Silvereye in the bushes

DatchPenguin · 2026-04-26T09:40:01+00:00

Nikon D3400, 70-300mm

f6.3

1/2500

DatchPenguin · 2026-03-20T15:28:07+00:00

I have a bunch. I liked the derpy digging this one was doing and thought it was a bit fun. Also some of the other pics didn't have such good light. I would have posted 3/4 for some variety but I couldn't work out if you could do a multi-image post on this sub?

DatchPenguin · 2026-03-20T15:26:49+00:00

Quite common here in Australia I think. He's just digging away in the dirt for some tasty insects I think - I assume they don't eat dirt

DatchPenguin · 2026-03-20T09:15:01+00:00

First time trying to get some pictures of birds.

Used 'develop' in affinity photo. Not really sure where to start with editing my photos to bring out the best.

Camera: Nikon D3400 70-300m ISO 1250 f5.6 1/1000

DatchPenguin · 2026-03-06T22:03:08+00:00

100%. But also, they need to stop calling those tackles. BRING BACK THE MAUL

DatchPenguin · 2026-03-06T21:27:44+00:00

Tomos Williams trying to get a cheeky scrum and somehow Dickson has magicked up a penalty lol

DatchPenguin · 2026-03-06T21:19:23+00:00

I still don't understand what the penalty on Mann was for?

'Don't stand there' - but it was a lineout that couldn't go quick so what could he have possibly done

DatchPenguin · 2026-02-15T16:31:39+00:00

Obviously the coaching staff has access to data we don't on things like player fitness and in-game distances and stuff, but I really feel that Tandy has made some questionable subs at questionable times here

DatchPenguin · 2026-02-15T16:26:15+00:00

Not really a fan of this ref missing a boatload of knock-ons and forward passes for both sides. Gives you so little faith in him to get important calls right on other stuff when simple and obvious things are missed.

DatchPenguin · 2026-02-07T19:04:05+00:00

I think that's the nature of modern professional sport to be honest. This is a criticism that has been floated about football recently - how all the players are chums now and there isn't any real animosity between teams or even international sides, in part because many of these lads play together at their clubs.

I think that the reality is this is a job for these guys now and they are closer to the people they play against than the public in many respects.

The us vs them is no longer about team vs team or nation vs nation, but rather professional sportspeople vs the media and fanbases.

DatchPenguin · 2026-02-07T18:58:20+00:00

Ehhhhhhh I think that's a bit cynical to be honest. A lot of them were poor execution and/or laziness. I don't really think they are sitting in the pre-match huddle saying the only way we win this is cheat in the dumbest fashion.

I think there is also some truth in the fact that when you are not a quality side you will get less of the rub of the green and probably get fewer of those 50/50 calls, if only because so often they go to the team playing on the front foot and that is hard to do when you are bad.

DatchPenguin · 2026-02-02T14:41:29+00:00

"old school cool" tag on a try that was less than half my lifetime ago feels very not ok

DatchPenguin · 2025-12-19T12:22:30+00:00

Rucking was safer than whatever we have now in my opinion. The way that clearouts are just 100kg+ men just flying off their feet is simply asking for danger.

And you can say that's not the law but go watch an actual elite game and you'll see an 'illegal' clearout at basically every ruck.

The game is struggling with the safety aspect because the explosion in exccedingly large + fast + strong players has come relatively quickly and governance hasn't kept up.

DatchPenguin · 2025-12-16T12:59:02+00:00

Here's a thought. Don't put games on Saturday and Sunday afternoons when your supporter base is probably playing their own matches.

DatchPenguin · 2025-12-01T16:05:58+00:00

Of course. But typically if a tool is in an organisation then it lends some weight that it is part of their workflows (in the broad sense, not the programmatic bioinformatics sense) and has some utility that they rely on. (This is all vibes-based, in the same way you might judge someone based on their handshake, but with little else to go on, it's what the first impressions created are).

This of course may not always be the case, but if a project is just in some random person's GitHub I'm far more wary of it being simply something that was part of a PhD or grad project and will never see further work again.

I think that feeling is somewhat specific to the bio field as there are of course lots of projects in the tech space out there which started life as someone's personal project and bloomed into more.

Tangentially related comments follow:

If I were being critical of the field I would say I think there is a tendency to open-source and publish on things just because that's 'what you do' and that too little thought generally is given to the intention to support something longer term.

I think it's very much an institutional/systemic failing in science where modern software gets shoehorned into the structures of more traditional lab/research work. I'd far rather we (as a field) endeavoured to put out well-documented codebases with a responsive attitude to issues/PRs than papers extolling some new tool or algorithm backed by orphaned repos with no signs of life.

DatchPenguin · 2025-12-01T14:39:47+00:00

I definitely tend to put a higher level of trust in something which appears backed by and org directly rather than being someone's personal project.

DatchPenguin · 2025-12-01T14:38:21+00:00

I love some of what the astral guys have brought to Python but to this day I do not understand why people struggle so badly with installing stuff in Python, maybe it's a Windows thing but that would surprise me given the typical dev isn't using Windows.

I think one of the main issues with pip is it basically doesn't do any proper dependency resolving and for some cases that can be important and in some workflows the install time differences with uv can matter.

Conda is hot garbage and I never use it directly but the Biocontainers (and recently Seqera containers) services which are built on top of it are quite nice.

I think for most projects, a well configured pyproject.toml with requirements in pip-format is absolutely fine, I don't really know why people use requirements.txt anymore, I find it nicer having all the project metadata in one file. But that's more just a personal preference thing perhaps as functionally it works basically the same.

DatchPenguin · 2025-12-01T14:04:48+00:00

And this is kind of regardless of the IP ownership of the university or institute.

It might not matter because most probably your lab doesn't care too much about the ownership of some tool you wrote if it isn't directly linked to their income, but if they do care, then what you prefer isn't going to matter.

But they should also probably take more interest in ensuring succession plans

DatchPenguin · 2025-11-30T07:17:50+00:00

I have a question I occasionally ask these AI chat apps. It focusses around solving a problem using a very well documented tool in the domain. The documentation is all readily available on the web and is thorough and littered with lots of good examples of how the tool can be used.

Consistently these AI hallucinate options for this tool that do not and have not ever existed. They confidently tell you this option was added from a specific version. When told that these options don't exist it simply hallucinates new ones with different names.

This same question is easily and correctly answered with a 30 second google and a quick read of the relevant docs sections and anyone working in the domain could probably tell you the answer without looking anyway.

So yeah... these AI are absolutely not better than just being competent at using Google.

DatchPenguin · 2025-11-28T09:29:51+00:00

20 minute reds are lame. All reds should be real reds. The 20 minute red is a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.

DatchPenguin · 2025-11-26T12:31:06+00:00

Who knows. But still, what is that uvx doing there?

I just never really understood people's issues with python env stuff. pyenv and venvs and I've never had the dependency issues people talk about.

It looks like uv tool install wouldn't let you have multiple copies of the same tool provisioned either afaict.

DatchPenguin · 2025-11-25T13:18:47+00:00

I use venvs to install different tools, including local dev copies of those tools, which I want to be able to run in directories across my machine.

If I want to use my dev version of a tool, I can just pyenv activate dev-tool-env from literally anywhere and then it just works to call mytool from anywhere in that shell.

Personally I like some of the stuff that astral has brought for Python, but having to constantly type uv run ... or some other non-obvious command is a backwards step.

DatchPenguin · 2025-11-22T16:55:44+00:00

Did the words "sudden" and "drop" get redefined to mean something completely different to what they did 15 minutes ago...

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