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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 21/08/2026

Seems LL is changing their mind about how the #TransSansaraCauseway will be built... #SecondLife #SecondLifeGeography So they added 3 new regions south of Albion and ended with this:

Bird's eye view of Trans Sansara Causeway, now implemented as an extension of Frog Road.

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 13/08/2026

Aaand an enterprising resident (not me) made a map showing the undersea part of the #TransSansaraCauseway ! #SecondLife #SecondLifeGeography #SecondLifeCartography

A map of Second Life showing the undersea tunnel part of the Trans-Sansara Causeway

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 11/08/2026

And someone disabled water rendering and mapped out the undersea tunnel of #TransSansaraCauseway #SecondLife

Tunnel begins on the Luna region in front of the Luna Mall

Tunnel punches through the South West corner of Okeanos, seemingly targeting the smaller island. Maybe it will emerge there and go up in a bridge before going undersea again.

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 11/08/2026

Oh wait someone actually looked around the Luna Mall area... and it looks like LL's making an undersea tunnel!

The Trans-Sansara Causeway on the Luna Mall side. It's clear it's a downward ramp leading into a tunnel.

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 10/07/2025

People really should know -- and use -- verbose regex.

An example of verbose regex where newlines are used to delinate parts of the regex pattern, while comments are provided using the '#' comment marker

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 01/04/2025

Agent-based management where agents routinely call back to Central can prevent being blockwalled by SSH failures. That's the benefit of #SaltStack And that's why I don't want to go "agentless" like #Ansible www.reddit.com/r/saltstack/...

A screenshot of the linked Reddit thread, hence why I don't copy the whole text. Just go to Reddit for the text.

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 31/03/2025

Wow, a great way to make many people feel old... PlayStation 3 launch date: 11 November 2006

Some people thought of Sega Mega Drive when thinking about "19-year old console" ... But the PlayStation 3 is 19-year old... it was launched in 2006...

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 15/03/2025

Hmmm... Happy American Pi Day to USAians?

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 09/03/2025

Do they even know that #BDSM already has a common meaning? And not "Bible Discussion Study Meet" #BigDataSecurityManagement www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Screenshot from page 59/60 of the linked-to research paper, showing the usage of the BDSM abbreviation.

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 25/02/2025

You know, a thought crossed my mind ... Split keyboards such as these are designed so that people whose hands are bound in a neck-attached yoke can still touch type...

Ergodox EZ split mechanical keyboard. Definitely designed to enable people whose hands are bound in a neck-attached yoke to still be able to touch-type.

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 20/02/2025

I love these heavy Unicode quotation marks. Not only are they distinct from the quoted text, they also provide a nice "visual framing" The opening one is U+1F676, the closing one is U+1F678.

A quote from an article by Armin Ronacher, enclosed between a pair of visually distinct 'Sans Serif Heavy Double Comma Quotation Mark Ornaments', which are U+1F676 and U+1F678 respectively.

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 17/02/2025

This concept extends to, for instance, how range works:

A conceptual diagram of how range() works

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 17/02/2025

This also applies for negative indexing, see below:

Conceptual diagram of Python indexing, now with Negative Index

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 17/02/2025

To visualize the concept, refer to this diagram:

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 11/02/2025

Considering there are 11 "channels" of BOM textures, that means if all channels (except Eyes) are using 2K texture, there will be a total of 161 MiB of texture data being sent _per_avatar_ (Tats, system underwear, system clothing etc. are all baked onto one or more of these channels) #SecondLife

A texturing menu in Second Life viewer showing 11 channels available in a "universal layer" item.

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 26/01/2025

Well someone who claimed to be @philiprosedale.bsky.social commented on *that* comment, as follows:

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 25/01/2025

Result is below. Also notice that this version has less steps, and actually doesn't match with netflix.com (Also, your regex, if not using the "gm" flags, will result in "catastrophic backtracking")

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 25/01/2025

The (.*)* construct in regex will result in exponential time, because it will cause a LOT of backtracking. And you have two of them! Use this instead: ([^:]+:\/\/)?([^.]+\.)*(([fv]x)?twitter|(fixup|fix)?x)\.com Comparison (see Alt text as well)

Original regex, takes 90 steps to finish.

Improved regex, takes 38 steps to finish.

Original regex, takes 246 steps to finish.

