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by chaxor 3y ago
Yes again, it's very strange to see a simple focus on one particular instance from one particular company to represent the entire idea of technology in general. If windows 11 is far worse in many metrics than windows XP or Linux, does
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by chaxor 3y ago
I don't understand how everyone keeps making this mistake over and over. They explicitly just said "in 5-10 years". So many people continually use arguments that revolve around 'I used it once and it wasn't the best
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by chaxor 3y ago
I could be wrong here, but I believe this (ceph, et al) is the answer to the question: > """But what if I don't have a JBOD of 6x18TB hard drives with good amount of ECC RAM for ZFS? What if I have 3 raspberry pi 4
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by chaxor 3y ago
A serious user of both suggested to use iroh instead
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by chaxor 3y ago
You mean OpenOffice? Because it's not quite the same thing. It can cause some differences in appearance for docx (though that doesn't mean much, since M$FT Word also doesn't display their own doc format consistently either).
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by chaxor 3y ago
I'm a bit confused here. These are recognized as being harmful. It's written all over the msds for these. What is the real change that is going to occur? I remember dealing with these substances in tiny quantities in the lab, and
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by chaxor 3y ago
It's worth noting here (even though I also use vim/markdown/typst, and Word is a thing of the past) that markdown does say something more than "just the text". It puts the header notation and style (like italic, e
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by chaxor 3y ago
There are other reasons to not like Word other than 'it six's. One is availability. If you're on Linux all day, your options don't really contain word - it's not free to download and install due to needing a licen
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by chaxor 3y ago
On an only slightly related note: is there any good way to check PDFs for malware/executables? If I'm stuck with an attempt at it, the best I can think of is opening in a new QEMU or docker with no Internet access, but that's
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by chaxor 3y ago
I never fully understood the use of ipfs/iroh for websites, but I really like the idea for data caching in data science packages. It makes me more sense to me that someone would be much more willing to serve large databases and neura
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by chaxor 3y ago
Only keep your passwords in your head. That way only one person can know them - you. And then, you can forget them, and now no-one knows them. As we continually have told to and is pushed upon us by IT - this is the most secure system to
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by chaxor 3y ago
If there's nanotubes in there, You're **ed
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by chaxor 3y ago
It's ok if you: 1) Tell it what you want 2) Then realize it messed up because you forgot to specify more details 3) Repeat 1) & 2) ~25-50 (maybe>100) times, with different restarts/contexts with a clear goal of style
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by chaxor 3y ago
It's a place to learn languages. Like Rust or Go. :)
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by chaxor 3y ago
Fantastic! If Kuzu and LanceDB are added we could have a perfect way of dealing with graphs, vector, and tables all together in one ecosystem. Honestly may be worthy of a thin wrapper project around those. They would work so incredibly wel
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by chaxor 3y ago
Agreed We should be suggesting self hosted and decentralized solutions to website hosting and file hosting. On that note, does anyone have any secure methods of providing serving a file from your computer to anyone with a phone/compu
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by chaxor 3y ago
The font names are edit.exe? I always found it strange that fonts are executables and yet we hear so few uses of fonts as malware. The Linux repo for Ms fonts seems like such a perfect way to get RCE on Linux computer due to the number of p
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by chaxor 3y ago
I see. Perhaps the added benefit I am trying to create with this other system is that specifying remote locations isn't necessary, and is just inherited as the distributed network. Anytime anyone runs it, they're added to the
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by chaxor 3y ago
Sorry - memoizing . I am interested in making a system that can memoize large databases from ETL systems and then serve that on iroh or ipfs/torrent, such that a process that may take a supercomputer a week to process can have the sam
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by chaxor 3y ago
That seems more like what blogs and posts are for, not academic journals. Unfortunately things have degraded so much that there is very little difference between a blog and a research article, but there should be a very large distincti
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by chaxor 3y ago
It should be a requirement that every paper be completely reproducible, for any software part of the paper. On any OS or systém, it should work. Similar to requiring statistics to be reported a certain way, there should be guarantees that
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by chaxor 3y ago
It's nice when people use gitlab, for this reason
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by chaxor 3y ago
I'm not versed in this, so apologies for the stupid question, but wouldn't statically linking be more secure, if anything? Or at least have potentially better security? I always thought the better security practice is staticall
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by chaxor 3y ago
Nix has decentralized caching and memorizing?
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by chaxor 3y ago
I think that typically a rewrite in, well anything , can be helpful - simply because the first write wasn't sure of what may work or what the correct model for the system should be, or how to handle specific parts of the system etc. A
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by chaxor 3y ago
Typst is pretty close to markdown for simple things, and scales nicely to hard things. So you don't really need to worry about the markdown-pandoc shuffle anymore.
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by chaxor 3y ago
Typst. Typst is better IMO
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by chaxor 3y ago
Try out Typst. It senses changes to any file and auto-updates the doc lightning fast - it's far better than LaTeX IMO
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by chaxor 3y ago
Ah. So, If you send a check to the editor and say "for the journal": you call it a publishing fee. If you send a check to the editor and say "for you to give to the journal": you call it a bribe. Like that?
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by chaxor 3y ago
This is the real answer. Many of the problems in academia are due to publish or perish. Very many of them.

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