Gabriel Pettier

Dissipé, curieux, ultracrépidarianiste.
développeur (#python :python:), vegan :seedling: (éco/éthique), linuxien (ubuntu depuis 2005) #kivy

Dissipated, curious, overly opiniated, developer, vegan, linux user.

Lives near #Amsterdam, in the Netherlands.

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il/lui

github: https://github.com/tshirtman
blog: https://journal.tshirtman.dev/tshirtman/

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2026-01-31 09:11:35 UTC

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I'm sadly pretty convinced the bit at the end will convince right-wingers that he's actually crazy (as we all loonies leftists are, whatever nuance of left-of-maga we are), and then dismiss everything he said before.
But yes, great video.

2025-12-26 19:59:22 UTC

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i concur, very common bug in Python code, everyone has to be bitten once to learn this lesson.
Using a mutable default value is generally a mistake in python.
It makes sense once you understand that the python signature is a line of code evaluated when the module is imported, and that the value stored as default is an object created at that time, not every time the function is called.

2025-11-03 20:07:47 UTC

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you don't elect these people because they'll be perfect, but they'll be easier to pressure into doing the right things, protesting against trump has almost zero effect, protesting against a democratic government, is much more likely to give results, because they actually have to care about you voting for them, and how it looks to their base.
Sure, there is a balancing act, as if you vote no matter what, they might not care, but it's almost always better to do so.

2025-11-03 19:22:37 UTC

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if people don't vote for him for not being leftist enough, they'll never vote for anyone on the ballot.
(and what they want will keep being ignored, unless they do an armed uprising, i guess)

2025-11-02 20:29:05 UTC

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Hey, glad to se your message again, after reading it yesterday, i watched Lajok on your channel and quite liked it. Good work! (and great performance by the main actress/dancer!).
Curious about what your vision of solarpunk will be, will chip in a bit :).

2025-10-29 22:11:39 UTC

I just gave $100 to the PSF.
Thanks to Glyph and other matchers for making that double. Much respect.
https://mas.to/@npub16y8…d455/115459561434004702
#Python

2025-08-09 19:04:35 UTC

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doesn't seem to happen here, (firefox, linux desktop).

2025-07-05 20:43:17 UTC

Alors ça, je crois que c'est nouveau.
Je reçois un mail à mon addresse <prenom>.<nom>@gmail.com
c'est un mail "Delivery Status Notification (Failure)" venant de googlemail.com, qui me dit que le mail join n'a pas pu être délivré à <prenom>.<nom>@google.com (je n'ai en effet pas d'addresse google, ceux-ci sont réservés aux employés).
Le mail (spam) joint ressemble à une promo décathlon pour me faire gagner un sac, et bien sur les liens sont vers des domaines imbitables AWS.
#spam #fishing

2025-06-02 17:04:25 UTC

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i think people want to compare how shocking it is, but i don’t think it’s fair, it’s probably more devastating, and it’s not similar in situation at all, as you point out, the US wasn’t at war with Japan during pearl harbor, and it got them into it, which was devastating to Japan, an incredible strategic mistake, if only because the US had a lot more under the hood, to hit back.
Russia doesn’t have anywhere near the same capacity.

2024-12-23 10:35:24 UTC

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toute honte bue… je doute qu'elle soit bien reçue à londres.

2024-12-19 18:36:18 UTC

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just as realistic as kadyrov proposing to an ukrainian prisonner to give him a gun to shoot himself, what are these people thinking?

2024-12-16 20:12:44 UTC

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yep, When it emerges from this war, Ukraine will be a powerhouse of defense technology and innovation.

2024-12-14 22:34:38 UTC

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#ALT4you
"All it takes to get Universal Healthcare, is convincing Americans that paying $2000 in taxes is better than paying $8000 in health insurance.
It literally boils down to enough Americans understanding that the number 2 is smaller than the number 8.
Every other country has already figured this out."

2024-12-05 20:24:26 UTC

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i was also very concerned at first, and i'm still quite anxious, but i must say some videos i saw of people preaching against sectarianism and for inclusivity, not just across different muslim faiths, but reaching to christians and others, emerging a few days ago, gave me some hope that the coalition is not going to be dominated by extremists.
I really hope that materialize, but it's just that, hope, there is reasons to be worried for sure.

2024-11-21 00:59:43 UTC

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i mean at the scale of the universe, we are pretty close to each others, so that's not a contradiction :).
You could say that we are at the center of our observable universe, but i'm currently pretty much against a wall in this room, so pretty off-center of my currently observable environment. 🤪

2024-11-16 15:08:55 UTC

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would you want a compiler or interpreter that, when encountering an invalid or ambiguous predicate, generate unambiguous or alternative variants and check if any of them is consistent with the rest of the program, and if some are found, the one with the least hypothesis required be considered the intent, and used to build?

