johannesrexx

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by johannesrexx 1y ago
So if a thief breaks into my house and steals my stuff, do I then shake my shoulders and leave my front door unlocked? No, I don't, and neither do you. We double down and increase our home security.
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by johannesrexx 1y ago
No way in Hades would I upload a copy of sensitive personal documentation like a driver's license or a passport to the likes of Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, OpenAI, Antropic or even privacy-respecting Apple. No. Not gonna happe
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by johannesrexx 1y ago
The writer makes an ePub available at their GitHub repository: https://github.com/little-book-of/linear-algebra
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by johannesrexx 1y ago
NASA is a space agency. S P A C E. It's in the name. By wading into the climate debate, NASA exposed itself as a far-left target and is now paying the price. NASA can thank Gavin Schmidt for corrupting the science and turning it into a
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by johannesrexx 1y ago
Mr. Gruber was certainly one of the inventors of Markdown but has rested on the laurels ever since. Remember that the late Aaron Schwartz was the co-inventor of Markdown. So let's not give Mr. Gruber too much attention for his opinions
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by johannesrexx 1y ago
OP opened with an ad hominem argument that his skeptic friends are all nuts. OP therefore loses the argument.
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by johannesrexx 1y ago
qView opens this easily enough.
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by johannesrexx 2y ago
Rewrite it like so > 1/10 + 2/10 == 3/10 true >
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by johannesrexx 2y ago
The yellow toner is needed to print the yellow steganographic dot pattern containing the printer serial number. My guess is that for Brother to comply with its agreement with the US Secret Service, the printer has to have yellow toner to pr
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by johannesrexx 2y ago
Details please. Does the printer refuse to print, or does the operating system printing subsystem refuse to print? What is your operating system? Have you given Brother support an opportunity to respond?
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by johannesrexx 2y ago
Pandoc does not have a PDF reader.
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by johannesrexx 2y ago
Has anybody worked out how to do a local install of Hurmet?
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by johannesrexx 2y ago
Alfred Morgan's The Boy Electrician
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by johannesrexx 2y ago
Buy your electronics from Costco whenever you can. If said electronics fails, you just bring it back for a full refund, no questions asked. If Costco does not sell it, there is a good reason why not. From all indications, Costco is still ru
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by johannesrexx 2y ago
HP is not your grandfather's HP. When the HP board of director foolishly ignored the HP Way to promote from within and hired on Carleton Fiorina as CEO the company changed the same way cancer changes a person's body. The pattern r
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by johannesrexx 2y ago
https://archive.org/details/DesignUNIXOperatingSystem
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by johannesrexx 2y ago
You were basically doing exactly what the crew of the Nebucadnezzer were doing when they were looking at the green Matrix columns scrolling down.
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by johannesrexx 2y ago
[TreeSheets]( https://strlen.com/treesheets/ ) perhaps
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by johannesrexx 2y ago
[Mindforger]( https://www.mindforger.com/ ) is a free, open source cross-platform notes organizer. You write in Markdown and there is some LLM integration. Also a Kanban board.
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by johannesrexx 2y ago
Peer review does not mean that the actual experiment, study or computer simulation was replicated by peers. It's more of a gatekeeper function. For example, if a paper entitled "Password Security Best Practices" suggested tha
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by johannesrexx 2y ago
No Rust code ChatGPT has ever generated for me has worked and it was a complete waste of time. It once did manage to write a very simple Bash script that worked first time. Calculators resulted in a generation that could not do arithmetic i
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by johannesrexx 3y ago
I write in Markdown using MindForger. Each chapter gets its own Markdown file. Plus additional Markdown files for frontmatter and backmatter. Quarto converts the entire kit and kaboodle into HTML (for previewing), ePub, PDF and if you want
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by johannesrexx 3y ago
My Linux machines sleep when not in use and get a reboot when there's a kernel update, so about every one to two weeks. My Mac Mini also sleeps when not in use and only gets a reboot when there's a macOS update, which are typicall
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by johannesrexx 3y ago
I believe that Cory Doctorow would suggest that the enshittification of GitHub is now in full swing.
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by johannesrexx 3y ago
Web hosting to host my vanity domain. DabbleWriter because it's a great product for writers
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by johannesrexx 3y ago
Given that no Intuit account was needed before this, it seems to me that this is about gathering additional personal information about the customer and not about providing a benefit to the customer. Say hello to H&R Block's desktop
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by johannesrexx 3y ago
After reading the comments here the [System76 Launch Keyboard] looks reasonably priced.
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by johannesrexx 3y ago
After seeing some of the keyboard prices in the reader comments, the [System76 Launch Keyboard]( https://system76.com/accessories/launch#specs ) looks reasonably priced.
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by johannesrexx 3y ago
After seeing some of the mechanical keyboard prices in the various comments here, the [System76 Launch keyboard]( https://system76.com/accessories/launch#specs ) looks reasonably priced.