Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:

Programmer, software architect, mentor.

Sammamish, WA

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2025-03-29 01:27:56

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@nprofile…dqcq thanks!

2025-03-29 01:25:00

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@nprofile…dqcq it worked, thanks! I feel like a hint with available actions at the bottom of the screen would make it more discoverable.
Related question: how do I stop playback after I went back to the home screen? Can't find a way to focus the player now!

2024-11-10 01:14:46

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@npub1tpv…zwsk cockblocking as a concept only works if we can still rely on police prosecuting rape. After everything we saw from them over the past years, I'm really not sure we can :-(. I also don't know how we can fight it, short of open violence.

2024-10-18 01:23:01

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@npub1u95…0kv7 https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt/pull/46

2024-09-01 15:12:36

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@npub1vg4…2yt8 there's a nice forum where people post their RAWs with questions and other help solving such mysteries https://discuss.pixls.us/c/processing/playraw/30

2024-09-01 03:20:26

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@npub1vg4…2yt8 could it be something later in the pipeline (like sigmoid or filmic) desaturating it?

2024-08-26 18:28:17

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@npub1vu4…mkpt lovely logic… So if I set up a landmine and someone steps on it while I'm not around, can I also claim immunity since it wasn't me physically committing the crime at the moment of the murder?

2024-08-19 17:40:01

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@npub1tpv…zwsk uhm… I'd come in!

2024-08-19 16:55:53

Trying to resist from posting anything about the current shit show in #python land is really hard, given what people are boosting into my stream. The only reason that's holding me back is that nobody is listening to anyone, so it's going to be in vain. I wish there'd be a tag to filter it out.

2024-08-12 16:48:29

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@npub1tpv…zwsk oh god :-(

2024-08-12 03:45:52

Try #Firefox today please.
https://endler.dev/2024/the-dying-web/

2024-07-17 00:05:56

Finally got down the process for my cacio e pepe to turn out wonderfully creamy. But the process of generating of lots of starch from pasta had a side effect of also concentrating a lot of salt, so need to adjust.
By the way, here's a straightforward process that makes sense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqIaJ_CvdEA
#cooking

2024-07-08 00:51:02

Vacation fashionista. Trying to take interesting street photos in a small US town :-) #photography #street
#алёна #darktable
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/748/125/344/805/334/original/4c501798c7720c36.jpg

2024-06-30 23:21:24

Moss. High summer may not be the best time for #mosstodon posting, but here you are.
#darktable
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/708/136/724/028/141/original/b57b9d6b8f6f7c2d.jpg

2024-06-30 16:53:41

Okay, Fujifilm photographers! I've been recently working up courage to switch my life-long habit of shooting in AF-S focus mode to AF-C. Because I just can't see any downsides to it. The only obvious difference is AF-C will refocus if I move the camera while the shutter button is half-pressed, which I almost never do and even if I need to, there's always object tracking. In other words, to me AF-C is just better AF-S.
Am I missing any downside that's not preferential?
#photography #fujifilm

2024-06-27 16:20:21

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@npub12f7…lkxh by the way, what's Portals? https://portals-app.com/ this one?

2024-05-10 17:23:57

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@npub1tpv…zwsk wait… Is that The Onion? Or real? I honestly can't tell.

2024-05-04 19:07:24

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@npub1tpv…zwsk can't go without a toll

2024-02-21 20:01:34

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@npub1tpv…zwsk as I just said elsewhere, only flat girls can pull off a sexy braless look :-)

2024-02-21 18:30:06

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@npub1tpv…zwsk it's funny, but is it real? Looks like something someone would troll her with.

2024-01-28 17:26:43

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@npub1tpv…zwsk it wasn't even until the third time I looked at it that I started thinking of it as a photographer. At first it was just all "wow"!

2024-01-28 16:24:54

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@npub1tpv…zwsk oh, instant fav for this one!

