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mez

@mez@mastodon.nz

Work: Web & software development 🧑🏼‍💻

Play: Ultimate (retired?) 🥏, climbing 🧗🏼, tramping 🏕, D&D 🧙🏼‍♂️

My header is from the Oregon on the US west (best) coast.

That's Guster in my profile pic with me. He's a good pupper, but couldn't move to New Zealand with me.

He/Him, wouldn't be fussed by They

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Snoweider, to random
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Just woken up and catching up on . Anyone know how Jasmin is doing?

mez,
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@Snoweider !

scott, to random
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    mez,
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    @scott Welcome to the Unending War.

    Gotta get the roots all the way out, including that little hook. But maybe not possible with that many. We also poison the leaves (crushing the leaves to help it absorb) which has helped, but is a bit tedious.

    Good luck!

    mez,
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    @scott Yeah, the realisation that it’s going to continue coming over from the neighbours…😔

    mez, (edited ) to random
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    Do you say “fedeeverse” or “fedihverse”?
    The first is like “feet” the second is like “sit” (IPA /i/ and /ɪ/ respectively)

    Also, super helpful IPA pronunciation audio guide. https://www.vocabulary.com/resources/ipa-pronunciation/

    mez,
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    @spartanatreyu So the transposition of fede- to fedi- is a trap. I’ll take /ə/, I think I’m usually somewhere in the /ɪ/ to /ə/ range. I heard someone use the long e sound and it threw me!

    binx, to random

    new project! https://shrinkingsaltonsea.com

    wherein I track the receding shoreline of the Salton Sea, combining a 2007 bathymetric survey alongside 2023 and 2024 shorelines, collected by an ultramarathon runner who circles the shoreline annually to track each year's decline

    mez,
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    @binx But can I get jewellery made from it? :)

    I love that someone is running around it and tracking the data that way!

    octothorpe, to random
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    Hullo Designers and UX practitioners!

    Awhile back on Twitter, I wrote a small thread called "Notes for UI Designers Who Have Lost Their Way". Recently @louie asked if I brought it over here yet.

    Well, here is the original post. I'm hoping it will engender a great discussion as it did on Twitter, as these issues still exist.

    mez,
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    @octothorpe @louie Omg the Burn Disc missile silo doors! Didn’t those open to show the radiation warning symbol or something?

    mez,
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    @octothorpe @louie It did! Found it. Amazing!

    https://guidebookgallery.org/pics/apps/itunes/usage/playlists/burningcd/30.png

    loops, to random
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    An early look at the UI 👀

    mez,
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    @loops Can pixelfed roll some of these design concepts back to the photos ui? Very nice!

    mez, to ai
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    I get that ChatGPT & its ilk consume vast amounts of water to train the models. I’ve also heard that it takes N litres per prompt. But is that some sort of estimate based on training consumption or is the computational cost of a server just responding to a prompt that high that it has to be significantly cooled? I figured once the training was done, the rest was computationally cheap? Why is that not the case?

    (Bonus Q, how does it compare to general data centre server cooling?)

    #AI #LLM

    mez,
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    @benchaotica Thanks for the link! I’ve just finished reading through the paper on ArXiv which helped explain a bit more. Good to see the two different numbers (training & inference). I didn’t realise the power requirements just to respond would be so high.

    Now I’m curious how that compares to, say, 20-50 requests for a webpage or a user’s Facebook timeline.

    mez,
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    @j Yeah, that’s another part of the equation! If I download a model and run it locally, it’s not adding environmental damage (just encouraging the souped up autocorrect industry)

    leaverou, to random
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    When doing case-insensitive matching of a needle (string) against a haystack (potentially large array of strings), which is faster:

    1. toLowerCase() (once on needle, then per each item in the haystack)
    2. Create regex with i flag, use regex.test()

    I would guess 1, but haven't checked. Does anyone know of any benchmark?

    mez,
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    @byjp @leaverou TIL how ASCII handles cases. Just a bit flip? That is very cool! I love finding out the little optimisations that you get using core methods in the language.

    jasonsantamaria, to random
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    📖 I’ve been reading an amazing science fantasy series called The Steerswoman by @rkirstein and I absolutely love it.

