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  struct obiwahn {
   std::string name, homepage, github, mail;
   obiwahn() : name("Jan Christoph Uhde")
             , homepage("http://UhdeJC.com")
             , github("github.com/obiwahn")
             , mail("linux@obiwahn.org") {}
  };
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obiwahn··on Safe(R) Repo Access for Agents
A little idea to share repos with agents in a more secure manner.
obiwahn··on Repurposing Hugo as a wiki
I would like to use this. I have used Hugo only once and was only half successful in creating a webpage, because I am not so familiar with html and css. Do you have a ready to use GitHub repo somewhere? That would be really nice.
obiwahn··on What Number Comes Next? Ask the Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
Is there a link to the library? Or is this just a click bait?
obiwahn··on EU Commission doesn't understand what's written in its own chat control bill
Maybe she is just saying that Google and Apple soft Keyboard are scanned and it does not matter if you use signal or telnet...
obiwahn··on One million queries per second with MySQL
Why is that? It is very unlikely to answer more random requests with more nodes. You have to pay for the communication that is required in the cluster to locate the data. It will only be faster if you have some special knowledge and are able to partition the data in a smart way. Which will allow shortcuts when storing or receiving data.
obiwahn··on One million queries per second with MySQL
Scales 1:1 with threads:-) Nice Trolling ;)
obiwahn··on Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
I had a Mozilla wave back in the days. And I was very happy. Today you need 3 containers, is it awfully complex and there is no documentation. And the Mozilla guys are far less helpful than in the irc days. Could be cool. But unfortunately sucks. Is there anyone with a Mozilla sync setup, that is reasonably secure and willing to share his configuration?
obiwahn··on Ask HN: Has anyone successfully used LibreOffice for their business?
I think Excel is still used. If people work for years with a tool it makes no sense to take it from them. This is like forcing my vim setup on another senior who uses for years vs code. It will not save enough to compensate for the decrease in productivity and mood.

It only makes sense of you can convince people.

There was thrift in my hometown, that was using excel to decide on the max credit for individuals. The document was copied and forked and the outcome was more random than anything. At least they could be convinced to introduce a database and a well written and maintained application, that does reliable work and provides the same output when given the same input.

obiwahn··on Ask HN: Has anyone successfully used LibreOffice for their business?
What kind of startup are you? Where do you want to use office? Who creates most of the content?

I have worked at a company that started with Googledocs and ended with Markdown (paper / design docs) and reveal.js for presentations. And that is something I can take recommend. Why? Because it is simple text that can be stored in a repository and you gain the ability to compare versions. It is easy to change and you can convert it to almost anything. The most important target is obviously pdf to communicate with customers. Nobody wants odt, docx or other strange formats that require more than a browser.

Convincing the technical people was not necessary or done quick. Non coder like the CEO did like the suggestion least, but it was a revolution from the base and people who code where mostly creating content or talking at conferences.

obiwahn··on Slack wants your feedback on closing their IRC/XMPP gateway
We have to use it at work, and unfortunately the gateway was not enabled for us. In general slack just sucks so much more than IRC that it is almost unbearable. Searching the logs is one of the worst tasks ever. The easy accessibility is their pro and marketing guys will fall for it. Consent among develops is that it just sucks. It is really bad that they close the gateways because the lucky few that could use slack via an IRC client will really grieve. mosh/tmux/weechat beats the crappy client on flaky connections anytime. If the mobile client was as good as WhatsApp or telegram I would not dare to complain. But the mobile client lags and shows messages multiple times.

Horrible I tell you Great disaster No longer necessary Catastrophic mistake

obiwahn··on Ask HN: What laptop do you use?
I use the X1 Carbon and I am pretty happy with it. Compared to older models the keyboard and mouse (red dot in keyboard) are not as good as they used to be and the case does not shut in a way that the lid fits 100%. But other than that the laptop is a beast and I am happy that Lenovo gave up on stupid keyboards. The above made me consider to install Linux on a MacBook. Maybe that is something for you. It will not fix the keyboard issue but maybe the crashing when you connect external screens. Hope you find a satisfying solution!
obiwahn··on For software that is cross platform and accessible, forget about Qt
The bug report is just prosa. No simple test case is attached to reproduce his problem. I think he did not even start a debugger. So what does the guy expect. Maybe it is just some broken string conversion. But without a bit investigation on his side he will never find out. Only well paid support will waste time with that kind of horrible report.
obiwahn··on Where’s My Depth First Search Machine Learning?
The reason you are not seeing this is that the problem is too hard for and language is very complex.

There are Banks that would pay Millions if somebody could extract business relations between companies. It would probably be enough in a fist step to know what a company name is an see if 2 turn up in a sentence. The author is asking for something that looks even harder to me. First identify book titles. And then identify a recommendation. I think machine learners like to play with images, because training is easy (recapture). But how should they go an tag book contents for recommendations. It takes much more time than identifying vehicles or traffic signs and requires more education.

Before analyzing something like that there will other things be done. Like work on the structure of sentences (who interacts). Or if some statement has a positive or negative tone.

obiwahn··on Pev: Postgres ‘Explain’ Visualizer (2016)
Looks awesome! How about adding a direction to your graph for people just starting with SQL.