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@riot So this is where the library stacks overflow
@riot@wspanialy.eu I was trying to create a Python script for personal use to get an idea of the pixelation of images as I had a very large number of them to sieve.
I found a function I'd apparently created or copied months ago whilst trying to do the same thing that generates some number from the image. I decided to try this, and it turns out it is indeed a very good proxy for what I want.
I still don't know what the number is, or what the code in the function means, but it works with lower numbers indicating its likely to be 'bad' . . .
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Me hitting the compile button: I Want To Believe.
@riot that was always my favourite section of the library as a kid
@riot The heX-Files!
@riot this is actually why I'm a programmer today. I was at the library trying to look up ESP and UFOs and Bigfoot and it was right next to all these books on how to use a computer and I read them too and got interested
@riot @codinghorror Me when I’m submitting a pull request to my team
@riot I spent a lot of time in this section of the library as a kid, and thanks to the surrounding books in this one, I picked up a habit of checking the categories adjacent to the one I was look at.
Not exactly scientific in nature, but I browsed a lot of topics over the years that I'd never have thought to look at, or in many cases at that age, knew existed at all.
@riot @Gargron And this is, why I never dared to become a programmer. So I became an author to make up my own explanations and get away with it. #Autorenleben #writerslife #indieauthor
@riot I certainly try to avoid explaining my actions.
@riot lol the category seems right
The ghost in the machine
- Tron
- The Computer That Wore Tennis Shoes
- Freakazoid!
- Lawnmower Man
- Johnny Mnemonic
- The Matrix
@riot Nice! Do you have a source for the image?
@frankkrueger found on some Telegram group 
It's been shared widely!
But it seems fake.
The actual numbers:
000 Computer science, knowledge and systems
000 Computer science, information and general works
001 Knowledge
002 The book (writing, libraries, and book-related topics)
003 Systems
004 Data processing and computer science
005 Computer programming, programs and data
006 Special computer methods (e.g. AI, multimedia, VR)
Oh, so there are some variants:
001.9 Unexplained, UFO’s, Bigfoot, etc.
004 – 006 Computers
@riot Accurate
@riot Well, that explains it!
@riot oh is this where all my bugs come from
Aren't "unexplained phenomena in software" just called "bugs"?
Or possibly this is next to the entomology section?
@SmartmanApps @riot the Witcher is literally debugging.
@SmartmanApps @riot it's the same section!
@StompyRobot @SmartmanApps @riot My thought exactly! The books should be integrated. "Add 3 Python scales to one dram of ground Perl..."
@SmartmanApps @riot I think @foone has a story about how this got her interested in computers as a kid.
@SmartmanApps @riot @ellouis seems about right.
@SmartmanApps @riot technomancy!!!
@SmartmanApps @riot the section to the left of the "Computers" section is also interesting: invented knowledge, superstitions, Nephilim, supernatural...
@SmartmanApps @riot seems about right!!
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I think @cstross could be interested in this kind of shelf :-)
@riot @leodurruti
@riot @SmartmanApps or “last Thursday” as I prefer to call it
@SmartmanApps @riot @cstross not only that, but the run-up to compete includes titles like "Superstition", "Invented knowledge"' and a book on conspiracies.
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"pixel, n.: A mischievous, magical spirit associated with screen displays. The computer industry has frequently borrowed from mythology: Witness the sprites in computer graphics, the demons in artificial intelligence, and the trolls in the marketing department."
(attributed to one Jeff Meyer)
@SmartmanApps @riot Same in my library.
@funnzl@troet.cafe@riot you'll definitely find some php in there...
@riot the dewey decimal system was not prepared for modern computer science or LGBT people, both are shoehorned in at awkward places
@riot I agree with this organization decision
@riot Toronto library?
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Putting the Decimal in Dewey Decimal?
@riot explanation: REALITY IS AN ILLUSION THE UNIVERSE IS A HOLOGRAM BUY GOLD BYE
@riot Why the redundant labelling?
@riot Our local library files esotericism under psychology. I'm still thinking about that ...
@riot Dewey decimal classification?
THE LIBRARIANS KNOW
@riot I actually think this fits, no joke. This is what a lot of big tech is basically saying to their end users: „Coding is hard, it‘s black magic, even we do not know what these nerds are doing in their basement … but we look after you, come use our app … it‘s fueled on AI and mines crypto!“
@riot Where you can find me in any library