bomewish

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by bomewish 3y ago
There's a C++ library for tokenising Chinese for sqlite FTS: https://github.com/wangfenjin/simple
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by bomewish 3y ago
You don't find the idea both kinda hilarious and somehow vaguely appealing even though it's a bit nonserious at the same time? I love it as a thought experiment.
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by bomewish 3y ago
Straight up just get everyone to bring their families. Head out Friday afternoon, back Monday morning. Two days of work kinda lost, but the weekend is for hanging out and chatting about work stuff -- both structured and unstructured. Go to
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by bomewish 3y ago
Yeah agree. I would rather pay $10/year or something. Right now I still have to trust that the developer won't just copy all the data I'm writing. I don't have any reason to trust them if I can't see the code and I&
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by bomewish 3y ago
Yah but do those words - as we would typically understand them - mean the same thing when applied to a computational model? A great deal of intellectual legerdemain is going on in many of these descriptions.
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by bomewish 3y ago
So you have to constantly rename it with each commit or what?
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by bomewish 3y ago
This seems totally outrageous and retaliatory -- especially for the friend? Can you get some media attention on this? Is this not a violation of some kind of TOS? It seems wildly thuggish. Did your google authenticator also get nailed? Plea
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by bomewish 3y ago
Gotta agree that it's really darn confusing as to what this thing actually does. Seems like a pretty big project that some talented people have poured a lot of time into, but what am I getting into here? Does it (1) download archived u
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by bomewish 3y ago
Customer private data and internal employee communications are totally different things. What you’re saying applies only to the former.
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by bomewish 3y ago
You seem to know a bunch about this. What’s your rec for best single explainer?
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by bomewish 3y ago
Hadn’t considered that angle. But then he would fess up to it etc right?
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by bomewish 4y ago
SQLite is a really remarkable piece of software -- decades of peak human capital have been invested in it. Why wouldn't you want to make the most of that to achieve your objectives?
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by bomewish 4y ago
Wikipedia doesn't show ads now? So what is that giant popup that occupies half my screen asking for money every time I visit it? That's an ad -- and one more obnoxious than most.
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by bomewish 4y ago
No, I was asking you because you said you were going to implement it. I run zotero on two computers and sync them with unison -- but it just seems a bit fragile sometimes. I've corrupted the database once before and it was a hassle to
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by bomewish 4y ago
Just take it out of the box and put it in your carryon, making it your 'work laptop' right? How would you risk being caught at customs?
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by bomewish 4y ago
any update of usability here? I have a giant zotero library (and a folder of 100gb pdfs) that I would love to just switch to something like this...