2024-11-07 20:12:45 UTC

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and all that for a completely idiotic project that has no chance to ever become a livable city, and *even* if it could become, was designed to be a dystopian surveillance hell.
Not that it would make it ok, if it was a well designed project, but somehow, it makes it worse that it's a doomed project.
Such a waste of life and energy.

2024-11-06 11:50:59 UTC

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i hope populism and authoritarianism are not the only values that can be culturally propagated efficiently, that a culture of mutual support, welcoming of difference, voluntary cooperation, rejection of unchecked authorities, can be fostered at local level in enough places that people see the value in pushing these values at the top as well.
We must keep in mind that it took them time to get there, we can’t expect easy solutions, they have been working hard at it, so shall we.

2024-11-06 10:43:06 UTC

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I fear the right learned more from Gramsci than the left, they worked on the cultural battle, they have been at it for decades, and they are winning.

2024-11-06 00:21:37 UTC

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just what i needed, thank you. Beautiful.

2024-11-04 21:50:40 UTC

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i think the defense is lying about it being a different crime. Genius move.

2024-10-30 17:46:49 UTC

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yeah, it's weird, could simply be ignorance of how alt text work, and too afraid to ask at this point? Or could be they think it's enough it's in comments, or just care about engagement and not seeing a point of doing the effort to update. (Although i'm pretty sure adding alt-text boosts engagement on here, but they might not know).
Anyway, it's all guesses 🤷

2024-10-30 17:05:10 UTC

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well, i hope it’s the former, because i do it very frequently, with the appropriate Alt4you tag, i don’t think i got any negative reaction, when i get an answer, it’s generally thankful.

2024-10-28 20:34:24 UTC

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well informed voters wouldn't vote for trump, unless they are self identified fascists. So i'm unconvinced this one more terrible thing said or done by trump or his associates, won't lose him nearly as many of the votes as it should.

2024-10-19 17:58:51 UTC

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not all heroes wear caps.
👏

2024-10-19 08:55:11 UTC

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even when running overnight?
yay for energy storage, i guess :D

2024-10-13 11:49:39 UTC

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really nice pattern indeed, it does suggest there was a tension that got "corrected", i wonder if the wall is perfectly flat, or if there is some bulge or curvature behind that would have caused it. Aside that maybe something happened on the other side of the wall?

2024-09-28 13:37:00 UTC

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yeah, i think it's because (as you did with "ah") we all tend to skip the final point in small text messages, as they look complete enough without it, so adding that dot show some intent, extra formalism, which is generally interpreted as passive-agressive.

2024-09-28 05:09:42 UTC

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I assume anyone in EU should be able to ask them to delete any data related to them, through GDPR.
Good luck to everyone else 😬

2024-09-26 21:14:35 UTC

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yeah, sometimes i check even the things that have "meat" all over their packaging (name and pictures) and all, and the list of ingredient is fully vegan.
We also have the other kind too, the ones that have absolutely no obvious reason not to be vegan, but somehow contains milk extracts 😞

2024-09-12 07:55:29 UTC

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i don’t use VPNs much, but i heard Mullvad was good, and i use it from time to time.

2024-09-03 17:58:53 UTC

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incredibly google seem to only have 1 result for this search https://openbenches.org/bench/6944 🤯

2024-08-30 22:04:14 UTC

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i'd bet on the only one that'd make some sense to be true.

2024-08-29 21:49:57 UTC

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Do you know if it's possible for foreigners traveling to the US to get an update/booster shot while there? It's become harder to get booster shots around here (Netherlands) if you are not "at risk" (everyone is, duh, but they don't think that's the case), and i'll be traveling for business reasons soon, so that would be nice to get up to date. It's fine if not free.
No worries if you don't know, but search results are polluted by "travel requirements" updates, so it's hard to find 😞

2024-08-25 11:21:22 UTC

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oui, c'est un truc aussi, les gens qui t'aiment pas t'identifie au début, puis s'auto excluent de ton monde, en général, si tu ne le fait pas toi même. 🤷‍♂️

2024-08-25 08:54:22 UTC

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on a facilement la même impression de "c'est mort" en arrivant ici aussi, quand j'ai migré y'avait pas mal d'outils pour retrouver des gens dans ses contacts twitter, mais j'imagine qu'avec les vérouillages d'API, ça doit être plus compliqué maintenant.

2024-08-22 19:49:27 UTC

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time to share these videos again, over and over? People must have forgotten how bad it was.

2024-08-13 15:45:29 UTC

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you don’t always get a full skeleton, and shapes come in a spectrum, there is always some appreciation and guesswork.

2024-08-12 14:06:17 UTC

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there has been a lot of looking back at old archeology research, because with assumptions like women being smaller, small individuals were categorized as women, and thus their roles were categorized as women roles, which, with layers of simplification in research builing upon previous research, ends up essentializing women’s roles in ancestral societies.

2024-08-07 00:28:11 UTC

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ok, next important question… https://xkcd.com/977/