I'm pleased to announce that TheStench™️ seems to have disappeared, or at least subsided enough as to just be non noticeable
My bathroom now just smells like shampoo with an undertone Glen 20 and body wash. Hallelujah!
It might be worth getting some of those moisture absorbing things you leave around the house just to make sure.
Or a cheaper alternative might be some baking powder and apparently coffee beans are good for absorbing smells too
They already put those in the roof. I don't think it's really worthwhile putting them anywhere else because only the bathroom and toilet have any kind of cut out in the roof for the extractor/exhaust fans, so the smell is largely prevented from escaping anywhere else
Why am I awake at 6am on a weekend. I would like to sleep more.
Fun fact: posts from 2023 now show up as "2 years ago", because of upwards rounding, I guess.
We've all been here for 2 year numbers now! Rexxit happened almost 2 years ago!! Cri.key.spoiler
so warm and cat has been attacking my toes
Which cat's this?
Ted Cat.
Oh, Ted. For shame.
The majority of guitar content online is advertising.
Consumerism has left a wound in music making.
Edit: It's my last weekend before going back to work and I refuse to go to bed till 4am.
Those rabbit holes are also how you end up on waiting lists for things to be available in AU and/or scouring for ways to get them to you.
So I don't disagree with you.
Pre edits: the colour of that Gibson was stunning though yah?
Here's my issue:
I'm tired of being marketed to. At every Junction. No, I don't give 5 fucks that some new distortion pedal makes you sound like this person or that.
It's the infection of capitalism in art. There's nothing wrong with gathering the tools you need. But there's a point at which you are no longer a creator, but a consumer of gear.
I've fallen to it in the past. Massive pedalboard. Every fancy new pedal. And for me, in the end, it was a hindrance more than anything.
I'm so utterly tired of being constantly being sold something. Where "content creators" are ad men in a new skin for a new era.
The faux excitement. The bullshit spiel about how this piece of whatever is going to make me x, y or z. Its all a scam.
There is a section of musicians that are basically gear collectors. It's poison to the creative spirit. And I know how wanky that sounds.
Like I said. It's a wound. And like any wound, it spreads an infection. The idea that without this thing or that, you can't make the music you want to.
That you NEED this thing otherwise you're missing out.
Fuck. That.
/Rant.
Sounds like cosmetic and weight loss products advertising for women. Over the years I have taken serious comfort by recalling Socrates' comment when walking through the Athenian marketplace - 'It's wonderful how many things there are in the world that I neither need nor want'. A wise man.
Same page mate, and to reply to all that properly would be an over a beer chat at a random local gig where none of that applies as people are being genuine and not like what you've described.
Cheeky bugger!
Especially after the edits.
👀
Replying to your edit and pfft, 4am is baby numbers. You've got a "oh shit the birds have stopped singing and and people are out jogging" night in you. I believe in you.
The mind is ready but the body is unwilling.
Did the body become willing?
Love how nobody wants to sleep tonight and we're all still up chatting away! Glad we're all enjoying our first hours of the weekend :)
(Except the mods though. Smh my head. Look at them being responsible, reasonable, smart adults and sleeping at a reasonable hour. Almost 3am and my post still isn't pinned! Bloody responsible early bird people)
My excuse is that I'm badgering GPT for python code to fulfill a niche but simple purpose
I've also been doing a bit of research into the biology behind weight gain/loss, fat storage, ketones, nutritional requirements, etc. funky things, the body. Definitely needs a few big fixes though
I’m badgering GPT for python code to fulfill a niche but simple purpose
Curious. What's the purpose?
Also agreed that it is fun seeing a night time crew around. I miss the check ins!
Honestly it probably already exists, but I just want something that does exactly what I want and no more, and is easy to setup:
I've got a browser extension that extracts all URLs on a webpage and merged them all into a JSON file. I use them for archiving mass amounts of URLs onto the Wayback machine using another utility they have that archives all URLs from a google sheet.
Google sheets doesn't allow importing a JSON file, though. So the python script takes a bunch of little JSON files with a few hundred URLs, then converts that into a CSV file that I can just import into GSheets. It's like 60 lines of code, with a few extra bells and whistles added in for error handling. Very simple
Again just curious, but why go via sheets and not their API? Are you crawling (you mentioned a browser extension so guessing not)? You might have an unnecessary complexity if I'm picturing this correctly at this hour.
