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It has been argued before [0] that Leibniz notation being embraced in mainland Europe and not adopted in England/UK was the reason England fell about a century behind. First heard of this in MIT Calc undergrad course on YouTube, but would be too tedious to find which video, hence ran a search on the Internet.

[0] https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/7704/was-english-mat...

Neither did I, until I got this lovely idiot who's probably bipolar and probably on the spectrum. They're motivated by food, yes; and we're motivated by unconditional love.

Feynman on mathematicians vs physicist

https://youtu.be/obCjODeoLVw?si=2akBzyo-fC2j90OH

Entertaining viewpoint

Not sure if GP meant the math for just the trains bit. There is an increase in handling, and everytime the container changes hands, it's going to cost (assuming dearly). First the ship has to berth (cost), unloaded using QC gantry (cost) onto an ITV (cost) where it gets stacked using a stacker/gantry (cost) in a yard (cost) and then unstacked using a stacker/gantry (cost) onto a truck/ITV (cost) which takes it to a stacker/gantry (cost) which then stacks it onto a train (cost). This is then probably going to be reversed on the other side of the train destination assuming it's a port.

There was also IMP/Horde and these days we have rainloop too.

I echo GPs thoughts. I use a VPS with syncthing. While that is also clunky, it works for my usecase while keeping multiple redundant copies across devices.

When buying an expensive (relatively) computer was a big deal in my house, I had a hard time convincing my dad about the iBook G3 which didn't come with a floppy drive.

Apple has been at it since the dawn of time.

I might be wrong, but VSCode didn't work (for me) on 13.x and I ran across a few forum posts for others who couldn't get it done either. I had very little time to figure out the right "distro", and VSCode was a requirement. Went to distrowatch, and installed the top choice (please don't roast me about it).

1. Servers, I'm partial to openBSD because of a saner IMO /etc and works-out-of-the-box (for me). My coworker is the more freebsd kind and since he does the work, his opinion prevails.

2. I moved houses 3 days ago. Had installed MX linux prior to moving on my desktop computer. Today, no DHCP IP on my computer. Man and apropos didn't help much. Ifconfig, arp don't exist. They require an apt install. I'm clueless as to what's happening. GUI tools didn't help much. So yeah to all predictable systems including windows.

3. VSCode (which when I last checked a week ago didn't work on freebsd either) and a lot of other programs which aren't there on OpenBSD. NetBSD haven't touched, so won't comment.

4. Userland stuff. BSDs in general pitch themselves as complete OSs, but the whole getting X working is like assembling a GUI stack IMO.

5. Continuing from the previous point (yeah, I'm a hypocrite), a few hundred MBs of RAM and very little GHzs on the CPU gets you a fully functional Desktop environment. If a browser is needed, add a bit more RAM and maybe some CPU.

PS: I use really old hardware

Math stack exchange IIRC is independent of stack exchange

They state on their webpage that they have bought a lifetime supply of those chips. I wouldn't call them EOL

I stand corrected.

It was just about time, considering there was a jestful tricking the developer of relayd to reprogram it to httpd. IIRC he got epic tricked into it! In the sense he didn't even know he was making a webserver until he actually made it. This may not be a very true version, but I love to believe so.

The camaraderie and passion in the project is mind boggling.

Not sure about now, but at least a couple of years ago it didn't support SNI either.

What I love about openBSD documentation is that if it's not there in the docs, one can be sure that it doesn't exist.

Exactly, even large textfile based DNS servers have capability to "compile" the textfile to a db file for faster access.

WSL on windows uses plan 9 protocol(s) to mount my linux VM as a folder under windows.

*As suggested by another HNer.

Thank you! That would be me. I am clueless on amd64 on how to speed up the boot process and maybe change a few fonts during boot.

I understand the reasons for no "how-tos". But sometimes they make sense for people like me. I wouldn't mind delving a bit deeper given some direction.

I am not a programmer (yet). I am an openBSD fanboy. I've read stories of people reading the code and raving about the quality. It does tick 2 of the checkboxes you mentioned (not just one person). Does this qualify?

Here you go

https://christitus.com/windows-tool/

Vulkan seems to be incomplete. Graphics drivers for Nvidia are a problem due to the project not accepting blobs, not signing NDAs. And today I had a problem installing matplotlib (ninja gave some error). AFAIK, tensorflow and/or python libs are a problem with *nix as well.

