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Re:Chain of Thought for Humans on Thursday October 22, 2026 @01:07AM (#50191401)
I do the same. My impression is that very few people do this, or take proper notes at all. This is based on my observation that most people I work with seem to have zero recollection about things that happened more than a few months ago.
Re:Hister – private, self hosted search engine on Sunday August 23, 2026 @12:08AM (#49405988)
Thanks you for making Hister. I have been using it since May and find it immensely useful. It's a piece of mind to know that I always will be able to easily find what I looked at. So I don't feel the need to bookmark things, which I used to do, but then never looked at anyways ;).
Yes, they operate at 4.2 K (liquid helium temperature).
I found it odd that they call it high-temperature, but then perform all their experiments at 4.2 K. Also, at 4.2 K, the magnet performs worse than established Nb-Ti technology, so it doesn't seem to be a significant advancement.
Re:How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription? on Saturday February 28, 2026 @03:10AM (#47192088)
You forgot "I will take full responsibility"
Re:Running NanoClaw in a Docker Shell Sandbox on Monday February 16, 2026 @11:42PM (#47043774)
I recently started experimenting with agents and found this sandboxing tool for OpenCode useful https://github.com/glennvdv/opencode-dockerized
Re:Time Machine-style Backups with rsync (2018) on Sunday February 01, 2026 @11:12PM (#46852314)
HA! It read your post I read back then and I have been using it ever since. So thank you. I guess I need to check out borg ;)
Re:Outsourcing Thinking on Sunday February 01, 2026 @12:50AM (#46843972)
Absolutely. Like most things on the Internet, it will get enshittified. I think it is very likely that at some point there will be "ads" in the form of the chat bot giving recommendations that favor certain products and services.
Re:No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @11:06PM (#46298124)
Waterfox just released version 6.6.6. Are we sure it is not evil?
Re:Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image on Saturday December 06, 2025 @11:25PM (#46179136)
Remember Moab
This looks interesting. How feature-crippled is the self hosted version?
Nordic Semiconductors has BLE SOCs in even smaller packages. E.g. the nRF54L15 is available in a 2.4 x 2.2 mm package.
Re:My Beancount books are 95% automatic after 3 years (2024) on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @02:19PM (#43270987)
ERPNext is fairly easy to automate. We have a number of Python scripts that use the ERPNext API to create sales invoices, add and reconcile transactions from PayPal, Stripe, etc.

We originally used Quickbooks Online and I'm glad we decided to switch to ERPNext a few years ago.

Re:DigiKey's Tariff Resources on Sunday February 23, 2025 @09:00AM (#43149265)
It will be $85: 35% customs plus $15 brokerage charges from UPS.
Re:Long Convolutions via Polynomial Multiplication on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @09:16AM (#42377015)
Also known as Z-transform in digital signal processing.
Re:I tried every top email marketing tool on Sunday November 17, 2024 @09:56AM (#42164496)
We use mailster with AWS SES and it works quite well. We have a lot of subscribers but don't send a lot of e-mails, so the cost of other solutions is ridiculous to me.

https://mailster.co/

Re:GenAI is set to create a mountainous increase in e-waste on Monday October 28, 2024 @02:23PM (#41974390)
What is a good place for buying used servers / GPU's for when the AI bubble bursts?
Re:GnuCash 5.9 Released on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @09:12AM (#41707920)
We used GNUCash for a few years for small business accounting. After a while we migrated to Quickbooks Online as it has some features that GNUCash was missing, e.g., automatically pulling in PayPal and bank transactions and inventory management. This turned out to be a very frustrating experience. Due to the following:

- The price increased every year. We started at about $60/month and after a few years it $80/month. Today the same plan is $99/month.

- The PayPal integration randomly stopped working and was missing transactions. QB customer support was completely useless and we spent hours searching and manually adding transactions. The bank integration (via Plaid) was also not reliable.

- The inventory management is very limited. E.g. you can't repack/combine items without using weird hacks.

So, after a few years I got very frustrated and ended up moving to ERPNext. Migrating all the data was quite a bit of work and involved a number of Python scripts to pull out the data from QB and re-create it in ERPNext, but after about a week we had 5 years of data migrated.

ERPNext is not perfect, but works quite well for us. A big difference to QB is that it supports inventory and manufacturing operations. It also has an API that is fairly easy to use and we use it to get transaction data from PayPal and Stripe.

This looks interesting. I wanted to try it with my Rigol DS1054Z, but there is no AUR package for Arch Linux for it, which makes the installation cumbersome. The user experience with Sigrok is superior in that aspect ;)