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Perhaps if we lived on a crest, things would be different. We could at least see.

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hannah, to random
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I found a boon companion for future travels to that sunny land of the Cæsars

apocheir,
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@hannah Jtaly (jeans Italy)

christianp, to random
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Does there exist a satellite with a camera pointed at earth that is detailed enough for it to take a selfie of its reflection in water?

apocheir,
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@christianp I suspect that astronomical seeing and distortion in the reflection from water waves would make this impossible.

I don't think astronauts can see the reflection of the moon on the ocean, but the decay of search engines isn't helping me verify that.

apocheir, to random
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What was your path to poly?

apocheir, to random
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anyone have any idea why firefox is refusing to play half of the videos i want to watch

(i have DRM enabled, and it doesn't seem to matter whether ublock origin is enabled or not)

apocheir, to random
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@Tusky what do you think about an option to have image descriptions expanded by default

apocheir,
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@Tusky Compare these two screenshots. One has the image description as it shows up by default, one has it expanded to show the entire description.

Particularly for images like this I'd like to have the description expanded by default, but in general I'd rather have it expanded by default and close it than the other way around. Maybe it could depend on the dimensions of the image.

image description expanded

brainwane, (edited ) to python
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This year will be the 20th anniversary of @leonardr's screen-scraping tool Beautiful Soup.

https://www.harihareswara.net/posts/2024/celebrate-beautiful-soups-20th-anniversary/

Please contact me if you'd like to contribute to the celebration by any of:

  • contributing to a "how Beautiful Soup was important to my life or career" anthology
  • helping edit and publish that anthology
  • funding printing the book
  • throwing or speaking at a party on or around May 19th, 2024
  • helping upgrade Leonard's PyCon travel so it's not just economy/coach
apocheir,
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@brainwane @leonardr when i'm at the beautiful soup celebration:

apocheir,
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@brainwane @leonardr (i gotta convince my job to send me to pycon though)

hannah, to random
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Finally.. H3O

apocheir,
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@hannah isn't that just an acid

christianp, (edited ) to random
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Radicalised by a domain name
https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

EDIT: the page full of dubiously out of context graphs ends in bitcoin nonsense. So, if you find yourself actually radicalised by this domain, do a bit of thinking

apocheir,
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@christianp if you scroll down to the bottom it's Bitcoin bullshit

apocheir, to random
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this is y'all

janellecshane, to random
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This reads like the first act of a Ted Chiang story:

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/01/someone-has-finally-beaten-nes-tetris/

apocheir,
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@janellecshane His grandparents made him a hoodie with the killscreen on it, i fucking can't

brainwane, to random
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New blog post: Some diversity advice I give.

https://www.harihareswara.net/posts/2024/some-diversity-advice-i-give/

Colleagues ask me for advice on diversifying their hiring pipelines, recruiting and retaining volunteer contributors, and addressing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in marketing to and taking care of their users. Here are a few tips I often share. Not comprehensive, aimed mostly at US technology managers and open source maintainers.

apocheir,
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@brainwane does Leonard know you call him "one nonprofit tech lead"?

Seriously though this is very useful

rebeccawatson, to random
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The FDA just announced that an ingredient in nearly every cold medicine is completely useless. How did it end up on our shelves? Here's the story of how the Pharmaceutical Industry helped meth become an epidemic & fucked up our cold meds
https://skepchick.org/2023/11/why-do-your-cold-meds-not-work-thank-meth-big-pharma

apocheir,
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@rebeccawatson and of course the conspiracy theorists are claiming this is some sort of plot to depopulate america

henryseg, to random
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A very small (~1 inch long) lizard audited my general topology class today. Anyone know what species it is?

apocheir,
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@henryseg In a topology class, shouldn't you be asking what genus it is?

apocheir, to random
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long now foundation merges with less wrong to become the wrong now foundation

rebeccawatson, to random
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A new study has some sobering data about how COVID-19 affects people up to two years after infection, even for mild cases: heart problems, blood clots, diabetes, neurologic complications, fatigue, difficulties with mental health, and much more https://skepchick.org/2023/08/study-why-you-should-avoid-covid-even-if-youre-healthy/

apocheir,
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@rebeccawatson

jeffvandermeer, to random

Completed a very good full draft of "Dead Town," the first novella in fourth Southern Reach book, Absolution. Most is closer to third draft, due to the way the process went. Chronicles an expedition of biologists to the Forgotten Coast, 20 years before Area X that leads to S&SB.

apocheir,
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@jeffvandermeer 👀

apocheir, to random
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was talking to some trans folk who are thinking of moving out of the south and I realized that I don't know much about the queer community in most of upstate new york. I know Buffalo has a sizable one, I know some queer folk from Albany, but aside from that I'm oblivious. Anyone have any knowledge or experiences to share?

(I'm not going to define "upstate" too strictly here)

brainwane, to random
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FEDIVERSE-ONLY:

Trying to come up with a good punchline for "where does a cow go on vacation?" and "Moo Mexico" or "Moo York City" (@leonardr's contribution) does not feel like we've found the best option

Suggestions?

apocheir,
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@brainwane @leonardr to see relatives in Buffalo?

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