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sideshow_jim

@sideshow_jim@mastodon.world

University lecturer (Diagnostic radiography). #Radiography . Photographer on #Film. Occasional runner. Nerd trying to get more into #R and eventually learn #python.

Header image is my failed attempt to follow a skull stripping tutorial for CT images in R (the brain should be covered in the red mask...)

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RickiTarr, to random
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The most ridiculous thing about cop procedural shows is when they ask where a person was, and what they were doing at a specific time the person always has perfect and immediate recall. I'd be desperately trying to remember what day of the week that was, and trying to open my phone calendar. If I was the cop, I'd immediately be suspicious of the person who remembered exactly where they were and what they were doing.

sideshow_jim,
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@RickiTarr "I was in a bar with my friend, Allie Bye! We were discussing how we have no need or desire to commit any crimes!"

sideshow_jim, to random
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I am not watching Eurovision until the big final with all the voting.

The first and ONLY time I hear "You make my heart go splip splap boom (fa la la la lalalalala)" should be when nations are voting for it and an Irish commentator is sounding comically bewildered by it.

AS GOD INTENDED

#eurovision2024

sideshow_jim, to mastodon
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Probably idiot question.
If I were to make a #Mastodon bot* in #python as a learning project, do I need a machine running constantly to run it, or should I do it on a cloud service?
I got a #raspberrypi sitting around, would that do?

(*One that regularly posts a Josephine Baker photo, if you're interested)

GossiTheDog, (edited ) to random
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    sideshow_jim,
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    @simon_brooke @GossiTheDog they will be dining out on that story for the rest of their life!

    terence, to random
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    Back to real life with yet another visualisation of the world's submarine cables. Sick of these yet? Too bad. Volcanoes are next, followed by earthquakes over submarine cables, or submarine cables over earthquakes.

    adventures, an tale

    sideshow_jim,
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    @terence absolutely love all of these!
    Would you ever consider doing a demo, tutorial or video of a project like this, maybe aimed at the "just got the hang of box plots in ggplot" crowd?

    sideshow_jim, to BelieveInFilm
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    Big print!

    Thumb for scale (still no banana, sorry...)

    ChrisMayLA6, to random
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    David Osland (at the other place) offers a wonderfully concise critique of the utilisation of the private sector to deliver public goods....

    'We're told pensions are 'unsustainable', the Post Office is 'unsustainable' & now that the NHS is 'unsustainable'. They were all entirely sustainable before the private sector starting looting the public sector'!

    Yup, that's about it....

    sideshow_jim,
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    @ChrisMayLA6 the purpose of Thames water (and most the other firms) isn't to manage the supply of water and treat sewage.

    Their purpose is to produce as big a return as possible to investors*, the water network is just an asset they can use for that. So they can borrow massively against it (knowing the gvmt won't let it completely crumble but won't intervene due to ideology), cut maintenance, etc.
    (*All overseas, wouldn't care if they caused a cholera outbreak, doing very well out of it)

    RickiTarr, to random
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    I talk to people from the UK pretty regularly, I watch a lot of BBC programming, I read a lot of books by authors from the UK, but sometimes they will suddenly use a word I've never heard in my life, and I'm beginning to think they are pranking us, and every other person from the UK is in on the joke, and just validates whatever the other person says!

    sideshow_jim,
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    @RickiTarr you're sounding a bit gragglywaggly there, could it be they're snarfling you up the old boxminster with all this slawit?

    sideshow_jim, to BelieveInFilm
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    New year's resolution update:
    Have contacted a local gallery/ art store, with a couple of sample print scans.

    A black and white print of a wooden pier leading to a lighthouse

    sideshow_jim, to BelieveInFilm
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    Wanting to add a logo or similar to my prints. Was thinking of some kind of little light-box that would expose a logo onto the corner of the photo paper.
    Anything like that exist? Any ideas how I can put such a thing together?
    #analogphotography #believeinfilm

    elkarrde, to BelieveInFilm
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    Ya know what I haven't done for quite some time? A live film-developing thread! The last time I did one was in August, and I developed 40 rolls in the meantime! 😁

    So, let's start - first, let me gather all the stuff I need...

    sideshow_jim,
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    @elkarrde how do you add your EXIF tags, if is ok to ask? I've tried getting exiftool to work, but it doesn't seem happy installing and am looking for any alternatives!

    Also, the idea of having a film database is brilliant, may have to do that!

    cstross, to random
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    Trolley problem solution:

    I think we should find out who keeps tying victims to the tracks, and next time they try it, we should free the victims and tie them up in their place. It's only fair!

