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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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ayo, to coffee
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What do you think about the saying “any made in less than two minutes is not good”?

heard it while getting coffee at an office

jannem,
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@ayo
An espresso is brewed in ~30 seconds.

coffeegeek, to coffee
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Updated today on CoffeeGeek! A cultural piece by Ethan, about Siphon Coffee in Japan. I hope you enjoy!

cc @coffee

https://coffeegeek.com/blog/history/siphon-coffee-in-japan/

jannem,
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@lambtor @coffeegeek @coffee
Siphon coffee is pretty common here. What part of the country will you visit?

coffeegeek, to coffee
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See this?

That's the "good stuff". Stuff that's held back by paper filters. But not so by cloth or metal filters. It is flavour. It is nuance. It is depth. It is character.

Paper filters rob this from your cup of coffee. Every single one of them.

cc @coffee

jannem,
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@gbraad @coffeegeek @coffee
Subjective. Paper filters remove coffee solids and oils, that can make a cup feel "muddy" or "muted - or "rich" and "chocolaty" depending on the beans, your preferences and your mood.

Lots of people do like paper filtered coffee because of the clarity - clear, pleasant flavours with the bean character shining through. Lots of people like metal (or unfiltered) coffee for the complexity. Lots of people like and enjoy both.

jannem,
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@coffeegeek
The filtering is objective of course. But what you think of the result is subjective (and that's what I was commenting on).

Me, I like both. I like Espresso, V60, cloth drip, Clever/Hario Switch, French press, siphon (both with paper and cloth), and so on, depending on the beans and on my mood.

I must say my least favourite is metal or nylon mesh filters for drip coffee. I prefer an unfiltered immersion brew over that.

gsuberland, to random
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more valheim tonight

The same base from a different angle. There's a large cliff to the north.
Docks on the sea. A large wall has been built in the sea with a gate for our boats to fit through.

jannem,
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@gsuberland
That's a nice looking farm. I'd be a little worried about trolls...

elizabethtasker, (edited ) to random
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Let's do a quiz! The Japan-led Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission to Mars's moon Phobos will carry a rover named "IDEFIX" that was developed by the French and German space agencies. But what is the purpose of IDEFIX (in addition to other tasks)?

jannem,
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@elizabethtasker
You mean it's going to land first, then the MMX lander will choose where and how to land based on that data?

JoeRess, to random
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If reddit was British, AITA would be AITC.

jannem,
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@JoeRess

Of course. "Am I The Chad?"

jorge, to random
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"But if we all use flatpaks then what's the point of all these distro packages?"

Exactly. Exactly!

jannem,
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@jorge
Anything with a cli - and that includes a lot of userspace apps - need distro packages since flatpack specifically doesn't support it.

thomasfuchs, to astrophotography
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Very early stages of new project

jannem,
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@ramsey @thomasfuchs
Looks like a lens reflection?

thisismissem, (edited ) to random
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Should I continue doing my monthly update articles?

They usually take a few hours to write & edit, because there's just a lot to them, as I don't currently keep notes throughout the month on things I'm doing.

Also, I'm not sure anyone really reads them.

jannem,
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@thisismissem
One issue with Mastodon or the fediverse is that you get no indication how many people see your posts.

I bet a lot of people appreciate your summaries; it's just not something you usually have specific comments on.

jannem,
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@thisismissem
I don't know about those specifically; I never read Medium posts.

mrundkvist, to books
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What's everyone's ? I'm vacuuming the house, , having a night, and to a café for cake.

jannem,
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@mrundkvist
The weather is cold and wet this weekend, but we're going to a farmer's market (as usual) for fresh groceries. Also replanting our papaya in a larger pot, and it's time to plant okra for the summer.

Also, my keyboard at home has a stuck key so I'll have to try to fix it. 😤

jannem,
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@mrundkvist
Wait, we don't have okra in Sweden?

kushal, (edited ) to Stockholm Swedish
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Säkring via , en berättelse:

https://kushaldas.se/sakring-via-systemd-en-berattelse

jannem,
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@kushal
Måste logga in.

drewdevault, to random
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Normalize paying for shit online with your wallet, not your private information or venture capital subsudies

jannem,
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@drewdevault
I can't afford to pay for a large amount of services. I do pay for a few, but for the most part "noping out" is the only option.

jannem,
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@drewdevault
If the price is reasonable.

