Joe UchillCan I use gasoline to cook spaghetti faster?
DrJackMiller
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Medical Physicist. Nerd. Academic.
I have an overwhelming urge to share this. Try to quantify #nmr spectra with an R packaged called BATMAN, which performs a Bayesian automated quantification. It's excellent. It's really written in C++. 10 years ago. And the binary packages work. The _source_ packages however, segfault immediately unless I add specifically ` -O0 -ggdb -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2` to my `~/.R/Makevars`. Literally *everything* else segfaults with off-by-one-byte access errors in vectors and arrays. Great...
Unnamed TNG skant beefcakeMcGill: Microsoft says server farms are destroying the planet, so we're limiting the institutional cloud disk space we're giving you to 20 GB only
CIHR: You're still required to keep all your original data sets for all your research until 5 years after the end of the grant though
Me: If you and Microsoft want to actually do something about the planet, maybe pull the plug on OpenAI instead
McGill: If you have questions about the new policy read the email again good luck bye!
QuixoticgeekI find it reassuring that when the UK gov did it's consultation on bringing back barbarian stupid units. Over 98% of respondents said they wanted to just stick with metric.
Konstantinos Xynos
Sybren Stüvel 🧡🤍"This shocked me", about nudity in Baldur's Gate 3: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/826B2sKtcOY
Nudity doesn't shock me at all, it's part of being human. What I DO find shocking is all those games that find it acceptable to let you kill people at will, often with lots of blood & gore, but refuse to show even a nipple. THAT to me is much more disturbing than any nudity would be.
This will shock you in Baldur's Gate 3
The woeful UK government has just released this formal response to a consultation on "bringing back imperial measurements": https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/choice-on-units-of-measurement-markings-and-sales/outcome/choice-on-units-of-measurement-consultation-response. 99% of respondents thought it was a bad idea. Naturally, on the same day we get this excellent use of parliament time: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pints-of-wine-stocked-on-britains-shelves-for-the-first-time-ever
(Note the quotes around 'pint' because, I understand, the relevant legislation hasn't been adjusted yet).
I cannot begin to attempt to convey how stupid I think this all is. People are starving!
ssh://thepinkhacker.comI can't be the only one who has thought "what does the 'k' in KDE stand for?"
I swear, if it's recursive…
Greg Clarke 🇨🇦 
It's my daughter's second birthday! I setup Sugar Labs on an old laptop MacBook Air. The laptop had a broken keyboard so I bought her a cheap fun keyboard and mouse combo.
Sugar Labs is neat, it's got a simple UI which will help her learn how to navigate and a few simple programs for her to play with. It has a simple Python IDE but it might be a little while until she's ready to play with that. It has a web browser too so I might setup some custom Home Assistant dashboards so she can change the lights, control her train, etc. And I'll see if I can setup Signal or alike so she can call her grandparents.
I remember playing on our family Amstrad CPC when I was 4yo. It came with BASIC and it was my first exposure to coding. I want my daughter to have the opportunity to be a creator of tech instead of just a consumer of tech.
#Linux #Parenting #2yo #Birthday #SugarLabs #Distro #Fedora #HomeAssistant #Amstrad #AmstradCPC #Signal #Tech #Technology
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