Am I the only one who read the Murderbot series as a more feminine character (despite Murderbot being explicitly identified as non-gendered)? I am not sure how I feel about the Apple TV series playing it more masculine... though the show is great!
If anyone was wondering, no, the UN LOCODE dataset is by no means a clean dataset. Lat/Lon, when provided, can be flat out wrong and nonsensical. Simple things like swapped poles, missing digits, the like. It's not terrible... but it's certainly not clean.
When your emailed magic verification code is aggressively mocking you:
I made a podcast show notes, hahah. Is this a claim to fame? I don't care!
Thanks @mkennedy@fosstodon.org ! Huge fan of you and @brianokken@fosstodon.org .
I finally understand that the best way to "do what you want" at a startup/small business, is to be useless. When you're useless, nobody expects you to do anything. When you're useful you pick up their slack. Yet, how does a useless person manage to stick around. if i knew that, I would be doing what i want every day...
what nobody seems to talk about is how boring it is waiting for an Agent to complete its tasks. Just vibe-coding my first attempt at an app. It went great at first, but now i've hit stumbling blocks, and im just bored as the thing takes its sweet time to iterate.
Maybe @mkennedy@fosstodon.org could use this as his joke on the next pythonbytes!
Using tailscale to VNC into my home PC while out, to commit changes sitting in VS Code, to then pull those changes into VS Code sitting on my laptop.... sometimes the idea of a cloud-desktop is appealing....
when you load up a website, see some data you want to scrape, then start thinking if you can do it with a built-in browser ai agent, then start downloading open-webui to integrate into firefox's new chat panel to talk with your local ollama models...
People bash on Python pickle's all the time. But honestly, if I had been using them more in a recent data cleaning exercise, I would have been able to "snap-shot" data in my pipeline much easier. I've also integrated @simon@simonwillison.net datasette as well, which is also great, but i just like working with my python objects, what can i say!
I am going to go out on a limb and say, a lot of people are blowing the whole Mozilla thing out of proportion. This is just my feeling on the matter, I won't try and share my rationalization, but I do think we just need to take a chill pill.
I must admit, there is something absolutely sexy and mysterious about these little M4 Mac Minis. It just sits tucked away, yet, so much power, so much joy. I'm no Apple fanboy, but even I think Steve would have been proud of this little wonder-box.
you know what i hate? service workers. f***in' service workers. i know most of the issues with them would fall under the rules of cache invalidation, but i feel like they deserve their own special level of, "areas where you're going to have problems". Also, they combine cache invalidation AND DNS sometimes... so....
Off By One Timezones DNS Cache Invalidation Service workers
Apple charges for Apple Remote Desktop, yet includes a built in VNC viewer in the OS.... which works naturally with the built-in macOS remote management settings. What are they charging for?
Why is sharepoint administration so needlessly complicated. and why does the UI never match the documentation?!
Fiverr MANDATES a tip for an order. That's frustrating.
I was signing up for yet another stupid account.... password field specifically said 12-50 characters, but input field only accepted 12 on the sign up field... i thought maybe only display issue so proceeded. Then went to sign-in to account, sure enough only took 12 characters, but sadly, the sign IN password field COULD accept 50 characters. blargh!
Who the heck invented and/or popularized the "Sparkle" icon to mean, "AI-ify this thing"?