Threads for wenestvedt

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    wenestvedt avatar wenestvedt 3 years ago | link | on: Good sleep, good learning, good life

    Just so you know, it looks like the author means Coca-Cola when they write “coke” and not the ol’ Columbian Marching Powder. http://super-memory.com/articles/sleep.htm#Caffeine

    The article is long and footnoted, but I am a little hesitant because it the writer isn’t a sleep scientist.

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      lorddimwit avatar lorddimwit 3 years ago | link

      In many parts of the southern United States all (well, most) carbonated beverages are referred to as “Coke”. It can be confusing for some.

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        wenestvedt avatar wenestvedt 3 years ago | link

        Whoops, you’re right! I have always lived close to Canadia, and I forget this some times. :7)

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          nickpsecurity avatar nickpsecurity 3 years ago | link

          Yeah haha. It was the first thing a northerner griped to me about here. He said they called it “pop” in Chicago. Most places Im at over past years just use coke for Coca Cola. The other use is when they don’t need to be specific.

          “Do you have a cokes or something here?”

          “Their kids drink too many cokes (Dr. Peppers). That’s why they’re acting crazy.”

          In either example, the point gets across without the specific drink needing a mention. I guess it’s just something that’s context-driven in the local language.

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            gerikson avatar gerikson 3 years ago | link

            The “soda” vs. “pop” divide is well-known (I believe I learned about it from a piece by Stephen Jay Gould).

            https://www.huffpost.com/entry/soda-vs-pop_n_2103764

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              nickpsecurity avatar nickpsecurity 3 years ago | link

              I’ll call it a pop if it’s a drink local to the northern area I’m in. It’s one of theirs. We’ll use their term. How about that compromise? ;)

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        sergeyb avatar sergeyb 3 years ago | link | on: Privacy-Focused and Open Source Alternative for Google Photos

        Another self-hosted alternative is Photoprism.

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          craftyguy avatar craftyguy edited 3 years ago | link

          Piwigo is another self-hosted FLOSS alternative (but has been around for several years.)

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            Walterion avatar Walterion 3 years ago | link

            Photoprism is a very complete project, thanks for sharing that. On the other hand, Arcane provides high encryption abilities and default secure hosting too + you can host it on your own.

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              wenestvedt avatar wenestvedt 3 years ago | link

              On the other other hand, 10GB of hosting for photographs is not much capacity.

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                Walterion avatar Walterion 3 years ago | link

                It is for the free plan, we can add more, contact us if you want.

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                itistoday avatar itistoday 3 years ago | link

                + you can host it on your own.

                I looked but couldn’t find anything to support this? The code seems to be for the client only? Or am I mistaken?

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                  Walterion avatar Walterion 3 years ago | link

                  Yes, it is client-side code. It is serverless ;) The storage chosen on sign up can be set to any Gaia storage. https://github.com/blockstack/gaia

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                    itistoday avatar itistoday edited 3 years ago | link

                    OK, fyi I edited my other comment. The word “gaia” doesn’t appear anywhere in the project.

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                      Walterion avatar Walterion 3 years ago | link

                      It is a very very young project, but I am here and you can contact us, we will be happy to help. We love to try to improve privacy of life of people.

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                wenestvedt avatar wenestvedt 3 years ago | link

                This looks very interesting!

                Since it’s still pre-release, can I run it on my live Photos.app photo library directories without munging up that (meta)data?

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                  Walterion avatar Walterion 3 years ago | link

                  Thank you very much. Sorry I could not understand your question.

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                wenestvedt avatar wenestvedt 3 years ago | link | on: some more books 0

                This looks like a good lineup. I started “Soul of a New Machine” once and want to get back to it; reading that alongside the story of Windows NT would be a neat counterpoint.

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                  inactive-user avatar inactive-user edited 3 years ago | link | on: What's your current yak-shaving depth?

                  I love this question!

                  1. Supposed to be writing a book proposal
                  2. Why do I need a publisher? Don’t care about the money, just put it online! I need a static site generator.
                  3. Well, if I write in the R7RS scheme, I can enter it in that little contest that’s going on. I should use Chibi for this
                  4. I guess I should learn the internals of Chibi, and how to get the most out of it. Wonder if there’s an openbsd feature so I can write an FFI for unveil(2)
                  5. Better make a PR to add an openbsd feature Done
                  6. The default scribble docs aren’t what I want. Better go figure out how to hack on Chibi’s Scribble.
                  7. Oh! There’s a bug in the issue tracker that looks easy to fix dealing with POSIX compat. clearly, I need to spend time understanding how chibi-ffi works to generate stub C code, to fix this bug.
                  8. Ooohhh, mailing list questions! They are asking about something I haven’t looked into yet, but will surely be important to me, soon.

                  …

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                    wenestvedt avatar wenestvedt 3 years ago | link

                    At least you were able to check off something.

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                      Bystroushaak avatar Bystroushaak 3 years ago | link

                      Have a look at the https://docs.racket-lang.org/pollen/

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                        inactive-user avatar inactive-user 3 years ago | link

                        I am well aware of pollen—it’s nice! But, not mine. :)

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                          dmbaturin avatar dmbaturin 3 years ago | link

                          I looked at Pollen and it seems interesting, but the ultimate decision to just write my own was motivated by lack of a community. With Jekyll or Hugo, there are lots of people writing howtos and making their sites open source—if it’s doable at all, there’s usually an example to learn from already. Matthew Butterick and the few third party users I could find all keep the source of their books to themselves, so there’s nowhere to look how they did this or that.

                          Which is why I’ve added an annotated config and a readme to my own site source right away—there’s no community for it either, but at least there’s on live example to learn from.

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                            jmiven avatar jmiven 3 years ago | link

                            Matthew Butterick and the few third party users I could find all keep the source of their books to themselves, so there’s nowhere to look how they did this or that.

                            Maybe they are not easy to find, but some examples are linked at the bottom of this documentation page (16.4 & 16.5), including one of Matthew Butterick’s own books.

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                              dmbaturin avatar dmbaturin 3 years ago | link

                              Thanks! I would likely have never found it without a pointer.