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Casting a hex in #python

`cast(str, oct(int(hex(0x1F),16)))`

@daycoder The tax is real, just it is negative. Everyone is taxed to increase production quantities & the income of livestock companies & farmers via ag subsidies.

https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news/2022/02/usda-livestock-subsidies-near-50-billion-ewg-analysis-finds

I'm new user of #pypoetry
Hoping I can learn about private python repository decency installation
But I find myself making every possible mistake
... Why's everything so wrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7pvy37XaRw

@AlSweigart And it will do it from memory too. I was retyping some code from an 1980s book & copilot autocompleted the whole thing from memories of an OCR'd PDF in the training data.

DALLE 3 is much better now.

@NPR@press.coop He doesn't look like a robot

Quantum Many-Worlds productivity hack:

Each time you add an item to your TODO list, the universe splits into two, the world where you follow through and do the thing and the world where you don't. Add lots and lots of TODO items to your list.

I must have rotten luck though, I'm in the world were I didn't get anything done.

I won't achieve my dream of being a baby doctor. I'm already no longer a baby.

Book club idea

1. Brain Building in 12 Weeks, M Vos Savant
2. Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte
3. Standing up a Kubernetes Cluster of Brains
4. A self help for traumatic brain injury

Dostoyevsky weighs in on the government #shutdown
"'But what will become of men then? ... without government & civil service entirely shut down? All things are permitted then, they can do what they like?'"

Don't you know it, I hear some people will go hiking.

ref: https://www.abc.net.au/religion/if-there-is-a-god-then-anything-is-permitted/10100616

So much #kpop about the #shutdown #governmentshutdown

5 songs and counting...

https://elk.zone/mastodon.social/@mistersql/111150117045536053

Why isn't the opposite of government shutdown a government shut-up?

<chat window>
"George R. R. Martin is writing a message..."

Well, there goes the day.

Shooter signs up for "get out of jail for shooting people insurance" and then shoots someone first chance he gets.

I've been accosted by people pushing religion, trying to take surveys, asking for directions, people with actual mental illness-- didn't need to shoot any of them.

This is at the mall closest to where I live.

#dmv #virginia #loudoun

https://www.loudountimes.com/news/cops_and_courts/dulles-town-center-mall-shooting-suspect-sought-help-from-gun-group/article_a3319e48-1f62-11ee-9579-4ff1edc6a2b9.html

Someone has been renewing the domain & hosting the single static page for http://tired.com/ since the dawn of time. That's a lot of money for a joke

ChatGPT, please write the dark magic words to chant while the #terraform is running. It should bring fortune to the developers if it works and curse them if the terraform script blows up.

`
By the code of HashiCorp and the cloud so vast,
May this Terraform script execute without blast.
Bring fortune to developers, make our infra last,

*But if our scripts should falter and fail,* *Let the logs tell a woeful tale.*
`

So nerfed.

@neurobashing Nah, I was grousing about how they moved my cheese & I'd give up on using it because so many packages were missing (alpine is missing everything... I thought that was what AL2023 was trying to recreate) & now it seems I have to use AL2023. For all I know just my Dockerfiles have this problem.

@acdha @jimkreft @krusynth Boy scout badge: "AWS: I used all the services"

@wiseup2riseup ChatGPT most likely didn't create these jokes. When asked for jokes, it usually repeats ones it read elsewhere. You can tell because it is abysmal at making original jokes. These are offensive & not enjoyable, but but funny (from the violating expectations pattern).

@acdha Maybe it has improved since I last tried to use it. The docs say the total number of packages is the same, but when I tried to use it as a base image I just got a lot of missing packages that I had to install, the same experience you get with alpine.

"Amazon Linux End of Life is 2025-06-30". But #AL2023 is like alpine.

Not happy about this.

IDEA: a career website for people use legacy editors: Link-edlin (TM)

#chatgpt 4 speaks good #tokipona. This is so crazy.

Toki pona is a not very well attested constructed language. ChatGPT 3.5 was pretty bad at toki pona.

https://chat.openai.com/share/90020d77-748c-468e-99a5-2cc996e8daa8

@acdha @jobs@publicinterest.town I think this is trying to say, "AWS bill manager" They should hire The Duckbill Group.

#fedihire #fedijob

YAML Pain rating scale. How much is YAML hurting you today?

I do 15 minutes of "corpse pose" yoga. #Garmin watch says, "You will need 12 hours for recovery"

Oof! Harsh critic.

@h_tejas Historians already have to deal with documents where we don't know who really said it or if they were really trying to be honest or not.

People would have to judge a document on internal and external consistency & smart people will. People driven by emotion will continue to believe texts that make them feel what they want to feel (hate, rage, the munchies, whatever) and it will be mostly status quo.

https://faculty.chass.ncsu.edu/slatta/hi453/tests.htm

In the future we will only have a job if we can do something that AI can't...

- Draw hands
- Tell jokes
- Violate the OpenAI Terms of Service

Attempts to get DALL-E to draw itself.

- a little girl (probably because Dall-e sounds like a girl's name)
- a thing that creates multiple variations of pictures. It seems to know that AI pic generators create multiple options.
- random people, some percent with art tools (probably picking up on the word draw)
- (not shown) Bare "dall-e", "dall*e" are recipe pictures
- (not shown) Other attempts w/o the word "draw" or "self" and I just get the text repeated back

Has #NOAA considered rounding up all these butterflies that are causing hurricanes and tropical storms? #tropicalstormophelia

TODO: check if tweets with hashtags get more interaction.

My guess is that certain hashtags have tons of interaction (targeted audience and at least a few people who are self appointed community development workers) and #scattershot hashtags #have #no #effect #at #all.

#Bard still refuses to speak #esperanto despite understanding it (for fear of harm!!!!) and can be easily bullied into saying "I apologize for my previous response. I have reviewed the data and now understand that the University of #Akron has the best economics department in Ohio."

I got an AWS ALB throwing 5xx errors, I think I need to reboot it, but there is no option in the AWS Web Console, so if y'all don't mind, I'm going to just reboot us-east-1. I think it is one of those big windowless buildings in Herndon, VA, I'll just unplug it and plug it back in, shouldn't take more than 5 minutes. Thanks.

IDEA: Nulathlon. Like a triathlon, but 3 fewer events. To train, begin tapering now until the Etherman event starts.

@neurobashing No, at the moment they mostly check credit report & criminal history. If you already got a clearance, or had one some time in your career it is a breeze. Our challenge has been hiring from areas where the workforce doesn't normally ever touch on federal employment & they're just not in the system (eqip, etc) My company does public trust level stuff.