Improved regex, still takes only 38 steps to finish.

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 25/01/2025

Wow this #SecondLife feedback has become the top-voted suggestion!

A feedback for Second Life, sorted by votes.

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 23/01/2025

Huh I only have about 7000-something LoC and it's already quite unwieldy... Can't even begin to imagine how a 1MLoC project will look like...

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 21/01/2025

If you're using Skyfeed: Add a Remove box if "Item" "has labels"

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 21/01/2025

If you're using SkyFeed, to match against hashtags you don't actually need a regex. Just add an "Input" box, and choose "Tags", like this:

The "Input" box in SkyFeed, with input mode set to "Tags", and some Python-related tags being specified

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 19/01/2025

Here's where it all began (screenshots) Did we attack you? No. We pointed out, in clear terms, that your JSON is invalid. Then you doubled down and attacked "Python fans" while MOVING THE GOALPOSTS.

... and responded to by an ad hominem attack while at the same time moving the goalposts.

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 19/01/2025

The issue is that when we point out to you the facts, you turn around and do an "ad hominem" attack to the Python community. Here's a screenshot:

Ad Hominem attack against the Python community.

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 19/01/2025

Yooo... can you see that red-highlighted text, @microhobby.bsky.social ? IT IS NOT VALID JSON

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 19/01/2025

Look at this below. s1 is the invalid JSON s2 is a valid JSON, where the double quotes are included:

A screenshot of a Python REPL comparing an invalid JSON against a valid JSON.

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 22/12/2024

WHOEVER THOUGHT OF USING THIS MASCOT IN THE ERROR MESSAGE OF FIREFOX MOBILE DESERVES A RAISE IS SO CUTE 🥰 #Firefox #FirefoxMobile

An error screen (NS_ERROR_OFFLINE) shown by Firefox mobile, showing a cute fox frowning at disconnected cables.

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 11/12/2024

As expected, the second variant (the one-pass version) *usually* performs better than the first (the two-pass version). Buuuut ... the performance difference is surprisingly not that big. And also, sometimes the two-pass version is a wee bit faster than the one-pass version ... #PythonProgramming

Two Python functions that separates a list into two. The first variant uses two comprehensions, so a two-pass version. The second variant uses a single pass.

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 02/12/2024

Wowww ... I'm quite honored that literally hundreds of people liked my #Python feed ...

A screenshot showing that 383 users have "liked" the "Python Programming" feed that I created.

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 13/10/2024

Oh wow, it seems #AzureIslands just made a 'bridge' connecting them to the NorthEast corner of Tuarua Fiji ! This means additional sailing path to East Corsica ! #SecondLife #SecondLifeMaps #SecondLifeGeography

A 'silhouette' of Second Life world map, with an arrow pointing at a vertical band of relatively recent regions, connecting the NorthEast corner of Azure Islands to the Eastern edge of Tuarua Fiji.

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 29/09/2024

From #KokuaViewer 's release page: > ... Kokua has a very small project team - 2 people, both with limited time ... > We’re inviting ... to join the Kokua team. Experience with C++ is essential, familiarity with working with the viewer is a bonus. > Contact chorazinallen AT gmail.com #SecondLife

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 27/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,513,698!

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #1,513,698, Claire M. von SecondLife ‪@clairemsl.bsky.social‬, joined on Oct 14, 2023"

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 20/09/2024

Me, relaxing in my #ponygirl stall. Taken during night time using Alchemy Viewer, with Quality "High-Plus", Tonemapper "ACES" and Exposure 1.6. #ponyplay #BDSM #SecondLife

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 19/09/2024

People new to Blue sky might not know what "reskeet" is. It's nowhere in the app. Should've just said "Repost" instead, which is the actual term that the BlueSky app use.

"Reskeet" is just a fancy way of saying "Repost and/or Quote Post"

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 17/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,513,698! No special blue stamp... Oh well. Took me a bit long to get the invite 😅

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Claire M. von SecondLife @clairem.secondlife.bio · 12/09/2024

Probably my highest percentage win in this game, ever. I finished in 1:11 btw. #Nonogram

A Nonogram puzzle with the declaration, "I beat 95.40% players in [this particular] Nonogram [puzzle]!"

The percentage indicates how many people who had solved this particular puzzle are slower than my time of 1:11.

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