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@regehr @pinskia having used a bunch of Perl back in ye olden days, and now being mostly on Python, I think that's exactly the point: you can write understandable Perl, but it requires effort. You can also write convoluted Python, but that requires effort as well 🤷

@pg All online nerdry eventually converges into an XKCD comic 👍

I was $TODAY years old when I realized that quadtrees and octrees are just the 2D/3D generalization of binary search 🤦
I've been doing CS stuff for ~30 years and have been a CS prof for 10+ years. I am very smart. 🥴
#programming #computerscience #graphics

@weirdunits if this is ever greater than 0 and you're writing a network stack, you should seriously consider that cabin in the woods again.

@odr_k4tana 😁😇

New signature, who dis:
"This artisanal email was handcrafted on a mechanical keyboard with nothing but the finest UTF-8 characters. Certified AI-Free (R)."
#ai #llm

I've been using an old Fitbit Versa 2 for years, until #Google bought #Fitbit and decided they couldn't be arsed to support 3rd-party apps in Europe anymore (because it's waaay too hard to do this in a GDPR-compliant way). 🙄
But thanks to open source and the Fitbit SDK, I fixed some minor bits in 6-year-old code and now I have my TOTP codes back on my wrist! 😁
https://github.com/floe/fitbit-authenticator
#opensource #coding

The AI integrations will continue until productivity improves.
#ai #llm

@mntmn Oooh neat. Hadn't realized there's so much free space, I'm assuming you could e.g. have a second battery pack on the bottom right?

@sharponlooker @pomarede Ooooh, I just realized this is actually explained on the linked website 🤦 Maaaaybe I should have read that first 😅 So no Starlink after all...

@sharponlooker @pomarede That makes sense, thanks!

@sharponlooker @pomarede Oh, I thought the big one right at the start of the animation was the sun... (and there's often 2 or 3 streaks per frame?)

@pomarede Orrrr, look at all the bloody Starlink streaks... 🙄

@sorensorensen Good question - also unclear if you could intentionally push your paper to next year and get a free pass? The whole Danish agreement looks rather shady 🙄

@Sonikku @Tubemeister @cstross I watched this movie in school 🧟‍♂️

P.S. Even better: the Danish National Library actually has an OA agreement with T&F as well... however, this only covers a certain amount of publications per year for all of Denmark, and if they are used up, you better open your wallet. 
Bonus points: it's not obvious how many publications that actually means. Is it, like, five?

@odr_k4tana this ☝️

@cstross Sheepzilla *stomp* *stomp* BAAAAAAAA

@odr_k4tana the article, or T&F? 😈

My former PhD student still had an article under review at a Taylor and Francis journal, which has finally been accepted (yay!) for the low, low article processing fee of 3,505 € (oof!).
I think we can sidestep this because his new postdoc position is at NTNU, which has a blanket OA publishing agreement... but the nerve of T&F to charge 3.5k€ for a roughly two-year-long review process... (of which they actually didn't do anything, volunteers as usual) 😑
#academia #publishing