bluGill

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[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 1 day ago

The AI is doing it though. I type "in [tab]" and I get the whole line. Sometimes I don't even have to type anything.

I've never been able to get an AI promt to write useful code though.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I like auto complete because I'm a terrible speller I'd write "int countOfCommplixThang", but auto complete guesses "int countComplexThing" Sometimes it even comes up with a better name than I would

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 6 points 2 days ago

It has had AI since before AI became hype. They limit it to places where it is useful intead of claiming it does everything.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 3 days ago

NAS can be two different things.

NAS is just "network attached storage": a computer that has a bunch of disks attached to your network. IF you put a single disk on your network and nfs/samba to share it you have created a simple NAS - I strongly recommend you put in more drives for redundancy, but that is all NAS is.

Often NAS is taken to mean not just the above, but a custom machine that does the above. The downside is these custom machines are often slow, and put weird hardware/software on them such that if the whole box breaks (as opposed to just a single disk failing which they are good at handling) you may not be able to recover anything. One variation of this you want more space and discover you can't upgrade it at all. They are an easy way into NAS, but the downsides are such that I can't recommend them anyway.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 3 days ago

Many NAS work like that though. Hardware RAID always seems to work like that so if you get a fancy card that supports RAID you been make sure you have a good long term support contract that will be there for you when there are problems (if you are not paying hundreds of thousands per year you don't have a good support contract)

Not all are that way. Many run ZFS which is great for this and you can replace broken hardware and recover. BTFS is commonly used as well, probably not as good as zfs but likely good enough.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 3 points 3 days ago

I've been using fastmail for a long time for this now. I've been happy, not to expensive. I'm surprised they haven't been recommended, normally when the question is asked there are a million fastmail recommendations

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There are 26 letters in the latin alphabet. There are between 38 and 49 sounds in English depending on dialect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_phonology (I've seen reports as high at 56 but I can't find sources so I'll stick to Wikipedia which is often accurate) There is no way to have nice spelling in English. Some languages using the latin alphabet have various accent marks which help. At this point the dialects of English are different enough that reformed spelling would need to start with reforming how we pronounce words. (there are other alphabets in the world, I have no comment on if any would be better)

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 2 points 3 days ago

English was written long before the printing press. However it always (at least to my knowledge) used the latin alphabet which predates any written English I can find by more than 1000 years. Note that I'm not an expert on English linguistics, so if is someone claims something before 1200 I'm not aware of it but that doesn't mean they are wrong.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 3 points 4 days ago

Got kids? School has millions of parent orginizations that need help. I just got back from the band boosters meeting... not to mention scouts. Great ways to meet people.

parks and rec is always running events of some sort, find something. You can often attend events at any nearby city (suburb) too

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 3 points 4 days ago

Talk to your doctor and read those studies. If you have a heart condition you maybe someone who should start taking it. Or maybe you are amoung those who should never take it. I don't know your exact situation (and I'm not a doctor), I know just enough that I would not be surprised if viaga would be helpful

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Start by diplomatically recognizing Taiwan - Tell both sides that Germany does not recognize the One China policy as something realistic. Then demand the UN bring Taiwan in as a full member (they wouldn't get Veto rights on the security console, but they should be equal to New Zealand in everything) .

Nobody will of course, but the above is the right thing and has been for at least 50 years. (really it has been right since WWII, but at least in the early years we can pretend like reunification was a serious idea)

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 3 points 4 days ago

could be, but this is hard to prove. And then we have ask what about people who wouldn't get Alzheimer's, is there harm from giving them to them? Lots of other questions come up when treating normal people that we can ignore for those who need help. (if this revered Alzheimers but caused death by Cancer in 5 years it is still worth it for those with Alzheimers)

 

My wife is complaining that we have music all over the living room all the time. With a couple kids in music lessons, school bands (regular, jazz), orchestra, and such a practice session often needs 6 books and 5 loose pages of music so I can't blame her for being frustrated. There is no easy way to store all that and find what you need for the current daily practice sessions.

Putting a tablet (suggestions? schools gives the kids an iPad, and I'm looking at pinetab2, or boox for me) on a stand seems easy enough, but then what?

Mobile sheets seems to be what others around me use, so probably what I'd end up doing too, though I'm not locked to anything. Any other software that I should be looking at? I do like the idea that we can synchronize page turning.

The hard part is getting all my music onto my NAS. Do I just scan all my books? Buy again as PDF (only rarely an option). Entry the music into some other program? I have some sheet music I want to put into lilypond - is there anything that would sync my tablets to a rendered version of this.

I already have Jellyfin and I see book options (but have not used it yet). Calibri-web also comes up often for books. Both seem book reading focused and music flows / organization is different. Anything else I might want to put on my servers that might be better?

Any other thoughts? What have others done that works?

 

I was working on my new server and decided my network connection what setup wrong so I adjusted the settings file. In a moment of unusual clarity I realized this was the connection I was using to access the machine via ssh and if something went wrong I was in trouble - so I verified that this machine was also reachable via ssh from the other ethernet interface that was directly connected to my NAS. I was right, my first config changes did break the network, but I still had the backup connection option and so I was able to recover.

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