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Re:Ask HN: Advice on Migrating from 1Password? on Thursday September 03, 2026 @02:45PM (#49554731)
Yeah, I've been pretty impressed with Passbolt in testing. Currently running Vaultwarden but quite tempted by Passbolt.
Looks to me like they're using an LLM for _translation_, not for generating a response. The model output even says "Here's the _translation_" (emphasis mine).
KDE Connect works fine for me and does more than clipboard (files, mouse sharing etc.).
Re:Running our Docker registry on-prem with Harbor on Sunday August 31, 2025 @04:07AM (#45081376)
Minio used to be de facto here, but they did a bait and switch recently and removed the UI from the free version. Garage is probably closest to best in class for open source on prem.
There's a couple of computerphile videos on this:

nerfs: https://youtu.be/wKsoGiENBHU Gaussian platting: https://youtu.be/VkIJbpdTujE

Yeah, I think for learning, the 4(?) octaves is probably sufficient.

And cost is probably due to first gen, yeah. Plus, hardware development is pricey, I think.

There's also https://plugandplink.com/, which includes a hardware component to help the person learning (lights on the snake).

The app also includes preprepared videos and lessons (scales, arpeggios etc.) which interact with the hardware component.

My son's been using it with a tutor remotely and it's been working great! Not only that, but he can use the app and the snake to self-guide his practise during the rest of the week.

Re:London Underground Dot Matrix Typeface on Saturday June 17, 2023 @12:04PM (#36371432)
I've always assumed it's a nod to the original underground signage which had offset capital letters (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/London_U...).
Re:Portable versions of development tools on Saturday May 22, 2021 @04:04AM (#27244530)
The community edition of PyCharm is pretty widely regarded. VSCode is also pretty good but I would say it's more of an impressive text editor than an IDE.
Re:Problem solving with Unix commands on Thursday February 14, 2019 @11:11AM (#19162970)
Huh, I didn't know that! Thanks.
Re:Problem solving with Unix commands on Thursday February 14, 2019 @06:22AM (#19161087)
Shorter still:

    sort -u < list_of_numbers
Re:Fastest Speeding Tickets in Texas in 2018 on Thursday February 07, 2019 @10:17AM (#19105673)
> Is that proper english?

The rate of a rate is the acceleration, so it's valid English, but probably not what was meant.

Re:Gmail Services Global Outage on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @07:30AM (#19025769)
Thunderbird works well for me. Interfaces with GMail IMAP. Has a nice quick filter and all the usuals (filtering, folders, labels).

The calendar interfaces with your Google calendar too (with the Lightning and Provider for Google Calendar add-ons).

Available for Mac, Windows and Linux.

Uh, did it? I mean, it talked about kids and YouTube in the last couple of paragraphs, which is an aspect to consider, but the rest of the article focused on the study, its limitations and the possible implications.
Wouldn't it be easier to add the touch screen to an existing form factor and OS than to add all those things to an iPad?
Don't all those things on your wish list just make it like every existing OS/machine?
I use my Nextcloud install (since it provides a WebDAV interface).

In the options under the Sync tab, I select WebDAV as the File Syncing type and for the URL I put:

    my.nextcloud.server.com/remote.php/webdav
with the appropriate credentials.

Works flawlessly.

Re:Email is your electronic memory on Thursday February 15, 2018 @06:32AM (#16383242)
Someone even went so far as to build a FUSE filesystem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GmailFS
Ocean sciences would be good (oceanography, marine biology, remote sensing), but I'm not sure to what level of detail you're willing to split subjects.
Re:End of the conference era? on Thursday January 18, 2018 @09:34AM (#16177263)
> They have a great approach to recommend inviting surprising and unexpected people. I don't work in publishing or journalism and have been twice, for example.

Fair enough.

> Same is surely true of topics presented on stages.

In my line of work (science) the topics are submitted ahead of the conference and then relevant papers/talks are submitted to each of those. As such, anyone is able to propose a topic so long as they can justify its inclusion.

> To attract a mix of industry leaders the mix of weekday / weekend days is a pragmatic choice.

I'm not sure I understand why industry leaders are more likely to attend if it's at the weekend. Surely if it's their industry, it's part of their work and so they can come during the work week.

> It's all voluntary of course!

In principle, at least. Of course, if a lot of important decisions are being make the in voluntary evening activities, then those that choose not to or can't go to the evening events are at a disadvantage. Point taken about early birds.

All that said, I can definitely see the benefit of organised social activities.

> That's because real things are happening, difficult issues are actually being resolved, voices are listened to and progress gets made.

This sounds awfully like the tag line for some startup.

> people who sit at the back or like to take time off for sightseeing

An interest in sightseeing or a quieter demeanor is not mutually exclusive of valuable contributions.