2024-01-14 21:06:44

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@npub1slp…4xfq @npub1upk…tcwy learnability vs efficiency is a real trade-off though[1]. Sure you should strive to maximize overall usability (i.e., make things as learnable and efficient as possible), but at some point you'll have to make a choice between the two.
Although it is true that often making things learnable is taken to mean "dumbing it down for lowly idiots", and so the general usability is simply reduced without making any smart trade-offs.
[1]: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/measure-learnability/

2023-12-25 00:51:17

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The root of the problem is that apt is not a packaging format. It's a big, working ecosystem solving many problems of installing software into a system. Ubuntu is not willing (nor able) to replicate this ecosystem, but they keep pretending that you can sacrifice basic usability for security and treat every application as a self-sufficient island. You can make it work for some, which are either simple or have been created that way (Firefox). But it's never going to work in the general case.

2023-12-25 00:46:13

Here's a perfect example of what's wrong with Ubuntu's crusade to move software into snaps: if you install #GIMP from snapstore, you don't have an easy practical way to install G'MIC into it (a plugin that basically makes GIMP still worthy of running). Why not? Because, as the maintainer of the snap says[1] there's no way he's going to be the arbiter of what to include. [cont…]
[1]: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/gmic-gimp-and-snap-in-20-04/17094

2023-12-22 07:25:12

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@npub1vr4…92wq good point! Losing the mobile battle has cost them a lot. But they're still using all the same tactics and try to monopolize things.

2023-12-22 07:21:49

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@npub1vr4…92wq but they just shifted their sphere of influence, didn't they? You're probably reading it from Microsoft GitHub, and it was likely written in Microsoft VS Code. And most examples are probably in Microsoft Python (now that GvR works for them).

2023-11-22 00:11:44

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@npub1tpv…zwsk what a precise characterization!

2023-08-17 21:00:07

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@npub1vz5…qdta I mean, it's undoubtedly more convenient than typing obscure numbers into fields. But the technology to make this securely (oauth and friends) was in place for at least a decade. We shouldn't sacrifice security for convenience when we don't have to.

2023-08-17 20:13:35

I'm shocked that banking and trading web apps routinely ask for full login credentials to link external accounts. Just like that: "Provide login and password to your bank [recommended]". I'm shocked how widespread this is.
And then we wonder why people get constantly phished on the Internet: because nobody could be expected to see as suspicious something that your *bank* *recommends* you to do.
I'd vote for any politician who will at least talk of making it illegal.

2023-07-11 16:33:53

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@npub1tpv…zwsk hey, same here! When I moved to Seattle I realized I had to learn to run when it rains if I wanted to do it regularly. But with heat, I just can't...

2023-07-09 17:40:56

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@npub1tpv…zwsk TIL the word "imbiss stand"

2023-06-13 20:20:39

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@npub1sys…ckr3 @npub1te2…a322 social media and programmer communities? I have to say I never treated PyPI as a discovery mechanism.

2023-06-13 16:12:48

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@npub1sys…ckr3 @npub1te2…a322 any code hosting already works for that. People will still expect you to maintain the code, no matter how explicit you are about not being interested. You are still free to ignore them :-)

2023-05-27 16:49:50

Every time I'm in a typical American hotel, I ponder over a question (purely rhetorical, of course) of whether people who design non-detachable shower heads do, in fact, have ass holes. And if yes, where?

2023-05-08 22:26:51

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@npub12xf…9ps4 @npub1cy0…ggw4 read the article, by average they mean 50-percentile. And the graph in the article looks like the distribution between percentile groups (25, 50, 75, 100) was fairly even.

2023-05-08 18:40:21

Debunking (parts of) the Duning-Kruger effect: https://theconversation.com/debunking-the-dunning-kruger-effect-the-least-skilled-people-know-how-much-they-dont-know-but-everyone-thinks-they-are-better-than-average-195527 (via @npub1cy0…ggw4).
This is a more nuanced take with a perfect summation in the lede: "the least skilled people know how much they don’t know, but everyone thinks they are better than average". A subtle difference, and worth a read at that.