly alter the Internet in most ways related not only to social media but to many other aspects of Internet usage. Inevitably, the move toward a Communist Chinese government-controlled Internet model will proceed.

    This will take time. It won't happen overnight. The focus will be on large firms first, but will gradually move down in scale to affect everybody, everywhere. Attempts by some ecosystems to evade these requirements via federated and other distributed models will ultimately be unsuccessful.

    As with the fall of Rome, this will be a process, not an event. But despite the uncertainty of the details and the lack of an exact timeline of events, the process itself seems quite certain indeed, and that's the Internet we will be facing in the not so distant future -- like it or not. -L

    jannem,
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    @lauren @NickSchwanck North Korea calls itself democratic.

    codinghorror, to random

    Which animals laugh? Humans, Apes, Rats (!), Dogs (!), Dolphins: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laughter_in_animals

    jannem,
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    @codinghorror
    Well known in psychology circles. The main reason pigs aren't used a lot in animal behavior and psychology research is that they're big and pushy (and potentially dangerous); and they're too smart to easily be kept confined when they don't want to.

    loke, to random
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    Someone posted the very funny and also thought-provoking joke that the most common national celebration is independence from the British, being celebrated by 65 different countries.

    Which 65 is crazy high for an independence celebration, it's definitely not the most common celebration. International Workers Day is celebrated by 110 countries if I'm getting my count right. Are there any others that are more widely celebrated than that? (excluding religious holidays)

    jannem,
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    @loke New Year is not religious for most countries, is it?

    loke, to random
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    @TechConnectify so I was watching the most recent episode by @TechConnectify about contactors. Interesting episode, and I learned a lot.

    Now, in it it is said that the lights in the house dims when the AC turns on. I have never seen this in any house. Is this something that happens more often in the US which uses 115 V?

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    @loke @TechConnectify
    I live in Japan where the voltage is 100V and I've never seen a voltage drop like that, not with the AC or with the fridge.

    drewdevault, to random
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    Who should lead us?

    https://drewdevault.com/2023/04/24/2023-04-24-Who-leads-us.html

    jannem,
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    @drewdevault
    Your point at the end should perhaps be even stronger:

    Any time you have two people and a difference of opinion you have politics. Politics is not just party politics; politics is who we, as humans are, and how we deal with each other.

    The only way to have software development without politics would be to do your stuff in complete isolation, never interacting with anyone and never releasing anything.

    grumpygamer, to random
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    I'm going to scream if I have to watch another talk about interactive story telling and one of the tips is "Create compelling characters". No shit! If that is your problem then you're already doomed. No one assumes that you already know how to tell good stories and gets into the nuts and bolts and structure of interactive stories. I blame GDC and them focusing too much on newbies. GDC is pointless for me because very few talks assume you're already really good and want to be better.

    jannem,
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    @grumpygamer
    The audience for anything is a pyramid, with the beginners at the bottom far outnumbering the proficient people in the middle and the few experts at the top.

    You want a big audience? Aim at beginners. You want a presenter? You're more likely to find a journeyman who can teach beginners than an expert who can teach proficient people.

    In academia beginners are taught in big classes; journeymen one on one or in small seminars; experts talk with each other over beers at a conference.

    codinghorror, to random

    how you know your brand is in serious trouble: a single friend of mine told a potential date he drove a Tesla and she said "ew"

    jannem,
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    @satmandu @subtl @jwz @cstross
    You still need physical controls for any driving function for when people can't use voice control for whatever reason.

    Voice control can never become the primary or only interface for anything important.

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