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torbengee··on Updated PHP version released to GitHub
Looks like the upgrade instructions for PHP 8.3 for Fedora 39 and earlier are not working ... yikes.
torbengee··on Google releases its new Google Sans Flex font as open source
I've tried so many fonts in my coding life, but I think I've finally found my forever font: JetBrains Mono. Crisp, all characters distinguishable, slightly larger lowercase for better reading ...

I recently compared it once more to others – https://www.programmingfonts.org/ makes it easy to narrow down to your favourites one by one ... JetBrains Mono still wins. :)

torbengee··on Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?
Inside the house? How? They shit wherever they happen to be ...
torbengee··on Behaviors reveal sophisticated tool use and possible “pranking” among pachyderms
Thank you.
torbengee··on Diagram as Code
Diagrams from code are nice ... until you want to nudge that one particular little thing ...
torbengee··on The best $4 ever spent
Consider the possibility that your brother might be a cat ...
torbengee··on Saffron: The Most Expensive Spice
They've figured out how to detect and cut off the flowers. No solution to picking the threads yet.
torbengee··on Saffron: The Most Expensive Spice
A couple of years ago I trained some ResNets to detect saffron flowers and their stigmas and then simulated the picking process in Blender. One would have to develop a suitable soft gripper and use a precise pick-and-place robotic arm (delta robots are great for this), but IMHO the amount of manual labour during harvest can be solved with today's technology.
torbengee··on Show HN: Galactic Compass – an app that points to the galactic center
Love it. One suggestion: it would be nice if one could choose the galaxy. I'm not from here, so ...

("Check your galactic privilege!") ;)

torbengee··on Happy Birthday Lemmings
LOL I just played through Lemmings in one of those DosBox emulators a few days ago ... so much fun!! The music alone brought back some good memories.
torbengee··on Antagonistic AI
> if an antagonist bot is mistaken, it's hard to convince it that a different answer is the right answer, it almost always sticks to its original mistake

s/bot//

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

torbengee··on I applied for a software role at FedEx and was asked to take a personality test
If they can't tell whether you'll be a good fit after the screening interview, the tech panel interview, and the interview with the hiring manager and who else, then that says more about the company than about you.
torbengee··on Reverse Engineering DOS Software as If It Were 1990
Oh SoftICE, you got me past many shareware nag screens ... :)
torbengee··on 165 m private submersible superyacht
Oh, to have the privilege of spending my time on a grey brutalist vessel ... all my friends on their slick yachts would be envious, I'm sure.
torbengee··on Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards
We'll find out in a year ... boy should be 12 by then.
torbengee··on Researchers find signs of intelligence among jumping spiders
Uh-oh, I just read Children of Time ... and so it begins ... :-o
torbengee··on Stable Boy: A Stable Diffusion Gimp Plugin (Powered by A1111's SD WebUI)
AUTOMATIC1111's Stable Diffusion WebUI is one of the most powerful tools in the generative AI space. And it has an API – which Stable Boy uses to bring SD WebUI's numerous capabilities to GIMP 2.10.