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davidr

@davidr@hachyderm.io

Heinlein is problematic for a lot of reasons, but I've always been inspired by this:

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."

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mathowie, to random
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me in my head while reading job descriptions over the years

2015: please don't say fintech anywhere please no fintech
2017: please don't say crypto anywhere please no crypto
2019: please don't say chatbot anywhere please no chatbot
2021: please don't say nft please no nft
2023: please don't say ai anywhere please no ai

davidr,
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@lewiscowles1986 @MrMattFree @mathowie I honestly can't tell if you think you are defending or dissing fintech right now.

CatherineFlick, to random
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Look I’d love to get a new - I love playing with this sort of tech. I have a few older ones kicking around still too! But I won’t be buying one because I don’t like to support a company that belittles people for taking an ethical stance against hiring known surveillance police to help support that particular market. It was dismissive, exclusionary, and pushing minority groups out of making spaces. And they still don’t think they’ve done anything wrong.

davidr,
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@jsbilsbrough @CatherineFlick I'm definitely not torn--I'm no longer buying There are lots of alternatives that can do the same thing for cheaper anyway. This issue just forced me to search for them.

0xabad1dea, to random

one of these is the leaked official, original source code of Pokemon Emerald and one of these is a decompile made by hobbyists trying to reverse engineer what the game is doing

and you know I wouldn't be posting this if they were not, apparently, switched at birth.

screenshot of an absolute disaster of completely obtuse magic numbers. THIS IS THE GROUND TRUTH SOURCE CODE

davidr,
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@0xabad1dea How did it decompile into symbols that apparently were never in the symbol table?

futurism, to random

AI's Electricity Use Is Spiking So Fast It'll Soon Use as Much Power as an Entire Country https://t.co/zEMOZ5JoY3

davidr,
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@futurism Padme: But at least the benefits outweigh the costs....right?

scy, to random
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“How do you know all this stuff?”

“I read the fucking manual.”

davidr,
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@scy "Just by being curious. How do you not?"

christianp, to random
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Can anyone help with this error I've been getting since upgrading mathstodon.xyz to 4.2?
In Firefox, I get an error "downloadable font: rejected by sanitizer" when downloading https://mathstodon.xyz/packs/media/fonts/Sans/cmunss-0745961ddcecad8aa4fd00b9e39cce11.woff.
The Network tab says only 948B were transferred; the file is 77KB on disk. Because it's a font, Firefox won't show me the received raw data in the Response tab.
When I redo the request as a curl command, I get the whole file. I didn't change the nginx config when upgrading, and other woff fonts have loaded.
The font loads OK in Chrome.
I'm at a loss!

davidr,
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@christianp I feel like some tags might help you find help

davidr, to ADHD
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takes on

** input works great! **

I like saying "set a 10 minute timer", "remind me at noon on Tuesday" or "play Song X" because I can do it NOW without have to fumble through my phone or clean my hands if I'm cooking

** output does not work well **

Alexa, what's the weather?

Today's forecast is already stopped listening

Ugh. ALEXA. What's the weather?

Today's foregone

A L E X A what is the high temperature today?

67

That's all I need!

davidr,
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@cytokine_storm I've actually been banned from setting reminders. Because I set the reminder and then forget all about it so I'm not even in the room, or even the house, when it goes off. So then the wife/kids have to shut it down and contact me.

AkaSci, (edited ) to random
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Celestial events to look forward to in 2024 -

  1. April 8, 2024: Total solar eclipse. Most of North America will see at least a partial solar eclipse.
  2. October 2024: Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS), which is promising to be bright spectacular comet with apparent magnitude below 0 (lower is brighter). Closest approach to earth is on Oct 12.

https://www.greatamericaneclipse.com/april-8-2024
http://astro.vanbuitenen.nl/comet/2023A3

1/n

davidr,
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@AkaSci I'll see near-totality without leaving my yard!

Maybe I should figure out some thing

I actually want to night sky tracking anyway. Could I work on the sats while building up to the ?

I wonder if there's much camera technology overlap between these goals. Probably not. The sun is pretty bright. Maybe just a solar filter, tho?

Mrfunkedude, to ADHD
@Mrfunkedude@mastodon.social avatar

This week with my brain...

Start a project.

Half way through get an idea for a different project and start working on it.

Half way through realize that you've forgotten about the first project and go back to work on it.

Realize that for whatever reason you just don't care about the first project.

Go back to work on the second project while feeling bad that you abandoned the first project.

Half way through get an idea for a different project and start working on it.

Rinse & repeat.

davidr,
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@Mrfunkedude OTOH, getting busy with a new project helps me feel better about avoiding the old abandoned project

lcamtuf, to random

My son's 1-bit CPU project. Work in progress, so not all bits might be present yet.

davidr,
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@lcamtuf Interested in hearing about the design or seeing a block diagram or something.

Or even just an explanation of what a "1 bit CPU" means. 1 bit bus? Serial?

davidr, to python
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oh jesus, , please stop breaking things like this

https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/it-s-time-for-a-change-datetime-utcnow-is-now-deprecated

I want naive datetime objects. I want them to be unknowable because I want them to be unalterable.

I don't want some silent function in the middle of something somewhere to "help" me by changing my datetime objects to the timezone I "obviously" mean.

I want to be in charge of my own data representations.

davidr,
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@tshirtman I deal with space data. It is always and forever utc, period.

If there's no tz attached, "helpful" libraries cannot try to move that time to "local". If there is a tz attached, I 10000% guarantee they will. And my code will break.

