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darac

@darac@furry.engineer

A large, fuzzy object. Coder, cacher, baker, pianist. Contents may have settled. Pronouns: Han/Honom.

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kura, to random

Controversial opinion

I miss Google wave

darac,
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@kura Isn't it now Apache Wave?

Tusky, (edited ) to random
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โ€ผ๏ธ Hey, we've got some news!

โœ… First one is that the team is growing: now we have a person in charge of social media, so you will see us over here frequently.

darac,
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@Tusky Hello! ๐Ÿ‘‹

hugovk, to python
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๐ŸŽฒ Do you like Python's little CLIs? For example:

$ python -m http.server
$ python -m webbrowser example_url
$ python -m uuid
$ python -m calendar

What about adding one to random?

$ python -m random curry "fish n chips" tacos
curry

$ python -m random 6
6

$ python -m random 2.5
1.6423361547011504

Give your feedback on my proposal at
https://discuss.python.org/t/command-line-interface-for-the-random-module/51304

If there's support we might be able to get it into 3.13 before May's beta cutoff! ๐Ÿคž

darac,
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@hugovk I do like them. rich uses that idea as a demo area (e.g. python -m rich.progress) so I think it's a good place to put some functionality (e.g. Pick a random number) without getting too worked up about exposing all the bells and whistles.

revk, to random
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Hmm, someone pointed out I am expected to leave refuse "kerbside". This surprises me, so I have asked.

darac,
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@revk You could, potentially, leave it on the far side of the kerb (i.e. In the road)

aeva, to random
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what idiot named it "sadomasochism" when "enterpainment" was right there

darac,
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@aeva That'd be the Marquis de Sade, I believe.

darac, to random
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Roses are red,
Roses are blue,
Depending on their velocity
relative to you.

revk, to random
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What does a white line and cross hatching (faded) mean on a footpath?

darac,
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@revk Is there a utility pole or similar that they want to guide (perhaps partially sighted) people around?

darac, to random
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Minor annoyance: Offering "English (US)" as a language, but no other variant of English. Why are you even specifying which variant it is if that's the only variant?

philpem, to linux
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Question for the Debian/Ubuntu/Mint gurus. When doing system upgrades I often get "modified configuration file" screens like the attached. For the CLI ones I usually do a quick diff, drop to command line, and use "vimdiff $DPKG_CONFFILE_OLD $DPKG_CONFFILE_NEW" to merge the two.
Does the menu-driven one have an equivalent to those environment variables?

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darac,
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@philpem that dialog is present by ucf, and, no it doesn't appear to offer that functionality.

evi, to homelab
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Does anyone here have a program or app the recommend to make a network diagram (layout of switches, routers, patch panel, etc)? I tried diagrams.net and lucid and they both make me cranky. I am looking for something for my home setup where I can make the difference between fiber, utp and poe very clear and not have to manually click every connection 6+ times and routing is at least semi-sane.

darac,
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@evi I'm not sure if it's quite what you're after, but tools like OpenDCIM and NetBox allow you to fully document your network (switch models, location in rack, connection types, VLANs, etc) and then visualise the result.

yakkoj, to random
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god dammit scroll bars are there for a REASON

Now the game I'm playing in the war on scrollbars is that they're more than one pixel wide, but somehow there's only one pixel where I can grab the stupid thing.

CUT IT OUT and let me use scrollbars. And put those arrow widgets back!

darac,
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@yakkoj web designers: No scrollbar! We need as much room as possible for our content!

Also web designers: The text for this article should be a slim column, slightly to the left of the middle of the screen. There is white space either side.

philpem, to random
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Don we now, our gay apparel

Fah-lah-lah-lah-lah-lah!

๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ

darac,
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@philpem Are you saying December is a secret Pride Month?

root42, to retrocomputing
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The 486SX-25 was the CPU on which I probably learned the most in my youth. First Linux installation, first serious coding efforts. What was your most influential CPU?

darac,
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@foone @root42 I wonder if your Packard Bell was like mine (an Axcel 410): the CPU speed was controlled by a jumper. You could just set it to 33MHz and it'd (probably) run fine, but faster

philpem, to food
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Tonight's , scratch cooked lasagne. And the first lesson is it's better to get over the feeling of "uurgh that Wusthof could take my fingers off" and just grab it. Especially for carrots. It makes the wee Kitchen Devil look like a toy.

