Theodore Manassis

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Working on two git branches at once with git worktree In this post I describe how you can use git worktree to check out multiple branches at once, and some scenarios in which this can be useful

andrewlock.net/working-on-t...

A reminder that working in the open, even just amongst your colleagues, takes time, effort, care, thoughtfulness and dedication. It can feel exhausting, yet failing to invest these intangibles can lead to obfuscation.

And yes, this is a note to self, not a criticism of others!

A four panel comic titled Bird Sounds. In panel 1, labeled thrush, a wood thrush sings its beautiful eeohlay song against a forest background. In panel 2, labeled wren, a winter wren delicately sings tweedly tweedly tweedly. In panel 3, labeled warbler, a yellow warbler delicately sings sweet sweet. In panel 4, labeled heron in a death metal font, a heron screams KRAAGH against a background of fire.

Bird sounds.

pyspark-ducklake-2.py GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Want to read #ducklake from APACHE SPARK? Check this out: gist.github.com/hannes/395ac... #butdoesitscale #yesitdoes

NYT headline: “Kennedy Advises New Parents to ‘Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines” Subheader: “In an interview with Dr. Phil, the health secretary offered false information about vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals.”

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

TIL about the 🔥 chardet library — it guesses unknown file encodings!

📄 Write text in latin-1 ➡️ try to read as utf-8 ➡️ 💥 UnicodeDecodeError.

👨‍💻 Solution:

oops. i just got a basic 24GB RAM m4 mac mini to replace my 2012 (!) mac mini that still runs great.

For the $$ its a no brainer.

The Skrub TableReport is a lightweight tool that allows to get a rich overview of a table quickly and easily.

✅ Filter columns
🔎 Look at each column's distribution
📊 Get a high level view of the distributions through stats and plots, including correlated columns
🌐 Export the report as html

import os from pathlib import Path from tempfile import TemporaryDirectory import pytest def count_dirs_and_files(directory_path: str = '.' ) -> tuple[int, int]: """Function for counting dirs and files in a directory.""" dirs, files = 0, 0 for _, directories, filenames in os.walk(directory_path): dirs += len(directories) files += len(filenames) return dirs, files def test_only_files(): with TemporaryDirectory(dir="/tmp") as dirname: for i in range(1, 6): (Path(dirname) / f'{i}.txt').write_text('hello') assert count_dirs_and_files(dirname) == (0, 5) # refactored using pytest's tmp_path fixture + parametrize @pytest.mark.parametrize("num_files", [1, 5, 10]) def test_only_files_param(tmp_path, num_files): for i in range(1, num_files + 1): (tmp_path / f'{i}.txt').write_text('hello') assert count_dirs_and_files(tmp_path) == (0, num_files)

Making a temporary file/dur is very useful for 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴.

In the example below, we first use 𝘛𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘺𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 to create 5 temp files.

This is a great example of using a 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗿 — a clean way to automatically clean up resources.

pytest makes it even easier using the 𝘵𝘮𝘱_𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘩 fixture:

Botnet Part 1: Those Stealthy Botnets It’s one of those days again where botnets are hammering my little e-mail server with brute force attacks to send spam. This comes in waves, but is persistent and part of the #SysAdminLife. (They obvi...

just a nice article about what is happening right now with botnets

jan.wildeboer.net/2025/02/Bloc...

8 Best Games For Linguistic Experts The best video games for players than consider themselves linguistic aficionados.

List piece on dualshockers about linguistic games - and great, HV is in it, but also - PataNoir! The Gostak! Suveh Nux! This is a good list.

The Gostak is an all-timer.

Provided you already have a Python install of version 3.8 or higher you can run this: pip install aider-install && aider-install The aider-install package itself depends on uv. When you run aider-install it executes the following Python code: def install_aider(): try: uv_bin = uv.find_uv_bin() subprocess.check_call([ uv_bin, "tool", "install", "--force", "--python", "python3.12", "aider-chat@latest" ]) subprocess.check_call([uv_bin, "tool", "update-shell"]) except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e: print(f"Failed to install aider: {e}") sys.exit(1)

Wrote some notes on Aider's unconventional but kind of brilliant installation mechanism, which solves the "isolated Python virtual environment" problem by bundling uv as a dependency! simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/6/a...

An dusty, industrial looking control panel in a wall. There are two big white square buttons on it. The one on the left has a red border and the letter 'i' touching the bottom, representing a person stuck to the ground (the dot of the i being their head). The 2nd button also has a red border, but inside the button is an upside down stickman figure, arms and legs spread out. To indicate this person is floating around helplessly in zero-gravity.

You know who should've won an Oscar last night? The person who designed the little 'Gravity on / off' buttons in Alien Romulus.

The FFT Strikes Back: An Efficient Alternative to Self-Attention Conventional self-attention mechanisms incur quadratic complexity, limiting their scalability on long sequences. We introduce FFTNet, an adaptive spectral filtering framework that leverages the Fast F...

Low-hanging fruit: If you've already done the work of laying out the sequences in a convolution-friendly way, taking their Fourier Domain representation is a multiplication. Thing is the layouts are learnable, and the memory grows in nlogn as opposed to n^2
arxiv.org/abs/2502.18394

ALPS CP10SJ550A Kanji Keyboard. deskthority.net/viewtopic.ph...

480 keys.

The Hobbiton set is now a generational project. It was built cheaply for LOTR, then torn down, then rebuilt more permanently for The Hobbit, and has had substantial impressive additions since then. If interest continues, I expect it will keep growing. It's more than a set now.

I agree completely. But also I have to say games companies these days are known to shoot themselves in the foot and unfortunately also developers pay the price for this with layoffs. eg Baldur's Gate 3

Loved the DS remake so much I played the new game+ option once I finished it.