This came out longer than tnicipated and I'm a bit too smooth brained at the moment to remove all the guff and rephrase. Sorry. Not a rant! Just a Livestream of consciousness basically
I couldn't figure out how to work their API. I got an API key and all that, but things just weren't working
There's a set of save page now utilities, I could use API free, but they're all Linux shell scripts, I couldn't figure out how to work on windows without messing around with WSL (a bit beyond my capabilities). When I tried to work them out on my MacBook, they worked but from memory not how I wanted
I also found the IAs documentation to be missing, difficult to find, or outdated in a lot of areas, as well, which meant that when I last tried to get GPT to work it out, it was trying to use deprecated API calls and an outdated authentication method, and I couldn't make it work much better myself
Could probably give it another go. Having it take the URLs from the CSV could work. But anything before that (like crawling) doesn't work the best because some of the things I archive require manual intervention anyway to properly extract all URLs (for instance Lemmy threads start auto collapsing after 300 comments, so they need to be expanded to retrieve comment links), or photos hidden in spoilers need to be expanded to retrieve the image url. That sort of thing. Possible to automate, but it would probably take more time to automate than if save compared to just doing it manually
I did actually attempt to get GPT to make a crawler for a completely different purpose once, and it didn't work. I don't remember what exactly went wrong with it, but from memory it was misinterpreting status codes and couldn't parse the html properly. Easier to just fork somebody else's crawler and modify it to work with the other scripts I guess
Also, importing it into a sheet doesn't actually take that much work. It's basically 3 mouse clicks, then heading to the IAs sheet batch archiving page and pasting in the URL. Their batch processing is a bit inefficient and can take a few days, which if done through the API could definitely be done faster and with a bit of smart logic put in to avoid going over daily archive caps and with a queueing system, but those few days don't require any active energy on my part. They keep processing it tin the background at a rate of a row or 2 a minute, then send me an email once it's done
Those clicks require effort though and the dev in me would not be clicking anything.
But the dev and mentor in me is now desperately wanting to jump on a call with you to pair and so I'm closing this tab.
Haha super kind of you, but don't waste your lovely Saturday on helping me with my silly projects! If anything, this script is largely about helping me become more familiar and comfortable with command line tools and troubleshooting/debugging python scripts.
Eventually I'm sure the extra clicks may get annoying, or something will break in the current flow and the API is the last option, or whatever. When I do, I might very well post up here "hey @indisin you know that time 9 years ago on the 11th of January, 2025, at about 4am when you really wanted to help me with a dumb project? Your offer still stand" 😂
small tangent
I know using an LLM to write code isn't exactly "learning" very much in the conventional sense, but honestly, I did try to actually learn python a few times, and it all just went over my head. But one of the most helpful things about ChatGPT is that, at least for now before it fully enshitifies, I can ask it as many questions as I like. I can ask it do something I'd never have any clue how to do myself, then ask it why it did specific things specific ways, what would happen if X was changed to y, or why z thing needs to be an xy position in the code. A real person would've blocked me a long, long time ago 😆
Check out all the nangs someone had at the entrance to my fire escape. Packaging of a woolies mudcake (I hope), couple of beers, pink balloons (it's a girl!) and a whole damn box of spent nangs.
Epic, surprised I didn't find a body tbh 😅😬
I love brunswick
Round springy they're all about the nang tanks. I think it's a rule that they get littered on the road too. Typing this on the dog walk and whaddya know :
Oh damn lol, like that Galaxy Gas brand being all like "iT's FoR bAkInG hUrR dUrR"
You sure they just didn't want a lot of cream with their mudcake?
Hah. Reminds me. When I went down the shops the other day, cause the arseholes did that thing they do where they close half the shopping centre and force people to walk around the outside, I had to walk through a bit of a seedy area. Bunch of shopping trolleys full of rubbish and stuff, a few tipped over. Nangs everywhere. A few needles. A few shops and loading docks had what I'd guess were about 4-5 metre tall fences complete with razor wire over the top around their bins
Also chose a bad way to walk back to the bus stop and ended up having to go past a group of 7-8 dodgy looking people who were 100% sizing me up
E: removed a small rant about Brunswick. Probably a bit unpopular here
Impressive collection lol
Just been freaked out with some loud noises on or in the roof.
Hope it only on top. I’ve had enough of possums invading the roof in the past.
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