True the average temperature of the Earth is rising. But that is just a symptom of too much Energy being stored. "Greenhouse Gases" are powerful molecular Energy storage. #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #ClimateWeirding

The SuperPower of #Gentoo #Linux is that you can set up your system exactly the way you want it via the USE flags. And packages will -- most of the time -- adjust to your desires. No such thing as package broken because of missing dependency feature. They either compile or not. #GentooLinux

#Gentoo Linux is not that "hard" at least, not as "hard" as #LinuxFromScratch Some of the "hard" points, I think, are: 1. Installation 2. Setting up your USE flags 3. Configuring your kernel the first time Once you've done all that, maintenance is easy. Just need TIME. #GentooLinux

With surprise, I noticed that my #Gentoo machine now pulls in #Zig as a BDEPEND A bit of diving shows that #ncdu has been rewritten in Zig. Nice, though that means yet-another-compiler to pull in. Maybe I should pull in zig-bin instead? #GentooLinux

Finally Linus drops #Bcachefs from the #LinuxKernel Starting 6.18 Bcachefs will be available only via DKMS. #Linux

I think the first time I made a "serious" multithreaded application, was with C#. Or was it VB.Net? I forgot. But I'm almost certain it was a .Net language. #ProgrammingExperience

I know C. I can read -- and understand, to a degree -- code in C. But I probably won't like it. So I won't ever write code in C, if it can be helped. C++ is totally different, though. I refuse to even peek at C++ code.

#GlobalWarming is kind of a misnomer. it's less about rising average temperature, but more precisely, about the Earth storing MUCH more energy. the overabundance of energy intensifies everything: summer becomes hotter winter becomes colder cyclones (typhoons/hurricanes) become more powerful

#GenerativeAI saves time in the generation, but wastes time in verification. And humans are lazy. Do you even think they will verify things? Stop using auto-complete to generate your documents! www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkjR...

Great article about #VibeCoding I may have a suitable anecdotal tale about this. See the thread underneath. #Coding #Programming nmn.gl/blog/vibe-co...

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life: 1. My dogs and their foibles 2. The daily “take me away” of soaps 3. The sublime reward of coding something in R or Python 4. My son’s new victories or adventures 5. Connecting with older loved ones while we still have ‘em

Remember the Alamo The fight for the freedom to keep slavery #Alamo #RememberTheAlamo more like let's #ForgetTheAlamo youtube.com/shorts/v5lvr...

Use built-in functions that support Iterable protocol. sum(range(101)) towardsdatascience.com/implementing... #PythonProgramming

Hudson / Hudson Soft was so far ahead of the curve... And sadly was brought down by forces they totally can't control: Bank Failure. This is a good documentary: youtu.be/ow13aO1OmJM #Gaming #ConsoleGaming #PCEngine #TurboGrafx #GamingHistory

I think @steampowered.com should use a better rating system than a simple👍🏼|👎🏼 At least add a third option, "Neutral" 🫱🏼 Better if they use 5 options: 👍🏼👍🏼|👍🏼|🫱🏼|👎🏼|👎🏼👎🏼 Assign values of -2..+2 for the 5 options. Or -3 | -1 | 0 | +1 | +3 #Gaming #PCGaming

Finally. #SaintCarloAcutis, please intercede for us, fellow believers, in our daily interaction over the Internet. #CarloAcutis #Catholicism #Catholics

From @yongyea.bsky.social : Sadly, the game's not my taste, though it does look good. Please don't buy one for me, the money will be wasted. Rather, buy one for a friend of yours that loves the genre. Support #TeamCherry #Silksong #HollowKnight www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sxvk...

If you have #SaltStack in your system, You're in for a nice surprise: It carries a complete #Python 3.10 env within. Now you're no longer limited to what Python yout OS carries. You can even spin off a venv out of it! #PythonProgramming

Removing #Bcachefs from my #GentooLinux kernels, brb. #Linux youtu.be/5UTjPgScOO0

Hello @bsky.app @support.bsky.team , Please consider adding different translation engines. I myself am highly partial to DeepL. It would be nice if pressing the "Translate" link triggers a DeepL session instead of a Google Translate one.

