maxmalkav

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by maxmalkav 2y ago
Reflecting on my own experience on both sides, I can tell a generational difference. As student, research-focused professors and some old timers made you feel unwelcome in office hours, a mixture of “you are wasting my time” and “you shoul
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by maxmalkav 2y ago
The Internet seems like a small place, and lately, I always find you talking in a demeaning way about the South of Spain and/or its people. :-) I usually wouldn't engage further (as most people don't when faced with your hars
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by maxmalkav 2y ago
Quoting some ska tune in a SSH vulnerability report really caught me off ward, but I loved it.
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by maxmalkav 3y ago
> Basically plants evolved Lignin (wood) but there was nothing in the world that could break it down so it rapidly accumulated along with a hyperoxgenated atmosphere due to the extensive growth. That was my understanding too until recent
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by maxmalkav 3y ago
IIRC 50MB was not the space needed in RAM but the size of the whole basic installation on disk
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by maxmalkav 3y ago
You may want to turn it on and check how it is doing, just in case. That model is infamously known for its bad capacitors and their tendency to bulge and die. As a side note, I find OpenBSD the best modern OS for those old PowerPC machines.
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by maxmalkav 3y ago
I really like the form factor, if only there would be some off-the-shelf options for a mechanical keyboard version .. I know there are plenty DIY projects for this (and the cyberdeck scene is a rabbit hole that I do not dare to go down), bu
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by maxmalkav 3y ago
I am a big fan of thin clients as servers. It is true you lose the "built-in console and UPS", but they usually come in very nice and compact form factor, many are fanless and consume 10~15W tops while being acceptably capable (in
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by maxmalkav 3y ago
I did not find the XLennart very graceful neither. I admit I am also biased about the original XBill one.
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by maxmalkav 3y ago
"The only winning move is not to play."
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by maxmalkav 3y ago
The main complain in my environment (composed by both doctors and dropouts) is not about "it being hard" but "it being disappointing", specially when you are interested in doing actual science but you find that will be a
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by maxmalkav 3y ago
I opened the link mostly to see which thin client model the author chose, to discover it is a HP T520, a machine it happens I also own an unit. I cannot comment on TimeMachine, but regarding hardware + Linux, it has been a more stable serve
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by maxmalkav 3y ago
It looks like a powerful combo. Back in the day I went the LaTeX path, nowadays I’ll be tempted to follow your approach. I have tried Obsidian a couple of times, but it never stuck with me. For some reason I cannot go back to “regular edito
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by maxmalkav 3y ago
Zotero was key to finish my long delayed thesis, reducing the toil of managing a lot of references on a topic that I disliked more and more by the minute. Unfortunately back in the day they did not have yet the embedded PDF reader and highl
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by maxmalkav 3y ago
Indeed. Moreover the smoothness, consistency and tolerance of the switches is a fundamental part of the hobby nowadays. But pretty cool stuff in the line “because we can”.
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by maxmalkav 3y ago
I utterly dislike Zabbix (enough to login here and complain). I guess that if it fits your needs is all good and fine, but as someone that has been in charge of defining and feeding it with LLD rules and registering multi-dimension metrics
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by maxmalkav 3y ago
I have a soft spot for Window Maker and I have been using it until recently , when I moved to Wayland-based environments. I also really like its dockapps (I even wasted some time writing one to display and control screen brightness), the on
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by maxmalkav 4y ago
Trash Theory is a really cool and informative channel :-)
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by maxmalkav 4y ago
I watched the original interview (2020) and I found it interesting, most of the things sounded plausible. At some point during the second interview he starts to digress about current society, inter-human relationships (or lack of) and techn
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by maxmalkav 5y ago
I could not agree more with this (as a person down that rabbit hole) :-)
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by maxmalkav 5y ago
My opinion is solely based on my personal experience, so take it with a grain of salt. I was enrolled in a PhD program (engineering) around the time Sci-Hub started, we were lucky enough to have access to most papers we needed thanks to the
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by maxmalkav 5y ago
I did not know the tool (nor the request). Interesting! Thanks
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by maxmalkav 5y ago
In a similar fashion than other people here, my first contact with ARJ was via a copy of Doom compressed and split into several floppies. Some years ago I remembered out of the blue ARJ and checked their site (the one this submission is abo
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by maxmalkav 5y ago
Thanks a lot for explaining this. Having such feature is definitely useful.
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by maxmalkav 5y ago
Are the notes and highlights stored in the PDF? Asking because I use Zotero in several machines and I need annotations and highlights to be synchronized without much hassle. Zotero is quite close to provide a PDF reader itself (available in
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by maxmalkav 5y ago
The thing is that the website is kind of close to be a decent minimalistic web (it displays quite ok on my phone), but the font choices and the transparencies make the reading experience a bit miserable for me.
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by maxmalkav 5y ago
The “our experienced ex-Facebook engineers” sounds like a bit weird claim to me, TBH. I imagine them securing a continuous flow of ex-FB employees to guarantee this in the future.
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by maxmalkav 5y ago
It does run, not even sure if you need to slim down the kernel (I managed to find 128MB of RAM for my P166, 3 years ago it was enough for the regular installer). It was nice to run modern software on it, it was an ok-ish terminal, the CPU s
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by maxmalkav 5y ago
It’s complicated than that. Valencian is at best a dialect of Catalan, the differences are not significant enough to considere them two separate languages. The rejection of considering Valencian as Catalan has some links to Blaverism https
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by maxmalkav 5y ago
The first thing that comes to my mind about Minneapolis is 80s punk and alt. rock (Hüsker Dü and The Replacements to be more specific, I am European and probably a bit of an outlier)

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