matejcik @matejcik@octodon.social
crypto as in cryptography. but working at Satoshi Labs.
polyamorous, rationalist, sjw.
techy / hacky things.
likes they/them, but doesn't really care
hello Germany!
Aww this is cute "Why does `man` print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30?" https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405783/why-does-man-print-gimme-gimme-gimme-at-0030
I often thought PALINDROME would be the perfect name for wherever Michal Palin lives…
I can just hear him saying, "Welcome… to the PALINDROME!"
for the record my new phone is a Galaxy S8. I would never have though I'd get a Samsung, but there were some nice discounts.
pretty good so far. it's fast as fuck, the display is big (although the reds on the oled are a little off), I even managed to turn off heads-up notifications, which are the stupidest idea ever. the always on display is super sexy. also the camera is as rad as I expected.
This is why artificial neural nets do so well: they work similar to humans. They can capture the nuance of dogness, because a neural net is the right structure to encode it. Because "dogness" is just that, a configuration of a neural net.
A computer *could* recognize a dog by the biological definition, but not from a photo. You could describe a dog by properties, but that's just describing what the neural net does. So why not go to the source.
Recent thought: a "pattern" is "something a neural network can detect".
A "dog" is "something humans recognize as dog". Nothing more, nothing actually inherent to the animal. Most of what modern science does is redefine things to be more clear-cut: "dog is an animal that shares this much DNA with a dog prototype". But that's not *finding out* what a dog is, it's redefining.
(see also, whale is not a fish)
IOW, Plato was wrong. There is no ideal of dogness. What we see is what we get.
ah, it works now. maybe I just needed to do an action to mark me as alive
got a new phone!
and my timeline in tusky is empty. did all my followees disappear, or is tusky broken?
I like octodon. It is a nice little place, and it's perfect for that thing where you want to tell someone something, but it's a general "someone", not a specific someone.
(as is the fediverse as a whole, i suppose, but one of the pluses of octodon and others like it is the size. It's relatively popular and lively, but it's still _small_.)
With that, I present: facebook is evil. https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2017/04/22/against-facebook/
google pixel event!
is one of the pixels going to be my next phone?
or will it be iPhone 8 (plus)?
or something else?
case in point: "Women Aren't Nags—We're Just Fed Up "
http://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a12063822/emotional-labor-gender-equality/
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Then I tried to gingerly explain the concept of emotional labor: that I was the manager of the household, and that being manager was a lot of thankless work.
"""
they got a whole pdf backing up this definition, which is not even about emotions in the first place!
ffs
words. they have meanings, people.
I dislike the term "emotional labor".
more specifically, I dislike how it was coined to describe one thing (the part of your day job where apart from bringing people food you have to wear a happy face and say "I'm sorry" even when it's not your fault (iirc)) and then people started using it for like three completely different things, just like that willy nilly.
things that are real, valid and worth discussing, but should find their own term!
have you questioned your gender yet today?
start now! we have to figure out what it knows! it could be the key to saving everyone!
It's a me, matejcik!
Just wanted to tell you (where by "you" i mean the infinite staring void that is the fediverse) that i'm on track with my studies.
Rather cool, considering that I haven't touched my studies in like year and a half.
Student life: non stop effort. 24 hours a day, seven days a week, three weeks a year.
big o notation cheatsheet. when they say ___, they mean ____
O(1) - it takes the same amount of time, every time
O(log n) - you know binary search? that's happening somewhere
O(n) - there's a loop somewhere
O(n log n) - there's a loop, and in that loop is a binary search (or it's a binary search and each time it examines an item it's gotta do a loop)
O(n^2) - there's a loop in a loop, think iterating over the pixels of an n*n image
Seriously, RPM documentation is so bad.
In RPM, the %_specfile macro will tell you the location of the current spec file.
It would be so nice if a list of such macros and their descriptions existed somewhere, instead of having to %dump and then search its output.
It would be also nice if the official docs told you about existence of %dump and you didn't have to rely on info from a random blog post from 2011 that you find on google.
[ 291s] tests/functional/leak/test_resource_leaks.py FEFEFEFEFEFE
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So people who put their packages on PyPI remove tests from the distributions.
How lovely of them. Now we get to search their githubs if we want tests.
https://octodon.social/media/VQAz-Rmc_jHVgEeGf68
I mean, okay, I wanted to do a gui with conrod and I switched to printing in console basically six lines in.
I'll go back to "hello conrod" sample later when I understand the language better
but if you need to put together parts from seven different modules, each nested four levels deep, just to initialize the thing... one can't help but think that there's a better way.
