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🗣️ Announcing Python-Blosc2 3.6.1

!Unlock new levels of data manipulation with Blosc2! 🚀

We've introduced a major improvement: powerful fancy indexing and orthogonal indexing for Blosc2 arrays.

We've tamed the complexity of fancy indexing to make it intuitive, efficient, and consistent with NumPy's behavior. 💪

Read all about it on our blog! 📝 blosc.org/posts/blosc2-fancy-i

Compress Better, Compute Bigger!

Quand l’efficacité devient le seul axe de la modernité – sans finalité ni seuil –, chaque progrès génère expansion, sur-stimulation, nouvelles marchandises/simulacres… Nourrissant le cycle infini du paradoxe de Jevons : dépendance systémique, croissance débridée, et fuite vers l’aporie.

Recently #linux #CachyOS jumped to the no.1 spot on distrowatch.

I've followed this distro with slight curiosity for a while, their big selling point being #performance which is always nice.

..and a mighty good argument using it for #linuxaudio

Does someone have experience with this distro, spesifically used for audio / music production ?

I gotta admit, it sure looks tempting!

They ship custom kernel builds. One of them is targeting AMD Zen 4 which I have, so yea... exciting

I redesigned my blog-meets-literature site ‘Samuel Pepys’ Diary Reimagined’ with a new webfont.

I have always loved typewriter fonts but any and all digital creations lacked authenticity because on a real typewriter, due to various factors letters are never identical. The font ‘TT2020’ by Fredrick Brennan includes several versions of each letter, simulating the unevenness of the real thing quite well.

Downside: the font files are huge.

Would you be so kind as to test my site and provide me with some insight how well or badly it performs (in terms of loading times)?

(Mobile users with limited data rates, beware! The font files add up to 5.3 MiB [5.6 MB].)

babumenos.com/SPDR/

The font is here: copypaste.wtf/

babumenos.comSamuel Pepys’ Diary ReimaginedA contemporary diary of current every-day events large and small, inspired by the work of 17th century writer and politician Samuel Pepys.
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"The pedagogical value of a writing assignment doesn’t lie in the tangible product of the work — the paper that gets handed in at the assignment’s end. It lies in the work itself: the critical reading of source materials, the synthesis of evidence and ideas, the formulation of a thesis and an argument, and the expression of thought in a coherent piece of writing. The paper is a proxy that the instructor uses to evaluate the success of the work the student has done — the work of learning. Once graded and returned to the student, the paper can be thrown away."

by Nicholas Carr: newcartographies.com/p/the-myt via @riotnrrd

New Cartographies · The Myth of Automated LearningBy Nicholas Carr

We seem to have entered the #era of #celebrity #marriage as #performance #art.

I think it started with Jon Richardson though I may have missed earlier iterations.

For a while we've had an assortment of farming couples including Jeremy Clarkson.

Now they're graduating to using marriage to revive moribund careers such as the case with Noel Edmonds.

It's no wonder #genz has a jaundiced outlook. It didn't happen in a vacuum.