kata1yst
@kata1yst@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on DoNotPay has to pay $193K for falsely touting untested AI lawyer, FTC says 1 week ago:
They should get their lawyer on that.
- Comment on Satellite images suggest test of Russian “super weapon” failed spectacularly 1 week ago:
I can promise you it isn’t the engineers fucking up Boeing. It’s the old macdonald-douglas management / exec team.
- Comment on Elasticsearch is open source, again 5 weeks ago:
Haha, wow that was crazy, right everyone? Geeze, why did we even do that thing we did? What was that even? So weird!
Anyway, everything is back to the way it was before! Maybe even better! You can all come back now from the various forks and open alternatives you’ve spent the last 18 months migrating to!
- Comment on Test of a prototype quantum Internet runs underneath New York City for half a month 5 weeks ago:
Entangled particles cannot transmit information. That would violate information theory and likely causality as well.
Quantum networking is instead focused on using extremely robust encryption that can detect interception using quantum properties of light particles being transmitted in the fiber optics.
- Comment on [Gamers Nexus] Actually Good: $2400 Starforge Pre-Built Gaming PC Review (Lowkey Fractal Terra ITX) 5 weeks ago:
The Disney retcon team will be at your location shortly, please remain where you are and do not resist.
- Comment on To kill mammoths in the Ice Age, people used planted pikes, not throwing spears, researchers say 1 month ago:
We know they hearded them off cliffs in many parts of the world, probably egged on by throwing spears and jabs.
It seems pretty unlikely they’d have regularly risked death by planting a spear and waiting for a charge. It’s not like a multiple ton animal is going to be stopped by the spear.
- Comment on What's a standalone open source project that does file searching? 1 month ago:
I guess it depends on scale.
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FSearch
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Recoll
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TypeSense
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- Comment on SK hynix says its 3D DRAM is half as expensive to produce — credits EUV chipmaking tools 1 month ago:
Well realistically it’s up to Samsung and Micron to respond. We could get a price war, which would be grand. But unfortunately we’ll probably instead see price collusion once again and the main competition will effectively settle on a price they’re all making a ton of money at.
- Comment on SK hynix says its 3D DRAM is half as expensive to produce — credits EUV chipmaking tools 1 month ago:
Oh wow so that means the consumer cost will be -50%, right? …Right?
- Comment on big bro jupiter 1 month ago:
Jupiter probably also threw an icy giant out of the inner solar system when it was making the family unstable. What a good big bro to have.
- Comment on Caption this. 1 month ago:
Or else.
- Comment on TriliumNext Notes - The last note taking app you should ever need 2 months ago:
Its dangerous to send goalposts flying around that fast, be careful or you’ll hurt yourself.
Your response is condescending, arguing from ignorance, and arguing in bad faith. I will reply this time, because once again you’re trying to build an argument on extremely shaky ground and I don’t enjoy people spreading lies unchallenged. However I won’t engage any further and feed whatever you think you’re getting from this.
I haven’t suggested that people should use Obsidian over OSS solutions. I was simply pointing out your argument against Obsidian’s architecture was poorly founded.
The data you’re insinuating will be lost is pure FUD. While the format isn’t standard markdown, none of the well implemented solutions are, because as you so rightly pointed out, markdown has little to no support for most of these features.
However, obsidian’s format is well documented and well understood. There are dozens of FOSS plugins and tools for converting or directly importing obsidian data to nearly every other solution. Due to obsidian’s popularity, it’s interoperability this way is often far superior to FOSS solutions’.
- Comment on TriliumNext Notes - The last note taking app you should ever need 2 months ago:
Content is your notes. In obsidian this is represented by markdown files in a flat filesystem. This format is already cross platform and doesn’t need to be exported.
Metadata is extracted information from your notes that makes processing the data more efficient. Tags, links, timestamp, keywords, titles, filenames, etc are metadata, stored in the metadata database. When you search for something in obsidian, or view the graph, or list files in a tag etc obsidian only opens the metadata database to process the request. It only opens the file for read/write.
Does this help?
- Comment on TriliumNext Notes - The last note taking app you should ever need 2 months ago:
Tell me, are you aware of the distinction between content and metadata?
- Comment on TriliumNext Notes - The last note taking app you should ever need 2 months ago:
This isn’t really the case though. Obsidian uses a database for metadata, and therefore can extremely rapidly display, search, and find the correct file to open. It generally only opens a handful of files at a time.
I’ve used obsidian notes repos with hundreds of thousands of notes with no discernable performance impact. Something LogSeq certainly couldn’t do.
The complaint in the post you’ve linked is a) anecdotal and b) about the import process itself getting slow, which makes sense as obsidian is extracting the metadata.
I’ll always champion OSS software over proprietary, but claiming this is a huge failing of the obsidian design is just completely false. A metadata database fronting a flat filesystem architecture is very robust.
- Comment on What's the bang for the buck go to for AI image generation and LLM models? 2 months ago:
KobaldCPP will probably be the easiest way out of the box that has both image generation and LLMs.
I personally use vllm and HuggingChat, mostly because of vllm’s efficiency and speed increase.
- Comment on How much is ginger for you? Where to get it cheap? 2 months ago:
Find a farmers market or an Asian food market.
- Comment on Eeeeee 2 months ago:
And because it always bears repeating;
According to JPL’s Chief Engineer for Mission Operations and Science, Marc Rayman-
Let’s go to the largest size there is: the known universe. The radius of the universe is about 46 billion light years. Now let me ask (and answer!) a different question: How many digits of pi would we need to calculate the circumference of a circle with a radius of 46 billion light years to an accuracy equal to the diameter of a hydrogen atom, the simplest atom? It turns out that 37 decimal places (38 digits, including the number 3 to the left of the decimal point) would be quite sufficient.
- Comment on North Korea decries 'illegal' joint NATO declaration 2 months ago:
While I understand what you’re saying about the Korean War, this is a simple statement of fact accusing North Korea of lending aid to Russia, who is the aggressor in the first major land war in Europe since WW2.
NATO is not escalating. They’re calling NK out for making the situation worse.
- Comment on Scientists Propose New Way to Find Aliens: Detect Their Failing Warp Drives 3 months ago:
Damn it. I know I would.
- Comment on Gotta THRASH 3 months ago:
Thank you for teaching me about this very cool danger noodle friend today!