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@nixCraft@mastodon.social I'll worry when its the pilots doing this.
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Barry Rowlingson
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Maps, statistics, guitars, land rovers, photography.
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@jwz@mastodon.social Now *thats* going to piss off the "There's no Alt-Text" bots.
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@Cheeseness@mastodon.social @doctormo@floss.social Slavery is just a tool - it was used to produce a toxic product to people who didn't need it for the benefit of a few hyper-rich. No wait that's GenAI.
This t-shirt has got too holey and threadbare even for scruffy me on my scruffiest days, so time to cut out the design and retire it to the memorial folder of old t-shirts. This one was one of the last birthday presents from my mum, 9 years ago. The rest of the shirt will do greasy rag service in the garage.
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@gsuberland And you can watch Big Clive's 555 video which is exactly 5m55s long... https://youtu.be/Zs4kUZmubEY
Can we start using "Mitch McConnell" instead of "Schrödinger's Cat" for something in an unobserved alive/dead condition? #thinkofthekittens
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@schtaks @dbattistella yeah it really tied the room together
I do not want to hear that some AI coding agent "did all the work". The uncredited coders it stole from did all the work.
A former-colleague had been stuck for a day going through a QGIS tutorial and called me up for help. I said "Click on the 'classify' button". That was it. Unstuck. The tutorial didn't say this, but was so detailed everywhere else the user couldn't understand why following the detailed instructions so carefully wasn't working. There's a lesson here for all documentation writers...
Happy Star Wars day everyone. Oh no not again.
Nice out here today
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@danwwilson@rstats.me @LeafyEricScott@hachyderm.io My other solution was to write an awk script that unifies the CSVs and then wrap that in bash to send them all to a named pipe and read from that... I'm so 90s.
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@LeafyEricScott@hachyderm.io data table fread combined with rbind(..., fill=TRUE) does it, I think, and for your benchmark its 5-10x faster, but obvs this needs scaling to real world data sizes.
[in bench:mark] dt = do.call(rbind, lapply(csvs,fread)), dt_fill= do.call((...)rbind(...,fill=TRUE), lapply(csvs,fread)),
The dt line works for the first 2 CSVs, dt_fill works for all three. Here's comparative output for the 2 CSV case.
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@networksofphilly@jawns.club bah the hex pattern is fairly generic. https://manhole.co.il/doSearch.asp?tp=683 I've gone down the rabbit hole now....
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@networksofphilly@jawns.club Same hexagon pattern as this "Level 3" one... https://manhole.co.il/coverDetails.asp?c=9907
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@JorisMeys@mstdn.social The "skills" of an LLM are *always* copying someone else's work.
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@nixCraft@mastodon.social there is no right right now
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@jwz@mastodon.social Sounds like rules an LLM would make...
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@drj I ran a small research group level Gitlab for years, eventually the central IT service caught up and... bought a locally-hosted *Github* service. *sigh*
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@millerdl@mathstodon.xyz You need more Daversity in the workplace!
So the Police have been using a Palantir "AI tool" and discovered that some cops are Freemasons. How would an AI tool know that? Is the cop dumb enough to have "DCI and Master Mason" on their Linked In page? Have they got personal GPS tracking and facial recognition outside the lodges? Amazon purchases of regalia? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/apr/25/met-police-investigates-hundreds-officers-palantir-ai-tool
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@ianturton I'd like to think an FOI request along the lines of "what data sources does this use?" would be enlightening but I bet it'd get knocked back because reasons...
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@mttaggart@infosec.exchange Is snowboarding still a webdev cliche? Then "slopstyle". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slopestyle
RE: @transportationtalk@fosstodon.org
I really don't get why anyone would want to emulate these horrid style-over-substance massive download scrolling-for-animation web sites that take ages to load and don't even work on half the world's browsers.
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@pete@masto.hypertelia.com 90% of all I own is "kettle" leads and non-UK power leads.
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@pete@fedi.petejon.es have you got a minimal example, like three lines of code, that does this?
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@jimbob@aus.social think I loaded about 30k CSVs by catting them minus the first line then data table "fread".
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@zool@icosahedron.website @sgillies@mastodon.social we had a bakery that would exchange rhubarb for bread, so I offloaded that moral dilemma to them
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@pete@masto.hypertelia.com Those custom printed wafers/ads are a genius idea.
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@lizardbill Haven't Chinese zoologists cracked the panda reproducibility problem?
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@ianturton oh yes article in the Register!
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@robinlovelace oh no that's in the middle of term time! Oh wait I don't work at the university any more!
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@screw_dog Marvellous. Straya gives us this, Murica gave us Rebecca Black.
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I mean yeah there's still a slight problem with an exhaust port but yeah its mostly fine. (trans: now I've got the graphics working I've found some more bugs)
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@pete Hope buddy didnt swallow too much of the canal...
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@nixCraft@mastodon.social a really good blood pressure monitor.
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@sgillies I wanted to get code running for both PyQt5 and PyQt6 by importing either as PQ and then getting from PQ.etc. Is there a way?
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@sgillies ah thanks for digging into this. I'll write a bunch of conditional PyQt5 or PyQt6 import lines.
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@networksofphilly@jawns.club long shot, but two of the rotary finger holes seem connected to the centre to form maybe a p and a d. "PND", or "DNP"? I got nothing.
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@nixCraft@mastodon.social If they believe this then I think they should submit their data centres to a full-immersion baptism.
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@nixCraft@mastodon.social How is that little red FreeBSD daemon looking right now?
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@LeafyEricScott@hachyderm.io Oh dear. How much memory is too much memory? Maybe reading one-at-a-time and rbinding each - in a for-loop - would prob be slower but less memory
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@sgillies I think its doing some dynamic wizardry...
>>> import PyQt5 as PQ
then this fails:
>>> PQ.QtCore.QUrl
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
PQ.QtCore.QUrl
^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: module 'PyQt5' has no attribute 'QtCore'
but if I import it from PyQt5.QtCore:
>>> from PyQt5.QtCore import QUrl
it then works...
>>> PQ.QtCore.QUrl
(and thats all in the same session)
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@kajord I know it says "do not return to NOAA" but maybe you should do that with a $100 fine for littering?
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@robinlovelace@fosstodon.org I've been trying to do some pedestrian routing in Lima, and Google will send you plodding along the main highway with a "check real world conditions" warning and OpenStreetMap teleports you too the other side of the highway and walks from there!
This works:
>>> import PyQt5
>>> from PyQt5.QtCore import QUrl
This fails:
>>> import PyQt5 as PQ
>>> from PQ.QtCore import QUrl
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
from PQ.QtCore import QUrl
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'PQ'
although PQ and PyQt5 seem to be the same:
>>> PyQt5
>>> PQ
huh?
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@peemee@aus.social That reminds me of how we completely demolished fascism when the makers of Secret Hitler sent a copy of their game to all 100 US senators [check notes on this]