jcynix

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by jcynix 8mo ago
> Such organizations don't know what to do. Maybe they should simply use some common sense? If someone could and would steal valuables, it seems highly unlikely that he/she/it would notify you before doing it. If they woul
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by jcynix 8mo ago
Readers who payed (and only those) could vote on a scale whether the article was worth the payment? The amount payed might even be calculated into the vote, e.g. you payed one token and get one vote, I payed two or three tokens and get two
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by jcynix 8mo ago
And here's some interesting background info on the late John Allen which I just stumbled upon: John Allen (1937-2022) and Anatomy of LISP https://mcjones.org/dustydecks/archives/2024/04/11/1249&
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by jcynix 8mo ago
The bibliography contains a typo, namely entry 5 misses an "l" in Allegro. And a book, which I'd call "an Oldie but Goldie" could be added: John Allen's "Anatomy of Lisp" (1978) which still is an exce
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by jcynix 8mo ago
When you get a "Permission denied (publickey)." if you try to connect to a server which requires a public key for authentication, it causes your 5 lines to wrongly raise an alarm ... you need to adapt your grep.
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by jcynix 8mo ago
It's a fine movie, agreed. The movie's focus isn't on revenge, but on the interaction between the protagonists. Anyways, the story outline heavily reminds me of the classic "The Count of Monte Cristo" by Dumas. Disc
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by jcynix 8mo ago
Ghibli movies are a different class of movies, but the exact thing that you describe "absorbs us and takes away the awareness that we are watching a film" is what happends to me. The story is so intriguing that I even "forget
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by jcynix 8mo ago
> A stream is programmed by somebody else and who knows if they are trying to please me or their partners. That's one problem, yes. The other, more subtle, might be that one cannot really develop a personal taste. If you have a CD (
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by jcynix 8mo ago
Here's a reading and listening tip for handling social media addiction: Frank Possemato: How to Live an Analog Life in a Digital World: A Workbook for Living Soulfully in an Age of Overload How to live an analog life in a digital world
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by jcynix 8mo ago
When it's a streaming service, it might be equally worse IMO, but a bit less so if it's music you own. But anyways, I call these folks "electro autists" (with apologies to real autists) as they are rarely reachable for
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by jcynix 8mo ago
Seen yesterday on someone's blog [You Need A Kitchen Slide Rule]( https://entropicthoughts.com/kitchen-slide-rule )
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by jcynix 8mo ago
EBCDIC wasn't the problem, this was (part of) the problem: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.1.0?topic=execution-systsi... And BITNET …
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by jcynix 8mo ago
"BITNET was a co-operative university computer network in the United States founded in 1981 by Ira Fuchs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and Greydon Freeman at Yale University." https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by jcynix 8mo ago
The whole article, if actually read, explains a lot. Not the least how we came from talking about "food" to talk about single ingredients instead. Which then are hailed as the "solution" for all of today's problems
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by jcynix 8mo ago
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." "That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy." Unhappy Me
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by jcynix 8mo ago
I take monthly notes with the excellent app Markor, keep my daily diary with the nice app Diary and share lists, notes, todos with family members via Joplin (stores data on my own WebDAV server). So almost everything is text (with markup&#x
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by jcynix 8mo ago
First of all, typing shell commands isn't that annoying on the tiny touchscreen. Caveat: heavy terminal users here ;-) Then you can attach a Bluetooth keyboard. And you can import scripts (Perl, Python, Shell, ...) via ssh from other d
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by jcynix 8mo ago
With Termux I have rsync at hand, which can compute checksums, delete files after the transfer, etc. That's why I do my complete backup with Termux. And I sort the images on the phone into dated subfolders before syncing them. And havi
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by jcynix 8mo ago
You could create a timestamp file on your Mac, where your Mac adds a timestamp per day or hour and have a script check that the timestamps appear in your backup.
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by jcynix 8mo ago
Google recorded wifi names and locations as a "bycatch" when taking streetview pictures from 2007 upto 2010. They still collect such data on Android devices if the user consents or ignores the option to say "no" … :-0 Ce
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by jcynix 8mo ago
Isn't that "normally" done on a foam carpet prepared by the fire trucks?
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by jcynix 9mo ago
Impressive graphics! But the music loop is even better in my ears :-)
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Weird Old Punctuation Marks We Should Bring Back(mentalfloss.com)
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by jcynix 9mo ago
You show an impressive variation of mazes, cool!
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by jcynix 9mo ago
Maybe we need a real AI which creates new phrases and teaches the poor LLMs? Looking back we already had similar problems, when we had to ask our colleagues, students, whomever "Did you get your proposed solution from the answers part
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by jcynix 9mo ago
It's what they read on The Internets when training, so don't expect them to generate new phrases, other than what they learned from it?
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by jcynix 9mo ago
You might see certain phrases and mdashes ;-) rather often, because … these programs are trained on data written by people (or Microsoft's spelling correction) which overused them in the last n years? So what should these poor LLMs gen
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by jcynix 9mo ago
Electronic processes are way to easy to rig one way or the other.: Tom Scott: Why Electronic Voting Is Still A Bad Idea https://youtu.be/LkH2r-sNjQs Sure, there are ways to cheat with paper votes too. But counting paper bal
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by jcynix 9mo ago
I guess that companies which get bought might be a bit "overstaffed" from the startup phase or because planned further development. If one removes this staff, you need less people to minimally maintain a running app. But itcs just
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by jcynix 9mo ago
Hundreds of millions in revenue and three acquisitions in 2024 — what’s behind Bending Spoons’ success? | Sifted https://sifted.eu/articles/bending-spoons-italy-startup-ipo So private equity is behind it.

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