Traveling for #PyConUS tomorrow. Bringing some #CircuitPython robots and handhelds with me. Catch me if you want to see them and/or talk about Python on microcontrollers.
One thing I've been blessed to have been missing while people discredit Telegram and Signal back and forth ("it tastes great!" "No, it's less filling!") is people suggesting everyone should just use Matrix.
I'm not (at least not yet) persuaded by the argument that the output of an LLM is a derivative of all the material it was trained on. The problem with the argument is that it also applies to me: if I see some cool code you wrote, you bet I'm going to make a mental note of it. The trip hazards here are patents and non-free licenses, but they also apply equally to people.
There are other problems with LLMs, but I'm not convinced by that one specifically.
@mariusor Exactly! There are patents and licenses to prevent people from using other people's code, which requires measures like clean room if you want to implement the same functionality. Others which are designed to facilitate it. I don't see what makes LLMs unique in this.
40 years ago, I got my first home Desktop computer.
An IBM AT.
I still have it in the garage.
Time to pull it out and video record a demo for the "kids" and play some Flight Simulator, maybe make a "Newspaper" with the newspaper publishing software, etc.
Sometimes #Fedora packaging tools make me want to quit Fedora packaging.
Like, yeah, it's so hard to understand which version of #Python is meant under "python": the only one you've had for many releases or the one that does not exist for many releases. An absolute mystery. /s
I definitely need to waste my time patching an already somewhat difficult package.
@creepy_owlet I increasingly think of distro packaging for things other than the core OS itself as anachronistic. Attempting to package the world feels like a fool's errand.
I finally gathered the courage to write a mail to my landlord about installing some flexible solar panels to my (south facing) balcony.
If he says yes (no idea how big my chances for this are) I'll also have to clear it with the house owner assembly, and it is really unclear whether I'll get an ok from there and if so how long it'll take.
All of this so far made me not want to even start this fight, as stuff like this costs me a TON of energy, but on the other hand it's a shame not to try.
I've got 24 hours in Paris in July with my 14 year old son. We've done the Eiffel Tower, Montmartre, Sacre-Coeur, and the Arc de Triomphe before. We didn't do the Louvre last time, so we'll book tickets to take selfies with the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo (total expected visit time <1hr if we drag it out or the queues are bad).
@xahteiwi I was going to say that given his eating habits it's not worth asking for a restaurant suggestion unless it's le McDonalds or le bangers and mash.
However, a good creperie could be an excellent call 👌 Filed.