edonkey:

Fear and loathing in Las Vagas (took a week to download) = Granny porn. Sigh

Occasionally Core.py will do some updates, higher level stuff:

https://open.spotify.com/show/1PGRfdrLEwgXjQbPBNk1pW

pablo and Łukasz

The who python web feels underused to be honest.

Maybe if browsers start shipping or downloading WASMs for python and others on request. And storing them for all sites going forward. Similar to how uv does it for for venvs it creates, there are standalone python version blobs.

At the same time it feels like the python is overused.

If I could wave a magic wand to reset any programming language adoption at this point I would choose Python over Javascript.

I think Pythons execution model, deep OO behaviour, and extremely weak guarantees have done a lot of damage to the soundness and performance of the technology world.

python at least won't cast numbers to strings when adding them.

JS doesn't either... JS casts numbers to strings when adding them to a string... "2" is not a number, it's a string that contains a number character... "2" + 2 === "22" because you are appending a number to a string, the cast is implicit and not really surprising if you understand what is going on.

Even more so when you consider how falsy values work in practice (data validation becomes really easy), there are a few gotchas, but in general they are pretty easily avoided in practice. JS is really good at dealing with garbage input in ways that don't blow up the world... sometimes that's a bad thing, but in practice it can also be a very good thing. But in the end it's a skill issue regarding understanding far more than a deep flaw. Not that there aren't flaws in JS... I think Date's in particular can be tough to deal with... a string vs a String instance is another.

What do you mean by "extremely weak guarantees"?

There might be a foodchain of lower order uses when they become "obsolete".

I think there will be a lot of space for sensorial models in robotics, as the laws of physics don't change much, and a light switch or automobile controls have remained stable and consistent over the last decades.

For you it was the most important day of your life. But for ChatGPT it was Tuesday.

Bare with me, but im not again' the new Notepad. Its fairly well done - the markdown - and even the AI dropdown presets seem useful.

but I do wish they had called it something else and kept notepad as txt only.

Even a colour filter would help with the harshness.

True, but that lowers the energy efficiency.

For LED lamps, the color must be controlled at the emission source, not by filtering, i.e. by using an adequate combination of different conversion phosphors, to ensure a neutral white with a quasi-continuous spectrum, instead of a bluish white with great narrow peaks in its spectrum.

Unfortunately, the phosphors for the latter variant are much cheaper than for the former, so the lamp vendors have the incentive to make the lamps as bad as possible.

By must, is that only for energy efficiency?

I ask only because I was retrofitting some navigation lights on a sailboat - and you can’t just upgrade the original incandescent bulbs with LEDs (or aren’t supposed to).

You are either supposed to get a special LED (backing up what you’re saying) or there are some new red/green enclosures that are differently treated / tinted to then put a “white” led into.

But I am so far from an expert on that, I may be completely misunderstanding.

When you use any kind of filter for a lamp, that stops a part of the light produced by the lamp, the part that has an undesired color.

So, at the same electric power consumption you have less light, or you can compensate by using a more powerful lamp, to get the same amount of light even with a filter. In both cases the energy efficiency becomes worse, i.e. the expenses for electric power are greater per output light.

On the other hand, when the manufacturer of the lamp controls inside the lamp the conversion of the light produced by the LED through fluorescence into the light that exits the lamp, there are chances to obtain a desired color and a certain shape of the emission spectrum by wasting less light than with external filters.

Filtering can correct a lamp color that is not the color that you want, but it cannot fill gaps in the emission spectrum of the lamp.

Cheap white LED lamps not only may have a too bluish color (or in some cases a too yellowish color), but their emission spectra may have gaps, so if a natural object from the environment happens to have a color that falls in a gap of the LED lamp spectrum, it will appear much darker than in daylight. This can cause orientation problems or difficulties in identifying certain things.

Where LEDs are used for signalling, not for lighting, so pure colors are desirable, much less problems exist, so e.g. the replacement in the red or yellow signal lights of cars, of the old incandescent lamps with color filters, with monochromatic LEDs without color filters, has posed no difficulties.

One of the others might make an exception to allow them in theirs.

I love ideas like this.

I'd like to see the stats on temperature levels over a lifetime.

Pixel 5 is a nice size. I like smallies too.

Pixel 1 was the ideal phone. Not too large. Completely flat back. Screen didn't bulge above the sides so you could drop it without shattering the screen. Google's design has only gone downhill since then. (The pixel 5 looks pretty nice, but it seems to have the bulging glass and the beginnings of camera bumps)