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darkling

@darkling@mstdn.social

Software developer. Organiser of data. Ontologist. I'm not a digital native, but I did emigrate at an early age. Contents may have settled in transit.

"He's not drunk. He's like that all the time."

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mjg59, to random
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Blahaj density increasing, definitely getting closer to @emf

darkling,
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@mjg59 Balance with the number of people going off to the same pub, and the length of the queues for the bar there...

lilithsaintcrow, to random
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My son, the comedian.

darkling,
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@lilithsaintcrow "Could you lay the table for dinner?"

"Three spoons it is..."

forrestbrazeal, to random
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idk why people say funding OSS is difficult

darkling,
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@forrestbrazeal I think I might actually try watching the merge conflict pay-per-view.

At least, a couple of times.

cstross, to random
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Study Finds That 52 Percent of ChatGPT Answers to Programming Questions Are Wrong

https://futurism.com/the-byte/study-chatgpt-answers-wrong

darkling,
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@cstross ... but how many human answers to programming questions are wrong?

(OK, probably not 52%, but I bet you it's higher than you first thought...)

Edent, to ai
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🆕 blog! “Why do people focus on AI's failures?”

I saw a prominent AI proponent asking why people always focus on the things that AI gets wrong. AI works so well, he asserted, that it was churlish and childish to focus on a few minor mistakes? Which reminds me of an experience I had a few years ago. I was in a rural pub […]

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/05/why-do-people-focus-on-failure/
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darkling,
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@popey @Edent @simon "Which reponse do you prefer?" -- Either one, as long as it came out as the first answer.

lilithsaintcrow, to random
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I tried to avoid the cake for lunch but it was just...sitting there, so smug and beautifully frosted.

Bet it regrets that now, huh.

darkling,
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@lilithsaintcrow It has fulfilled its deepest destiny, and can rest happily in the afterlife.

Or possibly it's been a very badly behaved cake, and will come back in its next life as a packet of salt and vinegar crisps.

stux, to random
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15 min left before mstdn.social will go offiline for a server migration! ⚠️

We will be back up within a few hours ❤️

darkling,
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@stux Bonne chance!

mcc, (edited ) to random
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If a program says it wants CUDA 10 can I get away with installing CUDA 12 or does CUDA 10 mean "CUDA 10 exactly"

It's specifically asking for "cudart64_101.dll"

darkling,
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@mcc I've read this several times, and my mind is still seeing "Omnishambles".

foone, to random
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Here's something cool I never realized existed:

PCBs distributed through magazines!

From Radio Electronics (June 1987):

https://archive.org/details/radio_electronics_1987-06/page/n68/

darkling,
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@foone I think I met something like this back in 1989 or 1990. A friend's dad was doing this with his own designs. He found that photocopies or laser prints on acetate weren't dense enough to block the UV properly, so you had to run it through the printer several times to get the ink density to make it work.

darkling,
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@foone He also had problems with drilling the holes in the board, so he was building an X-Y rig for a drill.

We spent a long night with an Acorn A440, me on the front end with the keyboard, him on the back end with the printer port and an oscilloscope, working out how to write a driver for this thing that ran off the !Draw files he'd use for the board designs, and would put the holes in the right place.

lilithsaintcrow, to random
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I do miss when MTV used to play music videos. I even miss VH1, for godsake.

Is this what getting old means?

darkling,
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@lilithsaintcrow Where did I put those wax cylinders?

darkling,
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@lilithsaintcrow Is Mina's typewriter under there, too? It feels like a sensible option, given how the computers have been behaving this week.

lilithsaintcrow, to random
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Boxnoggin was absolutely THRILLED to have a slightly longer walk today, since his leg appears ever so much better. Nose-drunk and drooling, he was determined to sniff everything.

EVERYTHING.

darkling,
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@lilithsaintcrow Have you tried sniffing EVERYTHING?

lilithsaintcrow, to random
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Past Me's idea of a helpful note was apparently "figure out that part of the economy" in brackets and if I could time-travel, we'd be having Words.

darkling,
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@lilithsaintcrow Past Me is almost always a horribly vague arsehole. The bastard.

Of course, Future Me is usually a genius capable of solving all problems with a minimal amount of effort, regardless of the detail in the problem description. The bastard.

lilithsaintcrow, to random
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I saw not a single magnetic flutter last night, being dead to the world soon as I crawled into bed, and there's still no sign of the 5G reception or superpowers I was promised from all this nonsense.