Can someone explain to me, the difference between CC0 , CC-PDDC , and CC-PDM-1.0 ? #CreativeCommons #PublicDomain #SoftwareLicense #SoftwareLicensing #Licensing

For quick, short jots of #Python code, I recommend this website: www.pythonanywhere.com/try-ipython/ Definitely much simpler than Replit 😉 #PythonProgramming

Kind of related: If you use nargs="?", use Ellipsis as default, like so: parser.add_argument("--opt", nargs="?", default=Ellipsis) If --opt not specifed, Ellipsis will be returned. If --opt is specified but no argument, None will be returned. #PythonProgramming #PythonTips #Python

#PythonProgramming tip: Use Ellipsis as a Sentinel value. To the best of my knowledge, The #Python stdlib never returns an Ellipsis. So it can be used if None is a valid value.

O(no) You Didn't #python

Here's a #PythonProgramming tip: When configuring the logger using a dict, Grab the inside contents using the walrus. (Pic 1) That makes it easier to modify later. (Pic 2) [ _opts is of course the "Namespace" object returned by argparse.ArgumentParser().parse_args() ]

Slavery never ended in the USA. It's still alive and well and called "employment by corporations". Employees are just replaceable "resources".

The beauty of #GentooLinux ia NOT that you compile everything yourself. The beauty is in its ability to provide EXTENSIVE* customizations that will Just Work™️ (* To a certain degree.) #Linux

Two hours have passed and I'm still just 25 packages into a 71-package update. Huh, this might take until midnight to finish... #GentooLinux #Linux

Hello #SecondLife players, can you help? - Which male bodies, why, and where to buy - Which male heads, why, and where to buy - What store sell good classy-casual make clothing

"Breaking in", in the #Audio world, seems to be a debate topic. Oftentimes heatedly. Some people swear by it, Other say it's a myth. The truth, is somewhere inbetween. #AudioPhile 🧵...

Physical Media is NOT needed for #GamePreservation What is needed, instead, is availability of all components of the game, both the client side AND the server side. Open Source or not, Just keep them available.

Report: Nvidia paid $1m for Mar-a-Lago meal, US later scrapped AI chip export crackdown

You know the old joke, That the most secure computer Is the one you cast in concrete. Well, no. Putting a computer in concrete means you _totally_failed_ in providing the "A" in "C.I.A" #ITSecurity

OpenStack delivers ‘Epoxy’ release, which it hopes will unglue VMware more customers

Aih Aih aih... #MatiLampu Daerah terdampak: - Pondok Cabe - Cirendeu - Lebak Bulus - Cinere - Jagakarsa

In #Ansible The YAML is parsed first, Then the Jinja2 is templated. In #SaltStack The Jinja2 gets templated first, The the YAML is parsed. I found #SaltProject 's approach to be MUCH easier to reason about. Also, allows for dynamic building of YAML lists Without needing special filters.

#China #CCP exporting #TofuDreg construction. youtu.be/9kVfys_2SkI

I cannot swipe left to see who are being suggested for me. I'm on the Android Bluesky app. Who can I complain to?

This is a pretty big deal. The old world order is gone. Everything ahead of us is uncertain. We better prepare for it in our own country #nzpol

The old relationship we had with the United States is over.

I still find #StackOverflow to be a good resource. Especially for asking more niche questions. Like this question of mine: stackoverflow.com/q/79535789/1... Just make sure the question hasn't ever been asked before. It's not a big effort, I assure you. #PythonProgramming #SaltStack

Hmmm... How to tell #uv To use the #Python interpreter Supplied by #SaltStack #PythonProgramming

I'm no longer young, so I'll definitely need a roll-on suitcase to take something like this to places, But by gosh!! Please bring back CHONK!! Imagine all the expandability, No thermal issues because of underpowered cooling, And speakers that are decent!! youtube.com/shorts/sB5Ec...

OK, gonna throw this spicy bomb out there. If you're fortunate enough to have disposable income, then right now it is your duty to use that income wisely. You have agency over how you spend it and you should own how you spend it. Your decisions do, in fact, affect stock prices of big corporations.

This vid from the #WeatherChannel I take issue with the statement "without warning" The preliminary crumbling of the cliff, that's warning enough. If one has Common Sense, of course. youtube.com/shorts/nyYDv...

With Python's pattern matching, you no longer need a 'ladder' of isinstance. Do it like this: match var case list(): pass case str(): var = [s.strip() for s in var.strip(",")] case _: raise TypeError("var needs to be either list or str") #PythonProgramming

Yes. More of this, please. NEVER bend your knees to tyranny.

Thankfully I have practically left Facebook, like ... um ... 15 years ago? And thanks to Firefox's Multi-Account Container, Facebook-tainted sites are kept away.