veronica

veronica, 9 months ago to python

A long-running issue when loading large text documents in the Qt framework's rich text editor from Python has been that iterating over its content is painfully slow.

My stress test document, which is a markdown file of 4.3 MB of text, could take up to 10 minutes to highlight.

I've tested switching to Qt's plain text editor instead now, and the log output is encouraging:

DEBUG Loaded 49209 text blocks in 1526.083 ms
DEBUG Highlighted document in 3308.650 ms

#Qt #PyQt5 #Python #Code

veronica, 8 months ago to philosophy

I left Twitter almost a year ago, so I have no idea what it's like over there. Is it really getting this bad?

Opinion piece by Dave Lee:

"There’s money to be made. X’s new incentive structure has turned the site into a hive of so-called engagement farming — posts designed with the sole intent to elicit literally any kind of response: laughter, sadness, fear. Or the best one: hate. Hate is what truly juices the numbers. "

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-10-05/the-moral-case-for-no-longer-engaging-with-elon-musk-s-x

#Opinion #Twitter #Musk #SocialMedia

veronica, 1 year ago to scifi

Meh. Seems we have to wait all the way until 23rd of August for Ahsoka. Ah, well ...

#SciFi #StarWars #Ahsoka

veronica, 7 months ago to programming

Someone really wants me to add docx support in my app (I already have odt support), so I was looking at the Office Open XML (aka docx) standard, and what a mess it is.

I know the Open Document standard (odt) pretty well, and while it's a complex format, it is quite logical and sensible, and not least: flexible.

Docx is pretty much the opposite. It's partially based on Microsoft's older proprietary binary formats, and an obviously self-serving "standard".

#Standards #Office #Programming #XML

veronica, 8 months ago to ads

I keep ramping up my anti-tracking and anti-ads game in my digital life, and since I stopped using Chrome, my ads are getting even more generic.

I'm now mostly receiving ads for dating sites presenting single straight women, which is about as generic as ads can get I expect. They have no idea who I am, so they're serving ads for Grayson Perry's "default man". 😆

#Ads #Tracking #DeGoogle #Google

veronica, 7 months ago to physics

This is pretty cool.

The headline is just clickbait though. Comparing it to the LHC is comparing apples and oranges.

Laser-based accelerators are nothing new, but it's cool that they've gotten them this small. I'll need to read the actual scientific article later to see what is different here. It is linked from the article.

https://www.livescience.com/physics-mathematics/particle-physics/worlds-smallest-particle-accelerator-is-54-million-times-smaller-than-the-large-hadron-collider-and-it-works

#Physics #Accelerators

veronica, 8 months ago to programming

At a panel about c and the future of the language at the NDC TechTown conference at Kongsberg, Norway. The conference itself starts tomorrow.

I have to be honest, c is not that interesting 😄

#NDC #Conference #Code #Programming #C #Norway #Tech

veronica, 10 months ago to tv

I started watching the new season of Good Omens today. I'm two and a half episodes in, and it's pretty nice so far. Mostly, I just enjoy seeing Tennant and Sheen again in their roles. I'm still not sure what the season is actually about, but hopefully that will be clearer.

#TV #GoodOmens #TerryPratchett #NeilGaiman

veronica, 9 months ago to microsoft

The single worst design feature of Teams (among many issues) is to convert underscores to italicised text. Especially when you communicate with programmers / DevOps all day!

#Microsoft #Teams #UX

veronica, 1 month ago to random

Atlassian is so bad at UX that it boggles the mind that they're still in business. Jira is a monster that requires infinite patience to try to wrangle into submission. I hate every moment I spend in that tool.

veronica, 2 months ago to programming

I have three public domain texts that I use to stress test my @novelwriter app. They are "A Tale of Two Cities", "Moby Dick", and "The King James Bible". The latter is particularly useful because it's longer that pretty much any novel out there.

I'm currently adding a tool to do global searches, and I'm stress testing by searching for all the spaces in the bible. It takes about 13 seconds, which isn't too bad, considering it's a Python GUI app!

#Programming #Code #Python

veronica, 2 months ago to random

Woo-hoo! No more work until 2 April.

