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Did your timetable/coursework schedule allow you to audit a meaningful number of external courses? I find that I can only allow myself to attend one additional course per semester.

I STUPIDLY started going to lectures on Computer Systems this year without doing my research first (I couldn't find the timetable for Compilers, and relied on being able to take it officially next year). Turns out I don't have enough (or any) background in C, and so I couldn't make sense of a lot of the lecture material. Oh well, at least now I'm learning C, and I still have the lecture recordings.

As a Mathematics undergraduate I am not allowed by my university to officially take (and receive credit for taking) most non-beginner Computer Science courses, including Compilers. At least I'm allowed to attend the lectures and cram it in alongside my other pure math classes!

An iterative Python call to a recursive LLM prompt? ;)

Why not make the Python part recursive too? Or better yet, wait until an LLM comes out with the capability to execute arbitrary code!

Is it socially acceptable to post comments in code review as a non-participant? There are some really cool projects listed for the org that I worked for last year.

> most of my users use Macs (60%) and I had to pick one platform to start

So are you using native technologies?

I must say it's really unique and cool what you're doing with the calendar slots.

What's been holding this project back from being released on platforms other than Mac?

I also wanted to say that it's amazing that you have these calendar slots for people to speak to you. What has your experience been with this? How long have you been doing it? Where did you get the idea? What kind of people show up?

So is the model any good?

I love your site :D

it made me smile

The gifs look great, but it would be cool to see what this visualisation looks like with audio (ideally without having to join a discord server). Maybe the authors could choose a best-case-scenario audio track and use it as a demo.

It would also be great if a generic Linux executable could be provided, for those of us who don't run Debian-based distros.

> People are bad at Git, people don't want to read the Git book to understand Git, so for long time many people's workflow was "type quesion on how to do something in git into google and copy-paste first answer" (which generally worked).

Should we really trust Google's search AI, which is also always under attack by SEO spam, to give reliable results?

I have about as much trust in Google's result page as in ChatGPT responses. I don't trust Google to give me exactly what I'm really looking for, so I force myself to look for a number of sources which corroborate a claim.

I am increasingly considering self-hosting a YaCy instance configured with a curated whitelist of allowed domains (in this case, I might add the GitHub docs and/or the Atlassian git docs pages to be certain that I'm reading valid and up-to-date instructions when searching for git-related topics).

Do you know any other projects working on something like this? I imagine most commenters here would be very grateful for a google competition archive. The reason I'm asking is that I'm very surprised to see your repo/project with so little attention (in this thread and on GitHub).

Out of curiosity, what resources are you using to learn C? I too have started learning it recently, and I am working through "Modern C" (Manning).

Thanks! That's cool, I'm taking inspiration

I started using Obsidian a few months ago, and my git repo is initialised on the file system outside the Obsidian vault. I'm now realising that I'm not using any of Obsidian's special features other than being a markdown editor with support for tags.

> it is actually possible to downgrade a flatpak

Only when the version you want to downgrade to happens to be within the last 10 versions! Why 10? Beats me!

Case in point: the flatpak package for the Element messaging client seems to be the preferred installation method for non-debian distros. But for many users, encrypted message search is broken! [1] [2] Some users claim that downgrading can fix the issue, but the flatpak has been updated too many times now for any user to downgrade to an old enough version - tough luck!

[1] https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/issues?q=is%3Aissue... [2] https://github.com/flathub/im.riot.Riot/issues?q=is%3Aissue+...

Could you expand a bit more about your bookmark management strategy?

Yes, Google Domains allowing for email forwarding sounds like a reasonable feature. But when it comes to sending mail, the support pages say:

> While these directions let you send emails from a custom email alias at your domain, email recipients can still find your personal Gmail address if they inspect the email headers.

To me, this is no replacement for a mailbox on my own domain.

The article that you linked shows how to "Allow Gmail to receive emails using POP3". That is to say, your mail should already be hosted elsewhere, and you'd be using the Gmail web app as a client for your email hosted on a different server.

> "Matrix 2.0" is not a breaking change Was there really no better name for the talk?

I don't quite understand what the intended flow is in this application, but this reminds me of something similar that I've been meaning to implement myself:

I'm thinking of a system that would allow me to 'ingest' browser bookmarks into git, at the precise time they were created/updated. This will allow me to use Chrome's 'native' sync to update/access my bookmarks from a number of devices; when I'm back at my stationary computer (or at a fixed time interval) a script can update a git repository according to the changes I made. Chrome knows when each individual bookmark was updated, and so my script would be able to set the appropriate git commit time.

Setting a precise git commit time (I want not only the date I updated the bookmark, but the time too) is important to me as a consequence of the following two facts: * I like having a history of my actions so that I can find out more details about what I was doing at the time, using tools such as Google Activity and bash history. * I don't want to have to perform some preliminary action (such as running git pull) before I can view my recently added bookmarks.

I already use a similar system for note-taking, with Syncthing as the sync mechanism and a small script for commiting a file at the time it was modified (perhaps on a different device).

Attending a software conference recently and speaking to developers who I admire has inspired me to get off my ass, learn and build instead of consuming content.

> Actually there are times when GC is more efficient than than automatically freeing memory because GC can batch cleanup work.

Where can I read about these details of software performance? Can you recommend a book?

Even if some guy says it's deprecated, I still use it!

Are there plans to back up the "suggested answer", which I presume is LLM generated, by a definitive source? The first question in the demo returned the relevant document you were looking for, but I didn't see this in the search results for the second question.

I'm not sure I would trust a system like this unless I could click through and see the source of the answer I'm reading, and make sure that the LLM is referencing the correct email/document.

This seems to be a common growing pain in places where an AI model is expected to provide authoritative answers - I wonder if (at least in your case) it's possible to use a more traditional fuzzy search algorithm to attempt to find the source, based on the LLM's answer string.

How did you stumble across such a group? I have been looking for a community like you describe since 2018, when I left the group I was part of at the time.

Doesn't yacy do the same thing?

I use Calibri in my LaTeX resume for this reason.

Yes! Search is an incredibly important tool.

I have recently started using Zotero, which can create offline copies of saved webpages and papers. You can then search their contents.

Last week I bookmarked Yacy, which is a search engine and which seems to allow you to define your own web index. However, I haven't gotten around to seeing how it really works...

How does Zotero compare to hypothes.is ? I take it that they're both trying to achieve the same goal of annotating webpages.

What do you like the most about it?