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isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

- Stumbled upon a few RAW photo folders that weren't in #darktable library for some reason. Decided to check the rest.
- Searched for "darktable database", found the exact file path in DT's online docs.
- In sqlite, .schema revealed the table "film_rolls" with folder names
- ipython, sqlite, pathlib.glob, set - set, sort — got the list of folders missing from the db
- Dumped the ipython session into a .py file, will be running it while sorting through my photos.

Took ~10 minutes.

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Free_Press@mstdn.social ("Aure Free Press") wrote:

Portugal just ran on 100% renewables for six days in a row

For nearly a week, the country of 10 million met customer needs with wind, hydro and solar — a test run for operating the grid without fossil fuels.
#AureFreePress #News

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/portugal-just-ran-on-100-renewables-for-six-days-in-a-row

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

So it seems like the BBC is making the Next/React mistake?

*sigh*

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

wim_v12e@scholar.social ("Wim🧮") wrote:

If all search queries are replaced by ChatGPT-style queries, what does that mean for energy consumption and emissions?

tl;dr: Emissions would increase by 60x.

"Emissions from ChatGPT are much higher than from conventional search"

https://limited.systems/articles/google-search-vs-chatgpt-emissions/

#FrugalComputing #ClimateEmergency #AI

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

This talk from https://perfnow.nl/ really highlights some important things to know about React:

• It is a system designed to generate extra work
• If, at any moment, you don't want it to do extra work, that's *on you*
• ...ergo, React is an extra-work-about-extra-work-avoidance system, at the team scale

https://noti.st/keerthanak17/koNy8w/optimizing-react-applications

The "fun" part is that most teams don't learn this until it's too late.

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Today in "Safari, please, I'm begging you, lay off the new features for five minutes and just go fix your existing CSS":

Safari is apparently the only browser that can't calculate changes between px and another unit type when border radius is involved.

(Fun fact: I learned this from a StackOverflow question that just so happened to turn eleven years old today!)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Bummer. Looks like Artstation has quietly disabled the RSS feeds. :/

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sanityinc@hachyderm.io ("Steve Purcell") wrote:

This Is Just To Say

I have terminated
the EC2 instances
that were in
the #AWS account

and which
you were probably
saving
for "Testing Stuff"

Forgive me
they were t3.xlarge
so idle
and so expensive

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

(Oh wait. Does this have to do with that stochastic parrot, Sam Atlman, being in the news?)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

I'm not sure why there's a sudden uptick of negativity on VC backed "AI" and ML (that is basically deployed against people and has few if any redeeming qualities worth all the resources needed to operate and run them) on my timeline, but I'm here for it.

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ashedryden@scholar.social ("Ashe Dryden") wrote:

US pals: as of this morning you can order 4 more COVID tests for free from the government. Get them now before you need them! https://www.covid.gov/tests

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

I know this will be hard to believe, but sometimes Nobel prize winning atheists can be colossal idiots.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/20/okay-boomer/

Attachments:

• John Clauser (remote)

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Staring at 32 lines of React and TypeScript code that literally just put a single link tag on the page, and wondering how the fuck we got here.

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

I don't think this is something the good guys do.

I don't think we should "stand with" the people doing this.

I don't even need to think of my own child and what an unspeakable horror this would be to know this is not a thing that anyone should support, under any circumstances, ever.

Attachments:

• A New York Times article notification. The headline is the quote "Graveyard for children," which follows, "parents in Gaza have begun scrawling names directly into their children's skin, in case they need to be identified." (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I've switched from Chrome to Firefox about a decade ago. It's just as fast and intuitive, and container tabs are a game changer. It always catches me off guard when I see its market share is so low.

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

That's not how I'd define success.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/20/oh-come-on-now-2/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF2C7xE9Mj4

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tcarrez@fosstodon.org ("Thierry Carrez") wrote:

Finally found the time to watch @bcantrill 's "Intelligence is not enough" talk -- engaging, fun, and timely.

And as a mechanical systems engineer by trade, I can relate :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQfJi7rjuEk

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

How will you be coping with the holidays?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/20/holidays-coming-lets-get-depressed/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kyRNRZBB4M

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

nikitonsky@mastodon.online ("Niki Tonsky") wrote:

Attachments:

• Q: What's the most significant change in our industry over the last 10 years? A: Teams of 5 developers unquestioningly adopting cumbersome tools/patterns from 5000 developer orgs promoted aggressively via open source. (remote)

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mikebutcher ("Mike Butcher") wrote:

Microsoft cuts off Compute to OpenAI in 3, 2, 1…

“Microsoft hires ex-OpenAI leaders”

https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/20/openai-co-founders-sam-altman-and-greg-brockman-to-join-microsoft/

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

The NY Times frequently urges me to download its spyware app, and I always decline, but "no" isn't one of the options. The closest thing to that is "Not Right Now". Which means they won't stop asking no matter how I feel about it.

You expect that from, say, Google. But it's crappy behavior by the top news organization in the U.S.

Attachments:

• NY Times popup urging me to read article in its app, with only option being "Not Right Now" -- there should be an option that says No.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

I get that there's a full-on CSSWG omerta, in which everything is "super complicated" and "we need implementation experience", but JFC. Transpilers are an indictment, and your job as the language committee is to *put them out of business*.

Not groking this has an ignoble history, but it doesn't improve with repetition.

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projectgus@aus.social ("Gus") wrote:

Sincere video from Justine Haupt about the challenges of productising her rotary cellphone project. A good, honest, overview of the challenges of manufacturing at small scale.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=zX7TdufZlTA

#electronics

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

This is great; we tried to get hierarchical CSS (and variables, and mixins) done in 2011, in the same era as we took our first crack at Promises and async/await and classes and arrow functions.

You can quibble a lot over how fast is "too fast" for things to move through standards bodies, but you can't look at CSS's evolutionary rate -- gated by full consensus, in which Apple has a veto -- and think "oh, yes, this is going to plan":

https://buttondown.email/cascade/archive/007-css-is-not-a-natural-disaster/

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

I originally watched TAS semi-ironically but it is truly one of my all-time faves

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

I think we should use base 12/dozenal/duodecimal for ages because honestly most people are still teenagers until they're 25 anyway. Also, I think you should actually be 36 when you start your 30s and 48 when you start your 40s.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Very much the "every 90's kid comes of age 3 times..." tweet, but for IPC contention.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

There's a specific moment in a software engineer's life where they learn that you can't spin up as many worker threads as there are cores and hope to have a good time, and I think we need a name for it.

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AirmindedAI@sigmoid.social ("Airminded AI") wrote:

“there can be no ethical consumption under capitalism, 1980s scifi art --style e5WlhK8biJD7SYOC” #midjourney #AIArt

Attachments:

• A person in a mustard jumpsuit and a visored helmet sits at a control panel with a view panel looking out over a large empty area in a city (remote)
• A pensive young woman in a green jumper sits at a data terminal with a view over skyscrapers (remote)
• A tired female worker overlooking computer-automated production processes (remote)
• A male worker at a computer terminal in a large chemical factory. There are trip hazards on the floor (remote)

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

An ad blocker, only it blocks cashiers asking you to give up your contact info or sign up for things.