#Easter #Holidays

veronica, 5 months ago to Electricvehicles

Huh, interesting numbers for new cars sold in 2023 in Norway. Only 3.7% were pure fossil fuel cars. That's a pretty damn low number. In addition, 14% were hybrids and the remaining 82.4% were electric.

In general, 27% fewer cars were sold in 2023 compared to 2022. Most likely due to changes in taxes a year ago which caused a lot of planned purchases to happen before the end of 2022.

Source (Norwegian): https://e24.no/energi-og-klima/i/2B2GOx/2023-ble-en-kalddusj-for-bilbransjen

#ElectricVehicles #Cars #Renewable

veronica, 6 months ago to random

Damn, recruiters have gotten hold of my WhatsApp. Now I'm getting messages from strangers every other day ... 🙄

veronica, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to scifi

Yup, Starship Troopers is still a fun movie to watch. The CGI holds up OK too, being from 1997 and all.

The book is awful though. The movie is much better.

#Movie #Saturday #SciFi

veronica, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to programming

Asking for a deployment ASAP at 4pm is undefined behaviour and will likely result in a wrap-around to 8am.

#Programming #DevOps #Development

veronica, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

I made an attempt to build my app for MacOS on ARM64. Since I don't own a Mac, I have absolutely no idea if it runs. I only checked the content of the DMG to look for any obvious issues.

Anyone care to try? The DMGs are available as zip files in this test build: https://github.com/vkbo/novelWriter/actions/runs/8767345888

(Files are there for 14 days.)

veronica, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

Back in Oslo for one more night before I go home. It's been two intense and packed days at #NDCTechTown in Kongsberg. I love meeting all the people, but it is also exhausting being around so many people for this many hours a day 😁

Thanks for all the great talks, conversations, and nerding. It was fun meeting new people, and old friends and colleagues. @Patricia, @olafurw, @rcs, @bjorn_fahller, @hanadusikova, @ecmoy, @DanielaKEngert, and perhaps more I don't know are on here!

veronica, 2 months ago to random

@olafurw Remember when we talked about Python integers at work back when? Here's a really nice writeup of how they're implemented in the CPython VM.

They are by default bignums, and it takes a minimum of 28 bytes to store an integer on 64-bit platforms. 🤯

https://tenthousandmeters.com/blog/python-behind-the-scenes-8-how-python-integers-work/

veronica, 8 months ago to StarTrek

Ok, so the AI upscale and encoding jobs I ran on my Star Trek Deep Space Nine DVDs in August made a noticeable bump in my electricity bill for that month. I mean, it's on the order of €20-30 or so, but still. Quite noticeable. 😅

#StarTrek #DS9 #AI #Upscale

https://mastodon.online/@veronica/110963529478679796

veronica, 4 months ago to cooking

I have posted about my air quality sensors before, but I keep being amused with the plots and what I can see in them.

This one shows the air humidity in my living room and kitchen, and the peak on the right corresponds to when I was cooking spaghetti. 😁

#AirQuality #Humidity #Cooking #SmartDevices

veronica, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to Norway

It's been quite stormy here for the last day or so, and apparently three cows decided to take the bus home last night rather than walk in the rain. 😁

Apparently, they had escaped in the bad weather, but the owner got them all home safe.

(Photo by Sebastian Litlere / Solabladet)

#Cows #Rain #Bus #Meanwhile #Norway

veronica, 5 months ago to ads

Being interrupted by ads is far more likely to make me start avoiding a product or brand than actually buying their stuff because I start to associate them with being annoyed.

Clearly my reaction is not common enough to make ads unprofitable. It would be nice if it were.

Now that streaming services are re-introducing or forcing ads (like YouTube), I'm cancelling in return.

#Ads #Marketing #Streaming

veronica, 1 year ago to internet

Twitter has become much like what Truth Social was always intended to be: A personal platform for an oligarch that believes the world owes him power and influence. They are places where they can freely spew their divisive and conspiratorial poison. They are essentially Musk Social and Trump Social, with Orwellian ideas of both "truth" and "freedom".

#Twitter #Musk #Trump

veronica, 9 months ago to Starwars

Ok, so the first two episodes of Ahsoka were great!

#Ahsoka #StarWars #SciFi