Elbakyan, we need you!

Hey Mongo, store this stuff; trust me it’s 1 MB. In case it turns out it is not, just give me 1 MB worth of your data.

Thank you very much.

I mean, this is understandable. But how much are you actually saving to justify the extra work? How many ICs can you burn and still be saving money?

I do agree: Debian can be a bit tedious to set up and upgrade at times. It would not be my choice if you had to install a Linux distribution for the first time with no help. But, if you were able to set it up then you’re good, no reason to change now.

Android is trying to block anything which is not the play store as well…

Cool stuff, this proves it is possible. Let’s require it worldwide.

Well, if that’s the case you do the job in the way you yourself judge best. Maybe that tool is good at some tasks and you apply it to that. Bill Gates will be sad for a couple months and then likely forget about the expectations which had been set and you yourself got a stable job with a safe position for years to come.

No, you go to your manager and be like: your machine to make C code into rust code does not work. If you want to keep the pace of 1M loc per month and keep your boss happy I need double pay and 10 people working on it at all time.

I guess the size is good to me for reading. I guess the kindle and kobo I used to have were even smaller than that. For reading books that’s quite good to me and I never felt I needed something larger.

However, when I tried to read PDFs I had lots of problems. The readers either would show the full A4 page in the screen, which would make it unreadable, or show just a piece of the page and it would then be difficult to pan. I remember I had tried using some tools which would break up the PDF pages into pages which would be visualizable in such a screen, but that did not work too well especially when reading articles with two column layouts.

Ideally articles would be available as ePub, but that’s quite rare. The main point would be: if I get one such tool to read articles I can dedicate it to just that. But, I need it to be easy for such purpose: I don’t want to be panning up and down a page all the time. I don’t know whether that is possible and how that could work however, because indeed resizing is not one of the objectives of PDF.

Well, in that case they’re overstating their capabilities. Which is not too surprising.

Hello there, just scrolling through and I saw your comment. You seem to know a bit about this topic. I’m currently thinking of buying a reader as I lost mine some time ago. I used a kobo and a kindle in the past and didn’t see much difference. However, this thing about reading papers seems really cool. I have tried in the past reading PDFs on those readers without much success.

Do you think you have good options for reading articles/manuals? Consider I end up printing about 50 pages a day in articles I read. If I can turn that into something digital that’d be cool.

I mean, if this is true and it works it is not too far fetched. You’d mostly be checking that tests still make sense and that they pass.

Microsoft scientists have worked on a tool that automatically converts some C code to Rust.

Don’t be too hopeful, it will probably be the upgrade to Debian 14 in 2030. And the issue will probably be: yes, you need to change the repo and then full-upgrade.

Thanks for sharing, I’ll be looking into this and try to understand how it works, as well as if I can dump some articles from my field into it. I guess a seedbox more could probably help.

I’d be confused as to how it would work since most of the fediverse is accessed through webpages or APIs. How do you E2EE for whichever device will connect?

If I really want I can send the key to a friend I guess, but getting that to work on the various devices I may use seems a difficult task.

When transfering large amounts of data I’d most definitely advise using rsync. Something fails, connection falls and everything is okay as it’ll pick up where it left off.

should be the number of hardware threads available on the system by default

No, not at all. That is a terrible default. I do work a lot on number churning and sometimes I have to test stuff on my own machine. Generally I tend to use a safe number such as 10, or if I need to do something very heavy I’ll go to 1 less than the actual number of cores on the machine. I’ve been burned too many times by starting a calculation and then my machine stalls as that code is eating all CPU and all you can do is switch it off.

So, you’re telling me magnetic taps is not our real end solution? I’m not buying your new fancy ideas.

Dist upgrade is only dangerous for the people who do it. Wait a few weeks before upgrading to the new release and most broken things will be fixed already. I used arch a lot, and I do like the idea of rolling releases, but at this point for the couple programs I need new features in, I just build them from source.

It’s clearly a move to make torrent for movies unviable and get funding from Netflix.