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Scmbradley

@Scmbradley@mathstodon.xyz

Boring tech guy. Former professional philosopher.

Unremarkable cis-het middle-class able-bodied white guy. He/Him.

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losttourist, to random
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Argh, zillions of ladybirds everywhere outside!

Scmbradley,
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@losttourist one landed on my son's neck. Another on my coat. They're a menace

foone, to random
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I wonder if there are any long-term implications for a planet having a moon that orbits opposite the planet's rotation.
I've got one of those in a story, and it's okay, a Wizard Did It, but I'm not sure if this scenario is unstable because of how their gravity interacts. At the very least, maybe it's slowing down the rotation of the planet slightly?

Scmbradley,
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@foone there are 2ⁿ-1 kinds of werewolves, where n is the number of moons.

mcc, to random
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Type of girl who whenever she enters a building for the first time she runs around checking behind all the doors because she has been desperately trying to find a save point since 2004

Scmbradley,
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@mcc I've been playing no man's sky a lot recently, so sometimes I just go sit in my car then get out again to save.

Tattooed_mummy, to random
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    Scmbradley,
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    @Tattooed_mummy it's gonna go "ERROR 404. Brain not found"

    thewk, to random
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    Any owners around here?

    I read it only has about 7 hours of battery life, but that just can't be right or they mean screen on time or anything like that.

    Would apprentice hearing about your experiences!

    Scmbradley,
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    @thewk I got one. Battery life is fine. I've not been using it screen on all day or anything, but it easily lasts all day. 7 hours seems surprisingly short from my experience.

    mcc, to random
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    I wish I had a single unix command-line tool that presented a single command-line interface but can work with all the various compression formats I use (tgz, 7zip, zip, etc).

    Currently zip, 7z, tar, zstd etc all use different tools with totally different interfaces. I find myself needing to consult one or another --help far more than I should. zstd just startled me greatly when I discovered that zstd -d by default writes the output file in the same directory as the input file rather than pwd

    Scmbradley,
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    @mcc amazed nobody has mentioned the "how standards proliferate" xkcd yet...

    simon, (edited ) to random
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    Have you seen 1987 sci-fi comedy Innerspace, starring Martin Short, Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan?

    Scmbradley,
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    @simon I answered yes, but I've actually only seen the Italian dubbed version. I don't speak much Italian. It was, quite frankly, baffling.

    mcc, to random
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    My constant experience with Python over the last ~16 years is I start writing it and it's like, wow, this is so easy, this is great! And then I run my program, and invariably it fails with an inscrutable error/exception 4 layers deep in someone else's library, code I know nothing about— in this case, a wav file library claiming that the number 960 is "not a valid shape"— and I realize that maybe I actually hate Python

    Scmbradley,
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    @mcc yeah preallocating is going to be easier, I think. Though depending on how you're building,you could use concatenate?

    Scmbradley,
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    @mcc I think numpy functions are rarely in place. Concatenate isn't, for sure.

    But with concatenate,you can just concat a bunch of python lists. So you don't need to put all the intermediaries into numpy.

    Scmbradley, to random
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    @christianp I don't know whether it was a mathstodon thing or a @Tusky thing, but when mathstodon was down, there's no indication it's routine maintenance rather than the server has fallen over. On the web app, you see a notice, but the feed just fails to load.

    Scmbradley, to random
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    Genuinely no idea what's going on with this junction.

    Edent, to books
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    🆕 blog! “Google Books - search results confuse reviewers with authors”

    Google Books is one of many projects that Google has forgotten about. There's no support available and, of course, it's impossible to send them a bug report. The best anyone can do is write a ranty blog post and hope it gets noticed. When I search for my name in Google Books, it return…

    👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/09/google-books-search-results-confuse-reviewers-with-authors/
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    Scmbradley,
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    @Edent Google Scholar has similar problems. I have two pieces with the same title (both encyclopedia article type things) and scholar just conflates them. There is, as far as I can tell, no reasonable recourse to get scholar to change this.

    Scmbradley, to random
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    I work in tech support and the pure, white hot fuck you energy of the guy replying in that vlc forum thread that was making the rounds recently is really something I wish I could bring to bear on clients sometimes.

    Scmbradley,
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    I don't think any of our clients follow me on here but if you do, haha I don't mean you, silly. I mean some other client...

    Scmbradley, to random
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    All films/TV shows with "True" in the title take place in a shared cinematic universe. Change my mind.

    True Lies
    True Romance
    True Detective

    Scmbradley, to random
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    I've been reading about simulating an economy in a gamedev context and a lot of it seems to be about basically setting up an agent based model and running a market, which, yeah, would work I guess. But why can't you just skip all that difficult stuff and just use some macro formulae for how prices respond to changes in demand and supply? Like, just make up the params for the demand curves and supply curves? Then you'd have closed form solutions to how prices change? That would be way less computationally intensive, right? Presumably there's a reason not to do this... But I can't think what it would be.

    Scmbradley,
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    @thor this is a weird thing to post at a stranger, are you feeling OK?

    Tattooed_mummy, (edited ) to random
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    Scmbradley,
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    @Tattooed_mummy I used to buy a newspaper most days when I was at uni (mid-2000s). The students union shop sold the guardian and the times for 20p each. Twenty p! Did I read it? Not really, it was mostly for the crossword.

    Scmbradley, to random
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    Are there any tech podcasts that aren't overlong and relentlessly self-satisfied?

    Scmbradley, to random
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    Do we have an accepted hashtag for a toot that contains a proof of a mathematical proposition?

    If not, I feel that we in mathstodon ought to create one.

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    Scmbradley,
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    @losttourist if it was the kind of place you could drive to from Yorkshire, I'm not sure it would be as nice...

    gamingonlinux, to random
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    What are you playing this weekend and why isn't it Armored Core 6?

    Scmbradley,
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    @gamingonlinux return of the obra dinn or dynasty warriors, depending how much brain I have available.

    Scmbradley, to random
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    The foldable phone screen is such a brilliant idea invention for the phone manufacturer. A phone with a screen that it's extremely hard for a third party to repair that is also all but guaranteed to break within a couple of years? Yes please!

    Scmbradley, to random
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    OK. I'm getting a bit annoyed at Ubuntu and I'm thinking of switching my standard Linux distro. I want to run i3 or sway window manager, and I want it to be stable and easy to maintain. I mainly use my laptop for python coding, internet browsing and occasional gaming (via steam). What are my options?

    gamingonlinux, to PCGaming
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    No Man’s Sky has a teaser for the 'Echoes' update to celebrate 7 years https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/no-mans-sky-echoes-teaser-celebrate-7-years/

    Scmbradley,
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    @gamingonlinux I bought no man's sky a couple years after launch when it was prrrretty good, but it still felt a bit thin. My ps4 is on its last legs, so I might rebuy it on steam and start from scratch...

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