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My theory (from anecdotal use) is that the OOXML complexity also explains why M365 office implementation is lacking in so many features and is just not very good at all when compared to the Google office suite.

I do have strong memories of OOXML and the scandals that were with it when it became a standard through MS allegedly buying/stacking/influencing votes:

https://chatgpt.com/share/68bf5e11-4e10-8003-ac9d-d4d10f7951...

I have been getting into electronics a fair bit in the last year. I always find Dave jones from EEVblog entertaining.

Dave does some simple back of the napkin calculations in this video to pull apart the claims of [reflectorbital](https://www.reflectorbital.com/)

I am just sitting here amazed that this idea got past the idea-stage for the startup.

I was entertained by the video - I think you might be too.

I like your nuanced observation here. It reminds me of a quote I come back to often when I am seeing toxic behaviour in some organisations.

> Dysfunctional behaviour is ubiquitous and systemic, not because people are wicked but because the requirement to serve the hierarchy competes with the requirements to serve customers. People's ingenuity is engaged in survival, not improvement.

- Freedom from Command & Control, John Seddon

actually, that was PWC - not KPMG. Although I think Deloitte was also implicated in some way

https://www.internationaltaxreview.com/article/2bxqngyds66en...

On the same topic, I have been finding this book an entertaining and informative read - published in 2023.

- https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/62586003

The author of the above book has a good talk on the same topic here

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QOTBreQaIk

The book itself is well referenced with footnotes and an appendix with extra research papers etc.

I also use NixOS, but if the target was not NixOS, I don't think you should be requesting the set up as needing fixing by the author. It just doesn't sound right - or maybe it is just me. NixOS isn't the defacto standard, and breaks the Linux FHS to achieve all the good stuff it does do.

Either try to package it or use a docker image or maybe raise an issue noting the blocker and request it as a feature for some changes to give an easier path for to having it build more easily for NixOS

Apart from that, as expected, the docker image that is produced following the instructions is working fine with NixOS as host. All it needed for the build was the openssl packaged on the host.

Kudos. Thanks for the good communications and security response.

Cody is great, it had become my go-to (and I pay for Github Co-pilot).

With that said, they have recently changed the architecture, with the local install required, and I have not managed (yet) to get it working with NixOS. Once I have some more time, I will try again - it looks like there will be some hoops to go through. https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#ssec-pkgs-appimageT...

Kudos to the Source Graph team, Source Graph's original product was nicely thought out and ahead of it's time. Nice to see how the original product gave a nice basis for building out Cody.

Drake's book looks great. I appreciate his efforts to create a mental model and learning approach to NixOS.

I found a set of tutorials on YouTube by Will, to be incredibly helpful at the beginning of my NixOS journey. Even though these tutorials are a couple of years old, they should have aged well.

Drake's book, should help confirm some assumptions I've made about how NixOS works. Given NixOS's declarative nature, I find it easy to copy configurations to do what I want - a handy approach when pressed for time, but it does leave some gaps in understanding that need to be filled.

You can find the tutorials I mentioned at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-saUBvIJzOkjAw_vOac7...

The tutorials are easy to understand and have good explanations

Hi Xe, I am an avid reader of your blog. You have fantastic content and come across as someone with interesting opinions that I enjoy reading about.

Thanks for all the knowledge sharing and education efforts you put into all sorts of areas I am interested in (Linux internals, NixOS, Rust, etc.)

No cover on this one unless you are a U.S customer ... oh well.

My MBP 2017 was an absolute disaster. The last time they fixed the kb issue for me (3x issues with that for me) it immediately afterwards got the infamous cablegate issue (another design flaw on not giving enough tolerance for the cable to flex) on it being returned.

I have barely touched it in the last couple of years because of the unusable screen on it. I swore to never buy another Apple product, and then succumbed to buying an ipad for my daughter to support her digital art interest. Still, never again.

I am much happier on Thinkpads in Linux anyway. I would find it hard to give up the tiling manager and benefits of declaratively managing my system on NixOS.

The interesting thing is that my father swore off apple products back when they quick did an end of life with no support on something in the error of the Apple IIgs - this was after spending years with them.

I find it interesting how this has now gone full circle with me now swearing off Apple (with the exception of that one ipad).

Interesting response here in the issues.

The project is still active. It seems that feature requests and issues are not being asked of the project.

https://github.com/mustafaakin/gongular/issues/21

Hi Julian,

I just had a play with Garnix - and have to say I am impressed. Nicely executed.

Nice to see nix and flakes hitting hackernews through projects/services like this.

You may want to consider a meta-framework for the same reason I did.