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darac,
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@philpem I'm so pleased!

philpem, to random
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Been thinking about additive and subtractive manufacturing, because reasons. And that's led to a thought about how weird language is.

For both processes you "make" something. But when you think about it, machining from solid (subtractive manufacturing) is a pretty weird way of "making" something, because you're taking material away. In any other context that'd be destruction, not construction...

darac,
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@philpem Was it Michealangelo who said that his statues already existed in the blocks of marble, and all he has to do was to chip away the excess?

mrscherryb, to photography
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    darac,
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    @mrscherryb enjoying myself. Enjoying yourself.

    mrscherryb, to art
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    darac,
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    @mrscherryb Excellent Art, and a lovely subject, too.

    arstechnica, to random
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    Emergency alert test to hit all cell phones, TVs, and radios at 2:20 pm ET today

    Nationwide test today, October 4, starting around 2:20 pm ET.

    https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/10/emergency-alert-test-to-hit-all-cell-phones-tvs-and-radios-at-220-pm-et-today/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

    darac,
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    @arstechnica You might want to mention which nation.

    darac, to random
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    Happy to all those who celebrate it!

    lxcn, to random
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    you ever just.. stop engaging halfway through a conversation or while trying to explain something, because your depression sapped all your mental energy away and you realised you don't care about whatever you were talking about

    darac,
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    @lxcn yep. Often when I find myself bikeshedding.

    philpem, to random
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    As I was going to St. ives
    I met a man with seven wives
    Each wife had seven sacks
    In each sack was seven cats
    And every cat had seven kittens

    Kittens, cats, sacks and wives. How many were going to St. ives?

    (It's an oldie but a goodie, if you know, give yourself a pat on the back - if you reply, please CW so as not to spoil it for others. And don't Google it!)

    darac,
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    @Jencen @philpem Possibly we meet the guy on Public Transport? It's not stated how we're travelling, so the guy might have sat opposite us on the train, or perhaps he's ICE'd the last fast charger at Leicester Forest (East) services, or perhaps there's been a transporter malfunction and now we've melded with one of his kittens?

    revk, to random
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    What has to be the worse phrase is almost all sci-fi?

    "try reversing the polarity"

    Seriously... No... That is not how shit works... Like, ever!!!

    darac,
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    @revk I was watching an episode of Star Trek Voyager recently, and the conversation went along the lines of:

    Harry Kim: What's the polarity of the shield matrix?

    Alien Engineer: Two Hundred and Thirty point Four.

    Maybe polarity means something else four hundred years from now?

    darac, to random
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    Computer Engineers know about "the Stopping Problem", but is it possible to know when a modern Web page has finished shuffling elements about, and it's safe to click on something without it moving?

    philpem, to random
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    Eight seconds: how long it takes to heat the syrupy core of a Stroopwafel without it melting into a goopy puddle.

    Also eight seconds: the time between tooting this and the first Dutch person saying I should rest it on my coffee cup and wait.

    (I would but my Stroopwafels are too small for that)

    darac,
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    @philpem Eight seconds until an Italian person arrives to tell you espresso is the answer to your problem.

    philpem, to random
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    This is probably a hot take but I do hope my local instance ignores the seagulls screeching that bbc.social be defederated fedverse-wide.

    I'd love to hear what BBC R&D are working on. PAL Transform was a fantastic innovation. Dirac too. NICAM if we look further back. It'd suck if I had to jump instance to keep up with that.

    If I want to ignore BBC News's both-sides-ism, I'll mute them on my own without yelling like a flock of seagulls circling a plate of chips.

    darac,
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    @philpem Hah. Im in exactly the same place. I'm not too fussed about the news or arts or entertainment feeds, but I do think that the BBC R&D engineers do some neat things.

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