Unsubscribe me from this breakage.

davidr,
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@tshirtman Using "naive" (i.e. unmarked and therefore universal) datetimes has always worked perfectly for me and any attempt to add timezones, even utc, has always broken something somewhere.

This idea is 'helpful" in the sense that garbage UIs are helpful: they think they know what I want better than I do and actually make my life harder.

davidr, to cocktails
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Recent have been

⭐Cuba Libre
⭐Long Island Ice Tea
⭐White Russian
⭐Kamikaze
⭐Sidecar

✅Between the Sheets
✅El Presidente
✅Gin Rickey

❌Bacardi Cocktail
❌Blue Lagoon

What I've learned so far is that I like a long, strong cocktail, probably with fruity flavors, especially citrus.

(I suspect the Blue Lagoon was a misfire. I like Cointreau and Triple Sec, so I should like Blue Curacao. But I felt yucky afterwards.)

davidr,
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@drinkstodon Had some stuff going on this week so didn't try a lot of

⭐Bee's Knees
⭐Caipirinha
❌ Sex on the Beach
❌ Swimming Pool

The Swimming Pool I only made because it looked fun. I hate pineapple. I hate curdled cream(?!) And I might be allergic to blue curacao[1]. This is the first cocktail I genuinely just poured down the sink. Ugh.

[1]Is that even possible? No problem with Cointreau or Triple Sec. This is the second or maybe third Blue C drink that's made me physically ill.

futurebird, to random
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Ants are the strange members of the hymenopterans. What defines a "bee" or a "wasp" ?

Flying! Stinging! Ovipositing! Bright warning colors!

Ants looked at the main advantages of being hymenopteran and said... nah. I guess stinging is OK... (Though most ants don't sting.) ... but most of this is nothing compared to going eusocial.

Personally I think eusociality is such a huge advantage this makes sense.

But then why aren't the bees who do both more successful? Are they too specialized?

davidr,
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@futurebird Bees seem pretty successful. Other than them and ants, who else in the insect world has an A-list Hollywood movie devoted to them?

villares, to python Portuguese
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So nice to see how @rougier used Shiffman's Flocking example as inspiration for the spatial vectorization techniques on https://www.labri.fr/perso/nrougier/from-python-to-numpy/#spatial-vectorization

Such a pity that the Processing Foundation has in all these years abandoned Python... but... now we have and + + has a future!

I'll see if I can remove the matplotlib dependecy and use py5 for boids in the next weeks. I have both a bio-simulation educational demo and a "hey, I'm learning numpy in the context of creative coding" presentation in the coming weeks.

davidr,
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@villares @rougier I only skimmed, but the lines with "norm" in them around lines 111-116 look like clamping, not normalization.

davidr,
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@villares aha, I see that now.

I guess perpend_a/_b are the other points of the triangle. but those are just using individual components, which aren't normalized....?

davidr,
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@villares Right, but individual components of a normalized vector can be any length at all. Or maybe I'm not understanding what '[::-1]' means....

lcamtuf, (edited ) to random

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    davidr,
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    @lcamtuf oh no oh no oh no please hyperfocus don't make me do this too i've got enough going on

    davidr, to IBM
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    Big anniversary! What should I get her?

    I know! Nobody ever got divorced for buying

    tante, to random
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    There's a weird gendered thing where after every talk or article of mine coming out some male academic sends me a bunch of their articles or books to read.
    Which is nice at times to see who works on what but it has never been a woman or nonbinary person. Only men.

    I don't know if it's just men being more aggressive in pushing themselves and their careers or if it's men having a hard time making a compliment without overloading it with some weird transaction.

    davidr,
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    @tante Display behavior.

    preslavrachev, to programming
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    They: Our business requirements have grown so much that we needed to move from a monolith to microservices.

    Me: OK, at least, you didn’t overkill it right from the start.

    They: Cool, right? It’s called iterative development.

    Me: Just one question, have you considered not growing the business instead?

    They: ?!?

    Me: I mean it - keeping a sustainable business, so that your team and your customers get the maximum value and satisfaction without feeling stressed or undervalued.

    davidr,
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    @preslavrachev Growth being the only success metric is literally a cancer.

    walkerb, to python

    Read a post last night asking about making a python class use different code for different things. It was in the context of a game, so extending the ability of the class with different objects.

    It interested me so I thought I'd play with the idea this lunchtime.

    Here we have a player object (apologies to Steve Jackson / Ian Livingston for appropriating their combat system) with name, skill, stamina and the weapon and armor they have.

    The weapons and armor are defined in different classes as functions representing the damage they do, or absorb.

    They are passed into the player object by assigning them.

    Then battle commences...

    Fun little lunchtime code illustrating the power of object oriented code.

    https://github.com/nakedmcse/PyRPGCombat/blob/main/PyRPGCombat.py

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    davidr,
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    @walkerb If I understand what you mean "use different code", first class functions are probably a clearer example of this.

    davidr, to datascience
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    peeps, hear my cry!

    Let's say there's a periodic process that I'm sampling. The period is changing slowly (<1% per cycle). I get a sample on a lot of the cycles, but not necessarily every one.

    I'm sure I can bodge together an to figure out the "fundamental period" and how it is changing over time, but I also bet something already exists.

    What's my keyword?

    davidr,
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    @recursive Question clarified. No aliasing problem--I know what ambiguity zone I'm in, I just don't know the exact value. But the value is also changing.

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