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perigrin

@perigrin@nerdfight.online

Jack of all Tirades. Formerly Director of Software @ PRL, currently running Shazam Science && Tamarou … also the "face" of Nerdfight.Online.

“not nearly as impressive or disturbing as I expected” — @genehack

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perigrin, to random
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Thinking of @randomgeek … for reasons …

perigrin,
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@xan @randomgeek 2015 TDI Golf checking in.

mkennedy, to random
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#PyCon2024 had 2,551 in-person attendees and was "sold out”

#PyCon2019 had 3,393 (Checked-in people).

Anyone know why the tickets were restricted to 1,234 fewer in 2024? The venue seemed massive so should have had room.

I'm genuinely curious what the difference was. 48% more seats in 2019 is a big difference.

Ref [location history]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_Conference

perigrin,
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@chrisjrn @glyph @mkennedy To put it in perspective Perl’s conference numbers for 2014 was < 500 people … so you’re effectively taking about adding on a “normal sized” conference with a week’s notice.

genehack, to random
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🔥 🐶 🔥

This is fine. https://mastodon.energy/@Sustainable2050/112474099347518545

perigrin,
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@genehack @phredmoyer I mean I dunno about Phred but like you and I are just barely old enough that leaded gasoline was our leaded gasoline …

genehack, to random
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Drive back from Seattle took 4 hours, 49 minutes — car says average speed 45mph. (I can't say I didn't stop because the traffic was ass but I can say I didn't get back out of the car after I started.)

Good to be home but apparently it's summer now and I'm moist and I hate it.

perigrin,
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@genehack @enobacon I never found I wanted one, even the times I had one.

perigrin,
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@enobacon @genehack I’m pretty sure given the topography of where I live, grew up, and learned to ride … if I tried to bike in Seattle the WA state highway patrol would be phoning for an ambulance well before any other department got a chance to try to dissuade me.

chrisjrn, to random
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LAX mystery airline challenge 2024: another airline has changed your flight; no we won't tell you which airline you've been changed to, you'll have to figure that detail out yourself. HAVE FUN!

perigrin,
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@chrisjrn May the odds be ever in your favor

xan, to random
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i'm xans tronixed. sure is a lot of weather happening out there so much. has anyone else heard of the weather and how much it is happening? i am a cat. meowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeow. haff and spaff. i am a cat. time to go to bed because it is my the 40th year past since i was born. i am 45 years old.

perigrin,
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@WuMargaret @xan I have had dinner with Xan. Robot cat isn’t ruled out, but like my actual cats are much messier eaters.

18+ seachanger, to random
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    perigrin,
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    @genehack @seachanger Worst thing about that movie was it made me try blackjack gum.

    perigrin, to random
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    My current managed Postgres provider (Render.com) doesn’t have a tier to meet my usage for a certain project, and unless I want to suddenly pay 13x more ($7 -> $95) I need to find a new DB host for the project.

    I need to keep it under $30/mo if possible, and I’m using roughly 16Gb of storage … so ~32G of storage is probably appropriate.

    Any recommendations?

    wordshaper, to random
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    Today's random Math Fact: A cargo ship with a total mass of 100000 metric tons moving at 9 knots has the energy equivalent of about 1.1 tons of TNT.

    perigrin,
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    @wordshaper Maryland would have liked this math fact yesterday …

    onelson, to random
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    I have one more serving of leftover arroz con pollo but what if I got takeout instead

    perigrin,
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    @WuMargaret @onelson At least it’s available … some of us have to suffer in entirely the wrong corner of the country.

    perigrin,
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    @WuMargaret @onelson Yeah it’s regional to the Pacific Northwest … but not a lotta fast food chains do a GF bun on their burger.

    In your neck of the woods I think Culver’s is the option … and they’ve made it down here.

    ovid, to ai
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    IT people: want to keep your job safe from #AI? Fight to keep our profession licensed. We've fought against that for years, but if you fight for it, you'll have a license that can't be legally automated.

    It won't protect all IT jobs, but it will protect some.

    However, I suspect that we won't bother. As jobs gradually slide away, we'll argue and dither and ultimately do nothing.

    perigrin,
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    @enobacon @wordshaper @ovid It would just shift them around. Someone has to maintain the systems that track UBI and healthcare.

    girlonthenet, to random
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    Looks like he'll be doing some...

    ... hard time.

    😎

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68360898?utm_source=press.coop

    perigrin,
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    @pdcawley @girlonthenet @guffo I’d be surprised if the church doesn’t rise to the occasion here and make a hard stand against this kind of dickery.

    jmac, to random
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    I am delighted to discover that 48 of 65 respondents think that Cheez Whiz is stuff that you spray out of a can.

    You are all thinking of Easy Cheese. Cheez Whiz is and was always a cheesy sauce that comes in a jar. You spoon it out, or you heat the jar and pour it over your cheesesteaks and your nachos.

    But it feels right to call the spray stuff Cheez Whiz, right? You have held a can clearly labeled EASY CHEESE in your hand, and called it Cheez Whiz. https://masto.nyc/@jmac/111898965657423858

    perigrin,
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    @jmac @genehack AND YET…

    perigrin,
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    @genehack @jmac Kraft Jmac and Cheez?

    leonerd, to random
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    In a +1 score to 's great back-compatibility, I've had a script called from procmail that's been 100% reliable for the past 15 years maintaining my email, over many years of regular Perl updates.

    A month ago it broke - because procmail. https://github.com/BuGlessRB/procmail/issues/5

    But the perl itself still runs absolutely fine.

    perigrin,
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    @mjgardner @ChristosArgyrop @leonerd @pjakobs I use plenv in my development environments, and whenever I have a machine that has the misfortune of me being its admin. I specifically use plenv because it supports the .perl-version file so I can commit that to the repo.

    I also heavily use Carton so all my libraries are installed in a local/ directory.

    My production environment is containerized so I used the perl:latest Docker image.

    perigrin,
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    @mjgardner @ChristosArgyrop @leonerd @pjakobs Also one of the great benefits of my current employment situations is that my production is not only using 5.38 but it’s using feature class extensively.

    jacobydave, to random

    Beyond all else, "Marquee Moon" is a 10-minute song, and when I was in early CS, with a 2am turn-in time for projects, I would repeat "Marquee Moon" and commit every time the song ends.

    perigrin,
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    @jacobydave Oooh Mr fancy, went to a CS program that used source control. (That’s not the envy talking, not at all, nope)

    perigrin,
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    @mjgardner @jacobydave @gizmomathboy My time in the CS department predated SVN soooo…

    perigrin,
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    @jacobydave @gizmomathboy @mjgardner I took the first Java class taught at UCF.

    perigrin,
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    @jacobydave @gizmomathboy @mjgardner And honestly Linux eating the world has kinda fixed that problem.

    miyagawa, to random

    is PAUSE indexer broken? the modules grayed out in this page seems not indexed
    https://metacpan.org/recent

    perigrin,
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    @rjbs @miyagawa He’s seen what happens when the Eagles win and isn’t down for that kind of destruction.

    miyagawa, to random

    PSA: installing a specific version of a module for recent versions would print some warnings e.g. cpanm Plack@1.0051 because the source data for this in cpanmetadb is not updated for the last 5 months. https://github.com/batchpause/PAUSE-git

    it should fallback to MetaCPAN for the query and should work for most modules though. I'm checking with Andreas to see if it's possible to restore that batchpause git. I wonder if it has something to do with github's SSH host key rotation.

    perigrin,
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    @mjgardner @miyagawa @Perl Kinda feeling like ragtag is a level of formalism we are aspiring to these days.

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