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by tombert 5d ago
I am not sure that that's recent. Most books, even before the internet, were kind of low-effort shit. You've always had terrible borderline-porn romance novels at grocery stores and terrible pulp novels and the like. We just don
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by tombert 5d ago
I have two grandmothers. One is racist in a way that is somewhat understandable (e.g. using outdated words like “oriental” to refer to Asian people). For her, I am more or less fine just rolling my eyes and continue talking to her, because
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by tombert 5d ago
Technical papers are the one of the few things I still print out, actually. I have never been able to read them from my Ereader. That’s primarily because papers are PDF and thus the formatting isn’t as dynamic.
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by tombert 5d ago
I don’t have any data, it just feels like a lot of my friends who got kindles for birthdays or Christmas would use it for a week and then then it would sit in a drawer for the remainder. To be fair, I don’t think most of those friends actua
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by tombert 5d ago
I get a lot of books from Libby to read from my library. Annoyingly they don’t work with KOReader but the Pocketbook reading program is competent enough nowadays.
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by tombert 5d ago
Not cool.
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by tombert 5d ago
To each their own, it has never really bothered me honestly.
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by tombert 5d ago
Ha, no, I actually don't talk to that grandmother anymore and probably never will again since she's extremely racist and doesn't like my (Hispanic) wife. I wouldn't buy her gifts at the best of times.
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by tombert 6d ago
I sort of discovered this accidentally twice. First was when I go the Kindle I realized I could make the text as big as I wanted so I would do that, as stated before. Another time is when I wanted an external monitor and I bought a big TV b
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by tombert 6d ago
KOReader has bookmark support; if I need to go back a few pages (or use the search), I'll just set a bookmark for my current place so I can easily jump back.
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by tombert 6d ago
I read a lot, and I own a lot of physical books, but I almost never actually read physical books anymore. I'm one of the happy few that used my Kindle for more than a week after getting it as a gift. I find that reading on an ereader i
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by tombert 6d ago
I hadn't heard of zfsify, but I think I'll check it out on yet another old laptop running ext4.
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by tombert 7d ago
Fair, I still don’t use it on my main machine, just a shitty laptop that I keep around to play with.
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by tombert 7d ago
It's relatively easy to get it working as a kernel module at least. I got it set up on a NixOS box without too much trouble.
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by tombert 7d ago
I don't agree with you being mass-downvoted, since you're just espousing your opinion, even if it's one I don't agree with. That said, I think we're at a fundamental disagreement here; the recruiters would screw up
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by tombert 7d ago
…what? How would that work logistically? You would get a regular resume with formatting that isn’t fucked up and you would think “this is a guy who I shouldn’t hire”? You’d have a stack of resumes, all of which are broken, and you’d see one
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by tombert 7d ago
I'm with you. You're not my parents.
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by tombert 7d ago
I don't think I disagree with anything you said. I think cynicism is lazy.
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by tombert 7d ago
I mean they'll shoot protesters execution-style and retroactively declare that person a terrorist before they've even done any investigations. It's not Nazi Germany, but this administration has certainly demonstrated that the
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by tombert 8d ago
As far as I am aware that never happened. Every time this particular situation has happened, I have gotten a callback.
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by tombert 8d ago
Can't speak for every graduate program or every school, but when I was in grad school at University of York, we actually used Overleaf with LaTeX a lot, since it allowed shared collaborative editing. I liked that because it's stil
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by tombert 8d ago
Same. I've had a lot of good luck getting Claude to make Flakes and then adding it to my Jovian Steam console to play it; it allows me to even pre-set stuff like mappings for my Xbox controller. https://hub.brucewillis.sexy&
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by tombert 8d ago
I mean, all I did was use a large chunk of free time and Fable tokens. I wish I could say that my big brain and software engineering prowess is what got it working, but mostly it was just staring at text and not having anything better to d
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by tombert 8d ago
Sure; honestly this is just for people like my parents. I am slowly trying to build the case that they should switch to Linux, especially if they expect me to play IT for them.
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by tombert 8d ago
The stuff that was done differently was the shim to get the activation working, and the fact that modern Wine has native Wayland support that helps avoid a lot of graphical glitches. I'm not entirely sure what your point is though? Are
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by tombert 8d ago
That is actually why I got into LaTeX in the first place! My resume was initially done with LibreOffice and I'd send recruiters a PDF, and they would ask for a .docx, and when I would send that they would screw up all the formatting by
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by tombert 8d ago
To be fair, I actually emailed HN moderation before I submitted this because I actually sort of agree. They said I should go ahead and submit it because there might be some interest in this.
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by tombert 8d ago
Uh, what? I actually think a lot of people cared enough to do this; the entire Wine project sort of exists specifically because people want Windows software on Linux. I know multiple people who have said that they won't use Linux spe
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by tombert 8d ago
Yeah, I think I mentioned it here a few months ago, but I got Office 97 working with Wine, and I was sort of flabbergasted at how usable it still is. It worked fine with my system's TrueType fonts, it does all the formatting I care ab
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by tombert 8d ago
Interesting, I hadn't heard of this actually, though it looks like there's a good chunk of overlap in what we were doing. I suspect what they're doing is better than what I did. I just was happy I got something working and w

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