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anatoliyl, to KDE Russian

@kde That's why I love KDE:
It has cute mascot
It is minimalistic
It is beautiful
It has a big amount of features
It has a big amount of good apps
It can tweaked

qjkxbmwvz,

KDE is minimalistic?! Granted it’s been a very long time since using it, but I’d say Fluxbox or i3wm are minimalistic, KDE…not so much.

Not hating on it at all, just musing.

qjkxbmwvz,

Looks like Slashdot no longer allows Anonymous Cowards. TIL.

(I’m not editorializing — that’s what you’d show up as if you posted anonymously.)

qjkxbmwvz,

I think this is the same Lincoln Electric that is now known for welding.

Interestingly, the founder also founded this institute …wikipedia.org/…/Lincoln_Institute_of_Land_Policy

qjkxbmwvz,

I like the sentiment, but there are non-peer reviewed papers that are real science. Politics and funding are real things, and there is a bit of gatekeeping here, which isn’t really good IMHO.

Also, reproducibility is a sticky subject, especially with immoral experiments (which can still be the product of science, however unsavory), or experiments for which there are only one apparatus in the world (e.g., some particle physics).

qjkxbmwvz,

I’ve only recently branched out from router defaults…only reason was that I wanted to VLAN off my home network, and mostly just so [Home Assistant-controlled] smart devices can’t talk to the Internet at all.

qjkxbmwvz,

Particularly for folks with long spines, height can change significantly throughout the day.

qjkxbmwvz, (edited )

Gary Oldman 2.0

PayPal Is Planning an Ad Business Using Data on Its Millions of Shoppers (www.wsj.com)

Wall Street Journal (paywalled) The digital payments company plans to build an ad sales business around the reams of data it generates from tracking the purchases as well as the broader spending behaviors of millions of consumers who use its services, which include the more socially-enabled Venmo app....

qjkxbmwvz,

There’s a certain irony in bemoaning subscription news paywalls on an article about the alternative, unsavory monetization paradigm…

qjkxbmwvz,

Googling around it seems a 21" draws around 100W, which isn’t as much as I thought; it’s kinda a florescent light with more steps. A florescent backlit LCD doesn’t use a whole lot less, and a modern 30-something inch LED backlit uses, as far as in an tell, about 1/3 that. So, for typical sized monitors, only ~70W more for CRT.

In contrast, the GPU wars mean that (I think?) power consumption in gaming desktops has gone up somewhat substantially — a 500W PSU was fairly beefy in 2003 (I think), whereas 1000W or more is pretty standard for a gaming computer now (obviously it’s not drawing rated power, but assuming headroom % is roughly the same…).

My completely unsubstantiated guess would be that a LAN party setup as pictured would draw more power at idle, but a modern LAN party would draw more under load.

qjkxbmwvz,

And the Chevrolet Suburban has been around since 1935.

Granted, it has gained over a ton in that timespan. But it hasn’t really gained much since 1973.

Me at age six, at Star Trek: The Experience (startrek.website)

Here is me at Star Trek: The Experience in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Hilton. This was 1997 (spring or summer). I got to go on The Klingon Encounter (which may have been the only ride-type attraction at the time). The line to enter was lined with status of Borg (First Contact had just come out the previous November)....

qjkxbmwvz,

This is a memory that I hold dear with honor and glory.

FTFY

qjkxbmwvz,

Wild turkeys can fly, too. It’s impressive. I once came around a blind corner on my bike, there was a turkey in the road, and it took off in a manner I can only describe as 747esque — it did not look like it should be able to fly, yet there it was, clearly flying.

qjkxbmwvz,

That’s my Signal alert sound.

Publishers are a cancer. Knowledge is meant to be shared, freely. (mander.xyz)

The university should be the place demonstrating socioecological change, serving as a site of experimentation and praxis (see Dunlap et al., 2023). This, however, could not be further from the truth. Beside advancing technologies of digital, political and military control (Chatterjee & Maira, 2014), not to mention genetic...

qjkxbmwvz,

If the research was conducted with public money, it should be freely accessible by the public, change my mind…

qjkxbmwvz,

Very cool. I know someone, in a fairly small but funded field, who had this sort of requirement — Elsevier had the relevant publication, but they couldn’t publish there due to access policies (or it was going to be painful to do so at any rate). So they started their own publication!