Boo.

darkling,
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@lilithsaintcrow But have you checked what your flight ceiling is recently?

stux, to random
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Ofc we can't forget capes

Unreal Engine 5 Space RPG project, main player character can now wear a cape More capes coming later

darkling,
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@stux

bentsukun, to fedora
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I wrote about my adventures with remix and its self-destructing file system.

https://bentsukun.ch/posts/fedora-btrfs/

darkling,
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@bentsukun "The hardware is absolutely fine" -- this is, I'm afraid, likely to be the mistake. You mentioned unclean shutdowns. If the disk has an incorrect behaviour with its cache, and claims to have written data to permanent storage when it's only put it into volatile cache RAM, then an unclean shutdown can have exactly this behaviour. When the power fails, the drive loses some of the writes. Lose the wrong ones (i.e. metadata), and the FS can't recover.

darkling, to linguistics
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What's the most obscure hyper-local word or phrase you know?

For example, where & when I grew up, woodlice were knows as "cheeselogs". As far as I know, that's specific to one town in the UK. I don't know how long it was in general use, or even if it continues to this day.

#RdgUk #Linguistics #Language

stux, to random
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> "It's the best country in the world!"

< "But you rank 20th in reading, 23th in science, 19th in math on a global scale."

> "Yes but we are the number 1 in confidence!"

< "So it's a country full confident idiots."

darkling,
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@stux Sounds pretty much like life here in the Untied Kingdom of England and Those Other Ones.

whitequark, to random
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please tell me the most obscure joke you know

(feel free to explain or not explain it, depending on what you find more amusing to think of me reading it)

darkling,
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@whitequark Parakeets imply the existence of orthokeets and metakeets.

cstross, to random
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I am deeply regretting that for my political satire series I went with a head of government who is merely a faceless Lovecraftian Elder God with a skull-collecting hobby.

He seems kind of understated these days.

Should have picked a cross between the South Dakota Puppy Shooter and Liz Truss instead ...

darkling,
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@hairyears @cstross Sounds like some kind of occult Sellafield.

Reprocessing of toxic waste.

I just hope that there's no leaks.

mcc, to random
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Writing some code that has to represent 90 degree rotations and what I really WANT is for 0 to be 12:00, 1 to be 3:00, 2 to be 6:00 and 3 to be 9:00 but I just KNOW if I do this at SOME point this code is going to intersect with code that does rotations with sin() and then I'll horribly regret not doing 0=3:00, 1=12:00, 2=9:00, 3=6:00

But the trig rotations system just feels so unnatural! :(

darkling,
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@mcc Because someone decided to scan TVs from top to bottom, so it then makes sense to arrange screen RAM that way, so then higher addresses are at the bottom of the screen, so we end up with non-cartesian coordinates for displays, and it's been REALLY ANNOYING ME for about 40 years.

stux, to random
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When the boss says you are obligated to join the 'Whatsapp work group':

Whahahaha! Nooooooohhh. noooooh thank you.

Email okay but no personal chats lol! If you want to get in touch you can join my platforms 😉

darkling,
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@stux That can go either way. We've got Slack at my current place, which is really useful for ad-hoc chats with people.

My last place was a big multinational, and they tried bringing in a chat client. I don't know of anyone who actually used it. It seemed to be some kind of vanity thing for the top management to try to get people to use it. Maybe it was worth an end-of-year bonus to someone?

darkling,
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@stux If it's on work hardware? Sure.

If they want me to put it on my own hardware? They can go forth and multiply.

Edent, to random
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🆕 blog! “Gadget Review: Mokin USB-C to USB-C & USB-C & USB-C & USB-C & USB-C”
★★★★⯪

You can never have too many USB-C ports, right? It's rubbish having a cheap laptop with only a single USB-C port. So, the good folks at Mokin have sent me a gadget which turns your single and lonely USB-C port into FIVE USB-C ports. Along the side you get 4 USB-C 3.1 port…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/gadget-review-mokin-usb-c-to-usb-c-usb-c-usb-c-usb-c-usb-c/
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#gadget #review #usb-c

darkling,
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@Edent My Framework still hasn't arrived (estimated some time at the end of the month), but I'm now using the 14-port Mokin on a daily basis with my Thinkpad X1 until then.

Seems to be eminently functional so far. I've had the same slightly funny behaviour about detecting HDMI (and audio) that you had, but a power cycle usually fixes it.

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