Re:End of the conference era? on Thursday January 18, 2018 @07:34AM (#16176597)
Honestly, this sounds awful to me.

1. Invite-only increases the likelihood of an echo chamber, in my mind. I go to conferences to find out about things that arean't already on my radar.

2. This approach means only topics championed by those loud enough to speak up are discussed. There's no possibility for niche topics to get an airing if noone else knows anything about them since there's less likely to be a consensus to add them to the agenda.

3. One of the best aspects of attending a conference in my mind is the ability to combine it with a bit of tourism. I suppose that's a personal preference.

4. That's good for now, but when Google an The Knight Foundation stop supporting it, who's going to pay?

5. This is terrible. Work is for the week, weekends are my time and my work does not get to encroach on that.

6. Great, so at the end of the day, I can't even relax in the hotel room. So the next day, I'm wiped before we even start.

Re:NOAA kicks off 2018 with massive supercomputer upgrade on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @09:38AM (#16115155)
There is a crippled version of IFS (the ECMWF forecast model) which has the data assimilation code removed available [0], thought its licence terms are pretty restrictive for most uses [1] besides pure research (it is, for example, forbidden to use it for personal uses!).

[0] https://software.ecmwf.int/wiki/display/OIFS/ [1] https://software.ecmwf.int/wiki/display/OIFS/OpenIFS+Licensi...

If you're using Python anyway, you can use scipy's triangulation module to avoid having to compile triangle:

https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy-0.14.0/reference/generated/...

The triangulation can then be plotted fairly straightforwardly with matplotlib's triangulation routines: matplotlib.pyplot.triplot and matplotlib.pyplot.tripcolor (https://matplotlib.org/examples/pylab_examples/tripcolor_dem...).

Re:Firefox 56: Last Stop Before Quantum on Friday October 06, 2017 @12:14PM (#15417933)
It takes a fraction of a second to pop up (maybe a few hundred milliseconds).
Re:Firefox 56: Last Stop Before Quantum on Friday October 06, 2017 @11:59AM (#15417819)
> Showing me where the link points when I hover the mouse over it is something so fundamental to browsing I just can't figure out why it was ever removed

Firefox 57 (and maybe previous versions, I can't remember) pops up a "temporary status bar" (for lack of a better phrase) with the link destination in it when you hover on a link (https://imgur.com/a/Vo7AZ).

Re:All the News That’s Fit to Plex on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @11:49AM (#15339701)
I'm considering a switch the emby since this seems to be the way Plex is heading.

That and the privacy policy changes they've added recently give me pause for thought about their intentions.

Re:How to Live Without Google on Thursday September 14, 2017 @08:56AM (#15247452)
Piwik seems to work OK for me.
Re:The .feedback scam on Friday June 30, 2017 @04:21AM (#14669319)
Or they buy every amazon.$TLD before anyone else does.
Re:Ask HN: Has Duckduckgo gotten worse recently? on Thursday June 22, 2017 @04:29AM (#14610873)
Just be aware that Google's "hits" number is a wild overestimate. For example, the "helium" "futures" search actually only returns 222 pages (which is obviously still much higher than DDG): https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22helium%22%20%.... Likewise, the "opec" "rebalancing" "peak" returns only 264: https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22opec%22%20%22...
Re:Ask HN: How do you organize your files on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @11:48AM (#14604804)
Home directory is served over NFS (at work). Layout is as follows:

  phireal@pc ~$ ls -1
  Box/       - work nextcloud
  Cloud/     - personal nextcloud
  Code/      - source code I'm working on
  Data@      - data sources (I'm a scientist)
  Desktop/   - ...
  Documents/ - anything I've written (presentations, papers, reports)
  Local@     - symlink to my internal spinning hard drive and SSD
  Maildir/   - mutt Mail directory
  Models/    - I do hydrodynamic modelling, so this is where all that lives
  Remote/    - sshfs mounts, mostly
  Scratch/   - space for stuff I don't need to keep
  Software/  - installed software (models, utilities etc.)
At home, my main storage looks like:

  phireal@server store$ ls -1
  archive     - archived backups of old machines
  audiobooks  - audio books
  bin         - scripts, binaries, programs I've written/used
  books       - eBooks
  docs        - docs (personal, mostly)
  films       - films
  kids        - kids films
  misc        - mostly old images I keep but for no particular reason
  music       - music
  pictures    - photos, organised YYYY/MM-$month/YYYY-MM-DD
  radio       - podcasts and BBC radio episodes
  src         - source code for things I use
  tmp         - stuff that can be deleted and probably should
  tv_shows    - TV episodes, organised show/series #
  urbackup    - UrBackup storage directory
  web         - backups of websites
  work        - stuff related to work (software, data, outputs etc.)

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