🌸🌹2ck 🌱🐇 @2ck@qoto.org
A capable software engineer and aspirating (sic) cook. Also posting about space stuff (mostly NASA) occasionally
pronouns: he, him
Joined Apr 2020
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The US copyright office is consulting the public to see if we have any objections to mandatory automatic copyright filters. It would be a good idea to let them know.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/02/tell-copyright-office-who-really-affected-filters
@mathew if you're going to comment, please make sure you read the public notice as it has a list of topics of which your comment is expected to explicitly state which one it addresses for it to be entered into the public record. it's possible that by default they enter it under 8, " Please identify any other pertinent issues not referenced above that the Copyright Office should consider in these consultations." but maybe make it easier on the poor public servant(s) who will be categorizing your comments.
public notice:
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2021-12-22/pdf/2021-27705.pdf
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I'm tired of fan noise, so my new computer case is built entirely out of heatsinks.
I had forgotten about this youtube channel for a while, but it's pretty great:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCobqgqE4i5Kf7wrxRxhToQA
as a sometime ML student, I have a casual interest in practical data munging techniques. AI Coffee Break is great for getting me a basic understanding of fairly complicated concepts and tools without a lot of upfront work learning lower-level stuff. For the most part, I understand the concepts at the level they're discussed using not much more than my undergrad-level knowledge.
I had noticed this phenomenon a while ago and was recently thinking about it as my heater wasn't coming on as frequently in the late afternoon/early evening, but I hadn't actually seen it described quantitatively.
@readsteven i suppose that's true. what I got from the article though is that these students haven't learned effective ways to organize information for efficient access. they admit themselves that their files are "a mess". it's certainly possible we haven't provided them with the right abstractions for organizing things in a way that's intuitive for them, but the interfaces they seem to have for reference curate and structure information for them, though not necessarily on their behalf or for their benefit. maybe I don't know specifically what the circuits in my laptop are doing when I save a file or directory -- I have a decent idea, but I couldn't quote what traces are activated or something -- but the "searching" on web platforms has a locus of control with the service provider or with the crowd of other users, and I suppose I fear what kind of interface might be created by students who expect that 
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@readsteven I've heard of something like this, but related to "next generation" concept for systems that don't distinguish between persistent storage and RAM: it's all just one memory space. Didn't realize students were genuinely not thinking in terms of files though.
@izaya do you really? might not want to make that public :D
of course, depending on what you do, your employer maybe doesn't care as long as you pick up the phone when needed / serve customers when they call.
@reedyn "/"-separated, but only if the intermediate month and year URLs actually resolve to some kind of index on blog posts made within the corresp time period (I've seen cases where such URLs 404).
@readsteven what do the kids these days say? Do they save to "the drive"? It is hard to unstick from those old school metaphors. Like, I've seen attempts to displace the floppy disk as the symbol for "saving" something, and they're all horribly abstract or context specific.
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Q: What do you say when you are puzzled by a mysterious integer overflow bug?
A: It doesn't add up.
@izaya symmetry isn't everything. there's good conversation, good manners...
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The Galactic Center in Radio from MeerKAT
Image Credit: Ian Heywood (Oxford U.), SARAO; Color Processing: Juan Carlos Munoz-Mateos (ESO)
@lupyuen hmm. it's nice, but all the overlapping voices and sounds are hard for me to follow
@loveisgrief@mastodon.online I expect there's some variation based on climate and your rate of consumption, but where I am, the majority of the remaining honey crystalizes about 1/2 - 2/3 of the way through the bottle, at which point squeezing anything out of the tiny opening is hopeless and trying to force a spoon or other utensil into the too-small opening becomes the only option. Besides that, the bottle is made of variety of plastic which has very little heat resistance, so warming the bottle to reliquify the honey causes the bottle to deform
a squeeze bottle is probably the stupidest packaging for honey and I'm ashamed I didn't realize that before purchase 
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#renewablenergy Solar panels being installed over canals in India prevent water evaporation, don’t use extra land and keep solar panels cooler.
A capable software engineer and aspirating (sic) cook. Also posting about space stuff (mostly NASA) occasionally
pronouns: he, him
Joined Apr 2020
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