I forgot the specifics, but it essentially uses arXiv as the backend, and there’s a (commercially available?) frontend that lets editors and reviewers do their thing. “Publishing” in this journal is essentially just endorsing an arXiv paper; so it’s open access by design.

Really cool stuff. Their field is small enough that iirc they could kinda get critical mass to give Elsevier the finger and adopt this new platform. Warm fuzzy feeling thinking about it!

qjkxbmwvz,

My 2¢ is that running Linux, you play the role of user and of sysadmin. On some distros you only put on the sysadmin hat once in a blue moon, but on others you’re constantly wearing it.

My Arch experience is a few years out of date; I felt I played sysadmin more than, say, Debian Stable, but it wasn’t too onerous. I also had an older Nvidia card, so there were some…fun issues now and then.

I use Debian on my machines now, and am happy. Try some different distributions! Even better, have /home on its own partition (better yet, own disk) — changing distros can be nice and easy without worrying about your personal data.

qjkxbmwvz,

It could be fun to implement this under *NIX for fun — cronjob to take screenshots, some OCR, throw it in a database…I’d never want to use this “feature” but as an academic exercise it could be a fun project.

But having it implemented by my OS, and not by me…yikes. No thanks.

qjkxbmwvz,

I just tried that and got the same result. It’s from a site that just quotes a snippet of an Onion article 🤦

qjkxbmwvz,

For highly processed foods, I agree.

But for relatively unprocessed foods, seems completely reasonable to me at first glance. The relative sugar content of, say, an apple, is dependent on all sorts of parameters (sun, water, soil…). The gluten content of wheat, iron content of vegetables, all of these things are variable. The more “natural” a food is, the higher the variability (as opposed to, say, artificial candy — that should be pretty uniform).

qjkxbmwvz,

Well, that’s kinda besides the point right? The composition of “natural” food has huge variation. There is no “nutritional content of a banana.” There’s the nutritional content of this banana, of that banana, of an unripe banana, of a ripe banana, of an overripe banana…but these can be hugely different. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8266066/

qjkxbmwvz,

Yeah, but where’s Starfleet HQ?!

qjkxbmwvz,

I also added a Makefile for mine (LaTeX), and it would add the commit hash to the front page (with an asterisk if the repository had uncommitted changes).

So, if I gave a draft to someone and got feedback, I’d know exactly which revision it was.

qjkxbmwvz,

Sure thing. This also includes the beamer bit which I used for my defense. It’s all pretty hacky but hope it’s useful!


