lejalv

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by lejalv 8mo ago
Thanks for sharing your experience. Upon reading I felt identified (hyperlexic having trouble reading math as if it was prose). I still tell myself “I like math”. But it's true that when I think of “doing math”, I envision a study situ
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by lejalv 8mo ago
For OP's calibration since he is working on “that problem” > A younger version of myself felt guilty at disliking reading scientific papers. Then I realized I just didn’t want to be a scientist, and stopped caring. (Also, I realize
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by lejalv 8mo ago
This thread has 220 comments, and so far, only 3-4 say they are stopping financing OpenAI via subscription fees.
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by lejalv 8mo ago
Maybe http://texmacs.org would fit here!
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by lejalv 8mo ago
Have a look at TeXmacs! ( https://texmacs.org ) (AFAIK, you can run Mathematica sessions in TeXmacs, get proper typesetting, and can copy/paste expressions for simplification by hand or using other CAS sessions in the same Te
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by lejalv 8mo ago
Do you know how the deadliest conflict of the XXth century eventually came to be? The words of one Adolf Hitler. Don't dismiss words: they are the necessary link between (individual) thoughts and collective deeds. PS. Trump also got th
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by lejalv 8mo ago
I've mostly experienced UK and Schuko/CEE plugs, and I immediately felt the Swiss plug offered the best form factor (with grounding). Now I see the Italian one looks even more compact, and reversible. Can somebody comment on these
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by lejalv 8mo ago
Graphs? How good is AGE really?
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by lejalv 8mo ago
For those of you using OSMAnd - do you think there is any chance that they will offer public transport routing? I would at once get the 15-year XV plan if they got this, but perhaps it's at odds with their motto “Offline Maps and Nav
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by lejalv 8mo ago
IMO Overleaf is a terrible experience (on the other hand, that's what you get if your ambition for computers in 2026 is batch mode and split-panes).
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by lejalv 8mo ago
It's easy to miss the video on the front page, which I find provides a great visual summary of features and will make you understand why other commenters are praising how efficient (and pleasurable, I might add!) TeXmacs is: https:&#x
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by lejalv 8mo ago
That too, I agree. I am against what copyright has become
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by lejalv 8mo ago
Can proprietary software (SAP) be truly sovereign, though? On the one hand, nothing stops SAP from behaving like Oracle for the sake of shareholder value. On the other hand, even SAP could be bought by Blackrock or Peter Thiel, and back to
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by lejalv 8mo ago
> This is true. The eidas directive requires that secret material lives in a dedicated hardware / secure element. It's really not much different than what a banking app would require. Except the state is not a bank, of which th
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by lejalv 8mo ago
So they did pay to distill a piratic model. More than can be said from Anthropic et al.’s leeching of a substantial proportion of human culture
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by lejalv 8mo ago
You're saying they are buccaneers, and validating that as the fundamental working principle of American capitalism.
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by lejalv 8mo ago
I have an issue with any US-American product. I guess Americans wouldn't like to buy from Nazi Germany in 1942 and so do I with buying US-American in 2026
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by lejalv 8mo ago
I didn't know. Do you have a link to one specific announcement where they mislead people about the patch level? It would help to start a conversation to change that.
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by lejalv 8mo ago
Thanks for the tip, I'll check it out for when I am back in central Europe, but I am currently based in south Europe and sadly my country/city are not covered.
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by lejalv 8mo ago
Can you explain how you mean this? Obviously, it helps if the knowledge of the codebase is with a trusted partner. But taking as an example Grist ( https://getgrist.org ), which is developed by a NY-based US company and is part of
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by lejalv 8mo ago
Bla bla bla yada sustainability yada often come with large better growing faster... It's such an uninformative piece of marketing crap
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by lejalv 8mo ago
That's why the European way to tech sovereignty is (publicly-funded) free software. Cannot be bought by unlimited VC money from The Valley, and it benefits the rest of the world, which is a tiny drop, and hence a necessary one, in Euro
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by lejalv 8mo ago
> I like Organic Maps Does anybody know of a project that offers public transport routing? Ideally with real time information, but I can live with only using schedules or even just average passage interval. The other general sticking poi
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by lejalv 8mo ago
> Card is usually linked to the US. Some people would like to not depend on that. You have a point, and even though it looks like it will be a very corporate-driven system, and possibly dependent on Google or Apple, there seems to be an
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by lejalv 8mo ago
> Not in Spain. I can access my bank's website but I can't do anything without their bank app. Even sometimes they require to confirm my identity using their app in order to access their website. https://triodos.es
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by lejalv 8mo ago
I did not know - here's a link to Washington Post reporting: https://archive.ph/kCxNw
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by lejalv 8mo ago
I would put the focus on having capable web-banking. I never install the banking app on my phone. I must also be getting old, because I don't get the big fuss about NFC payments. Firstly, I'd never use them if they go through Go
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by lejalv 8mo ago
/e/OS/ was bad with updates for a long time (I had to switch 2022). IodéOS is very good at it, in my experience (I have used all three)
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by lejalv 8mo ago
> when I look at one for more than 30mn That limitation might be doing you a favor, as these things go... Even if Pixels hadn't PWM a larger screen (or, dare I say, a book) will be an improvement for longer reading sessions.
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by lejalv 8mo ago
> a lack of a proper wasm renderer is why penpot will never be competitive The Penpot WASM renderer is entering open beta any time now.

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