HPC support engineer in Okinawa, Japan. Former neuroscientist, former programmer. Photography, recreational programming and playing the sanshin are things I do. Sweden, Osaka and Okinawa are places I particularly care about.
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Last Notes npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…50mt What's the value of emu_fps? npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…v9vp I realized that I might have done so by mistake, more than once. When I see a post that I really like I check if I'm following the person. And if I'm not I will typically follow them. But if somebody removes me and then a good post flies by again three months later, I may follow again, never remembering that I already did it once. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…ynd9 @nprofile…canu My feeling is, "blockchain" strongly implies it's a grift, not above-board. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…ynd9 Maybe according to your definition (and maybe not even then). We have an apartment in Ginowan, a city of about 100k, and directly connected to Urasoe, then Naha in the south; and Chatan and Okinawa City in the north. To me this is still urban (if not the big city vibe of, say, Osaka or Tokyo). Many japanese consider Okinawa as a whole as the far-end of nowhere. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…ynd9 Yep, different idea of "countryside" 😁 npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…ynd9 Countryside, with an expat vibe, and great coffee. Let me gently doubt the existence of such a place - though your definition of "countryside" may be a lot more urban than mine. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…z6pq hmm, tempting. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…z6pq That looks pretty usable. How did you get hold of 17? Is there a beta program? npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…ynd9 None of us is only our job or our hobbies. Our lives are full of different things, and we should be talking about them when we want to. Also, I'm sure that disliking the climate of central or northern Europe is not going to come as a major shock to anybody who's spent more than ten minutes there... npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…pxgp @nprofile…8kn5 Två dörrar, en på varje sida. En kan du bara stoppa in grejer, en kan du bara ta ut. Eller, hål mellan hall och kök, och kyl och frys i hålet. Stoppa in-dörren vetter mot hallen när man kommer hem med matkassarna. Ta ut-dörren i köket där man lagar. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…6edx @nprofile…ds0l Or, possibly, Amsterdam wasn't supposed to share data with a foreign, non-EU force, and is now denying it to cover it up. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…3n63 If the project makes clear it's no longer maintained (or not interested in keeping itself patched) then no, no need to care. I do think there's an obligation to make it clear though, for anyone considering using the project. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…50mt In my experience Ubuntu has become much better at keeping up than they used to. The LTS releases update drivers through hardware enablement kernel updates. And they keep the graphics and sound stacks fairly well updated these days. I don't know how closely Mint tracks the Ubuntu LTS updates though. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…84tm Utan att ha tittat på dom här specifikt (men med en del erfarenhet av robotik i allmänhet) så känns konstruktionen vansinnigt instabil. Varje led kommer ha en viss mängd extra ostabil rörelse som fortplantar sig nedåt, mer ju längre hela armen är. Och varje ny led lägger till mer skakning nedåt. De minsta fingrarna kommer ständigt skaka fram och åter många gånger deras egna längd. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…ynd9 Morning runs are great. Changing and getting started is a major pain, but once I'm out there it really feels wonderful. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…atnr I tend to do the same. My problem is with games that don't let you leave them. Usually it's games that require you to keep the state in your head - what were you doing, who do you have to talk to, what does the map look like. I come back to the game and I have no idea what's going on or what I'm supposed to be doing npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…fc2c Is it sad to actually want one of these? npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren Can I just gently point out that pot au feu is a criminally underrated winter food? Especially if you forget all about making a "real" or "traditional" pot, and put in whatever leftover winter veggies you got. #food https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/115/949/581/943/445/031/original/19676f85cdeb6929.jpg npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…ynd9 NGL, I really miss this sometimes. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…unzg The past decade the ick wasn't exactly residual either. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…3n63 Also, expect some habits to change - do you really need to do a big expensive container rebuild of everything with every single check in? Might there be more efficient ways to do this? Does CI have to be so very continuous? npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…4stm @nprofile…yur4 I do something similar by tiling separate browser windows when needed. Works pretty well, though of course built-in support can make it even smoother and faster. