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jrconlin

@jrconlin@soc.jrconlin.com

Got two Turing tables and some microcode.

I work on back-end server-y type stuff at a place that keeps rockin' the free web. I like rust, python, and horrible puns (not necessarily in that order).

I tend to be nice for selfish reasons (I don't like hanging out with jerks).

#programming #rust #python
#mentoring #DadJokes
#fedi22 #searchable

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We now go to Cory Doctorow for his thoughts...

matthew_d_green, to random

The weirdest thing about 2024 is the rapid rollout of unconstitutional age verification laws for websites, and how little the “free speech” tech crowd seems to care about this.

jrconlin,
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@evacide @matthew_d_green

Well, yes, but you actually understand that "free speech" isn't just yelling slurs at people.

jrconlin, to random
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Glad to see most AI systems are happy to provide me python code for working with cryptography based on the Levi-501 curve.

jrconlin,
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The AI also provided me with code for the Levi-509 curve, which is more relaxed security, possibly with a boot cut.

jrconlin, to random
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Currently wrapping up a few things in The Spouse's old home town, and I might be a tad irritated by the folk here.

https://jrconlin.com/b/5669

jrconlin, (edited ) to random
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TIL:

https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck

fix command line errors by swearing.

I feel fucking seen.

AkaSci, to random
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A star will be born in the coming months! Not quite, but a star in the T Coronae Borealis binary system (T CrB) will explode as a nova between Feb and Sept and become visible to the naked eye.

How do astronomers know? It is because this is a “recurrent nova”, one that grows and erupts every ~80 years. It is known to have erupted in 1217, 1787, 1866 and 1946.

After explosion, it will be visible to the unaided eye for several days and about a week with binoculars.

https://blogs.nasa.gov/Watch_the_Skies/2024/02/27/view-nova-explosion-new-star-in-northern-crown/
1/n

jrconlin,
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@AkaSci

For folk curious, the star is listed on https://stellarium-web.org/ as
Tau Coronae Borealis or "HD 145328" if you want to see when it will be visible to you.

jrconlin, to random
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A bit over three years to make a masterwork of papercraft and practical animation.

and a really touching story to boot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p4s4k3eB_I

jrconlin, to random
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Huh, so I just installed Audacious <https://audacious-media-player.org/> on my various computers to play all the music I've downloaded, ripped, and otherwise acquired and gotta admit, it's rather nice.

No right wing podcasters getting my money.
No union busting.
No insisting that I'm listening wrong or have to use their crappy app to load music.

It's rather delightful.

jrconlin,
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For mobile, I've been bouncing between Foobar2000, and PowerAmp. I previously bought a full license for PowerAmp, and Foobar2000 feels super old-school.

May try others if someone has suggestions.

jrconlin,
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@davepolaschek

I wouldn’t mind that for me, except Apple is in the “You are listening to music wrong, and you have to use our crappy app” camp.

The pains of not being deep in the Apple ecosystem, I guess.

jrconlin, to random
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i am feeling a wee bit salty today.

my apologies.

( BUT HOLY FUCK, C'MON ALREADY! )

mhoye, to random
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I bet if you learned about beastmasters and toastmasters on the same day you'd have to believe there was a whole secret parallel hierarchy to the world that people had somehow been concealing from you all this time.

jrconlin,
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@mhoye

Wait, there are people who are able to bond with and train toast to fight for them?

jrconlin,
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@mhoye

jrconlin,
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@mhoye

And since I had a few extra credits, I did another run.

Another AI generated Toastmaster poster, featuring the various fake characters and the Hero's head mounted on a huge, central piece of toast. It has a weird Lord of the Rings / Last Starfighter feel to it. Oddly, of all the cutlery being held, no one has a butter knife.
Possibly my favorite of the bunch. A Wookie's head on a very large piece of toast rises from the flames as several Star Wars storm troopers hold guns and lattes beneath. Rye-venge of the Sith, I suppose.

jrconlin, to random
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One of the biggest challenges of being a Staff Software Engineer is figuring out what OS runs best on lengths of wood.

mhoye, to random
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A confession: the hardest thing about using Firefox day to day as a longtime insider who inexplicably still cares a lot is staring at a UI cluttered with all the detritus of the company's cancelled attempts to do anything interesting, the wreckage where the people behind the wheel crashed the car again, usually chasing somebody's taillights, that's never getting cleaned up.

The goals, the ideals, they're still important, they're all still worth fighting for but christ on a crutch what a mess.

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@mhoye @nnethercote

Gonna lightly disagree about View. It also shows tabs from other devices which is super useful tome, at least. Granted, I also have three or four devices I use most days.

Also, really happy that some of the View ideas didn’t get implemented, because, hoo-boy, that would have been a huge mess.

jrconlin,
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@mhoye @nnethercote

True, but View has more detail and is easier to remember. If anything, I'd be fine cleaning up the Sync menu a bit.

jrconlin,
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@mhoye @nnethercote

<salty>
Option 1: Nobody remembers the "File" menu since it's hidden on every platform except mac.

Option 2: The usual truism that it's easier to add than subtract.

</salty>

jrconlin, to random
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Wendy's introduction of "Surge Pricing" reminds me that there are taquerias and Korean sandwich shops that don't do shitty things like that.

Here's hoping that an enterprising food truck or two park themselves on the sidewalk out front of every Wendy's.

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No, really. LLMs are absolutely not fancy autocomplete. Really.

> In this case, the bug was in the step where the model chooses these numbers. Akin to being lost in translation, the model chose slightly wrong numbers, which produced word sequences that made no sense. More technically, inference kernels produced incorrect results when used in certain GPU configurations.

https://status.openai.com/incidents/ssg8fh7sfyz3

jrconlin, to random
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OMG!!

Crossover 24.0.0 fixed the problem with Powerwash Simulator!!

I can play it again, which is something I can't really do in Windows 11, so I can stop using that garbage!

YAY!!

https://www.codeweavers.com/crossover

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    jrconlin,
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    @Kevin @GossiTheDog

    There never was a quiet part.

    Just a lot of folk that weren't listening.

    sc_griffith, to random
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    programmers are always posting like "worked on tracking down an issue with a Flurble deployment for twelve hours. the problem wasn't in Flurble at all - it was in the Gumbies install. It turns out if you install Gumbies 3.0 over Gumbies 2.7 and don't do a cache flush on all the client spiders they'll get stuck in the crystal maze." then you look up Gumbies and the site is one of those scroll scroll scroll types with one sentence per page, like

    "GUMBIES is a lean, expressive sharding sandcube for testing and deploying large scale Woodchips playgrounds.

    GUMBIES automates and streamlines away watersliding phases, meaning your team can get right to the chipping.

    See why Microsoft, OpenAI and Bloingo have embraced GUMBIES in their Woodchips workflows."

    and you get to the bottom and you're like I want this I guess but I still don't know what it is

    jrconlin,
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    @sc_griffith

    I mean, they announced the breaking change on their discord server three months ago in a reply to a post about Gerbils. Not the framework, actual gerbils. It was near the end of that 300 post meme fest.

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    Going to happily repeat this whenever I can.

    Programming is a trade, like plumbing or electrical work. It's a set of skills that can be acquired without a dedicated degree, through experience, and there are plenty of very successful, legendary programmers who are examples. Many college courses focus on theory and concept over actual application, and skip things like coordination and collaboration, which are FAR MORE IMPORTANT for a career.

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    @ramsey @djmitche

    In the US at least, a fair number of large, commercial entities require Certification for things. Not so true in "classic" tech. You may want to look into getting a few general certs from various companies around the things you want to work on.

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