<span style="color:#323232;">#
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># Errors aren't handled gracefully (tex doesn't write to stderr, it seems)
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># If you encounter errors, use "make verbose"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">#
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># For small changes (probably those without references), use "make quick"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">#
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># Thanks to https://gist.github.com/Miliox/4035649 for dependency outline
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">TEX = pdflatex
</span><span style="color:#323232;">BTEX = biber
</span><span style="color:#323232;">MAKE = make -s
</span><span style="color:#323232;">TEXFLAGS = -halt-on-error
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># $(MAIN).log is dumb if we have multiple targets!
</span><span style="color:#323232;">SILENT = > /dev/null || cat $(MAIN).log
</span><span style="color:#323232;">SILENT_NOER = 2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null
</span><span style="color:#323232;">EDITOR = vim -p
</span><span style="color:#323232;">PDFVIEW = evince
</span><span style="color:#323232;">MAIN = main
</span><span style="color:#323232;">PRES = presentation
</span><span style="color:#323232;">ALL = $(MAIN).pdf
</span><span style="color:#323232;">RECURS = media/ manuscripts/
</span><span style="color:#323232;">VERSION := $(shell git rev-parse --short HEAD | cut -c 1-4)$(shell git diff-index --quiet HEAD && (echo -n ' ';git log -1 --format=[%cd]) || (echo -n '* '; date -u '+[%c]'))
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">all: recurs $(ALL)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">pres: $(PRES).pdf
</span><span style="color:#323232;">scratch: scratch.pdf
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">scratch.pdf: scratch.tex
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	@echo "TEX	(final)	$<"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	@$(TEX) $(TEXFLAGS) $< $(SILENT)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">verbose: SILENT = ''
</span><span style="color:#323232;">verbose: $(ALL)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">recurs: $(RECURS)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	@$(foreach DIR, $(RECURS), 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		echo "MAKE	(CD)	$(CURDIR)/$(DIR)"; 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		$(MAKE) -C $(DIR) $(MAKECMDGOALS);)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	@echo "MAKE	(CD)	./"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">clean:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	@echo "SH	(RM)	Not recursing; 'make allclean' to clear generated files."
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	@rm -f *.aux *.log *.out *.pdf *.bbl *.blg *.toc *.lof *.lot *.bcf *.run.xml
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">allclean: recurs
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	@echo "SH	(RM)	A clean directory is a happy directory"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	@rm -f *.aux *.log *.out *.pdf *.bbl *.blg *.toc *.lof *.lot *.bcf *.run.xml
</span><span style="color:#323232;">version:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	@echo "SH      (ver) $(VERSION)"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	@echo $(VERSION) > VERSION.tex
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">nixpages: main.pdf
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	@echo "PDF     (pdftk)"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	@pdftk main.pdf cat 1 4-end output final.pdf
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">quick: $(MAIN).tex version
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	@echo "TEX	(final)	$<"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	@$(TEX) $(TEXFLAGS) $< $(SILENT)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">$(MAIN).pdf: $(MAIN).tex $(MAIN).bbl all.tex tex/abstract.tex tex/intro.tex tex/appendix.tex tex/some_section.tex tex/some_other_section.tex
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	@echo "TEX	(draft)	$<"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	@$(TEX) $(TEXFLAGS) --draftmode  $< $(SILENT)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	@echo "TEX	(final)	$<"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	@$(TEX) $(TEXFLAGS) $< $(SILENT)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">$(MAIN).bbl: $(MAIN).aux
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	@echo "BIB	(bib)	$(MAIN)"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	@$(BTEX) $(MAIN) > /dev/null
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	
</span><span style="color:#323232;">$(MAIN).aux: $(MAIN).tex $(MAIN).bib version
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	@echo "TEX	(draft)	$<"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	@$(TEX) $(TEXFLAGS) --draftmode  $< $(SILENT)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">$(PRES).pdf: $(PRES).tex $(PRES).bbl tex/beamer*.tex tex/slides/*.tex
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	@echo "TEX	(draft)	$<"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	@$(TEX) $(TEXFLAGS) --draftmode  $< $(SILENT)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	@echo "TEX	(final)	$<"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	@$(TEX) $(TEXFLAGS) $< $(SILENT)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">$(PRES).bbl: $(PRES).aux
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	@echo "BIB	(bib)	$(PRES)"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	@$(BTEX) $(PRES) > /dev/null
</span><span style="color:#323232;">$(PRES).aux: $(PRES).tex $(MAIN).bib
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	@echo "TEX	(draft)	$<"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	@$(TEX) $(TEXFLAGS) --draftmode  $< $(SILENT)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">edit:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	@echo "EDIT	(fork)	$(EDITOR)"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	@$(EDITOR) ./tex/*.tex *.tex
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">view:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	@echo "VIEW	(fork)	$(PDFVIEW)"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	@$(PDFVIEW) $(ALL) $(SILENT_NOER) &
</span>
qjkxbmwvz,

I also had some Makefiles in other directories, e.g., for my media/ I had:


<span style="color:#323232;">MAKE = make -s
</span><span style="color:#323232;">RECURS = svgs/
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">recurs: $(RECURS)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        @$(foreach DIR, $(RECURS), 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                echo "MAKE      (CD)    $(CURDIR)/$(DIR)"; 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                $(MAKE) -C $(DIR) $(MAKECMDGOALS);)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        @echo "MAKE     (CD)    $(CURDIR)/"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">all: recurs
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">clean:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">allclean: recurs clean
</span>

and for media/svgs/:


<span style="color:#323232;">SVG_FILES := $(wildcard *.svg)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">PDFDIR := ./
</span><span style="color:#323232;">PDF_FILES := $(patsubst %.svg,$(PDFDIR)/%.pdf,$(SVG_FILES))
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">all: $(PDF_FILES)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">clean:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        @rm -f $(PDF_FILES)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        @echo "SH       (RM)    Tidying up derived PDFs"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">allclean: clean
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">$(PDFDIR)/%.pdf: %.svg
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        @inkscape -T --export-pdf=$@ $<
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        @echo "INK      (PDF)   $<"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span>
qjkxbmwvz,

Makefile in other comments. You’ll need something like this on the title page (this assumes you use my Makefile which puts the version in VERSION.tex [that’s the literal name of the file, not a placeholder]):

{bf{color{red}DOCUMENT REVISION:}} {color{blue}input{VERSION}}

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