Simon @spoltier@qoto.org

@mcc sorry for replying to every single one of these but you are literally triggering repressed memories.

Please strongly recommend to the laptop's owner that when they have this miserable day in the future, the thing they want is to NOT use Homebrew python, per https://justinmayer.com/posts/homebrew-python-is-not-for-you/

Personally I have a strong preference for upstream builds https://blog.glyph.im/2023/08/get-your-mac-python-from-python-dot-org.html but *anything* is better than Homebrew. It will self-generate the nightmare "everything broken" situation every 14 months or so.

I just thought of a use of LLM/chatgpt:
q: What is " PM" a mojibake of?

GPT-4 O: "ΓÇ»PM" is likely a mojibake (garbled text resulting from text encoding issues) of "—PM". This typically happens when text encoded in UTF-8 is misinterpreted as Windows-1252 or a similar encoding. In UTF-8, the em dash (—) is represented by the byte sequence `E2 80 94`. If these bytes are incorrectly interpreted as Windows-1252, they are displayed as "ΓÇ»". Therefore, "ΓÇ»PM" should correctly be "—PM".

Any mathematicians looking for CS partners for the NSF proposal on AI for Math? We are thinking of doing something related to discovering relations as well as automatically formalizing proofs from both natural language and diagrams drawn by hand. We have a few other ideas too.

I’ve focused on security for at-risk civil society groups for over a decade now (🙀), including human rights defenders, lawyers, and journalists. I've got some availability these next few months, please get in touch for collaboration, consulting, training, presenting, etc!

@whitequark I'm surprised there isn't one in there already.

i should put a wasm runtime into the Windows kernel

"to foster positive work attitudes and behaviors in their direct reports managers have a dual fairness challenge: (1) to treat their direct reports fairly, and (2) to create conditions in which their direct reports treat one another fairly.

Indeed, the findings of Bendersky and Brockner suggest that the failure of managers to do the latter may counteract the success they achieved by doing the former." (Brockner & Sherman, 2019)

@grimalkina If I dig into that more, I think of the fundamental shift for me was actually not a coming of age (although that played a big part), But rather it was going from having no agency to having sufficient agency to where I want to (and can) intentionally seek out fulfillment

So, now that I have that agency, I take steps in order to minimize use of things that remove agency from my life. But I see people that still use tech for escapism having that lack of agency; I think it's related?

@grimalkina I mean, honestly, even when writing that I realized after I sent it that I sent my response in a more closed loop framing and didn't really leave room for a further follow up response from you. I can't remember if that's how Twitter ended up being too (I think so), but I see that closed form sort of response a *lot* more often here for some reason.

Lemme open it again

What do you think about that? Does any of that resonate with you, or am I thinking about it wrong? :)

I can't figure out if mastodon is a high context culture or not. People seem to be expected to give long introductions and do a lot of identity/positionality disclosure, but also an enormous reply guy culture which is defined by low context drive-by. Conversational turn-taking is extremely low compared to other platforms ime, but depth-seeking is high. What an interesting mix.

*obviously, these experiences are all situated within my own network effects, and I'm not well networked here.

my favourite detail about today is that a geomagnetic storm of this magnitude induces currents exceeding 200A through metal pipelines. hope those earth stakes are beefy enough!

I just discovered that a good chunk of the infosec community that left Twitter about a year and a half ago is back on the site tweeting away.

And a whole bunch of infosec journalists have either returned or never left.

Leaving Twitter cost me a lot of traffic to Metacurity and cut my ability to promote my work, but man, I'm never going back.

Thinking about slow work, of which all justice work is a part, in a world that wants you to feel worthless for it. Thinking about how I got off a plane in time to hug my wife after we saw a picture of snipers on her campus surveilling her students. Thinking about how many backyard bbqs we've had those students over for (rented tables outside, our tiny cottage can't hold them all). Thinking what is the exchange rate of bbqs to guns on campus in the calculus of whether a student feels safe

Answer: `\x01c` is an escape sequence that translates to a single character. Any amount of hexadecimal digits after `\x` designate a single character.

Fully half of the respondents do not know this! It's a really interesting result to me; nearly every C programmer has used this escape sequence at some point, and yet. Even some really experienced people have been tripped up by this.

I love these metatextual type specimens from 1907--the opposite of lorem ipsum. https://uwmspeccoll.tumblr.com/post/749853640601255936/typography-tuesday

I found a lil something unexpected.
Not sure this will be such a big deal to you but I was pleasantly surprised by this behavior.

FYI if you use Medium it requires a sign-in to read posts. So I won’t ever read your posts because I don’t want to hand over my info to them.

Also I’m not interested enough to go through a bunch of extra clicks

And if a lot of other people aren’t in the first camp, you can bet a ton of them are in the second

@whitequark wait wait I just remembered I made this a few years ago