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  Extreme long shot, but… In a python script utilising PySide6 (QT6 library), why, if you have a large method, does calling it cause the interface to hang until it is finished. NB: making a smaller method that makes interface changes, then calls the larger method, doesn’t work either, none of the interface changes happen before it hangs. I have an MainWindow class bases on QMainWindow inside I have a QPushButton called runBtn I have a handler: self.runBtn.clicked.connect(self.buttonHandler...

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  @KiwiEV@mastodon.nz Most people, in my experience, don't leave jobs, they leave managers.

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  ASWFC AURORA ALERT ISSUED AT 0923 UT on 16 May 2026 GEOMAGNETIC STORM IN PROGRESS. AURORA MAY BE OBSERVED DURING LOCAL NIGHT TIME HOURS IN GOOD OBSERVING CONDITIONS AT HIGH LATITUDES. https://www.sws.bom.gov.au/Aurora/1/1 #Aurora

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  Small entry today as we were mostly travelling: http://www.vikings.homeip.net/Lap/25.html #CWNT #blog #travel

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  Ah the dulcet tones of V8s being revved too hard, and distant sirens. I guess that's what you get in town. #dubbo

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  #SilentSunday

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  #CWNT Day 9 where we go to Gaol, and then visit a Zoo. http://www.vikings.homeip.net/Lap/26.html #blog #travel

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  More giraffes. Did the optional safari tour (20 min drive through the safari enclosure).

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  And here are some industrious meerkats. #CWNT #TarongaWesternPlainsZoo #meerkat #video

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  TIL I have apparently been using the “wrong” degrees symbol º (Option 0) instead of ° (Shift Option 8)

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  I don't know about you, but I have apple crumble and custard.

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  Once again @iFixit saves the day. This time with the Canon GP-E2 teardown instructions: https://documents.cdn.ifixit.com/pdf/ifixit/guide_129816_en.pdf The hotshoe plate was loose (three of four screws had worked themselves loose over the 10+ years I’ve had this device), and the guide showed me the crucial step of desoldering the ground pin to get the hotshoe off and be able to access the screws to tighten it down. #repair

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  Birders and birding adjacent folk, there’s a survey by some researchers at work that wants your answers: https://uniofqueensland.syd1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8GHohveJCnBPLgy

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  New loaf. Decided to braid this one. #bread #breadPosting

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  Located in NSW between Orange and the Wombeyan Caves is this little spot. Questions, I have some....

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  Planning a trip south (with the caravan) and it looks like we might actually make it to the Zig Zag Railway (somewhere I've been meaning to go to since I was a teenager). 🚂

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  Well, that's a refreshing start to a survey.

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  I've recently finished being a guinea pig (took part in a research study) regarding hearing aides for people whose hearing is technically still good, but have trouble in noisy environments. It was an interesting exercise, in that I am now aware of the upper register that has degraded with age. Anyway, as an aside there was a gift voucher at the end of the study, which I put towards some AirPods Pro 3's to conduct some testing of my own. They arrived today, and I've set them up in...

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  Right so for those wanting an explanation... ^H represents it the literal represtation of pressing the Ctrol (^) and H keys, which is a backspace in early computers and terminals. It comes from the ANSI control code set from the 1970's which had decimal 08 as the move cursor left one space command. Some keyboards at the time did not have a dedicated backspace key, so a Ctrl + key sequence was coined, and since the command was 08, they chose the eighth letter to represent it (H).

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  Anyone want a free cat? You just need to camp out in my backyard between 3am and 6am and then catch it. #thisIsNotMyCat

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  Some 10 days after it arrived in Brisbane, my package had travelled the 53km from the depot to my place.

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  :pakidge: has now been "on board for delivery" for 3 business days. fuckers

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  In case you're curious, it took ½ hr (mostly on hold) to add the registration details of my caravan to the caravan insurance policy.

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  And you thought waiting in a plane to exit was excruciatingly long... #artemis2

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  Pretty funny it took these astronauts 9 days to travel across the continental USA. ;-)

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  Cake! Apple crumble cake to be precise. Basically a Dutch Apple Cake with stewed apples and crumble on top. #food #baking #cake

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  @yogthos @valhalla I made it to the end of 1300, but beyond that, I could decipher no more.

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  New loaf. An enriched dough, not quite brioche but heading that way. #breadPosting

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  There, I fixed it.

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  One of my friends’ cats has taken to sitting in the kitchen sink when the sun is coming through the window. #cat