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren FYI: There's an ongoing spam campaign on the Fediverse with Russian disinfo bots that look sort of like news items, typically (but not always) with links to a telegram group. We've been suspending a pile of them the last few days. If you see an account like that, please report it! As moderators we can't find them all on our own. More info here: https://hachyderm.io/@haubles/115340131111221075 npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…cee8 It's not "cold ass", it's "tropically challenged"... npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…pp8p They've got 110000 concurrent players on Steam in less than one hour of release (and many more not yet able to finish the purchase). I'd say the "so cheap it's an impulse buy" is going to work out just fine for them. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…tsy4 When you reported it, that report went to the mas.to admins. They probably suspended the account. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…tsy4 Can't be the instance then. But we block a lot of spam accounts; this could have been one of them. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…tsy4 No bots so far. What instance did it come from? If we're already blocking the instance I may not ever get a reply. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren Just testing something here: #Finland . npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…cee8 "The location is exceptional – no traffic, no neighbors, no noise." ... no supermarkets, no jobs, no shops, no movie theaters, no hospital, no emergency services, nobody under 65 ... When a property is cheap, it's generally for a good reason. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…lnu2 No problem then. The final image won't be as wide as the one you posted. I'd pick the left, with the same overall visual balance as the example you just showed. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…lnu2 Standing up feels more appropriate. But you'd need to fill part of that space, perhaps (good place for a headline?). npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…7fj5 A minor thing I don't know if you have control over: by default I couldn't start it under Proton in Linux. I had to explicitly go into the settings and pick a particular Proton version. After which it works beautifully. I wonder if there's some setting on the Steam backend you need to poke for it to run nicely under Proton from the start? npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…z3we At least in principle you can embed links, other html, JavaScript... Without really good sanitizing it can probably be a risk. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren Old people aren't slow and confused. They're just preoccupied with keeping mental track of where they've put their eighteen pairs of glasses. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…args @nprofile…jrjh NY rainfall seems to be well over 1000mm per year. You do have plenty of fresh water. Our average is over 2000mm per year, and we've still had years where the water supply is insufficient. But that's not because of supply - our main problem is getting rid of it all - but reservoir capacity, which hasn't kept up. Using grey water for toilets and so on is a good idea and some places do that already. But it doesn't seem critical for you. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…wcf0 På ett forum en del år sedan var en amerikansk professor upprörd över att kinesiska forskare i hans labb pratade kinesiska med varann - det var oartigt,han förstod dom inte, och dom borde prata engelska i USA. Samma professor var också upprörd över hur oartiga ett japanskt labb hade varit när han var post-doc där: dom pratade japanska med varandra, inte engelska, så han förstod dom inte. Hans slutsats var att asiater är oartiga. Det var ingen annans slutsats i tråden. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren Tsunami warning for the entire east coast of Japan right now, up to and including Okinawa, urging everyone to get out of the water and away from the seaside. It doesn't seem too bad (they got 30 cm in Chiba), but better safe than sorry. And even 30cm of rapidly moving water with debris and stuff to tangle you up can trip you, drag you along, and potentially hurt you badly. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…fef6 I assumed the building owner would have the rights to the art (presumably work for hire). But either way, you need a release for the artwork, right? Edit: sorry, I missed the first reply. How does that work for grafitti or similar? npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…4d9x @nprofile…fax7 The book is available. The discount is not. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…fef6 That's a nice one! Do you (or your client) need to get a release form from the building owner if they wanted to use this for an ad or something like that? npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…fv4z "The Forbidden Closet of Mystery" is probably a prop in a 1970's childrens TV show. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…fax7 Not on Kobo (or at least, not when you shop from Japan)... npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…pp8p Live a little! npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…t3wn @nprofile…d23x But also multiply the increased per-unit cost by the number of people. There's a cost side to any cost-benefit calculation. You may have to cut back on something else (worse footwear? Fewer radios?) that ends up negating much of the benefit in the end. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…args Tim Hunkin (not sure it counts as obscure though): https://m.youtube.com/@timhunkin1 Linus Åkesson: https://m.youtube.com/@lftkryo (though that's really more of a blog: https://www.linusakesson.net ) npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren Mastodon is going to start asking for donations. This is a good thing! A solid financial situation is critical for the project to work in the long run. Also remember that your instance also costs money and time to run. And there's no advertising here to pay that cost. Donate to your instance if you can! https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/07/a-nudge-to-fund-our-future/ npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren This is big: #Spack has reached 1.0. Spack is (effectively) a distro-indepenedent package manager specifically for #HPC clusters. We've been evaluating it for years and we're most likely going to use it for our next machine. Really happy to see it reach stable status! https://mast.hpc.social/@spack/114885155276285929 npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…cee8 If you posted it, then "from:me whatever" will give you posts from yourself containing "whatever". npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren #dogwalk from #blenderstudio is a heartwarming free and open source miniature open world game! It lasts for maybe 30-40 minutes in all, as you explore a small winter landscape as a big, fluffy dog. The graphics and animation really convey a sense of a bright, sunny winter day. Get it on steam or itch.io for free. And you can get the #godot source and assets of you want to play with it. This is really fun! https://studio.blender.org/projects/dogwalk/ npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…0xuj Every time I do a move, the entire playing field moves downward on the page. Android phone, Firefox mobile browser. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren Anyone have tips for a #blog or other #indieweb resources for learning the #piano and music theory and similar? I'm not looking for video (youtube is filled to the brim already) but written text. And preferably more towards theory and concepts rather than manual skills. Trying to search for it just gives me pages full of paid video courses and AI slop. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…w8us Jet black, with two white stripes on the sides going from the forehead back down to the neck. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren Mastodon 4.4 is out - and the mobile web app is really *way* better than it used to be. Starting to wonder if I even need a separate app any longer. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…pp8p 👍 npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…cee8 @nprofile…a3lp Exactly... npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…cee8 Housing prices have been increasing all over the world, with similar results. Part of the issue is, everyone wants to live in the same few places. Because that's where everyone is. You can get a 10-room mansion in rural central or northern Sweden for the price of a car - but nobody wants to live there. Humanity has been becoming more urban for a long time, and it seems the trend is accelerating. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…c5n8 Pretty depressing place if they feel Falun is worth comparing to. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…s6x2 I think it's for much the same reasons car interfaces are stable (or the qwerty layout is dominant): it's good enough, and the cost of retraining the world far exceeds the benefits of alternative interfaces. We may well have new kinds of devices supplanting the PC in the future - the phone arguably already did, if only partially. But the PC (and the keyboard and the car and the phone) will keep its gestalt. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…s6x2 The desktop computer matured as a platform by the late 90s to early 2000s and has been stable (stagnant) since. Much like the car driving experience stopped becoming fundamentally different once the user interfaces stabilized. Smartphones have arguably stabilized in the same way since about 2012 or so, and is similarly unlikely to ever change significantly again. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…cee8 If you have a second slot, that may be easier... npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…7wld @nprofile…lfze @nprofile…3awy To be fair, they'll replace it with sudo. If it goes smoothly, no user should even notice that the implementation has changed. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…pp8p I wanted one so bad in 7th grade. I was a bit weird. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…cee8 @nprofile…gfyr To be fair, I get the impression a typical Dutch government couldn't confirm what to have for lunch before they fall. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…4j76 I like to think that the messed up electrical system here - 100v, 50 or 60hz - that's unique to Japan, in a small way helped the electric and electronic export industry early on. Since it was so unique to Japan, and since you had to deal with two frequencies even inside Japan, it made creating universal appliances that could be used the world over more feasible. Had Japan had the same system as, say, US, it would have been easy for companies to aim at just that market. