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mcc, 2 hours ago to random

Considering having a nice day today

mcc, 22 hours ago to random

Somebody should make an OS-agnostic program that searches the hard drive and returns a count of how many versions of Python you have installed

mcc, 1 hour ago to random

I think this is the bug in Mastodon that has the biggest gap between "the bug is small" and "my annoyance level at it is large" https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/28947

Short version: all language-related UI on mastodon.social choke (in one way or another) if a post has its language code in uppercase letters, despite BCP 47 (the controlling standard for country codes in software) requiring parsers treat unusual capitalizations equivalently. I run into this all the time.

mcc, 23 hours ago to random

Thinking about how Mozilla is "pivoting to AI" but DeepSpeech, one of the very few "AI" products you could possibly find a positive use for (pure-local speech recognition), is not only a Mozilla product but so abandoned that you actually have to downgrade to Python 3.9 to run it

mcc, 20 hours ago (edited 20 hours ago) to random

If a program says it wants CUDA 10 can I get away with installing CUDA 12 or does CUDA 10 mean "CUDA 10 exactly"

It's specifically asking for "cudart64_101.dll"

mcc, 18 hours ago to random

Ok so. The story so far:

• Late December I have an idea for a kinda-funny Web Art project I could make. It would require me to be able to "tokenize" a 4 hour video by word, that is, I'd need timestamps of the beginning of each word.
• I assume this means using a text-to-speech library.
• However, I don't want to use software that runs not-on-my-computer, or which is made by methods I consider unethical. This means using only old discontinued libraries, since all new ones are cloud-based. (1/3)

mcc, 17 hours ago (edited 17 hours ago) to random

I'd apologize for my nonstop posting today about weird problems with python speech recognition systems but judging from "metrics" there actually appears to be nothing that entertains y'all more than when I experience extended mental anguish due to software

mcc, 20 hours ago to random

I would like to suggest you watch the part of this Commodore 64 demo from 5:06 on

https://youtu.be/9RVLPgfkXb4?t=306

mcc, 18 hours ago to random

You're a character in a David Lynch movie. You're in the desert. You look up and you see this. WYD https://botsin.space/@postcardware/112464456016921870

mcc, 16 hours ago to random

Jellyfish anime is good

mcc, 21 hours ago to random

Note: My Python version/packaging problems from earlier actually got worse after my last post on the subject, I just decided to stop posting updates because it was making me too sad

mcc, 19 hours ago to random

Today, in poorly considered UI messages:

"Loaded model in 1.43e+02s"

mcc, 22 hours ago to random

Need to run with a non-standard python so I use the standard python to run pdm to create a venv and then I enter the venv but then once I'm inside the venv I no longer have pdm so I install pip and then install a second copy of pdm inside of pdm. I have to do this because normally when you run pdm add it uses the host python to decide which packages should be available, not the .pdm-python python. You see

mcc, 1 day ago to random

Last night as I was about to fall asleep I had a really good idea for a VR game but unfortunately this happened about 6 years too late for me to actually be in a position to turn the idea into a VR game

mcc, 1 day ago (edited 1 day ago) to random

TFW you're a few hundred pages into a book series and suddenly out of nowhere they drop this batshit ligature on you

mcc, 1 day ago to random

Git submodule question. Yes, I know, your advice is probably "don't use submodules". But.

Is it possible to clone a repo with submodules such the submodule branches are "activated" after clone?

Like, in .gitmodules we say:

[submodule "local/path"]
path = local/path
url = remote/path
branch = BRANCHNAME

We hoped branch = BRANCHNAME would make it activate BRANCHNAME on clone. But no, it checks out as "detatched head", which later makes VSCode confused. Can we do better?

mcc, 2 days ago to random

Cursed??? C# question:

We have a ProjectName.csproj with a <PropertyGroup><OutputType>Exe</OutputType></PropertyGroup>. Running at the command line, we can successfully run it with dotnet run on Mac, Linux and Windows. On Mac, we can open it in VS Code, hit "Run", and it runs.

On Windows in VS Code only, if we open it and click the run button, it builds a .DLL instead of a .EXE as its final build output and then fails with a message that you cannot run a .DLL.

Why, and how do we not?

mcc, 1 day ago to random

Trying to imagine what kind of harm Duke Classics might be alluding to here

mcc, 1 day ago to random

Been trying to figure out—in principle, the reason StackOverflow is CC-BY-SA is to allow for community mirrors, right?

Is there any way that I could just get a total local mirror of StackOverflow and search that locally, instead of having to visit StackOverflow which really doesn't deserve my support?

…Or does SO ban scraping, and the only reason for CC-BY-SA was so StackOverflow could (now that the rugpull's happened) claim the right to block u from delerng posts?? CC for them but not for us?

mcc, 1 day ago to random

…what https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3Lai0lZsWI

mcc, 1 day ago to random

"NoAI" patches for video games that remove all assets that were partially or entirely created with mass-scraped large NN models and replacing those game elements with intentionally crude MS Paint drawings

mcc, 1 day ago to random

A thing I wish… like, okay, so the browser vendors can't code audit every browser extension for safety, I get it. But like, I could audit for safety. A lot of extensions aren't that big. I wish there was a button for just like, "read the source" that I could click before clicking install! Just let me give-it a once-over. I could look it up on Github but then how do I know they didn't modify the source before uploading to mozilla.org.

Even a "Add to firefox, but initially disabled" would help.

mcc, 1 day ago to random

I am (CURSED! CURSED! CURSED!) writing a batch file.

I want to prematurely exit the batch file with a success code.

This page https://ss64.com/nt/exit.html
claims the way you do this is to type "exit". Quote: "When used in a batch script, this option will exit only the script (or subroutine) but not CMD.EXE. If executed on the command-line it will close CMD.exe"

I execute my batch script on the command line like .\build.bat. It reaches the line "exit". My CMD.exe terminal closes.

What happened?

mcc, 1 day ago to random

Searching YouTube for "first original torso", for normal reasons

mcc, 2 days ago to random

So, despite what rational sense as well as several dictates would seem to demand, we are attempting to use the "Cmake Projects in Visual Studio" feature of MSVS https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/cmake-projects-in-visual-studio?view=msvc-170

We have… questions, which the docs don't seem to answer.

1. Many places in the VS docs refer to "the project" as if it were a singular file ( see screenshot of https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/common-macros-for-build-commands-and-properties?view=msvc-170 ). In the case of a CMake Target Project, what is "the project" in this sense? The CMakeLists.txt? The The CMakeSettings.json?