Arthur Besse
cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions
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Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto World News@lemmy.ml•Hispanic support for Donald Trump's deportations surgesEnglish92·4 days agoNo one supports people breaking the laws.
What about these laws? Or these laws? Don’t you support people breaking unjust laws?
I think what you’re really saying is that you think US immigration laws are generally just.
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto pics@lemmy.world•My wife's new tablecloth. Is it white with gold, or blue with black?3·21 days agoit’s a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dress
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto Photography@lemmy.ml•Image of the German Stonehenge by nightEnglish2·24 days ago
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto Photography@lemmy.ml•Image of the German Stonehenge by nightEnglish3·24 days agowhere is this?
edit: via this comment I see it is Stonehenge von Tiefenpölz, aka Fränkischen Stonehenge built by artist Alexander Lämmlein between 2018 and 2023 in Tiefenpölz, Upper Franconia.
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlOPMto Linux@lemmy.ml•postmarketOS v25.06: the one with systemdEnglish11·24 days agoyou can still use OpenRC instead if you want, and sxmo will continue to do so by default.
you can read here about why they added systemd.
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlMto Linux@lemmy.ml•Just wanted to show off the lowest end hardware I ever ran Linux onEnglish5·1 month agoI’m planning on revitalizing and bringing this old Itautec to the 21st century
I think it was born in the 21st century? From this it looks like the first Celeron M was in 2004, and the first at that clockspeed was 2005.
Also, 2GB of RAM is plenty for many purposes - that’s more than any Raspberry Pi before the Pi 4 had!
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto Technology@beehaw.org•ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logicEnglish211·1 month agoThis article buries the lede so much that many readers probably miss it completely: the important takeaway here, which is clearer in The Register’s version of the story, is that ChatGPT cannot actually play chess:
“Despite being given a baseline board layout to identify pieces, ChatGPT confused rooks for bishops, missed pawn forks, and repeatedly lost track of where pieces were."
To actually use an LLM as a chess engine without the kind of manual intervention that this person did, you would need to combine it with some other software to automate continuing to ask it for a different next move every time it suggests an invalid one. And, if you did that, it would still mostly lose, even to much older chess engines than Atari’s Video Chess.
edit: i see now that numerous people have done this; you can find many websites where you can “play chess against chatgpt” (which actually means: with chatgpt and also some other mechanism to enforce the rules). and if you know how to play chess you should easily win :)
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK about the GI Rights HotlineEnglish371·1 month agothis is a tweet from 2020: https://xcancel.com/CianMW/status/1267890378276876288
but, the organization which operates that hotline is still active: https://girightshotline.org/
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlMto Linux@lemmy.ml•Cross-platform video player GrayJay now available as FlatpakEnglish93·2 months agoalso “you may not remove or obscure any functionality in the software related to payment to the Licensor in any copy you distribute to others.” 🤡
FUTO’s license meets neither the free software definition nor the open source definition.
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto Programmer Humor@programming.dev•[comiCSS] Visited LinkEnglish511·2 months ago
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto World News@lemmy.ml•US and China agree to drastically roll back tariffs in major trade breakthroughEnglish9·2 months agophoto of China's lead negotiator upon finding out that the United States' primary demand is that China issue a statement praising Trump personally
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml•Mom can we have Scratch? We have scratch at home. Scratch at home:7·2 months agothis is a good meme
I started to python one and half week ago. So I’m still beginner.
Nice work! Here are a few notes:
The
WeatherApp
object has a mix of attributes with long-term (egself.LOCATIONS
) and short-term (egself.city
) relevance. Instance attributes introduced in places other than__init__
, which makes it non-trivial for a reader to quickly understand what the object contains. And, actually,self.{city,lat,lon}
are all only used from theadd_city
method so they could/should be local variables instead of instance attributes (just remove theself.
from them).There seem to maybe be some bugs around when things are lowercase and when not; for example checking
if self.city.lower() in self.LOCATIONS
but then when writing there the non-lowerself.ctiy
is used as the key toself.LOCATIONS
.The code under
if rep == "1"
andelif rep == "2"
is mostly duplicated, and there is noelse
branch to cover ifrep
is something other than 1 or 2.It looks like the config only persists favorites so far (and not non-favorite cities which the user can add) which isn’t obvious from the user interface.
Passing both
location
andlocations
intoWeatherAPI
so that it can look uplocations[location]
is unnecessary; it would be clearer to pass in the dict for the specific location. It would also be possible to avoid the need forLOWLOCATIONS
by adding a non-lowercasename
key to the per-location dictionaries that just havelat
andlon
right now, and then keepingLOCATIONS
keyed by the lowercase names.HTH! happy hacking :)
encryption would prevent the modem from seeing it when someone sends it, but such a short string will inevitably appear once in a while in ciphertext too. so, it would actually make it disconnect at random times instead :)
(edit: actually at seven bytes i guess it would only occur once in every 72PB on average…)
the non-recursive part of this image is mildlyinfuriating
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlMto Linux@lemmy.ml•Tuxedo OS (Ubuntu-based) with KDE/Wayland - waking from Sleep freezes the computer. Help?English3·4 months agoyou could edit your post title
Have you tried https://mike-fabian.github.io/ibus-typing-booster/ ?
I have not, but I think it does what you’re looking for.
The demo video emphasizes its use as an emoji picker but it was originally created for typing Indic languages.
There are several ways to; afaik waypipe is the best one.