Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13@mumak.app
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co-Founder // Chief Science Officer at @geopipe (🖖🏻), PhD from Brown CS Dept (w/ @maurice), SMCVT alum (Math/Physics/CS), admin at Cemetech, AFOL & open-theist.
Decentralizing systems (human & digital). Opinions are my own.
📍 Vermont
Joined Nov 2022
Happy #Caturday from Agnes and Rascal.
Somehow captured the exact moment when Rascal made the jump the hyperspace.
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It's entirely possible for decentralized instances to provide safety, but most don't/won't. I'm super happy with hachyderm.io for example. ♥️👍🏿
But a larger company is going to integrate with the fediverse, and fulfill the most basic user feature request: "As a user of your product, I would like to know that signing up will not expose me to death threats from nazis" 🤷🏿♂️
Then more new users are going to flow there.
@regehr life goals
the Randian undercurrent in Incredibles is actually not Syndrome, it's the whole supers being hated by society and having to go into hiding bit.
@mutual_ayyde@mastodon I also haven't seen Tomorrowland, and I don't have any very strongly held opinions here, just relaying the very surface analysis I've seen others share.
@cwebber okay so somehow this post filtered back around in my browsing and I was reading the link on rebooting web of trust, which actually relates to something I've been thinking about recently. Are you aware of anyone attempting to write an OTRv4 client on top of ActivityPub/Mastodon?
@mutual_ayyde There's a whole montage of him trying to help Mr. Incredible and getting dismissed/ignored.
Also - Tomorrowland is from the same director.
@mutual_ayyde I think the usual take is that it's Objectivist?
#LazyWeb question (answer *probably* related to #FFMPEG or #ImageMagick, but I guess more generally a question about #VideoEditing):
I have an image that is 18944 x 1024, and I would like to turn it into a video that is 576 x 1024, panning across the image *at a non-uniform rate*. If I have a list of "keyframe" time/X-coordinate pairs, what's the easiest way to generate this video?
@shriramk it gets really fun when one of the major geospatial library frameworks (GDAL) decides to break compatibility by switching the order in a major release (2 -> 3) without changing the API in any way that would prevent accidental misuse when porting over old code, and also offers an opt-in feature to get the old behavior back.
Let's try out this #7Books trend (fiction only, no repeat authors):
1. "The Lord of the Rings", J.R.R. #Tolkien
2. "Speaker for the Dead", Orson Scott Card
3. "All the Weyrs of Pern", Anne McCaffrey
4. "Tehanu", Ursula Le Guin
5. "Ilse Witch", Terry Brooks
6. "That Hideous Strength", C.S. Lewis
7. "Many Waters", Madeleine L'Engle
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The #Andor finale really was totally excellent and stirring and beautiful. I had high hopes and they were exceeded.
@dev my record is +7lbs start to finish.
@Patricia a couple times I’ve had to write one-off scripts using https://apitools.dev/json-schema-ref-parser/ to patch together a more complete non-hyperlinked schema to feed into other tools that want a single file
@Patricia where it gets hairy is that the schemas are often defined in fragments specific to a given API endpoint that then reference (by URI) other schema fragments, and a lot of the automated tools don’t handle this indirection well
@Patricia and there are tools that can validate JSON against a schema, and in some cases when generate example data from a schema
@Patricia I don’t know if “want” is the right word ;) but there is a standard format for them and they exist for many web APIs
@Patricia You can have schemas for JSON, but people say they like JSON for being comparatively succinct and if you want to do anything that looks like static typing then JSON ends up being wayyyyy more verbose because it doesn’t have attributes or tag names…
@b0rk I do a lot of geometric and/or visual computing where the visualization stuff is immensely useful and not that novel (logging shapes to SVG for example), but I *love* when an application has been engineered deterministically enough that I can just diff several MB of logs and I identify the point of divergence
- Personal
- http://sfgp.cemetech.net/
co-Founder // Chief Science Officer at @geopipe (🖖🏻), PhD from Brown CS Dept (w/ @maurice), SMCVT alum (Math/Physics/CS), admin at Cemetech, AFOL & open-theist.
Decentralizing systems (human & digital). Opinions are my own.
📍 Vermont
Joined Nov 2022
