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jannem

@jannem@fosstodon.org

Programmer and computational neuroscientist, now HPC support engineer in Okinawa, Japan.

Photography, bouldering, recreational programming and playing the sanshin are things I do.

Sweden, Osaka and Okinawa are places I particularly care about.

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mrundkvist, to academia
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Apparently one of the most common uses of LLMs in #academia is copy editing: cleaning up your #writing on points of spelling, grammar and style. This is wildly unattractive to me. I love writing. My personal style, my personal voice, are extremely high priorities to me. It annoys me no end when a journal editor replaces one of my unconventional style choices with something bland. If an editor ran a paper of mine through an #LLM I would scream bloody murder.

jannem,
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@mrundkvist
To be fair, here in Japan I run into quite a lot of academics who can just barely read English papers in their field. Writing their own is simply beyond them.

Big name faculty and wealthy institutes often have a translation or editing desk that will help you. But many grad students and postdocs, especially at budget constrained places, have no recourse.

For all their faults, LLMs do produce better copy than google translate, or asking your sisters friend's foreign boyfriend.

kfogel, to random

So, is there a patterned fabric you can use to make a shirt that is anti-optimized for modern video stream compression, such that your meetings totally bog down for all participants because everyone’s client-side code is working so hard to encode/decode the wildly demanding images of your shirt every time you shift slightly in your seat?

Asking for a friend.

Also adding tags at the request of @femme_mal : #FabricArts #Fabric #SecurityByObfuscation #Obfuscation_Techniques #CodeObfuscation #Nulling #NullingVideo

jannem,
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@dmarti @kfogel
They're doing face tracking. I wouldn't be surprised if they prioritize people's faces and the shirt just gets really blurry or artifacty while your face stays clear and sharp.

mhoye, to random
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This is a remarkable graph.

You might have heard that "EV sales are slumping", "people are starting to avoid EVs", etc.

That's not what's happening.

What's happening is "Tesla is cratering so hard that it's skewing the aggregate market data."

jannem,
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@ShredderFeeder @CosmicTraveler @mhoye
L2 charging is all you need at home. You have plenty of time to charge while parked. And it's better for the battery. Save fast charging for road trips.

doktorzjivago, to random Swedish
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    jannem,
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    @doktorzjivago
    Vi har en liknande Toshiba som funkar bra. Innan den hade vi en Sharp som, igen, gjorde allt den ska utan problem.

    En riskokare är guld om du äter ris någorlunda ofta.

    jannem,
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    @doktorzjivago
    När jag är själv sätter jag ofta riset på timer på morgonen så har jag färskt kokat ris till middagen på kvällen.

    jannem, to random
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    Methinks the rainy season has started on #Okinawa .

    mrundkvist, to TaylorSwift Swedish
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    Legendarisk litteraturvetare, 88 år gammal, som bl.a. översatt den Äldre Eddan, recenserar #TaylorSwift.

    jannem,
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    @mrundkvist
    Enda jag inte är överens med honom är att det är värt att see henne live. Vi såg konserten i Tokyo och det var absolut värt det.

    En live föreställning som är välgjord och ärligt menat är alltid värd att se, nästan oavsett innehållet. En inspelning är inte samma sak.

    jannem, to sweden
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    There's no post offices any longer? What's going on with this place? #sweden

    thisismissem, to random
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    Interesting thought after watching the latest Philosophy Tube:

    Are free software purists living with a phantasm?

    You know, the types that yell at people who get paid to work on open source.. because they're getting paid to produce something that's given away for free.

    (I don't know the answer to this)

    jannem,
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    @thisismissem
    The same people that tell you you can make money by selling services around the software, then get angry at Canonical for doing exactly that.

    Not a large group but an embarrassingly loud one.

    lauren, to random
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    Probably coming soon: "AI FOOD! Have conversations with your meats, fruits, and vegetables before consuming them!"

    jannem,
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    @lauren
    Restaurant at the end of time?

    mrundkvist, to random
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    One of the most confusing issues in Leftie political debate is Kenta's social class. In the orthodox Marxian view it's simple: maybe Kenta is petit bourgeois, but he's certainly an employer, and that's it: upper class. In the sociological view, it's equally simple: Kenta is a skilled manual labourer with a few employees and probably no university degree: working class. Then there's the American usage, where as the owner of a small construction business, Kenta is middle class.

    #labour #svpol

    jannem,
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    @mrundkvist
    What does Kenta think he is? Does that factor in to other definitions?

    ianbetteridge, to random
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    I think is spot on. The culture has changed (and Apple doesn’t see it). But also Apple’s place in the culture has changed and it is just another tech giant. I would argue, though, that’s down to Apple itself, and its behaviour. https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/05/09/dhh-crush

    jannem,
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    @ianbetteridge
    It wasn't just the theme of the ad; the actual imagery plays, I think, a part.

    If the instruments, paints and so on had been sucked through a giant funnel into the ipad I doubt there would have been much controversy.

