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by ktpsns 6mo ago
Zotero is my primary reference keeping system. As a research group/company we switched from bibtex to zotero because it allows to put the PDFs also into the collection and has web based browsing included without custom software. Howeve
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by ktpsns 7mo ago
If you run the ancient software on modern Windows, you might consider windows sudo, which is a thing nowadays. I wonder whether you cannot use Windows user permission ACLs. They are pretty fine grained. Might be hard to find the right set o
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by ktpsns 7mo ago
To clarify, a good title would be "Loading Doom entirely from DNS records" Neither one plays Doom over DNS nor is the first paragraph in the README correct, because DNS is only abused for storage, not for computing/processing
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by ktpsns 7mo ago
Krita is amazing. Anybody who struggles with GIMP UI should give Krita a try.
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by ktpsns 7mo ago
Same here. What I hate most is the fact how tooling decides what should be hidden files and what not. Hiding important configuration files (also done by some SSGs) is a bad habit which makes it hard to explore a new project. At least such f
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by ktpsns 7mo ago
Traffic for the static payload is super cheap. And the insane amount of requests is handled easily by modern event-based architectures. The operation costs are most likely only a tiny amount of the overall economics of the tracker's bu
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by ktpsns 7mo ago
The tragedy of the commons affects not only grey-haired astronomers but everybody who wants to learn about nature. Light pollution is already so real that I assume the majority of people in "industrialized states" haven't see
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by ktpsns 7mo ago
Amazing work. I feel this is still something where human engineering genius is required and AI cannot honestly do that. But I might be wrong.
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by ktpsns 7mo ago
Glad to see this. We can do better then git.
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by ktpsns 7mo ago
I wonder whether this requires particular GUI toolkits to be used, such as WFC. In any GUI there are enough "bad boy" toolkits which just "draw lines" and thus are not accessible at all.
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by ktpsns 7mo ago
To be honest, the same applies when a developer gets promoted to team lead. I made this experience on my own that I no longer got in touch with the code written. Reasons are slightly different (for me it was a lack of time and documentation
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by ktpsns 7mo ago
Yes definetly! CDs are still commercially available and really affordable as "hardware mixtapes". Heck, even my old car still has a CD player.
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by ktpsns 8mo ago
Slightly off-topic: https://tonies.com/en-gb/ is a very popular physical music box for children coming from Germany. I guess (not sure) it pioneered figures with NFC chips which then let the wifi-connected speaker st
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by ktpsns 8mo ago
cat & A UNIX fork is actually a clone of the process, in the first place. (SCNR)
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by ktpsns 8mo ago
Monthly AI subscription fees will most likely quadruple in two years. This will fan out the greyscale of AI assistant quality much more. Who can afford to use a $1k/month agent for a side project? This post summarizes the economics of
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by ktpsns 8mo ago
Quite offtopic, but: I found UUIDs being overused in many cases. People then abused them to store data, making them effectively "speaking IDs" or "multi column indices".
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by ktpsns 8mo ago
CSS in 2025: Let's write html inlined styles as if it was 2005 and separation of formatting/representation was never invented. I talk of tailwind, of course.
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by ktpsns 8mo ago
I used telnet(1) as a generic TCP text client for many years before switching to GNU/BSD netcat. Nowadays, netcat is more prominent then telnet, and telnet had its corner cases with control characters. Never heard about https:/&#
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by ktpsns 8mo ago
I don't think YAML syntax is the core problem but understanding them as text files and not as serialized dicts/maps and lists. Hell starts to open when people use string template languages to generate YAML files, such as in Helm c
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by ktpsns 8mo ago
There is nothing wrong in "the old way" if "it works for me". Issues can probably start in a team but even then, old tools can rock. I remember when people introduced poetry in our dev team in an absurdly complicated way
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by ktpsns 9mo ago
I also assume AI here. There is no visible scientific connection, no references and it all sounds nonsense. I have a PHD in fluid dynamics but cannot relate.
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by ktpsns 9mo ago
Documentation and APIs can be both machine and human readable at the same time. For my impression, MCP is compating symptoms. In a well constructed system, there would be no need to write dedicated documentation or APIs for LLMs. By the way
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by ktpsns 9mo ago
It's a shame that within +20yrs of widespread IEEE 802.11, no extension to standardize terms acknowledgement, login flows, etc could make it. Thus we are left with this captive errnous detection. It feels similarly stupid as NAT in a p
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by ktpsns 9mo ago
Nice article. Some passages have LLM smells (short sentences. No em dash but smells of em dashes). I wonder whether this comes from having an LLM improve the English formulation/typos/etc. I don't like the way how LLMs typica
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by ktpsns 9mo ago
I discovered Perl directly after PHP before Web 2.0 days. Compared with the extreme, Java or (contemporary) Go, Perl codes (can) have a soul. Interestingly, modern ECMAScript (JS) brought in a few of the nice breweties from Perl world which
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by ktpsns 9mo ago
Best luck! My year of the Linux desktop has been 2006, so it's now 20 years (with a short 5yrs relapse around 2012). I never look back. (Similarities to smoking cessation are neither coincidental nor intentional, but unavoidable.)
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by ktpsns 9mo ago
Nice numbers and it's always worth to know an order of magnitude. But these charts are far away from what "every programmer should know".
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by ktpsns 9mo ago
And yet Java is more then Java. There are lots of more modern languages on the JVM. The ecosystem is huge and still has lots of inertia.
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by ktpsns 10mo ago
Pip is not Linux specific, it's the same on Win/Mac. I prefer AppImages because they are just statically compiled binaries. I prefer Apt&friends because it is good old packaging. But flatpak and snap? Hell no. I see so little
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by ktpsns 10mo ago
This is exactly the type of bad redactions which the X-ray software will also find.

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