Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

PyPI went online in late 2002, but easy_install wasn't released until 2004.

Does anyone know how people installed stuff from PyPI before then? Did you download an sdist and unzip it manually?

I don't even see a download link on this wayback snapshot: https://web.archive.org/web/20031101220800/http://www.python.org/pypi?:action=display&name=docutils&version=0.3

Lately, I've been increasingly using Super + ↑↓→← to move my windows on a grid, but I've been frustrated by the lack of keyboard shortcuts to move them between monitors. Turns out you just need to do Shift + Super + ← / →:

https://askubuntu.com/a/36929/176339

#cinnamon #linux

Pro tip: If you're ever in a book club, but you haven't read the book, just say, "I thought the allegory for the Catholic Church was a bit ham-handed."

You'll know you've made it when you overhear this in a café:

"People were able to Photoshop teeth onto stuff in the past, this is nothing new! Heck, image editing has been around almost as long as images!"

"It's a matter of scale! Kids today can see *anything* with human teeth!"

Startup idea: build an ML model that adds human teeth to any picture.

After launching your MVP, target enterprise customers with a model that adds human teeth to 3D models. Maybe some defense contracting adding teeth to predator drones.

Saw two crows attacking a hawk (I think red-tailed hawk) right above my house the other day. Harassing it and chasing it away.

Couldn't get great pictures because the action was happening so fast, but it was pretty cool to see.

#birding #birds #wildlife

Northern Flicker at my feeder the other day.

These are beautiful birds — and they are even more colorful in flight, because they have yellow-shafted feathers and a yellow underside.

I've only seen them at my feeder twice, and they got scared off pretty quickly when they saw me both times.

#birding #photography #bird #nature #wildlife

Apparently this guy is watching his cholesterol — doesn't want to eat any of these hard-boiled egg yolks...

#photography #nature #wildlife

@lynne@pars.ee It's very *chef's kiss* that by renaming Riot to Element after several years of people calling the client Riot, you need to search for both Riot and Element even trying to solve a problem, since there are years of issues and other documents out there referring to it as Riot.

@lynne@pars.ee Also Riot was the terrible name they chose instead of "vector", which was also terrible, but Riot was worse somehow!

Made katsu curry for the first time last night. Not so bad, but it made me want to go visit Japan again, which I fear won't be possible for a few years. 🙁

(Amazingly, I took photos of every stage except the finished product. 🤦)

@gedvondur Or alternately get on a video call with someone where your phone is pointing at the ends and have them tell you the colors as you work.

Not sure your setup, but I imagine you could rig up something similar to the pseudo-overhead-projector things people make for teaching classes (they draw on a piece of paper and capture the image from overhead, then broadcast it to the class).

@gedvondur Probably a pain, but can you clamp the ends in place so the order won't change, take a picture of them, then use a color-picker software to look up the associated hex codes?

Apparently CVS Minute Clinics will do it, but not in CT or some other states. We may just go get it done in Massachusetts to minimize the fuss, as annoying as that is.

Would be nice to know why Minute Clinics have this rule in CT, so that I can (I assume) call the relevant legislator.

@rodolpho No, that's a good idea! (I didn't even know these things existed.)

I'm going to call my insurance and see if they offer any options, if they can't help, I'll try the travel clinic.

I can't seem to find any way to get a flu shot for my 2 year old without going to a pediatrician (we don't have a pediatrician in the area yet, since we recently moved). Pediatricians won't give the shot unless you are a patient, CVS won't do it, urgent care doesn't do vaccines.

This seems less than advisable for a public health measure. I'd think that for something like preventing a kid from being a vector for a deadly disease, you'd want as little bureaucracy as possible. 😕

@2ck Also, I think that politics is a team sport for the majority of people in the US. If you are a straight-ticket Republican / Democrat voter (which most people are), you are not going to accidentally miss something in the news that would flip your vote to the other side of the aisle — anything that makes a particular candidate so disdainful that committed partisans would flip allegiance for them would be such a big story that you'd hear about it anyway.

On the other hand, spending your time studying a diverse selection of "long view" sources is almost certainly more likely to change your mind about what part(ies) to support or not support, since it could cause an evolution in your thinking about what the best policies are.