ranaexmachina

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by ranaexmachina 8mo ago
Bottom posting confuses the hell out of most people. I gave it a try but people kept complaining so I'm back to top posting even though it makes absolutely no sense.
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by ranaexmachina 3y ago
I'm pretty sure that's intentional. ;)
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by ranaexmachina 3y ago
Completely forgot about the grub issue. At some point I gave systemd-boot a try and never went back.
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by ranaexmachina 3y ago
I use Arch Linux on my personal machines since I left macOS in 2015ish. I briefly tried Ubuntu before but I wanted some newer versions of some software and I thought Arch would be a good way to learn about Linux (whatever that means). Since
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by ranaexmachina 3y ago
If you teach all the concepts of Git (e.g. commits point to parents but not to children or branches are labels that point to a commit) properly it takes some time but then you get a lot of the more advanced things such as rebase kind of for
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by ranaexmachina 3y ago
I really wish people would stop calling cryptocurrencies "crypto". :(
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by ranaexmachina 4y ago
I had different branches for different machines too in the past but it felt very inefficient to me. The configuration was the same for 99% and for the last 1% I had to manually copy stuff back and forth. At the moment, I just try to use too
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by ranaexmachina 4y ago
> To me, I don't really see a difference between GitHub and sr.ht. Companies can start out with these "friendly" attitudes towards FOSS, but when they reel in many paying customers, they can pretty easily, and without cons
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It is important for free software to use free software infrastructure(drewdevault.com)
14 points by ranaexmachina 5y ago|3 comments
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by ranaexmachina 5y ago
I think you would enjoy programming in Ada.
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by ranaexmachina 5y ago
That's very interesting. I honestly didn't think of that, since we often worked asynchronously or at the same machine (which doesn't work at the moment, of course). I can see how Overleaf can be nice for that purpose.
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by ranaexmachina 5y ago
right alt+qyps in US right alt+auos in EU (I think)
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by ranaexmachina 5y ago
In my experience, Overleaf is actually awful for collaboration. Maybe my workflow is weird, but I tend to look at the diffs after my colleagues make changes. Also, we mainly use pull requests to add to our papers. This way, everyone can see
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by ranaexmachina 5y ago
Just change it to US international or EU layout. It takes a few weeks to adjust, but I'm typing English and German with US international layout and I can use every Umlaut without any problems. :)
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by ranaexmachina 5y ago
I just want a linear timeline. :(
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by ranaexmachina 6y ago
> BibTeX is outdated (use biblatex+biber), I hope Tectonic is not hardwired to it. While I prefer biblatex and biber, some journals and conferences require BibTex.
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by ranaexmachina 6y ago
Not all of CS. It really depends on the sub field. But I would say most papers in CS are written in Latex though.
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by ranaexmachina 6y ago
The Golden Sun series had a password system to transfer your progress from Golden Sun 1 to Golden Sun 2. If you wanted to transfer everything it was 260 characters. At least you only had to do this once and there was an option to use a li
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by ranaexmachina 6y ago
I bought the ReMarkable 1 because I thought it was just a Linux device. It turned out to be not exactly true. Their whole interface is closed source and they use a (IIRC) closed but reverse-engineered format to store PDF metadata. I install
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by ranaexmachina 6y ago
In computer science a lot of researcher already publish their code (at least in the domain of software engineering) but my biggest problem is not the absence of tests but the absence of any documentation how to run it. In the best case you
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by ranaexmachina 6y ago
I just wish there were more 5K displays out there. A few months ago I bought and returned a 4K display because I'm so used to 1440p so that I lost some real estate with 4K at 2x scaling. At the moment I have to upscale the fonts on mos
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by ranaexmachina 6y ago
Not getting payed is not the point of free software.