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
Oh, also apparently you need a Microsoft account to connect to even custom Minecraft servers, and you need to pay for a Nintendo Online account AND have a Microsoft account to connect to Minecraft servers on the Switch.
Haven’t interacted with a #Microsoft product in a long, long time, then my son got really into #Minecraft and I bought a Windows computer. So far I’ve found:
- Not only is internet required to install Windows, you also need a Microsoft account¹.
- The Switch, Xbox and PS4/PS5 versions of Minecraft can only connect to “featured” servers rather than custom servers.²
Not a good track record for like… 1 week of interacting with their products.
¹I realize that there’s some convoluted way to do this, but it definitely derailed me from doing the Windows install when I wanted to. Particularly since I’m just dual-booting Windows as a “just-in-case” type situation.
²Luckily someone has hacked around this requirement, though who knows how long that can last.
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Congratulations to the new Python Steering Council for 2024!
* Pablo Galindo Salgado
* Gregory P. Smith @gpshead
* Barry Warsaw @flufl
* Emily Morehouse
* Thomas Wouters @Yhg1s
https://discuss.python.org/t/steering-council-election-results-2024-term/40851?u=hugovk
https://hugovk.github.io/python-steering-council/
#Python #SteeringCouncil #PythonSteeringCouncil
@jotaemei I don’t know what double meaning you could be referring to. ChatGPT is pretty convinced that this phrase might be used jokingly or metaphorically, but it doesn’t offer up any specific double meaning… 😅
@cameron Congratulations!
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I wrote a little post about pipx's new experimental script support: https://iscinumpy.dev/post/pep723/
You can now have a single Python file that declares its dependencies, and run it via pipx run! #python #pipx
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Turing https://www.turing.com/ is a really scummy company. After all those "our AI thinks you'd like this" spam emails didn't work, now they've somehow found my private phone number and texted me spam about their product. This is the first time I've every had a company do this, and it's just disgusting. #TuringCompany #Spam
@weebull Power supply seems like one of the cheaper things to upgrade (though maybe not one of the physically easiest ones, considering that it plugs into everything 😛
@tomnardi I think I figured out why my blinkers weren’t waking it up — there’s a step-up transformer between the USB output and the blinker switch, and I think the step-up needs to have enough power to run it before the input impedance depends on the impedance across the outputs.
I think if the blinkers ran on 5.5V natively this would be no problem.
The solutions I see to this are:
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Use a DPDT switch instead of the SPDT switch that’s in there now, and with the second pole connected to a resistor across the 5.5V outputs. I don’t mind pulling an extra 50mA or whatever for the time the blinker is on, but if you want to get fancy you can probably have this connected to a simple circuit that spikes the impedance when first turned on, then turns off.
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Add a battery or capacitor to the input of the step-up that is sufficient to power the circuit when the battery pack is off, and where the quiescent current of the step-up would take 3-7 days to discharge the cap. That way any time you turn on the blinker, the circuit draws current and the battery pack wakes up (and recharges the capacitor).
I’m probably going to look for another solution that involves either pulling power from the bike itself or adding a drill battery or something, but I think the capacitor thing would probably work if I was really married to the battery pack solution.
OK, for a while I’ve been thinking I’d like access to a GPU to do some local #ml jobs. Probably don’t need to train a bunch of models from scratch, but I can imagine wanting to do some fine-tuning.
Right now I use Whisper on CPU and image generators like Stable Diffusion via pre-existing endpoints. I can imagine in the future my heaviest use will be image generators like SDXL and text-to-speech, and possibly I’d want to use them for high quality speech-to-text workflows as well.
I’ve got this small media server that has a free PCiE slot, anyone know if I can just throw something like this in there and call it a day?
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Kicking off our #FreeSoftwareAdvent we have @loen's recommendations of very familiar #FLOSS software - OBS Studio (https://obsproject.com/), Inkscape (https://inkscape.org/), and Firefox (https://firefox.com)
https://mastodon.social/@loen@mastodon.world/111511520480308838
@tomnardi What does that mean to trigger a load, though? The blinkers themselves draw current, so if all that is required is to have a circuit that would draw power, they should be waking up the device.
If I understand what the 555 circuit is doing correctly, I think it’s keeping the battery pack awake — which is a much easier task, because the battery pack is active and you just need to draw enough current for it to not go to sleep.
@tomnardi But what would the microcontroller do? I’ve never seen a description of any sort of protocol that wakes up battery packs from sleep, they just wake up when they detect something has been plugged in or if you press the button on the side.
In the long run I need to find a different way to power the blinkers anyway — either pulling power directly from the ebike battery (if I can get a line in there) or switch to using like a drill battery or something.
I’m thinking that in the short run I’ll just plug in a second circuit that just burns the minimum amount of power to keep it awake, and unplug that circuit when I’m not actively riding the bike.
Anyone know if it’s possible to wake up a USB battery pack that has gone to sleep?
I’m using a battery pack to power a blinker circuit, but the pack goes to sleep like right away. I was hoping that the blinker circuit drawing power would be enough to wake it up, but apparently not.
Most of what I’m finding when I search for this are ways to keep the battery awake all the time (for powering low-power circuits), but I really just want to wake it up when I’m actively using the blinkers, and let it sleep otherwise.
Spoiler for rule 10
@christmastree @nedbat This is what I came up with (which basically uses your #2): https://gist.github.com/pganssle/d8496bf6553c6f74af97e7f65760defd
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It's time for another episode of the core.py podcast about #Python internals!
This time Pablo and I are answering the fundamental question "what even *is* an interpreter?"
We go and attempt to explain this to people who never looked at the heart of CPython before (located in the ceval.c file).
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/corepy/episodes/Episode-4---Frame-Evaluation-e2cjdrn
Programmer working at Google. Python core developer and general FOSS contributor. I also post some parenting content.
Joined Nov 2019
