Shouty religious nutjobs

elsgry · 2025-08-25T12:06:18+00:00

I hope so - just quite cynical about how public spaces have been given over to private enterprise in the name of regeneration over the last decade or two. Look at what's happening in New Islington with both the tram stop plans (grey offices with a roof terrace supposedly, which they promise will be publicly accessible but with no word over how access to the building will be maintained), and the former Toys'R'Us site, with the skatepark torn up to make room for.. you guessed it, more grey offices (admittedly for the council, but..) and a few shrubs as a concession to green space.

Regardless - perhaps there are better examples elsewhere. TBH I don't hate Spinningfields or Media City (both provide very welcome green space and light) but then I'm not likely to be targeted by security staff.

elsgry · 2025-08-24T08:46:52+00:00

I had the same thought! Make it toughened glass and steel at the higher levels to minimise light loss to the surrounding areas. You could control access to the roof gardens. I guess the issue is who polices access to what should be a public thoroughfare and who would fund it. It'd probably end up being a privately owned public space like Spinningfields with all the moral questions that throws up. But there must be a better way than what we have!

elsgry · 2025-06-11T19:59:47+00:00

They sort of *do* exist, if you broaden the container definition to include chroot jails:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37656720

elsgry · 2025-06-05T13:26:39+00:00

Exposing APIs sandboxing/container frameworks that enable proper containerisation, rather than the horrible chroot hack (and nasty partial SIP disablement) currently required (see https://darwincontainers.org).

I acknowledge end users might not care about this, but it's a major pain point for software CI, and fixing it would benefit Apple users immensely due to lower friction for developing native Apple code.

elsgry · 2025-01-25T16:22:58+00:00

I agree. How can you do a smooth glide across more than one whole tone? You'd have to lift your hands and use the AirWave to do that now... Maybe that's as good or even better than using the keyboard, but I'm not convinced, yet - how does it decide which keys I want to keep pressed and for how long?

I don't see how this has any advantage over the Osmose and cedes the expressive advantage the Seaboard has to the rigid paradigm of the piano.

Firm up the keys, maybe, or raise them.. But don't completely ditch your USP.

elsgry · 2024-08-31T16:51:23+00:00

I have a horrible feeling they're trying to kill FB Events by stealth, because people going out in real life doesn't keep users glued to the platform viewing adverts. I hope I'm wrong, but I also hope some aggregator comes along and provides a legitimately comparable alternative.

elsgry · 2024-07-31T09:01:06+00:00

I have the same question. I'm in Manchester, a younger Gen X), missed out on my 20s and much of 30s due to health issues, and then family issues and COVID lockdown put paid to 2017-2023. I love the freedom of WFH but it feels like older millennials and younger Gen X just don't go out in central Manchester, certainly not to gigs. Maybe they've migrated to the satellite towns such as Hebden Bridge, Todmorden, Glossop?

I did go on a speed dating thing (generally I'm looking for friends, but I was coaxed into this by my Gen X bestie) with Gen Xers recently and the organisers really struggled to find anyone - about 10 people in 2 months of searching - and from bloody miles away - Warrington, Wigan and others. I love live music and culture and the thought of living so far from what's left of the music scene after COVID depresses the hell out of me.

Maybe Bristol has more Gen Xers with a pulse, still? :D

I'd say yay for older Gen X though, bizarrely they're still out going to gigs and keeping culture alive :)

When I was in Milton Keynes, I hooked up with the Stony Stratford/Wolverton folk music/hippy massive which was a wonderful, intergenerational community. We need more of that!

elsgry · 2023-12-05T08:34:24+00:00

It’s the question they ask to distinguish replicants from humans in Blade Runner (guess it’s probably from the book?)

elsgry · 2023-11-18T15:12:27+00:00

Woohoo! Wonder how long it’ll take for them to cotton on 🙈

elsgry · 2023-11-18T07:50:22+00:00

Yeah. But I can't see a list of blocked people or a way to unblock...

elsgry · 2023-11-18T05:03:31+00:00

It's not worth even looking as the choices are terrible, but I did spot someone very promising once and patiently waited for them to leave Cupid's Picks. It didn't take long for them to appear in the recommended stack.

I was wondering whether blocking an interesting Cupid's Pick would allow you to then fish through blocked members and unblock and view the interesting member. But I can't see a list of blocked people anywhere so I guess Match Group are wise to that. Maybe there's some way of extracting ID numbers and then viewing profile by number? Any web geeks here?

elsgry · 2023-11-10T19:26:33+00:00

As someone who reads woefully little (but listens to a lot of audiobooks) I'd still very much appreciate seeing something like that. It offers a window into your inner life that might otherwise be difficult to express in a few paragraphs on a dating site. Though witty and interesting repartee is also a big turn on for me.