    SPOILER: the serial killer will probably turn out to be an SUV salesman, trying to discredit safe, cheap public transport.

    sideshow_jim,
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    @cstross "there is no switch, however you know that if you push this man off the bridge, he will die but his bulk will stop the tram and save the others.
    How do you know this? What has happened in your past that you should be so certain about this? How can you know this for certain but not know who you are? WHAT DID THEY DO TO YOU THERE? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE??"

    sideshow_jim,
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    @marjolica @cstross you leap from the bridge, landing flat onto the speeding trolley roof. Clambering through the driver's window you push the unconscious driver aside and pull hard on the brake lever.
    In a screech of agonised metal, the trolley's huge bulk slows and stops, mere inches from the first person tied to the track.

    Silence.

    Your heart pounding, you try to catch your breath but are interrupted by a noise. The driver's phone.
    You answer it.
    "Now that we have your attention..."

    sideshow_jim,
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    @SevenNinths @cstross seems like the kind of thing that Mythbusters maybe looked at once but they won't repeat that episode anymore

    gsuberland, to random
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    I enjoy skateboard games where you have to talk to NPCs, which generally means you say hello by slamming a skateboard into their face at high speed.

    sideshow_jim,
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    @gsuberland child then gets up and offers you $1000 if you do a kickflip

    sideshow_jim, to random
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    New rule proposal: If, during a meeting, someone suggests something using the word "just" (as in "Why don't you just do...."), then that person has IMPLICITLY volunteered to do that thing they suggested in its' entirety and without complaint.

    aetiology, to random

    Ah, early morning voting and then coming home to my beloved chickens.

    (We...do not own any chickens).

    8 chickens in the leafy yard

    sideshow_jim,
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    @aetiology THE CHICKENS HAVE CHOSEN YOU...

    NormanDunbar, to random
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    Oh dear! Leeds airport is closed as a plane skids off the runway in the wet.

    BBC News - Leeds Bradford Airport closed after plane skids off runway in storm
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-67174117

    Thankfully. Nobody hurt. Leeds is a crap airport to fly into on anything but a fine sunny day. Highest in the UK, and quite often, bouncy!

    sideshow_jim,
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    @NormanDunbar "here's this highly exposed region at the top of a really high hill in one of the windiest parts of the country. Also, not that near any of the major cities"
    "Perfect! Build an airport there!"

    vagina_museum, to random
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    It's time for another cursed patent. Can you guess what this device, patented in 1882, was meant to do?

    sideshow_jim,
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    @vagina_museum some kind of horrible thing for washing ghosts out of someone's cervix or the like?

    ZachWeinersmith, to random
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    For those interested, today's congressional shitshow is now being voted upon: https://www.c-span.org/video/?531158-1/house-session&live

    sideshow_jim,
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    @BoredomFestival @unikitty @ZachWeinersmith
    SPOKE TO THIS GUY, HE LOOKING DEJECTED

    britt, to random
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    The #Duolingo owl is out of control.

    Out. Of. Control. lol

    sideshow_jim,
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    @britt SPANISH FOR THE OWL GOD

    mathowie, to random
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    the funniest thing about Apple is the last version of MacOS features "video reactions" where if your camera sees you do a thumbs up or heart symbol with your hands, stuff happens behind you like fireworks in ANY video app you are using BY DEFAULT.

    A friend was in an online therapy session, describing his trauma so the therapist asked if he was alright and he did a thumbs up and then HUGE FIREWORKS BEHIND HIS HEAD.

    It's so bad that online therapy sessions now start with a warning dialog!

    sideshow_jim,
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    @mathowie there was a phone brand years ago that auto inserted emojis into texts etc based off words used.
    So if you messaged someone to tell them their dog had been killed by a car, the word car got replaced with a cutesy cartoon putt-putting along like Chitty Bang bang.
    Kinda hoped that lesson had been learnt!

    RickiTarr, to random
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    Ask me any question, it can be personal or not, and I will try my best to answer! I will not be using a search engine, so it is very likely the answer will be incorrect.

    sideshow_jim,
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    @RickiTarr what's it all about, eh, I mean when you REALLY get down to it?

    sideshow_jim,
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    @RickiTarr that's a lovely reply to a quite silly question, thanks!

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    sideshow_jim,
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    @mcc "Bricks", "Ball", "Score" soon available as DLC!

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