    It's the wilful destruction of items - items that for many of their users feel almost ensouled or alive - that really gives this a mean, spiteful edge for people.

    jaseg, to linux
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    So my #arch #linux just catastrophically self-destructed. I was using arch with the yubikey full-disk encryption package, when the machine hung and crashed during a system update. The machine crashed exactly after the old initramfs files were cleaned up, and before the new ones were written to disk. Since the yubkikey fde thing stores the seed ("challenge") for the luks key in the initramfs, all copies of the seed are gone now, and the data on that disk is unrecoverable.

    jannem,
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    @jaseg
    I ran Arch for four months recently. Even the Arch maintainers themselves describe it as a distribution building kit, not a distribution, and they're not wrong.

    Using it was a fun experience and mostly very pleasant. But it made it crystal clear to me nobody should run plain Arch on a machine that would cause issues if it was suddenly lost.

    If I had to choose between Arch and yubikey, I'd pick yubikey.

    martijn, to coffee
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    I'm looking for a #coffee table for in the #garden next to my couch in the sun. Any creative cool ideas? Can be #diy can be premade can be an ikea hack. Should be able to fit at least two mugs, be easily movable

    jannem,
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    @martijn
    IKEA "Marius" stool. I use one as a table for my morning coffee on our balcony.

    glassbottommeg, (edited ) to PCGaming
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    fuckin Roll7 just died https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2024/05/olliolli-kerbal-space-program-teams-shut-down-by-gta-publisher #GamingNews #GameDev

    EDIT: Fuck, this is also Kerbel Space Program 2 toast. Didn't realize Intercept was the new team that was on that.

    jannem,
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    @glassbottommeg
    So ksp2 is dead :(

    jannem,
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    @glassbottommeg
    Yes; I thought this was the new team, but I may have gotten them mixed up. If the original team is gone then even worse - at least ksp is playable.

    Sort-of related thought: seems a few projects have released games with serious performance issues (ksp2, Cities: skylines 2). Both use Unity. And they've hinted at a lack of expected engine features. I wonder if Unity promised multithreaded performance improvements on their roadmap to their customers and didn't deliver.

    popey, to random
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    Just realised, it's been a couple of weeks and I haven't run "Hugo's Random Benchmark" on this M3 MacBook Pro yet!

    2.6s - not bad. Can you do better?

    /cc @darkling
    https://popey.com/blog/2020/12/counting-to-100-million/

    jannem,
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    @popey @darkling

    Academic supercomputer: 4.3s

    Not built for single-core performance :)

    kwf, to random
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    Another day, another conversation with an engineer trying to convince their work that Rocky Linux is not the way forward.

    jannem,
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    @kwf
    Why is Rocky not the way forward?

    lauren, to random
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    You have to admit that William Shatner looks damned good for 93.

    jannem,
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    @lauren
    And I'm convinced he still sings as well as he ever did!

    elizabethtasker, to random
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    I’m on my way to tennis, but everyone else on this train has a giant suitcase and is presumably departing the city for Golden Week 🤔

    (“Golden Week” is a run of national holidays that occur in Japan end of April / start of May. This year they’ve fallen on the Monday, Friday, Saturday and Monday, which isn’t a great line up, but many people will supplement with their paid vacation and take the week away.)

    jannem,
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    @elizabethtasker
    Since this year is kind of bad I took this week off instead, and will return home tomorrow to work over the three day week. I figured I'd have the office to myself.

    Unfortunately everyone else had the same idea so we'll all be there next week :/

    cstross, to random
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    Hypothesis: they followed a very strange polytheistic religion where places of worship were presided over by a "designer" and a high holy ritual was the "dungeon crawl", a bloody and lethal elimination contest in which rival teams of worshippers competed to reach a final sanctuary and receive their blessing. Human sacrifice awaited those who failed but nobody wanted to kill their friends and family so it was all automated: pits with spikes, crossbow traps …

    @futurebird https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/112331734445593954

    jannem,
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    @cstross @futurebird
    "So yeah, word got around that we had a lot of gold. Bands of well-armed psychopaths started showing up for some light murder-robbery.

    A couple of elders devised a plan: plant something expensive at the end of an obvious cave or pyramid, fill it with traps and let them kill themselves trying to get to the thing."

    "What? Fight them directly? What part of 'psychopath' is difficult to understand? No way we're dealing with those people directly. You get hurt doing that." 🧵

    Loukas, to random
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    Swedish: bevis

    Dutch: bewijs

    Dutch is basically just Swedish with all the trimmings.

    jannem,
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    @Loukas
    Spelling Swedish while drunk.

    jannem,
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    @Loukas
    Or, how to insult three countries with a single sentence.

    mrundkvist, to academia
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    Want to see a bizarre alternative academic career? Look at mine: failed to get into the teaching precariat, got a part time job editing a research journal, learned early how to get $3000 grants, published eight books and 40 journal papers, ended up a full-time research scholar at a Polish university from age 47. And my kids didn't starve or want! I don't know the official yardstick of success in #academia. But personally I am satisfied.

    #archaeology

    jannem,
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    @mrundkvist
    On the other hand I guess archaeology, like, say, law, is geographically limited.

    With physics or neuroscience you might need a lab, but you can practice it anywhere in the world, no matter where you studied and what you specialized in. That really increases your range of employment opportunities.

    drewdevault, to random
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    I needed a break from Real Work, so I'm speedrunning writing a Unix-ish operating system

    Day 3

    jannem,
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    @drewdevault
    Congratulations! 🎉

    Pro tip: don't bring your laptop.

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