I also code on my own. I was interested in building stuff, but had little time to learn everything I needed to from the bottom up to glue everything together.

Redwoodjs uses an opinionated rails-like approach to give you cli commands to generate your code to glue things together or to do the scaffolding required for the task at hand. The tech stack used is (subjectively) a good tech stack to work with: React, GraphQL, Prisma, Typescript, Jest and Storybook. To a large degree, due to the opinionated approach, at least you find yourself using what are considered to be good patterns.

If you do go the meta-framework approach, Redwoodjs has some competition in the space who are also well regarded and worth looking at.

I have done syncing with pass between multiple clients (and android) using syncthing or git. Either option has worked fine.

For some reason I prefer syncthing.

The android client works perfectly well.

I like it - I am also a fan of Excaldraw.

I noticed some kind of error coming up in trying to export to pdf - other than that it seems to be working well.

I am using the following set up ``` uname -a Linux arch-t460p 5.14.16-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue, 02 Nov 2021 22:22:59 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux (base) ~ via 🅒 base firefox --version Mozilla Firefox 94.0

```

I am not sure, but this message that pops up seems to suggest that it might not be establishing a good naming convention for the save.

``` application/vdn.excalideck+pdf (92.6 KB) ```

I will put an issue on the github project if I see it persists in the next day or two.

Thanks for sharing - great work! Between presentation tools like this and reveal-md we have some nice options for building out presentations.

Thinking about it. It would be great if it was possible to export each of the slides as independent png/svg as well. That would allow some possibilities to open up for using it with reveal-md

I was reading through the comments wondering why so many technically capable people are paying for a password store service when passwordstore works nicely in the space and gives you some comfort in knowing how it works.

I highly recommend pass.

My set up is as follows:

- setup the key, share the private key to other devices who are going to use the same pass store;

- use syncthing to sync my passwords between devices (you can use github - but I just find it works nicely with syncthing;

- all passwords and other content are just gpg encrypted text files;

- use the pass cli utility to read the passwords;

- first line of the text file is the password so the apps and cli will read that into the clipboard (with a time limit to expire if you are on your phone;

- for android phones/tablets I use 'openkeychain' to manage the key and 'password store' as the app to read the encrypted text files and copy the passwords;

There are other browser extensions etc. I just don't find a need to use them though.

It has worked well for me over the years while I have seen the passwords market go more towards a subscription model over time.

My wife uses the same system, I just set it up for her and then it is seamless for her as well.

https://www.passwordstore.org/

There are some very good reasons not to short tether which are listed at the below link. The source of this is bitfinexed has been railing against tether since 2017 and has been a thorn in Bitfinex/Tether's sides for a long time.

https://twitter.com/Bitfinexed/status/1405037796172222466

It seems there is a fair bit of collusion with some of the 2nd/3rd tier exchanges and Tether. If there is strong short interest it seems that they are willing to pop the price temporarily to wipe out the shorts. If Tether/Bitfinex has $62B and a printing machine it is pretty easy for them to wipe out the other side of a trade they are against.

My above understanding is just thinking about it in terms of what I have read and what I know of short selling equities. If you can take a put position (option) against tether I suspect that could work. Even if your bet was right, you would just have to be concerned the counter-parties survive the fall and that there is liquidity left in the market to close out the trade. Considering how much funny things went on in the GFC in regulated markets I suspect there is a good chance that in the unregulated crypto markets that even the correct trade would quite likely not be honoured if a full meltdown happened.

I was researching this a bit in the last couple of weeks. My current view is that I see Tether/Bifinex as a fraud which is bigger than Madoff and more serious since it is growing and the currency is (at the moment) a key part of the crypto markets infrastructure. Since tether provides the daily liquidity it also plays a levered role beyond what something like the Madoff fraud would have done to the wider markets.

I just installed this and had a look at the algo set. It looks good, thanks for posting.

This site is amazing. I love it. As a side project, while teaching my kids, I have been building a site for using python for maths for the same target audience (10 - 16 year olds). I plan on continuing to add to it as I give 1-to-1 support to my kids.

Having started on the project for about a month now, I have an appreciation for the amount of care that has gone into that the mathigon site.

Kudos to them for providing such a high quality free resource for building passion and education in maths.

In relation to people commenting that some names are missing and some are not specifically mathematicians etc. It doesn't matter - the project is ongoing, the learning resources have plenty that are still in construction - and any name mentioned sits somewhere in the realm of math interest.

It is a great site. Very polished.

> Am I just wrong here, or understanding something wrong? I swear everyone I talk to on Signal has changed their safety numbers at least once in the last couple years. Should I not talk to them any more until I verify those in person?

