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urusan

@urusan@fosstodon.org

Java developer by day, Julia developer by night.

Amateur philosopher

Sometimes funny...

Working Dad

Controversial things about me:
Everyone: transhumanist, into AI (art)
Right-wing: polyamorous (married), agnostic atheist, leftist, working class consciousness
Leftist: corporate drone by day, loyal citizen of the US (but a serious reformer), former libertarian

I hope you can look past all that though, we people need to stick together

Lives with: Wife, T (son), and A (daughter).

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losttourist, to random
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Looks like my TV might be on its way out. It's a "smart TV" but about 7 years old so not subject to the ad-ridden enshittification that's taken over those products recently.

Of course I could (as the loonies say) "do my own research" but just in case someone out there in fediland has opinions I'll ask you lot:

What's the best brand of TV to buy (in the UK) to avoid being bombarded with pointless advertising and other crap?

urusan,
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@losttourist A projector.

Seriously, I switched over many years ago and never looked back.

It's not a drop in replacement, it requires some changes compared to a TV, but it has many advantages and the technology has continually been progressing over the decades.

urusan, to random
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Wife: Just got home from a yoga class I need to lift weights for my upper body strength.
Me: What for?
Wife: To get up the pole more easily in pole class. It's like trying to climb a fireman's pole, have you ever tried that?
Me: Oh yeah, it's basically impossible.
Wife: No it's not, I see other ladies in my class do it all the time.
Me: So, you'd say this is
Wife: Yes

...Later...
Me: So apparently is not a thing on Mastodon...YET

urusan, to random
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This is a very interesting use case for Nix:
https://youtu.be/0ulldVwZiKA

urusan,
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The TL;DW version is that you can use nix along with nix-shell to create an ephemeral environment with whatever dependencies you might need for a specific task.

Crucially, this works on any Linux distribution and even MacOS (and Windows using WSL2).

Despite being ephemeral, it caches the dependencies so they load immediately after the first installation.

It's also something you can easily define and distribute, in the video's case along with a school class project.

wholesomedonut, to fediverse
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There's a significant wave floating through the right now.

On behalf of all of 's mods and admins, we thank you for reporting them where they crop up.

It's hard to play whack-a-mole, because these spammers are popping up on random one-off instances and known, well-established ones.

urusan,
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@amoroso @wholesomedonut A lot of the spam I'm getting right now is pictures of spam.

Also, none of the spam I've gotten is advertising.

So that points to one of these possibilities:

  • Malicious attack, they're deliberately taunting us
  • They think this is funny, as many people have suggested the sophistication of the attack is low so it could just be a script kiddie
  • This is some sort of experiment in AI attack generation, hence why it doesn't make any sense

Or some combination of the above

urusan, to random
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Yesterday I heard about a sysadmin on Fedi who got hit by over a TB of data scraping.

Last night and into today I've been getting a lot of automated spam and hearing admins talking about the spam wave.

Conclusion: that must have been THE SCRAPENING

ross, to random
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Having made a perfectly good notes app as a single-page, hosted-for-free web app, I now wonder what else could be done like this and what would be a great additional enabling tech.

I still really want a personal, private, key-value store with a simple REST API.

If people could have this then all sorts of stuff would be possible with super-cheap web apps.

And I wonder if things like this exist. But it’s SO hard to find them. Because nothing is simple. Everything is made over-complicated!

urusan,
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@ross I feel like Redis could do this https://docs.redis.com/latest/rc/api/get-started/use-rest-api/

urusan, to random
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Kid: Can you bring me my table?
Me: What?
Kid: Put it here points in front of his chair
Wife: We are not rearranging our furniture. Provides a lengthy list of reasons why this particular rearranging of the furniture is absolutely terrible
Me: Yeah, those are all good points.
Kid: Ok, so can you bring me my table?

urusan, to random
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What little things do you do for quality of life that you are pretty sure many other people are not doing?

The example that got me thinking of this is that I go out of my way to name directories, functions, and commands so they have little to no overlapping prefix, so I can autocomplete with minimal typing: instead of "downloads" and "documents" I might go for "downloads" and "files". That way instead of "dowTAB" and "docTAB", they're just "dTAB" and "fTAB".

deshipu, to random
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    urusan,
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    @deshipu Prior to the modern era, possibly with a few exceptions like ancient Greece, you would only find the resources necessary to support philosophy (and more importantly to communicate widely about it) in wealthy, centralized institutions, like states or major religious organizations, which were also often interlinked.

    So older asshole philosophies are stuff like the divine right of kings. Much of the audience for such philosophy would be those in power or with direct ties to them.

    18+ urusan, to random
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    I remember hearing that Doom sent 1 UDP packet per bullet, potentially causing a UDP flood which could bring a network to a grinding halt.

    Can anyone confirm or deny this?

    urusan,
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    @m0xee @jens It looks like you are right https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Doom_networking_component

    Apparently UDP is supported? https://doomwiki.org/wiki/How_to_play_Doom_online_multiplayer

    It also sounds like there are some modern re-implementations with more modern networking.

    urusan, to random
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    Me: Realizes that a live event is coming to town that my son would love
    Me: Goes online to buy tickets
    Me: Discovers that buying tickets for live events has become a dystopian gamified nightmare
    Me: :-(

    urusan, to random
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    Ok, this is a very clever idea
    https://youtube.com/shorts/lBr8ZU3rJBM

    They made a temporary rocket stove out of snow.

    urusan, to random
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    Kid: What colors make white?

    urusan, to random
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    Post one or more old blog posts (or other articles) that have had a lasting impact on your thinking. (At least about one thing.)

    urusan,
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    Here's a blog post I still often think back to:
    https://daedtech.com/how-developers-stop-learning-rise-of-the-expert-beginner/

    It's about finding a local maxima in skill learning.

    urusan, to random
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    Happy New Year everyone!

    urusan, to random
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    While I feel like Sabine misses some of the finer points about complexity in computer science (which is reasonable for a physicist), I overall agree with her point here:
    https://youtu.be/KPUZiWMNe-g

    She brings up the really interesting idea that, from a certain physics perspective, you and a rock are equivalent.

    If you were going to run a perfect, unoptimized simulation of two equivalent scale systems, they would take the same resources regardless of their complexity.

    urusan,
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    The way I think about this point is that it's a sort of computational ceiling for physical processes

    The resources required to simulate the rock this way is massive overkill. It's probably massive overkill for simulating a human too, but the human is many times closer to that limit than the rock

    This ties in with something I've been thinking about with regards to intelligence. A human and a similarly sized rock have comparable raw intellectual firepower, the difference is how they're organized

    urusan, to random
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    APIs are basically the set of paper forms you use to talk to a bureaucratic organization, except it's for computer programs.

    urusan, to random
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    Kid: Can I check your bones daddy?

    urusan,
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    @deshipu He gave me a bandaid to fix my bones, so I thanked him.

    urusan, to random
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    As a father of a newborn, I haven't been so much getting "breaks" as "pauses to get other essential work done".

    urusan,
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    @proactiveservices I prefer programming in Julia, so this is child 2 for sure.

    urusan, to random
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    Son: Gets to see his baby sister for the first time
    Son: Wow! Is this baby REAL?

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