    It has it all: a rich and well-drawn world, science debating magic, dense and fallible characters, and a slowburn mystery that keeps zooming in only to pull back and reveal some new wider layer.

    Seriously stunned that I hadn’t heard of these books and want to get the word out to more readers. They deserve a huge audience!

    (thanks for the rec @beep!)

    https://www.rosemarykirstein.com/the-books/

    mez,
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    @jasonsantamaria @beep @nazhamid Ooh, can I join this club?? Just started book 1 last week and it’s been great. Loving the slow reveal of the world and how it works! Thanks @beep and @aworkinglibrary

    stephaniewalter, to random
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    I lost my example of "a blog with a save for offline button that lets you read even when there is no connection". Anyone has seen (or implemented on your blog) one of those recently? You can totally plug your own content here if it has such feature!

    mez,
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    @stephaniewalter I think @beep or @adactio may do this?

    mez, to random
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    @MonaApp I’m not sure if this is a bug or not, but when a post as a long link in it, the app displays only the text that isn’t truncated - matching Mastodon’s web view. However, there is no tooltip or expansion of that link. Is there a way to show the entirety of the link URL w/out having to click and load it?
    Thanks!

    mez, to webdev
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    What’s your favourite way to add working examples of code in your blog posts that isn’t CodePen? Both for CSS and JS example code.

    Thinking a basic web component with declarative shadow DOM might do it nicely since it will fully encapsulate the code? Maybe wrap it in @zachleat browser-window or resize-asaurus component.

    #WebDev #Blogs

    mez,
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    I think my solution will need to be a web component and some custom code for Eleventy. What I’d like to do is have code sections that I can wrap in a custom element which then renders the raw code text AND the demo of said code. But I want to do it progressively, so the code also shows and when JS kicks off, the demo is shown. But HTML in code blocks is encoded and styled with PrismJS which means lots of extra markup. Not sure how to handle this yet. 🤔

    (I appreciate the help to the above toot)

    mez,
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    Also, it doesn’t actually need to be progressively enhanced if it’s an HTML/CSS demo. So maybe the iframe route is the right idea? Or Eleventy’s WebC might be the winner here?

    mez, to random
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    @idanoo Do you know my global feed on pixelfed.nz shows the same thing as the local feed? It’s not based on instances I’ve personally connected with, it should be the entire server’s connections, right?

    mez,
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    @idanoo Nice, thank you!

    mez, to fediverse
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    What’s the difference between the Global Feed and Local Feed on Pixelfed? I’m seeing the same images. Is this just because I’m on a small instance w/out people connected to other instances?

    mez,
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    @latenightblog Yeah, that’s what I thought and the official site says as well. Dug in on a few users and they are following people from different instances, including the “official” one. 🤔

    mez, to Pixelfed
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    I (finally) deleted my Instagram. 🎉

    While I haven't shifted photos to my own site yet, I at least have the backups so I can in the future.

    Are you on Pixelfed or have good follow recommendations? (Weird to ask, I'm more about people I've met when it comes to photo sharing, but we'll try).

    I'm not convinced about Pixelfed yet - the issues of federation and content deletion when it comes to photos bothers me a bit, but willing to continue dabbling.

    #Pixelfed #photography #Meta

    joncounts, to random
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    Here's a graph of the growth in human population globally over the past 2024 years. I updated it this morning for a first-year lecture. On it I mark the years my grandparents and parents were born, when I was born, and when my teenage daughter was born.

    I still find it hard to grasp just how quickly and massively the human population has exploded. There's 6 billion(!!!) more people on the planet today than when my grandparents were born.

    https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/

    #population #humans

    mez,
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    @joncounts The compound interest of babies 😅

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