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…sqcg @nprofile…gyrf Now that's an interesting take! Most "bespoke", semi-custom or server-side software is distributed in source form, or in an architecture independent language. Software that is still distributed as actual system binaries are mostly for desktops (games is the big one I can come up with). And they target old architectures to maximize the potential install base. We won't see this as minimum target for upwards of a decade. And by then it probably won't make a difference. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…cee8 The solution is simple, and involves only two post-it notes: 1. Put one post-it note on this counter and call it "cat bed". 2. Put another post-it note on the cat bed and call it "kitchen counter". 3. move all things from the former counter to the former cat bed. The cat and the kitchen stuff is now all in their right place! npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren My employer #OIST ( @nprofile…f7vt ) is opening a special grad student application round for students currently studying at US universities. The application period begins now and is only two weeks, but if accepted you may be able to start already in September. Please reshare to get the word out. https://www.oist.jp/admissions/special-application-deadline-students-accepted-or-studying-united-states #USA #University #gradschool #Japan npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…cee8 Storage reliability is important. If an SSD is acting up it doesn't matter if it seems mostly ok. Toss it (or use for some throwaway project) and get a new one. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren Any #Linux #kernel , #graphics or #GPU people out there? I'm trying to understand the relationship between the #amgdpu driver shipped with the kernel; and the "andgpu-dkms" driver that comes with #ROCm . Specifically, with a recent enough kernel, do we really need to install the ROCm version of the driver? Does the ROCm version contain stuff the general driver does not? Or is the ROCm stack (esp. libhsa) tightly tied to a very specific version of the driver? npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…evfq @nprofile…args The Baltic sea has a lot (relatively speaking) of amber washing up on the shores. There's a tradition of picking amber and creating amber jewellery in societies around the sea. But for inexpensive tourist merchandise it's probably cheaper to import. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren So my car got hit by the whammy bar of an electric guitar. It's OK though. It was just a Fender bender. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren If you're a student and you want to have a future paying career, this is for you: When a beginner uses an #LLM - or asks a friend - to solve a problem, the answer is the end of the process. They lack the expertise to take it further. When an expert uses an LLM - or asks a colleague, or checks the literature - the answers are a jumping-off point for further exploration. The final result is likely quite different from those initial answers. The LLM was the *start* of a process, not the end. 1/3 npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…h94j Should keep a roof over your head. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren FYI, if you live in #Japan you may want to know that #Elecom has a policy of stating that their Ethernet cables are complaint with a given specification, even when they don't actually comply and don't meet the requirements. Maybe skip Elecom the next time you buy Ethernet or USB cables, or anything else that needs to follow a specification to work well. It's perhaps not a coincidence their Bluetooth mice seem unable to maintain a stable connection, for instance. https://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/spv/2505/12/news125.html npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…rnmx Any way to switch back? Light-on-dark is hard to read with bad eyesight. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…h94j You don't need anyone to shuffle off this mortal coil for a teaching position to become potentially available 😋 npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…h94j Getting a teachers license would be an obvious career step. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…h94j See if you can get some useful work training. I tried to get into a welding course when I was unemployed after my PhD but they seemed to think I'd already spent enough time in school. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…fef6 That first shot seems an excellent example of picking a beautiful scene, then wait until something interesting happens. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…d23x I was going to say there really aren't that many outright happy, joyful indie games out there - but that's a lie. Plenty of small builder-type games like Tiny Glade. And disinterested boredom wouldn't make for a good game. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren New #GPU! From an 8 year old rx570 8GB to a #rx9070, on #Ubuntu 25.04. Mostly great! A local #LLM (qwen2.5 14B) using Vulkan ran at 2.1 tokens/s. It now runs at 48T/s - a 25x improvement in compute performance. The same scene in #BG3 with maxed out 4K settings ran at 12-15fps. It now sits at 60fps, with the GPU at only 80%. *And* it uses less power doing so (system power 295w versus 275w now). Not perfect - #Valheim fails at startup. It's normal for new hardware on Linux and will be fixed. