Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org
Programmer working at Google. Python core developer and general FOSS contributor. I also post some parenting content.
Joined Nov 2019
Since my new #pixel8pro only has 1TB of space and no expandable storage, I decided that I would keep all my "on device" videos as 720p instead of the 4k 60fps originals (it's visually indistinguishable while watching them on the phone anyway, as far as I can tell).
450GB compressed all the way down to 21 GB, wow!
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A client wanted me to text his fleet when they were speeding. To do that I needed to know the speed limits of the street they're on.
I try to use Open source whenever possible, so I hooked into the free Open Street Maps API and was seriously disappointed of the percentage of streets in my state with speed limits.
I really wish somebody would add those speed limits. Then I remembered I'm somebody.
So I'm adding speed limits. It's oddly satisfying.
By the way if anyone knows of a better reliable way to get string than just randomly wandering around at night waiting for spiders, let me know.
This morning it became clear that I've been playing too much Minecraft when I saw some cobweb Halloween decorations and thought, "Ooh, I should collect those to make string!"
Aww yeah, Paw Paws delivered today.
We'll see how it does against the Gom Jabbar in a couple of years, I guess.
New lesson this week is that a 5 year old will definitely earnestly repeat the Litany Against Fear if you teach it to them, but also it isn't as effective as you might hope for staving off fear of monsters at bedtime.
@Greg There is this perl script that does it: https://github.com/obra/Youtube2Webpage
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I'm gonna try that trick where you claim something to be impossible so as to goad people into telling you how to do it. Here goes:
It is impossible to do both italics and underline, and have each actually work, in nroff/troff/manpages.
Anyone aware of something like the Speech Accent Archive (https://accent.gmu.edu/) but for Spanish? SAA has people (native and non-native speakers) read a short example phrase in English to capture their accent. I seem to remember encountering a similar thing for French years ago, I would be curious to hear the same thing with Spanish.
@webology Thanks, I don't use Apple or Apple products (not on principle or anything, I just don't think they're very good).
Honestly, considering nearly everything I use is open source, I should probably file this as a bug report in a tracker somewhere even if I don't do the fix myself.
@itamarst I don't really know anything about bikes, and I don't especially understand what makes this one special, but my friend who is really into bikes seems to like Priority bicycles, and they do seem quite nice when I've ridden them.
https://www.prioritybicycles.com/
The interesting thing about them is they have these plastic belt drives instead of gears and a chain.
@nedbat I feel seen.
Which is good, because if you don't see me it might be hard to avoid me, what with all the wreckless biking I'm doing. 😉
I don't understand why it's 2023 and I've never seen a Bluetooth connection UI that allows filtering by the type of device you are looking for. I'm trying to pair headphones, I don't need to see that there are 50 TVs and computers broadcasting their IDs around me.
Coming next year:
PEP 818: Biphasic physical storage of package metadata
Replaces: 517
I had a dream last night that Java came out with a new packaging spec that involved encoding your metadata as a crystal that you then dissolved in a liquid, and somehow my first thought was, "That seems convoluted, but who are we (Pythonistas) to judge?"
@bitecode Hmm, to the extent that Belgium is associated with fries, a variation on that could work very well, in that you often think of fries as being in a vertical orientation, whereas sausages are basically always lying on their side. 🍟 🌭
@mariatta They had a different definition of "special characters" than you, and had silently banned one of the ones you used?
Having trouble remembering the difference between the flag of Belgium and the flag of Germany?
Remember this simple rhyme:
"Black touches Red, you're in Germany like Kaiser Fred¹.
Black touches yellow, you're in Belgium, so have a waffle with marshmallow²."³
¹This assumes that you know that Kaiser Frederick III was the second Emperor of Germany.
²This is only a slant rhyme, and it barely works since — while dessert waffles are associated with Belgium, and they *would* be pretty good with marshmallows on them — marshmallows are not particularly associated with Belgian waffles.
³Yes, I am not particularly good at coming up with mnemonics.
Programmer working at Google. Python core developer and general FOSS contributor. I also post some parenting content.
Joined Nov 2019
