@peter_mcmahan@mas.toI needed a way to have unique, student-facing identifiers for the people taking my class to ensure that name collisions don't cause students to see each others' info.
Sure, I _could_ use their student ID number, or a regular hash. But those would be obviously inferior to writing a bespoke unicode-face-making hasher function.
Was it a good use of my time? Absolutely.
@comex@mas.toIt's kind of crazy that both GPT and Claude really love to manipulate files by writing Python scripts that do text search-and-replace. First of all, why isn't this a dedicated tool? Second, the generated scripts usually don't check that the search-and-replace was successful. Are they just good enough at regurgitating text that they never make mistakes? What if the file was modified in the mean time?
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzDallas Cowboys Quickly Emerging as Best Trade Fit for Pro Bowl Edge Rusher https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/josh-sweat-quickly-emerging-best-trade-fit/
@shacker@zirk.usJust back from traveling in Scotland for a couple of weeks, and this time I went without a computer - Just Lightroom Mobile on iPad. I encountered a bunch of caveats and ended up writing this guide at Framespotting for people who want to try the same - you'll want to plan and practice to make this work well! Sorry about the dorky Gemini illustration.
@rberger@hachyderm.ioFind and Help your Open Source Friends
- Leonid Bugaev
"So let the large projects close the queue [to LLM contributions]. There is a lot more open source out there.
That was the reason I built Help Wanted in the first place, few years ago. At the time of writing, it has 650,456 issues from 96,576 projects in its index, from the projects who actually WANT help. Most developers will never hear the names of nearly all these projects.”
#OpenSource
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialRE: https://mastodon.social/@AbandonedAmerica/117373122964874995
I really wish I could put my writing behind a paywall for AI crawlers only.
My Kinktober shorts have always been public. This year is the first time I keep them behind a (free) wall because of AI crawlers. I want to share my work with others but the joy of putting something online has been so thoroughly tainted by AI companies fucking stealing everything.
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzDallas Cowboys Urged to Swing Trade for 9X Pro Bowler in Blockbuster Move https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/khalil-mack-urged-trade-blockbuster-move/
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialFinally that time of the year for writing by candle light again 😊
#amWriting #amWritingFantasy
@pre@boing.worldArguably the main purpose of the new Steam Machine really is to be the screen and keyboard on the treadmil desk.
Finally, that thing isn't running of the portable games console, and is capable of doing actual work.
Haven't spent much time with Arch or KDE before, let alone this SteamOS variant in particular.
Weird and funny that's it's username is 'deck' and it's hostname is 'steamdeck'
Half an hour at a potentially-keep-it-up-all-day sedate pace.
The work I got done is entirely just configuring this machine though 😆
Here's the bash script I now have which I can copy to a new steam machine, and maybe any Arch / KDE machine, to install Vim and set up keyboard shortcuts so you can move the windows around with ctrl-alt-J and the keys around that on the keyboard. Nine shortcuts for nine sides/corners/center.
#arch #kde #steamos #steamMachine