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…pp8p I haven't played either of those games, but it confirms I may want to give this a pass for now. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren Can someone clarify a thing about the #clairobscur game? It's said to be turn-based, but at the same time you apparently need to time parries precisely? So which is it? Asking because I'm too old/unskilled/can't be arsed to spend 100+ hours learning precise timing sequences in a game. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren If you want to know how to model actual biological neurons and why the classical Hodkins and Huxley model (that got them a Nobel) looks the way it does, here's a great primer: H/T to https://neuromatch.social/@neurofrontiers (who wrote it!) https://neurofrontiers.blog/building-a-virtual-neuron-2/ #neuroscience npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…fa4k Never underestimate a news writers ability to mangle science. With that said, the whole thing did read mighty suspicious, even as a mathematical amateur. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren FYI, if you happen to be a scientist in a large English-speaking country with uncertain future research financing; my employer, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) is looking for grad students, postdocs and PIs. It's a research institute, so no undergraduates, and the working language is English - no japanese required. And its located on a (semi) tropical island in the Pacific. https://www.oist.jp/careers?f%5B0%5D=oist_job_type%3A819 #NSF #OIST #Japan npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…49w5 大阪だったらオオサカバインミーがいいと思うけど。 https://maps.app.goo.gl/VoMqHZSARVTzBXWh6 npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren LLMs is in a huge bubble phase with vastly inflated expectations. But, models are getting much smaller and faster. You can now run a genuinely useful LLM (as useful as you feel any LLM is) locally on a higher-end laptop or small older-gen gaming GPU. And you can run them for free, in private, and with zero tracking, ads or any other involvement by the big IT companies. https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/114440897356073827 #AI #LLM npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…4j76 Okinawa? npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…cee8 @nprofile…ypkl I could help with moderation. I'm in a different time zone (Japan) than perhaps most other mods, and I understand swedish and some* japanese in addition to english. * Regular japanese is ok but I struggle with online slang - because I'm not a teenager and don't follow it as much as from the language itself. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…ln70 Perhaps in the sense that you "have a voice" in that you can vote with your feet, make a copy of the ball and take it home. The control of the software is not fully in the hands of an (unelected, self-appointed) set of people. But *actual* democracy - direct or representative - it is not. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…cee8 @nprofile…25dv @nprofile…7s4z Very happy to hear this! And happy to help if help is needed. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren Om ni skulle välja en Mastodonserver i Sverige att flytta till, vilken skulle ni rekommendera? Om det har betydelse: Jag är från Sverige men bor utomlands; postar mest på engelska men även på svenska och någon gång på japanska. #mastodon #sverige npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…h94j Go to Osaka for spring holiday. Drink good coffee, bicycle around town. Probably go to Expo 2025 since we got tickets. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…args When we read about this in grad school the consensus seemed to be that what had gone missing was the connection to any emotional reaction (perhaps literally the physical connection). You see Jane. She is a friend so you should feel a little happy seeing her. But the recognition no longer triggers emotional subsystems. You know you *should* get an emotional reaction but you don't. The reason must be that it's not actually her. The part of her that is your reaction is missing. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…c9yr @nprofile…args I keep thinking that the floor in quality of so many things have silently gone way up in the last 2-3 decades. As a guess: digitalization and process control; better management practices; stricter regulations; and competition/market access. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…4j76 Osaka is way ahead: https://www.kiritani-station.com/osaka-drum-can-murder-case/ I remember that one as I had just discovered Miyuki Miyabe and this felt like the kind of murder mystery she would write. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…args The big question is what you mean by examining the pixels, I think. If you mean interactively zooming in and using a color picker tool to look at RGB values, then yes, either something like GIMP or Krita, or a color picker tool. If they really want to look at it in detail, then something like ImageMagick, ImageJ or even a Python or R program to look at line-wise histograms and statistics. npub1h47kadwc20cvz6paw22agseurzwpnqwsluxv4p8ld3hlfzwe4qmq8xvl5h Janne Moren @nprofile…h94j Concert with Dreams Come True.