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Sigh. On the heels of our last home maintenance mess
Very cool: our kids' bathroom toilet overflowed last night, resulting in water draining into our kitchen on the floor below.
, I just went into our garage to find a panel of insulation fallen to the ground, riddled with mouse droppings. ๐Ÿคข๐Ÿ˜ซ Cleaned it up (gloved and masked, naturally), but probably means we need to re-insulate the whole garage. Which will undoubtedly uncover a leak or some other issue. The fun never ends!
I'm doing experiments with short attention-span students and code. Starting with python, and, oddly, now working in BASIC. As a C programmer of 40+ years, I find this aesthetically and pedagogically displeasing, but I am delighted to see them getting fully absorbed in writing 130 PRINT "You have been eaten by a bear!" : GOTO 900. Yes there is spaghetti, but it's their spaghetti and they seem to take delight in debugging it. Python will come later. #educationnotesfollow #programmingnotesfollow
I was talking about this with some alumni students, specifically their experience learning python with us a few years earlier (these are college students who are not really using python any more). What it seems to boil down to is that with python you have the feeling that there is this huge forest of solutions to any problem you are having -- but you will never know the whole forest. BASIC feels like you "know" it after a day or two of playing around, evidently.
profilefollowOld school metallian, hobbyist developer writing things mostly in Rustโ€ฆmostlywrote:
Changed my theme to dracula! Love it. This site is such a blessing.
Funny that this box appears in front of me and every thought I've ever wanted to write down vacates my mind.
profilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ€” Sid Meyerswrote:
Maybe implementing a subset of Markdown would be a good thing. I am thinking about bold, italics, inline code, and code block, mostly. Oh, and links.
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profilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ€” Sid Meyersreplied toprofilefollow:
I think so. It could even be made a setting, defaulting it to off. I think it would be useful, especially is self-hosted for a tech community.
profilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ€” Sid Meyersreplied to๐Ÿคธprofilefollowcreative technologist creator of textlog:
I agree that minimalism is hard. Thatโ€™s why the subset was explicitly recommended small. Yet, I believe it is extremely useful to have.
๐Ÿคธprofilefollowcreative technologist creator of textlogreplied toprofilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ€” Sid Meyers:
I've tested MD and honestly I don't like it. Bold/italics add unnecessary noise/clutter and the font is already monospace, suited for code, so inline code & code fences are not needed. If 3rd party clients want to implement them it's fine but I'm sensitive to visual noise.
๐Ÿคธprofilefollowcreative technologist creator of textlogwrote:
I hate crawlers that donโ€™t advertise theyโ€™re crawlers. โ€™n badly written. They donโ€™t respect the canonical URLs so they keep getting themselves into a loop instead of actually crawling the site properly. They make the logs really hard to read. Canโ€™t block them theyโ€™re distributed.
๐Ÿค”profilefollowHai I am kucontinued:
For this particular problem though, I feel like if the crawlers are coming from domestic / residential IP addresses and they lack a distinctive http header or user agent, it is indistinguishable from a denial of service attack and must be treated as such.
๐Ÿคธprofilefollowcreative technologist creator of textlogreplied to๐Ÿค”profilefollowHai I am ku:
It would require permaban on IPs which would require permalogging of IPs in order to track them, and we are currently obfuscating them before hitting the DB with daily rotating salt so an anonymous user canโ€™t be tracked. So weโ€™d have to give up privacy/security :/
profilefollowlate is the hour in which this conjuror chooses to appearreplied to๐Ÿค”profilefollowHai I am ku:
But as long as people can still use the site it's OK, right? Seems like the problem is often self-inflicted, either because the site is so bloated that answering even GET-requests is burdensome, or because they're trying to monetize the data and so must block non-paying scrapers.
profilefollowOld school metallian, hobbyist developer writing things mostly in Rustโ€ฆmostlywrote:
Having a little difficulty seeing how long this service will exist. People are terrible. Sooner or later it will be found and ruined.
profilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ€” Sid Meyersreplied toprofilefollowOld school metallian, hobbyist developer writing things mostly in Rustโ€ฆmostly:
Yup. I have long change my philosophy on things like these: just live the day. :-)
๐Ÿคชprofilefollowwrote:
When I read about #autismnotesfollow in reputable #booksnotesfollow, I relate to almost everything that is described (keeping in mind that no two autistic people are alike). However, I always read the sections on #eyeContactnotesfollow with bewilderment. I don't identify either with the obsessive need to make eye contact, which UK and US books often mention as #neurotypicalnotesfollow behavior, or with the difficulties in making it. #Neurodiversitynotesfollow #Psychologynotesfollow #Autismnotesfollow
I suspectโ€”and this is the interesting partโ€”that there are significant cultural differences in this regard. In fact, the reputable Spanish books on autism that I have read don't address this topic (if I remember correctly).
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Definitely people here do intense full locked eye contact, which I canโ€™t do, unless Iโ€™m attracted to the person as I said. Even then Iโ€™ll move a bit around the face because itโ€™s uncomfortable even then. But others just lock in completely I see them doing it.
OK. I guess that Greece may be similar to Spain. I feel comfortable hanging with greeks, in Greece and elswhere. Then, if I don't look at the eyes, but others do. I guess that I'm very good at masking that I don't look at the eyes. I never got a comment related to eye contact.
I donโ€™t think itโ€™s something people notice immediately and consciously think this is wrong to make a comment, they will probably just not feel the same connection or feel something is off about you in general or think that youโ€™re busy thinking other things. Itโ€™s not the only case to not make eye contact with someone, you might just not like them. Thatโ€™s probably what they will sense.
