Gregory's Server
I love the summer solstice, but I also am acutely aware that it means the days get shorter for the next 6 months :(((
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I could complain about a lot of other things in my garden but there is no question that my peas are loving this cold, wet, long spring. These are Magnolia Blossom Sugar Snap Peas from Adaptive Seeds: https://www.adaptiveseeds.com/product/vegetables/peas/sugar-snap-pea-magnolia-blossom-organic/   Feels really good every time at work that I reduce the bundle size of our production web application by another ~100kb or so @darius do you ever multiply that number by daily downloads and the carbon footprint of data transfers from your CDN? Literally every time I have opened Google Chrome since April 2012 I have said "Chrom." in the Fire Emblem Awakening character bark voice @darius I'm really feeling this scrolling through twitter. 95% of the bot art posts I see are just something that is funny because the text is funny. "Waluigi commemorative dinner plate" is just a (pretty solid) weird twitter post that you had a bot illustrate. The image doesn't add much beyond being an impressive tech demo. Looking forward to whatever the next step is.  @darius I enjoyed this article very much thanks for posting. I have been been thinking some similar things lately about "bad gans" being good art tools I want to keep using even after there are better gans. this one called IC-GAN I have been using in my art practice the last year is great. it does a horrible job at making anything realistic but as an art tool its incredible There's a collection of old roadside photos that I am turning into an automated bot to go here on fedi. There is definitely some racist imagery in there. I can do a keyword thing to catch when much of the racist imagery appears. I am wondering: is it better to simply not show the racist imagery and present a sanitized version of history, or to put the racist imagery behind a CW so people can opt out but also it doesn't ignore the racism?
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@darius Maybe it would be useful to curate two versions for comparison? A sanitized/whitewashed gallery and then reality? @darius the collection is curated and maintained by museum professionals, meaning anyone who observes the contents in the intended setting is in an academic mindset and aware of and prepared for what they are exposing themselves to. people following a bot on the internet are doing so for amusement and maybe mild educational benefit. this should never have been a question, honestly I'm quoted again in the Wall Street Journal about how Elon Musk's status as an "outlier among outliers" means his experience of Twitter is likely filled with a lot more spam and unusual engagement than even the average celebrity's. https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/elon-musks-bot-problem-on-twitter-is-extraordinary-11654426800 Non paywalled: https://archive.ph/2022.06.05-123038/https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/elon-musks-bot-problem-on-twitter-is-extraordinary-11654426800  @darius he may be an outliner, but one with 90 million followers, and if indeed 70% of those are fake accounts, thats over 60 million fake acounts following him alone. 60 million of only ?225? million?? That can get us close to 30% of all twitter users being fake, following him alone. Quite a larger number than 5%. I am rather sure some of the fakes following other big accounts are not the same ones that follow him. I suspect we will find the majority of twits are actually fakes. `git log -S some_variable_name` returns all commits where `some_variable_name` is in the diff (either removed, added, or modified) super useful for tracking down regressions where you know the variable that's the culprit
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Okay so I was upset that none of my lettuce seeds have sprouted but looking up more than just one source for optimum soil temperature when sowing makes me feel better about it - seems like the very cold wet spring here means my first round of seeds must have taken too long to germinate and rotted in the ground. Feels weird to sow lettuce on May 31 but I guess I'll be doing that today (since the weather FINALLY turned for real) #gardening Born too late to have 1982 on my birth certificate... born too soon to have 1984 on my birth certificate 😔
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There are a lot of younger people here on the fediverse. Some advice: no matter what anyone says, your 20s are, without a doubt, a time when your age starts with 2. Now I'm in my late 30s and have some distance on my 20s. I can tell you that your age starting with 3 is something you're going to have to wait to experience until your 30s, with the obvious exception of when you were 3. My older friends and loved ones assure me that my 40s are going to be a time of a 4 in the tens digit of my age.  @darius there is nothing wrong with 1983. Both my older sisters gave birth to their second children within the same week in 1983 and they grew up into fine people. Also we had a 1983 K-car that was maybe the best family car for a long time. So I kind of consider 1983 to be a charmed year. My kingdom for a multi-page app version of Jira. Like... the main use case I have for it is having a tab open for every open ticket I'm working on. It's like the opposite of the use case for a single-page app. I just imagined a https://pinafore.social/ for Jira and, god, I would pay extremely good money for this. (The major problem here is I imagine Atlassian's API and long-term support for 3rd party clients is way, way poorer than Mastodon's.)  @darius sure sure, but don't you understand how beautiful this JavaScript looks on my developer machine? So much cleaner than the old world of HTML and CSS (shudder). And if people want multiple tabs, IDK, maybe they should get an M1 Ultra like I have?  @darius Is it not easy to do that with Jira? (I'm asking because I've started evaluating Jira at $DAYJOB.) Reading about a Google Research project that generates videos of objects bumping into each other. I thought, cool, this is cute for like, making random weird vids! Then I read the attached section on why they made it in the first place Folks, they are trying to make up for the lack of ground truth video of physical object interaction by *simulating those interactions and training the AI on the simulation*
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@darius Trading stocks/crypto has been a lot easier ever since I got in contact with Evelyn R. Is there an application out there (command line, web app, whatever) where I can apply a popular CRT shader like CRT-Royale to a single screenshot from a game? Like, just apply it like a photoshop filter
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aha! from a locked account: > retroarch has an "image viewer" core that will apply filters to images Today I learned that Pepsi introduced the 2-liter soda bottle to US markets, and the reason it's marketed in liters and not quarts/gallons (as you'd expect in the United States) is it came out in the 1970s during a push for US to convert to the metric system. More on the bottle, and the metric movement, here: https://www.marketplace.org/2017/10/10/why-does-soda-come-liters-and-milk-gallons/  @darius I doubt it'll happen in my lifetime, but I dearly wish to see a full conversion to the metric system actually taken up by one or more candidates for high office. @darius unrelated, but, my grandpa invented the kind of plastic used in 2-liter bottles! I'm on the Nerd Farmer podcast today, hosted by @natebowling, talking about federated social media: It was a really fun conversation! For my favorite part of the conversation I explain the difference between the meaning of "decentralized" when web3 people use it versus when fediverse people use it @darius @natebowling realizing that my main reference point for hearing your voice in a podcast setting kept me waiting for you to start talking about Stands Among the many, many things you can say about the last season of LOST, I will never get over the fact that the middle eastern dude's character arc ends with him exploding himself with a bomb for a righteous cause. I remember watching that and my jaw hitting the floor
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 @darius they done my boy Sayid so dirty in that last season it's messed up (not that they hadn't done him dirty before, but at least until then there was a character there) This is a year of big garden plans for me but I've had to delay planting of some things up to six weeks because it's been such an unusually cold spring here in Portland. The weather is starting to turn though and I think I can actually begin planting the stuff that I was planning for, uh, early April. At least my peas are doing great and my tomatoes are going well in their little cold frame. #gardening
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 @darius There was an article in a local paper by a guy I know who works with the OSU extension service where he said we’re two and a half months into March, garden/planting wise. I’m finally tilling today.  @darius it's been a small consolation that it was seemingly a cold spring across the whole continent, because I have a strong tendency toward PNW shoulder season self pity
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  One of my least favorite things about almost every google product is when I click into the search bar at the top, begin typing, and then a refresh happens and it loses what I just typed and I end up searching for the second half of a word
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St Petersburg is famous for its white nights in summer which are around right now, but what no one mentions is that there also are black days in winter.
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@darius only ‘up there’ … ‘down here’ it’s gonna get better.