Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

@penguingeek No such luck, just crashes immediately, with new profile, after update, after reboot, after re-install, after removing ~/.cache/mozilla and ~/.mozilla. Doesn’t work with firefox -safe-mode. Anything I do gives:

$ firefox -safe-modeExceptionHandler::GenerateDump cloned child 5885ExceptionHandler::SendContinueSignalToChild sent continue signal to childExceptionHandler::WaitForContinueSignal waiting for continue signal...

I also tried running VAAPI_MPEG4_ENABLED=0 firefox. Crash on startup. Super weird.

@penguingeek Arch Linux

Man, #firefox crashes on launch every time, and #thunderbird doesn’t launch at all (thunderbird & just hangs on “Using nsImapService.cpp”, then segfaults when I Ctrl+C after 24 hours…).

I have no idea what happened here and I don’t feel like I have time to mess around with it too much right now. Very disappointing.

@mkennedy Do you ever make your proposals publicly available? I have never been on the PyCon committee, but I would be willing to take a look and give an opinion.

I usually get a talk in, though I don’t know how much of that is from being good at writing proposals and how much of it is other factors (choice of topic, track record as a speaker, position in the community, etc).

This is the proposal that I got accepted this year: https://gitlab.com/pganssle/proposals/-/blob/master/pytest-unittest/2023-pycon-us-pytest-unittest.md?ref_type=heads

It was rejected last year on favor of this one: https://gitlab.com/pganssle/proposals/-/blob/master/datetime/2023-pycon-us-working-with-timezones-redux.md?ref_type=heads

The year before that I gave this talk: https://gitlab.com/pganssle/proposals/-/blob/master/upstream_bugs/2020-pycon-upstream-bugs.md?ref_type=heads

(Originally scheduled for 2020)

@henryiii This is honestly pretty shocking to me. I would have been confident that the bottleneck for pip was disk I/O and network latency, in which case rewriting in Rust would not really matter.

Is pip just slow now because of the resolver? Or is pip leaving a lot of performance on the table?

Also if someone has a better version of this please let me know I am not interested in maintaining any kind of shell code.

Any #bash experts out there have an idea why this function isn’t working well with ps? If I pipe df -h into it, it works fine. If I redirect the out put from ps -aux to a file, then cat that file into it, it works. When I pipe ps -aux directly into it, I only get the header.

https://github.com/pganssle/dotfiles/pull/2/files

@freemo That is actually a myth. I have played a lot of Minecraft recently and the actual rule is that if you fall into water you won’t be hurt at all, no matter how shallow the water.

If you are working at high heights, it is best to keep a bucket of water on you in case you fall.

The Japanese version of Jeopardy! is basically exactly as I expected (though I didn’t think they would have more than 3 contestants)

(Note: I am watching a different episode than the one I linked)

They seem a little looser with the rules, too. At one point there is a question about Batman where one contestant answers, “Poison Ivy” and the host is like, “No we want the actress” and the guy says, “Uma Thurman” and gets it right.

Later on no one buzzes in on one of the questions and after the host is ready to move on one guy tries to hit the buzzer and the host is like, “Oh hey you want to answer?” And the guy gives a response.

In the late 90s there was a Mexican version of Jeopardy!, and for some reason they decided to add dancing girls to it: https://youtu.be/P0DUhx0avLw?si=9-eF21sIIsSz68eF

I did not expect them to dance for quite so long at the beginning there…

@eric I remember the first time I saw them I was like, “Oh that is an interesting duck wait what the fuck is going on down there‽”

@Log3overLog2 I wonder if a generalization exists for N paper l parties? Can you start with 4N districts, have party 2 combine, then party 3 combine again?

I’m guessing no, since in the extreme case you have log2(population) parties, the “define” party is forced to define 1-person districts and is effectively left out of the process…