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็œ‹ๆฅๅฏไปฅๅ‘ไธญๆ–‡ใ€‚ๅ› ไธบๆฒกๆœ‰่บซไปฝ่ฏ๏ผŒๆ‰€ไปฅไธ่ƒฝๆ‹ฅๆœ‰ๆ‰‹ๆœบๅท๏ผŒๆŽฅ็€ไธ่ƒฝๆณจๅ†Œ็จณๅฎš็š„email๏ผŒไนŸๅฐฑๆฒกๆณ•ๆณจๅ†Œๅ†…ๅฎนๅนณๅฐ๏ผŒๅ‘ๅธƒๅ†…ๅฎนใ€‚hotmailๅ› ไธบๆˆ‘ๆฒกๆœ‰็จณๅฎš็š„ipๅœฐๅ€๏ผŒๅธธๅธธๅฐ็ฆๆˆ‘็š„email่ดฆๅท๏ผŒๆˆ‘็š„mastodon่ดฆๅทๅ› ๆญคไนŸๆฒกๆณ•้•ฟๆœŸไฝฟ็”จใ€‚ๆˆ‘ๅธŒๆœ›่ฟ™ๆ˜ฏไธ€ไธชๆˆ‘ๅฏไปฅ้•ฟๆœŸๅ‘ๅธƒๅ†…ๅฎน็š„ๅœฐๆ–น
It seems I can post in Chinese. Because I don't have an ID card, I can't have a phone number, and therefore can't register a stable email address, which means I can't register on content platforms or publish content. Hotmail frequently blocks my email account because I don't have a stable IP address, so my Mastodon account can't be used long-term. I hope this is a place where I can publish content consistently.
profilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ€” Sid Meyersreplied toprofilefollow:
ๅ—ฏ๏ผŒๅฅฝๅง๏ผŒไธบไบ†ไฝ ่‡ชๅทฑ๏ผŒๆˆ‘ๅธŒๆœ›ๅฎƒ่ƒฝๆŒ็ปญๅพˆ้•ฟๆ—ถ้—ดใ€‚ไฝ ็š„ไบ’่”็ฝ‘้—ฎ้ข˜ๅพˆ้šพ่งฃๅ†ณ๏ผŒ้žๅธธๆŠฑๆญ‰๏ผ :-(
Well, okay, for your own sake, I hope it lasts a long time. I'm so sorry your internet problem is so difficult to fix! :-(
profilefollowreplied toprofilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ€” Sid Meyers:
่ฐข่ฐขไฝ ๏ผŒๆฒกๆƒณๅˆฐ่ฟ˜็œŸๆœ‰ไบบๅ›žๆˆ‘็š„ๅธ–ๅญ๏ผŒๆˆ‘ๅœจไบ’่”็ฝ‘ไธŠ่‡ณๅฐ‘ๅ‡ ๅนดๆฒกๅ’Œไบบๅฏน่ฏ่ฟ‡ไบ†
Thank you. I didn't expect anyone to actually reply to my post. I haven't had a conversation with anyone online for at least several years.
profilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ€” Sid Meyersreplied toprofilefollow:
ๅพˆ้ซ˜ๅ…ดๆˆไธบๅพˆไน…ไปฅๆฅ็š„็ฌฌไธ€ไธชไบบไน‹ไธ€๏ผŒๆˆ‘็š„ๆœ‹ๅ‹๏ผๅฅฝๅฅฝ็š„๏ผŒๅ‘จๆœซๆ„‰ๅฟซ๏ผๅŽŸ่ฐ…ๆˆ‘็š„ๅฐ้”™่ฏฏ๏ผŒๆˆ‘ๆญฃๅœจ็”จ็ฟป่ฏ‘ๆฅๅ›žๅคใ€‚ๆˆ‘ไปฌ้ƒฝ็Ÿฅ้“ๅคงๅคšๆ•ฐๆ—ถๅ€™้ƒฝไธๅคชๅฅฝใ€‚
So happy to be one of the first people to reply in a long time, my friend! Have a good weekend! Please forgive my little mistake, I'm replying using a translation. We all know things aren't always great.
profilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ€” Sid Meyersreplied toprofilefollow:
I am sure pretty much everything that isnโ€™t criminal, abusive, or illegal. I know those definitions vary from country to country. Just be a good human, and you should be OK.
๐Ÿง™profilefollowit's me,hiwrote:
็œ‹ๅˆฐๅ…ถไป–ๆ–‡็ซ ๆœ‰่‡ชๅ‹•็ฟป่ญฏ๏ผŒๆˆ‘่ฆบๅพ—ๅพˆ้…ท
I think it's really cool to see other articles with automatic translation.
๐Ÿง™profilefollowit's me,hicontinued:
ๆ‰€ไปฅๆˆ‘ไพ†ๅ˜—่ฉฆไธ€ไธ‹่‡ชๅ‹•็ฟป่ญฏ็š„ๆ–‡็ซ ๅŠŸ่ƒฝ๏ผŒไฝ†็™ผ็พ่‡ชๅ‹•็ฟป่ญฏๅชๆœ‰ๅœจ็€่ฆฝๅ™จไธŠ๏ผŒ่กŒๅ‹•่ฃ็ฝฎ่ฆ่‡ชๅทฑๆ‰‹ๅ‹•ๆŒ‰็ฟป่ญฏๅŠŸ่ƒฝใ€‚
So I tried the automatic article translation feature, but found that automatic translation only works in the browser; on mobile devices, you have to manually press the translation button.