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Radomir Dopieralski

#nobot #robots #python #micropython #vim #pygame #circuitpython #gamedev #electronics

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dabeaz, to random
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I sometimes wonder if I should teach a project course (like raft or compilers) where you don't even know what programming language will be used until you show up. That would certainly be one way to make things even more exciting.

deshipu,
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@dabeaz even better, structure it so that you don't know what language it is until the last lesson

deshipu,
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@dabeaz I'm not a teacher, so I don't know how hard it would be, but I imagine you would only use syntax and structures that are shared by many languages, and perhaps use an online service for running the code, so you don't really know what is used underneath... Could even fill in some boilerplate for you, a bit like Arduino does for C++, so you can't guess by that.

deshipu, to random
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Remember that automation is not about removing effort, it's all about packaging it in convenient ways so that it can be stored and moved around. Sometimes you get some savings due to bunching up of similar things or economy of scale, but most of the time the perceived savings are simply because the real effort is hidden away or deferred. Whether it's Jacquard looms, language models, github actions, self-driving cars, or robot food delivery, someone is doing (or has done, or will do) the work.

deshipu,
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@dcz Ah, but what about the effort needed to build the loom, to operate it, to load it with materials, to monitor it, operate the steam engine that powers it, to maintain it all in good repair, and to fix things when they break? And the cost of changing the patterns as the fashions change becomes huge, when it was a trifle before. All this effort is hard to see by just looking at the loom running for a few minutes, but it's still there, hidden by the technology, moved out of sight.

deshipu, to random
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The things people would eat!

renedario, to random
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What the heck is it with all these spring and summertime colds and illness?

deshipu,
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@renedario as if we were in the middle of a pandemic or something

adtme, to random
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Amazon improvement idea: give me a slower delivery option. Like I want to buy the thing now, but I won’t be ready to use it until next week, so save me the hassle of dealing with it until then.

deshipu,
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@adtme I have that in digitec, I use it often.

jacqueline, to random
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sorry for all the low effort ai posts lately i need to cope somehow and it's either this or [content prohibited by german law]

deshipu,
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@jacqueline take care!

deshipu, to random
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I'm really tired by the amount of noise pollution in american cities. I only visit for a few days for a conference, but by the end of the visit I have a constant headache from the never ending air conditioning, beeping, traffic noise, refrigerators gurgling, electric buzzing, and loud music in restaurants and on the streets. And everyone seem to be completely oblivious to all of it, like I'm the only person hearing it. It's almost as bad as the church bells in Switzerland.

jnv, to tech
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Here we go people. My laundry and dishes will get done in my lifetime by a robot.

https://arstechnica.com/?p=2025436

deshipu,
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@jnv you mean washing machines and dishwashers?

deshipu,
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@jnv yeah, you need an mp3 player or an e-book reader for that

deshipu,
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@jnv but it can't

ross, to random
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I used to get excited by big tech announcements. But now it's all just so uninteresting. Is this because I'm old? Is it because there's just SO MANY keynotes and product launches now that it's too hard to keep up? Or... has it actually become boring and mundane for others too?

deshipu,
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@ross I think it's because of how tech products are manufactured, with big up-front investments and at large scale, and with venture capitalists deciding what it is going to be. Not only do they have incredibly shrunken imaginations, but they also avoid risks. So they mostly produce more of the same, only more expensive and more wasteful. Larger, higher resolution, more animations, thinner, etc. It's like with Hollywood movies.

gvy_dvpont, to random
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Sitting here wondering if / hoping that @stylus PyCon talk was recorded and will be made available to non-attendees someday 🥺

deshipu,
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@gvy_dvpont @stylus It was and it will.

deshipu, to random
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God, Bacon, Onion.

ucodery, to random
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There will never be a python4

But there might be a python2025

deshipu,
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@ucodery so far every new release of python 3 was pretty much python 4 in terms of backwards compatibility, they just forgot how semantic versioning works

whitequark, to random
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for most of my life when i did play games i'd play shooters simply because it was something that i found that distracted me from overwhelming chronic pain, and i didn't think about it much if at all

so now that i've recently realized that you can, and should, outsmart and outplan the enemy, the experience completely changed for me

deshipu,
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@whitequark usually when I do that, they complain that I'm a lurker and it's cheating

kojoidrissa, to random
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The improvements to Python’s error messages are, in my opinion, one of the BEST recent language changes.

deshipu,
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@kojoidrissa I just wish they would stop breaking my code...

piggo, to random
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discord webapp corrupting its session state if you open it again in a second tab and you have to re-login. how difficult is it to not fuck up this basic stuff

deshipu,
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@piggo in my experience it's extremely hard when it's just one of many pieces of a very large and complicated system of interacting, distributed elements.

dabeaz, to random
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Thought: "Superstition" would be a good name for a programming language.

deshipu,
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@dabeaz It's hard to believe in things you do understand. It's how you don't want to know how the sausage is made.

deshipu, to random
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Deception always felt to me like a form of violence, and I'm always mortified with people who lie casually, for the fun of it, because to me it feels as if they casually kicked a dog.

deshipu, to ArtificialIntelligence
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For anyone interested on the that I showed on my lightning talk on yesterday, you can check the project page https://hackaday.io/project/188909-wee-bug

chrisjrn, to random
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"I got volunteered"

(Yes that sounds right)

deshipu,
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@chrisjrn we call that "voluntold"

whitequark, to random
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why is postgresql so miserable to use

deshipu,
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@4censord @puppygirlhornypost don't forget to set a safe word

deshipu, to random
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Whoever invented the shower taps in US hotels that only have one lever, that goes from small cold stream, through large cold stream, to huge hot stream, is a bastard.

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