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pjacock

@pjacock@fediscience.org

Bioinformatician working in Scotland in plant pathology (including nematodes and Phytophthora), #Python programmer, with a focus on #OpenSource like #Biopython. He/him/his.

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pjacock, to random
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I'm sitting in remotely on a introduction https://github.com/pszufe/2024_Julia_Aberdeen - currently the room are talking about plotting backends https://docs.juliaplots.org/latest/backends/ and the advantages of a common API - as long as you don't use options specific to a backend, it ought to work longterm as the backends evolve

lgatto, to random
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What would you change in your life if you had guaranteed basic income for yourself and your family? What would you do if there was no requirement to work for money to provide basic needs?

pjacock,
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@lgatto I think I’d reduce my work hours (probably do more open source sciencific software & hobbies), but worry about what UBI would do at social level and how long the upheaval would take to settle down…

b0rk, to random
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git branches: intuition & reality https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/11/23/branches-intuition-reality/

pjacock,
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@b0rk very clear, thanks. I might use this next time I try to teach git for The Carpentries.

Can you expand on the difference between the alternate ways to merge two branches? Beyond the picture I mean - is it just what branch is pointing at the merge-commit, or is there some asymmetry in the merge-commit wrt it’s two parents? TIA

gvwilson, to random
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Colleagues would like to open source a piece of software to support lab biologists. One option is to create a new org on GitHub; another would be to put the project's repo under another org to make it more findable. What are plausible options for the latter? thx

pjacock,
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@gvwilson possibly @OpenBio but would need more details and discussion; see also https://github.com/OBF/obf-docs/blob/master/Affiliated-Project-Policy.md

pjacock, to random
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Blog post from @georgekinnear on current #UCU #HigherEducation #strikes, plotting how the cumulative effect of Edinburgh salaries failure to match inflation is like dropping everyone a pay grade: https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/georgekinnear/2023/09/22/why-i-am-on-strike/

I'd love to see these plots for other UK universities and institutes.

drahardja, to random
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News flash that should surprise nobody: studies show that employees do not like #ReturnToOffice.

This is a down time for desk workers as it has become fashionable for large companies to shed as many employees as they possibly can. But the day will return when companies need to rehire, and the conversation around #FlexibleWork and #RemoteWork will become salient once again.

People who relocated away from expensive metro areas thanks to the pandemic lockdowns are now commuting in to the office for mandated RTO; they are not relocating back near their work. You can bet these folks are waiting for the chance to accept a remote position elsewhere when the market picks up.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/now-finding-damaging-results-mandated-095555463.html

pjacock,
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@drahardja @failedLyndonLaRouchite @robby1066 Not as good perhaps (depends which you prefer), but with children, hybrid beats working from the office - e.g. can have one parent at home during school holidays

dillonniederhut, to scipy2023

If you use #NumPy, upper bound your dependencies to <2.0 now.

Also, as of 1.25, you no longer need to use oldest-supported-numpy in your builds.

@scipy2023

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pjacock,
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@dillonniederhut @scipy2023 Do you have more info about building against your oldest supported numpy vs 1.25?

SecurityWriter, to random

The Capita breach starting to feel rather seismic. Now they’ve finally admitted it, we’re seeing more and more notifications from affected companies, about what was actually taken, the quantity, and how little is going to be done about it.

Several offers so far of free subscriptions to various normally paid services for Identity protection services and… antivirus software (not even the good ones) - which to be frank, is fucking insulting.

What’s worse is that I suspect this goes way beyond pensions given the amount of pies Capita had its incompetent fingers in.

#capita #capitabreach

pjacock,
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@SecurityWriter according to https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/22/capita_security_pensions_aws_bucket_city_councils/ #Capita also exposed local council audit data as well as multiple pension schemes 😱

chrisshaw, to linux

wait, what? I have to create a microsoft account to use the new dell I just bought for my mum?

What kind of fuckery is this? Yes I googled the work arounds but they don't seem to work.

I haven't used windows for years. I literally had no idea it had come to this.

pjacock,
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@chrisshaw There was me thinking Windows 11 was OK after macOS - but I am using it as provided by work specifically in order to access the Microsoft provided email (Outlook), office suite, file sharing (SharePoint) etc.

Can't say I'd want all that on a personal machine!

gvwilson, to random
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A new coverage tool for Python with near-zero overhead: https://neverworkintheory.org/2023/05/09/near-zero-overhead-coverage-for-python.html And it's open source: https://github.com/plasma-umass/slipcover

pjacock,
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@gvwilson Amusing that arXiv seems to have rendered coverage.py (tool name which looks like a domain) as a URL with text "this http URL"

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