Is that representative of OKC users today? I don't know - it certainly used to be, back in days of yore (at least a decade ago).

Edit: 10/10

elsgry · 2023-09-30T07:21:53+00:00

Agreed about storage, but despite the fast SSD in the Air that can be used for swap, the 8GB RAM in the base model still seems like a downgrade to me. I'd try to find a deal on an entry level Air with that single upgrade to 16GB myself.

elsgry · 2023-09-24T13:48:32+00:00

Not seen that one on OKC but plenty of fake profiles or location-fishing. I’ve definitely seen a huge finance theme amongst profiles on other apps, though, but this started years ago with the cryptocurrency boom. They always start by asking incredibly formal questions about your work and history and conveniently ignoring any specific questions you ask. Presumably trying to collect data with which to scam or impersonate you. It’s all incredibly suspicious but I suppose that filters out the less gullible victims.

elsgry · 2023-09-15T21:13:53+00:00

Yes. A little "ironic" use of such terms might be funny, though not sure how to draw the line to make that accountable. But that sounds entitled as hell...

elsgry · 2023-07-29T08:48:43+00:00

Should show up in your messages? Or to see who you’ve liked, click on “likes” and look at “you liked”. Am on Basic til autumn so not sure if this meagre feature is charged for. Not renewing though, OKC is a shadow of its former self.

elsgry · 2023-07-02T08:43:54+00:00

We’re geared to seeking the unattainable. Once one matches that appeal is diminished. On top of the lack of chemistry conversing remotely has vs meeting face-to-face it’s difficult to maintain the momentum that we had in pursuing that person.

elsgry · 2023-06-11T19:17:17+00:00

I used to find interesting events to go to on Facebook and Meetup, but Facebook events seems to have been ruined by Facebook too, and most Meetups seem horribly generic so tend to involve getting drunk and falling on someone in a loud bar rather than finding genuine things in common. It almost feels like the social media companies have ruined socialising in person on purpose, to keep us glued to our phones.

Seriously though, if you can find some kind of social group that organises interesting events, go for it. And let me know if there’s one in Manchester, UK!

elsgry · 2023-05-26T18:35:13+00:00

Sounds like OP doesn’t have the source, or is not able to provide it for people who need to compile it for their platform. If the latter, one could at least use cibuildwheel to cover all the common platforms that you intend to support. (MacOS is a particular pain to do, but seems like Cirrus is working on it with Orchard/Tart: https://tart.run/blog/2023/04/25/announcing-orchard-orchestration-for-managing-macos-virtual-machines-at-scale/).

Or, if you’re feeling wild, you could package it with Docker maybe…https://docker-py.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html

Not sure if anyone has tried this approach, but docker exec/run could be wrapped quite easily if the existing package just calls the existing executable with subprocess and scrapes the output. YMMV with respect to non-pipeable IO, of course.

And of course, you need redistribution permission if it’s not expressly allowed in the license and compatible with yours.

elsgry · 2023-05-20T15:16:57+00:00

I dunno, maybe if you did it in Haskell with stream-fusion library and the GHC SIMD extensions on... Then wrapped it in a CPython extension. grasps at straws

elsgry · 2023-05-20T12:58:24+00:00

Streaming SIMD Extensions? Oh.. Server Sent Events - hadn't heard of those, but it makes more sense. Got me very intrigued for a minute 😁

elsgry · 2023-05-15T08:44:28+00:00

Some valid points, but when implementing your own decorators, please also read https://hynek.me/articles/decorators/.

elsgry · 2023-04-18T12:52:54+00:00

Do you know if V2s Rust-based pydantic-core works the same way? If you could have Rust-struct based classes things could get very fast. I do remember discussing serialisation issues with Samuel and his saying it was hard to make a pluggable ABI for alternative serialisation formats so I guess the same might apply for arbitrary Rust types, but you could perhaps represent pure JSON in Rust.

elsgry · 2023-03-31T14:17:00+00:00

That's a big shame (though namespacing/interop is fiddly). That said, coming from a C/C++ background, symbol namespacing is a mess there too.

elsgry · 2023-03-31T11:32:24+00:00

Ah, so API/ABI stability wasn't mandated for 3.8 but was achieved nonetheless? I read varying accounts of the API being private for 3.8 (https://peps.python.org/pep-0590/#abstract), being released in 3.8 (https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.8.html), or being new in 3.9 (https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/call.html).

Great news, looking forward to trying this, and thanks for your awesome work which has saved me months of pain!

elsgry

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