@thisismyglasgow Reminds me a bit of the flood defences in the Netherlands, there's a subtle effect on the ecosystem as salt water intake is changed due to the gates that can be maximized to encourage specific species of plants/fishes.
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Computational scientist designing novel weakly supervised reconstruction and detection algorithms in superresolution microscopy
@Jgbird This is a great shot, whenever I see them it's often too dark to really bring out their blue hues.
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Inspired by Google's move to remove @organicmaps from the Playstore without warning, I finally decided to move my > 3,000 Google Maps saved places to Organic Maps. To facilitate doing this for others' benefit, I made a quick webpage to convert your Google Maps GeoJSON data to GPX and KMZ files that render well in Organic Maps.
https://rudokemper.github.io/google-maps-places-to-organic-maps/
@Research_FTW Steam works quite well on Linux across distributions, but check individual games and which distros support graphics drivers better. CachyOS is reportedly excellent for squeezing out every last bit of performance (Arch based).
For Nvivo, you'd have three options: apart from Vm you can try Wine.
The Wine db ratings are not promising though. https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=2389
Before switching, I usually recommend trying out a few distros using a live image on USB
One of those 'nice to have' things in Julia bridging the distance between code and mathematics: support for unicode mathematical operators as functions:
a = Set([1,2,3])
a = a ∪ [4]
a == Set([1,2,3,4]) # true
Displaylink for RPM based distros https://github.com/displaylink-rpm/
Not always very stable if hardware conflicts, but works for me on F40 + 6.14, it is critical to have the latest drivers/firmware (for me) before you install the rpm, once installed works very smooth (Dell + Thinkpad dock). #thinkpad #linux #fedora #displaylink
(note that modifying DNF to keep known working kernels is recommended as fallback option if the module conflicts).
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If you are blind and you have the spoons, can you let me know if you use the terminal on Linux and if so which one? If you use the terminal, do you use a screenreader plugin or a specific external screenreader on Linux?
I wrote a terminal UI program for kubernetes that has voice assistance and I want to test it myself with a normal workflow that a disabled user would follow.
I am also willing to pay if you want to test it. Read further down in this thread if you want more info.
Edit again: wasn't expecting to get any feedback but I got some already and I really appreciate it! I will be doing more testing and research in the coming weeks 💙
@pwaring @nCrazed This cloudflare post has some interesting relevant concepts, e.g. (but have not tested) seems like you can sysctl the ephemeral port range. https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-to-stop-running-out-of-ephemeral-ports-and-start-to-love-long-lived-connections/
Other options could be to use cgroups/ulimit to restrict port use inside the container? I tested none of these, so ymmv, but what if you can fence off a range of ports that the kernel can't assign to user space, and therefore would be guaranteed yours at creation to fwd?
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On the extremely low off-chance there are any archivists or trainee archivists in the UK here thinking about doing the Archive and Records Association's professional registration scheme, I've just passed the assessment for it and I'm hoping to be a mentor for somebody else's application. Happy to have a casual chat about it if you're not sure...https://www.archives.org.uk/ara-professional-development-programme
#archives #archivists #libraries #ARA #ArchivesAndRecordsAssociation #GLAM @archivistodon
@pwaring You can use `lsof` to check if the port you want to use is already in use in a script, e.g. test a random port > 1024 until you find an open one.
`lsof -nP -iTCP -sTCP:LISTEN`
Though come to think of it, that would not work because I think you would not actively use the port, so other apps would still try to get a socket on the port.
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The new Yoker-Renfrew Bridge across the Clyde. Officially opened yesterday, it won't actually come into use until midday today. I think I'm right in saying this is Scotland's first vehicular swing bridge across the Atlantic Ocean (well, a small arm of it at any rate!).
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"It seems to me important that we try to go beyond the field of biology in studying the brain. Mathematics provides a far more propitious ground for this research, I believe, because it is absolute, universal, and therefore independent of any cultural influence." – Alain Connes (1947-)
#quote #mathematics #math #maths
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Busy, buzzy little bee.
I watched this wee gal for ten minutes as she burrowed into the earth, like she was trying to tunnel herself a new home.
Then, she cleaned herself up and buzzed off!
#photography #insects #bees #nature
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Support for Windows 10 ends on October 14, 2025. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?
Check out the End of 10 initiative to learn more! If you know anyone else who might find this useful, share it with them!
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Vorige week ben ik te gast geweest bij wetenschapsradiozender Radio Swammerdam.
We hebben gepraat over de herkomst van het Nederlands, over taalreconstructie, en over de vraag of taal alleen maar simpeler wordt.
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0psB1HYs1IbLtvRLQZPQrG
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Look at this gorgeous bird!
A white-crowned sparrow, which is a new bird to our yard!
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Look at those tiny wings...
Graylag Gosling
#nature #birds #Wildlife #photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #UK #BirdScrolling
@codemonkeymike Not as a comment on the choice(s) made, but `alien` is one way to convert .deb (Debian/*buntu) to rpm for RHEL based distros. https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/hhc2qa/converted_a_deb_package_to_rpm_package_using/
If this is Windsurf (the VS Code forked editor), it is a bit odd, because the original is supported across distros.
[disclaimer: haven't looked into the repo/link]
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With more than 100k lines of code, the CFD solver CHAMPS is the biggest Chapel codebase we know of. To learn more about how Chapel helps aerodynamics research, check out this recent talk by Engin Kayraklioglu, Eric Laurendeau and Karim Zayni presented at the NASA Ames Research Center.
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