On the good side, the system is VERY predictable.

Since a lot of people are talking about themselves so openly, I feel a compulsion too.

I hide behind perfection. Learning maths, programming, sports, health.

Of course I need a perfect OS, perfect programming paradigm, perfect book, the best music learning method, greatest body improvement program.

Perfect is the enemy of good. It's something I grapple with on a daily basis.

My first reaction to your comment was that it was probably missing a "/s" at the end.

Rationale - I last did HTML when Netscape Navigator/ Communicator was still around. IIRC, usual discussion among us college students was how MS IE encouraged bad programming practices by ignoring (many?) unclosed tags, whereas Netscape wasn't as forgiving.

I've not seen much HTML since then (I definitely plan to, now). Your comment brought back some fond memories. Thank you! And mind blown.

>I don't give a rat's ass if there's a proof or not connecting the two.

Life is too short for proofs. - Gilbert Strang (in one of his lectures)

I have a slightly orthogonal take.

I am not a programmer (yet). A long time ago, I wanted to get into photography. I researched equipment, effects, lighting, etc. Then I happened upon a blog run by a photographer.

His advice - Are you creative enough to know the subject, what to photograph, what kind of results you want? If yes, you could always start with an iPhone and once you hit limitations, you could augment it with equipment which you build over time. He did cite some great examples of flickr photography done on iPhones and I was sold to the idea.

IMO from a layman's perspective, we should (try to) perfect our trade, tools we choose later to whatever suits our style.

I am a history enthusiast. I have a reason to believe this belief by populations in untruths is short term (I'd define it as <50 years, YMMV).

Long term chronicling goes beyond short term propoganda. Society eventually (IMO) accepts the truth. And the highly trained, poorly dressed, unsung heroes are to be credited for it. Unfortunately, society at large pays importance to the short term "stuff". Regardless, I feel these guys stand for correctness and should be recognised (preferably much before they die).

I have setup a PRI to SIP channel before using elastix (now discontinued and bought by 3CX I think).

This needs investigation, but - Over the top of my head, I think you could probably have some kind of a 4G/5G modem hooked on to an SBC (Pi, APU, etc.) and then forwarded to your SIP line which you can pick over IP (Internet), this should work.

One of the child comments mentioned DID (Direct Inward Dialling). I am no expert, but if your Australian provider supports something similar, you will get the number (friend) who is dialling in, instead of your own Australian number dialling in to your receiver phone. This is useful for caller ID, otherwise it's just like a forwarded call.

Hope this helps.

A thousand times echoing your sentiment, everyone on this thread seems dismissive, but the webpage linked carries some links which I would want to come back to later.

If the source itself is a problem, we wouldn't want to listen to anyone for some reason or another.

YouTube videos. Language may become an issue for you. If it does, please feel free to ask, I'll reply at leisure. The second video uses sprouts, but it works as well with any pre-boiled beans.

[0] https://youtu.be/asY7cq6j0xE [1] https://youtu.be/SNDrDZs3nn4

Kilian Weinberger's 1st lecture on YouTube.

1956 (or 57) the perceptron was made. The public mood was ecstatic. Generals were dreaming of robot armies, finance world was dreaming of automation, and the whole world was dreaming.

1964 (or 66?) a bestselling book was AI Winter. It explained in everyday English how the whole thing was a farce (at that time). Funding dried up. It wasn't sexy to say AI anymore. So people started saying ML. For funding they were doing ML and not AI.

Nowadays it is a top down vs bottom up approach. One is AI and the other is ML (i don't know which, it doesn't matter)

I tried an unsuccessful rice sometime ago from here [0] The installation page has some dependency on conky-lua package. My OS cranked up a few errors during compilation(?), hence wouldn't know. But hopefully the link answers your question.

0: https://old.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/wlscxa/fvwm_an_es...

Not my opinion - I saw a compelling video of some prof on reddit a few years ago. His argument went something like this: name the richest businessman from the time of Columbus/ Amerigo. Or a very powerful politician/ socialite? Progress is a derivative of us pursuing the unknown. That is why we do what we do.

Disclaimer: I've lost a lot of the language behind the original argument, but as a sceptic it did make a lot of sense to me at that time. And hopefully the meaning behind the original message has not been lost due to my bad phrasing.