I think keybase.io are on to the correct idea here. There was a good blog post about it somewhere in their blog.

It wasn't this one - but this one does talk specifically to the problem you describe.

https://keybase.io/blog/chat-apps-softer-than-tofu

Thinkpad T460p on arch linux for me (after getting macbook pro 2017 15 inch keyboard issues followed with cablegate immediately afterwards).

The T460p is a 2016/17 secondhand machine which cost USD235 which I then added a ram upgrade and a new 72Wh battery to. I don't miss the mbp at all and prefer the linux OS anyway.

It probably took me until this moment to realise I was largely falling for marketing in thinking only the best specs would do ...

New Zealand has fisheries management with a lot of quota provided to Maori Iwi (tribes) who in turn might sell the quota or run a fishing business outright or in partnership. Additionally Maori have customary fishing rights for funerals and other customary events.

I am not quite sure what you mean by property rights and what it means in reference to other places.

On a side note, New Zealand just changed a number of significant fishing rules for commercial and recreational fisherman. The new restrictions on types of fishing that are allowed are to help protect both the Hectors dolphin (est. 10,000 left) and the Maui dolphin (est. 50 left.

It is good to see these unilateral efforts are possible in NZ due to their being no competing interests who have legal entitlement to the same waters.

Annecdotally, It is still relatively easy to go to the beach in NZ and catch a few fish of 2 - 6kg in size.

https://www.mpi.govt.nz/protection-and-response/sustainable-...

As an aside, HP approach to drivers for Linux is an absolute mess. Monolithic and broken.

I thought that was the case too for a while.

I felt this was a really interesting piece explaining how covid deaths are reported deaths versus flu deaths are just estimated and how the two are very different numbers to base comparisons off.

I also kind of liked how the article was written with the narrative of the eureka moment in realising how the stats were not comparable.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/comparing-...

> I decided to call colleagues around the country who work in other emergency departments and in intensive care units to ask a simple question: how many patients could they remember dying from the flu? Most of the physicians I surveyed couldn’t remember a single one over their careers. Some said they recalled a few. All of them seemed to be having the same light bulb moment I had already experienced: For too long, we have blindly accepted a statistic that does not match our clinical experience.

> The 25,000 to 69,000 numbers that Trump cited do not represent counted flu deaths per year; they are estimates that the CDC produces by multiplying the number of flu death counts reported by various coefficients produced through complicated algorithms. These coefficients are based on assumptions of how many cases, hospitalizations, and deaths they believe went unreported. In the last six flu seasons, the CDC’s reported number of actual confirmed flu deaths—that is, counting flu deaths the way we are currently counting deaths from the coronavirus—has ranged from 3,448 to 15,620, which far lower than the numbers commonly repeated by public officials and even public health experts.

Scanner Pro does the OCR - and it was implied (due to the need for the correct name) that the categorisation is a mapping from the name used for the scanned OCRed file.

That is my take from it. I could be wrong.

I have to say my experience with the community has been really good. Whether it be the reddit channels, discord channels or conversations with people putting rust related stuff on youtube.

Maybe you had a particular bad experience after someone mistook your behaviour as trolling - not that you would have been ... I just haven't witnessed any bad behaviour in the community yet - either towards myself or others.

If anything, I have appreciated at how much support the informed members are giving to the relative newbies like myself. Not only in advice but listening without ridiculing if the speaker is not that knowledgeable on the topic of conversation.

@jasondclinton, I agree with you in regards to the bad experience the actix project owner got in regards to unsafe code use. It was sad to see that happen to an open source contributor (or anyone).

No, not taking anything the wrong way. I wanted to get some views and you are providing them - thanks for that

'kia mihi'

I think the article linked by @antoncohen sums up the situation nicely:

https://medium.com/s/story/fearing-for-our-lives-82ad7eb7d75...

I don't think the reasons you have given should give the U.S police license to default act aggressively towards others - due to being in fear of their lives.

From my perspective, the U.S. police are not in fear of their lives through fear of immigrants or terrorists. They are trained to be in fear of someone having a gun pointed at them.

Thanks for the information. Interesting comment on California gun laws.

When I was working in IBM Research (a little under 20 years ago) as an Intern I took a trip to Cupertino and one of my bosses had me reach under his passenger seat to show me they had a pistol there. It was the first and only time I have seen a civilian with a pistol.

I was somewhat disappointed and sad by it, I assumed he was legally carrying it - obviously that assumption was wrong.

I don't think I have ever seen NZ police with a side firearm - the approach has worked here. Our risk in NZ is that the police will become more armed over time.