This #SMBC comic references real python libraries, #pylibmc
If the pypi references don't checkout a comic isn't funny
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#Smbc
Existing #SMBC comics data compiled into convenient datasets
I'm happy with how this turned out so far.
TODO
- Another round of OCR (anything better than tesseract?)
- LLM OCR (Would that be expensive?)
- Merge the ~4 datasets into one for convenience
https://github.com/matthewdeanmartin/smbc_scraper?tab=readme-ov-file#smbc_scraper
#SMBC Comics Data Sources
- smbc-comics.com - reasonably scrapable, no description of the comic
- smbc-wiki.com - scrapable, has bot generated descriptions
- ohnorobot.com/index.php?comic=137&s=smbc - has 1/3 of comics, some description
- github.com/fricklerhandwerk/smbc - Many hand annotated in markup files
- The spreadsheet with really bad OCR
Link to spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CH3NX_xKOx-VIPZqp5GkCTHdS7QDsmg7w9Q71Z-aRT0/edit
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You want a job at #SMBC comics, this is your coding challenge
Oh snap, take that #python 2 developers.
Why doesn't he get the girl?
- didn't format with black
- didn't use +=
- python 2
- could be refactored to print("AAAAAH!\n" * 13)
I've been saying this about religion. You can't understand faith-based religion unless you take into the account how letting people know about your beliefs affects your group affiliation signals.
Idea for a #SMBC comic
Frame 1: Two bacteria, one says "Let's all lay on top of each other and we'll become one metabacteria and take over the world!"
Frame 2: Stromatolite
<time passes>
Frame 3: One guy to another, "Let's all lay on top of each other and we'll become one metahuman and take over the world!"
Someone make a merge request to #SMBC comics, it has #python 2 source code that hasn't been upgraded since 2012.
Yes, upgrading libraries is my day job.
This specifically: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20121118after.gif
Secret python joke #smbc
#smbc knew 3 years in advance.
Frankly I'm disappointed that no one has written an implementation of this programming language. #smbc
https://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1169#comic
You can use the Comic Finder plugin to read #SMBC comics with ChatGPT.
I'll report back later if it is any better than just using something like http://www.ohnorobot.com/index.php
#CodingKata implement the frogputer
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-12-21
Has frogs, boxes and flies. I'm a bit fuzzy on how it works. Trinary? 3 states? But frogs can eat the flies. Also frogs and flies persist after you remove them from the box, so 0s are free but you got a limited number of frogs and flies (1's and 2's)
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal's author has a Mastodon account, confirm on his official twitter account.