Sometimes it's not - not that they're price gouging or charging far more than it costs; but there's a fair amount of online services that don't provide enough value to warrant overcoming the high threshold of registering your personal data and credit card for access.

Facetious example: would you pay for - register your card for - access to a "the time in city X is currently Y" web page?

Some services only make sense as being free.

loke, to random
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Perhaps a weird request

Does anyone have a real-life example of a seemingly complicated Excel formula?

The background is that I'm writing a blog post that talks about spreadsheets, and I want an example that shows that formulas can be just as complex as any programming language (my point is that it'll be even more so in Excel, since there isn't much in the way of formatting).

If you have an example to share, I'd love to see it. I would prefer to include a real-life example rather than something contrived.

jannem,
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@loke
I once studied an instrumental conditioning model of animal behavior implemented as an Mac Excel spreadsheet (it turned out to rely on a bug in that old Mac-specific version; it was not a good model).

But while the model was complex the complexity was spread out; individual cells weren't that long or complicated. I suspect that is often the case.

elizabethtasker, to random
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I'm a technical reader for a space exhibit at a museum in Japan. Their English translator is... actually really good: better than me. So most of the time, I make no changes and feel a bit bad that I'm being paid.

Then... occasionally... they take "Gibeon meteorite" and merge it into "Gibeonite". It's kind of cute, but given the Biblical association with Gibeonites playing tricks... also... no 🤣

(Other changes are simpler, such as "unmanned" --> "robotic", bit of formatting & odd fact check.)

jannem,
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@elizabethtasker
They're getting their money's worth even if you don't change a thing.

They're paying for a second pair of eyes; to make sure it is as solid as it seems to be. You provide that.

jonny, to random
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one thing that really rocks about code that there's very little reason that the rest of science couldn't do is just be able to point at what you did and talk about it.

like this thread where two people* just helped me understand something cool and i was able to ask questions about it mostly because of how easy it was to point at different parts of their work.
https://social.treehouse.systems/@felipe/111980315068253276

linking to a whole bigass pdf is not even close, and neither is a notebook really. the fact that papers are inert and not the thing we are actively using and thinking about is a big loss. it is extremely odd that in almost all sciences, the thing that you're working on doesn't exist in any public form until all of a sudden it appears at once, and then stays that way. after working with code and self publishing the last few years, i can't imagine going back to not being able to talk about what i'm thinking about in a concrete way being the norm.

*(who i am going to tag in the reply to this post so that in case anyone replies to this one those two don't get a bunch of notifs)

jannem,
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@jonny
The vast majority of scientific results - even in computational sciences - is not wholly or even partially expressible as code.

I absolutely agree code should be made available, open source, basically always. But it can never be more than an addendum to the main publication.

jannem,
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@jonny
You already have "one result" == "one publication". If anything, a persistent issue is that people are splitting stuff up into too many publications.

If you expect an open development-style communication in science, that's not going to happen. "First to publish" is hugely important, and stealing other groups' work is a real thing that happens. Nobody will publish until the results are done.

You want to change that? You need to change how we do and fund science.

jannem,
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@jonny
I apologize. I come off as negative in part because this was one reason I left research and I'm incredibly frustrated about this.

It's easy to say the current publication system sucks. Most scientists will happily agree. It's a lot harder to come up with a workable solution. I read your posts but I don't see any concrete proposal for something better? Or did I just miss it?

jannem,
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@jonny
Can you share what you propose? I look and don't find it.

jannem,
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@jonny

I don't see it?

jannem,
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@jonny
Got it. Reading now.

A tl;dr would really help guide the reader where you're going; and you seem rather focused on software. I'm a former computational neuroscientist so I get where you're coming from, but these issues really are bigger than software and the computational sciences, so this focus will perhaps not resonate with a lot of people you need to reach.

I will look for your solution to publications-as-credit but it's a long text and it's late here. It is interesting though!

glassbottommeg, to random
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I'm rolling a bard for DnD and deciding which instruments are the right balance of "I can almost play them" and "would be funny", as one does.

Otomatone is of course one, but getting a useful melody is quite hard.

Concertina? I've gotten a few fun songs out of them, but my range with em is super limited.

Tin whistle? Mostly seems like a good way to get hit over the head with a tin whistle. But. That would be funny. So,

(do I dare sing? I can do pretty decent poetry on the spot, maybe spoken word? hrm)

jannem,
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@glassbottommeg
Ukulele? It's versatile; you can sing to it if threatened by grievous bodily harm; and you can plink out a melody with very little practice.

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