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- Comment on How to find the standard term for a concept/idea? 1 hour ago:
Ask a human.
“What’s the scientific term for when a word is on the tip of your tongue?”
“It’s literally just TOT (tip of the tongue)”
I initially thought your question would be about translating technical terms between languages. If it’s an extremely technical term that’s unlikely to be in a dictionary I look up the Wikipedia article in English and then see if there’s a corresponding article in the target language (usually Spanish in my case). The above phenomenon is PDL (punto de la lengua) in Spanish.
- Comment on Is there a spreadsheet that doesn't mess with the data I enter? 6 hours ago:
Do you have any tabular data editors to recommend?
- Submitted 6 hours ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 9 comments
- Comment on Which wiki software to host 5 days ago:
Judging by how productive I’ve been just in the last 8 hours, I’d say going from Mediawiki to Dokuwiki was a good choice. I’m not even sure why. DW still uses markup instead of a WYSIWYG editor, which I’m fine with. I think it’s the namespaces. MW does have them, but you have to set them up with a config file on the server, and adding and removing them cannot be done lightly. With DW it’s as easy as searching for
new_namespace:some_new_article, and the namespace is created along with the article. So I have a scratchpad namespace where I can work on drafts, a stories namespace to put my attempts at creative writing, a lore namespace for, well, canonized lore tidbits, and so on. And I don’t need to worry about names colliding like I did with MW where lore articles and story titles often conflicted.DW lets you use hierarchy when it works, and loose categories (tags) when it doesn’t (with the tags plugin that is). With MW you just have categories but no hierarchy. Bookstack is the opposite. It forces you to use its shelf>book>chapter>page organization system. It does have tags, too, but you can’t have pages outside of books, and the pages have an explicit order. You can fairly easily change that order, but it’s always there.
Back to DokuWiki, the blog plugin has proven invaluable over the last few days. I can jot down ideas as blog entries and push them to the main lore namespace if I think they’re worth keeping.
- Comment on Which wiki software to host 6 days ago:
If I haven’t scared you away with my nonsense, the DW instance is now public. The link I provided earlier should point to the new server. constructed.world
- Comment on Which wiki software to host 1 week ago:
It’s behind the hamburger menu (3 horizontal lines on the top left of the page), at least with the latest default skin.
- Comment on Which wiki software to host 1 week ago:
The DW instance isn’t public (yet) but here’s a link to the currently public mediawiki instance.
I never invested the time to make the content very discoverable, so you’ll have to make copious use of the random page and what links here features if you want to see what I’ve written.
Enjoy my stress-induced maladaptive daydreams.
- Comment on Which wiki software to host 1 week ago:
Otter’s almost there. It needs a few things before I’d call it a wiki rather than just a documentation system, namely backlinks and a way to differentiate between links to existing and nonexisting pages, as well as a way to see what nonexisting pages are most wanted.
- Comment on Which wiki software to host 1 week ago:
I’m currently migrating my worldbuilding and conlanging project to Dokuwiki. Right now I have an Obsidian vault used for brainstorming and drafting and a public Mediawiki for stuff I feel is worth showing off. Like Obsidian, DW stores everything as plaintext (it’s not markdown but it’s readable and the tables are better IMO). Like Mediawiki, DW keeps a version history so I can keep track of how my ideas evolve over time, which is crucial for conlang documentation. I keep tons of example texts that may reflect earlier phases of the grammar and vocab that I may need to reference. Unlike both Obsidian and MW, Dokuwiki has access control, so I can keep a private namespace for drafts and a public namespace for stuff I think is polished enough to show.
I’m not sure DW meet’s OP’s requirements for “out of the box” functionality though. I think it’s intended to be rather bare bones but be very easy to extend with plugins. The plugin browser is built in, so customization is a breeze. Plugins can be individually installed, enabled, disabled, and updated through the admin GUI.
- Comment on Which wiki software to host 1 week ago:
Bookstack comes up a lot when “easy to use” is mentioned. It has a WYSYWIG editor by default and has a fairly simple install using a shell script on their docs website. Problems I have with it are it’s not really a wiki. You can’t link to nonexistent pages or see what other pages link to the current page. It’s more of a documentation system.
But I’ve seen it out in the wild being used for your use case (Tunic game wiki)
- Comment on Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college? 1 week ago:
And locally if you join a club. If there aren’t enough hams for a club there may be at least one you could seek out as an Elmer.
- Comment on Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college? 1 week ago:
Hobbies. I got into ham radio for this very reason. It’s also adjacent to my job (IT), and it’s one of the quintessential “hobby hobbies” like stamp collecting and model trains.
- Comment on (serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting. 1 week ago:
When I think of vanity plates I think of the guy who registered his as “NULL” in the hopes that he could avoid traffic tickets by looking like a database error. But he ended up showing up every time anyone’s plate number was missing, so it showed him as having thousands of traffic violations.
- Comment on (serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting. 1 week ago:
That was the first thing that came to my mind, I saw all sorts of interesting stuff on our summer family trips.
- Comment on (serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting. 1 week ago:
Is that sort of thing relevant? I take the bus all the time and have never felt in danger (except for one time when the driver went off on another bus driver, but I just noped off the bus before it could escalate). Yes there are interesting characters, but if public transit were more common perhaps the crazies would become less predominant.
Around here there is a whole police department dedicated to monitoring public transit.
- Submitted 1 week ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 114 comments
- Comment on My thoughts shopping around for a wiki solution 1 week ago:
UPDATE:
I see Bookstack mentioned a lot, so I decided to try installing it. I took the better part of a day and I still can’t get it working. Pity since it looks a lot nicer than Dokuwiki and has access control unlike Mediawiki.
- Comment on Do werewolves shed? Or do they lose their whole coat when transferring back? Do Vampires have little holes in their K9s to suck up the blood after puncturing someone or thing? 1 week ago:
Vampires don’t suck, they scrape and lick
- Comment on How come in American classrooms they make another language an elective. Why not teach our kids as many languages possible that way if we go somewhere we will kind of have uper hand? 1 week ago:
Texan here. 2 years in HS was required when I was there. I took Latin.
- Comment on Do werewolves shed? Or do they lose their whole coat when transferring back? Do Vampires have little holes in their K9s to suck up the blood after puncturing someone or thing? 1 week ago:
…like an insect molting? O_o
- Comment on (XMPP Setup Guide) Discord Was Never the End Game - TonyBTW 1 week ago:
XMPP doesn’t seem to be well supported in terms of Windows clients
- Comment on My thoughts shopping around for a wiki solution 2 weeks ago:
Lemme tell ya somethin about Tiddlywiki. Actually a lot of knowledge base software has this problem (I’ve specifically encountered it in Trillium, Obsidian, and TW).
You have your body where you’re austencibly storing the meat of your information. But you also have configurable metadata fields. Obsidian has its YAML headers, and TW and Trillium have separate metadata forms. All three of these have scads of methods for sorting and querying and filtering the metadata but next to nothing for the actual note. But the note is already organized data. It has headings and subheadings and text under those headings. Why can’t that be queried? I got into this on the TW forums. Everyone was basically telling me to cram all of the actual data into the header, leaving the note itself virtually empty. Obsidian has its bases feature which does the same thing. Then why not just have a bunch of YAML files? A genuine question, I’d actually love a system for sorting and querying a bunch of organized YAML files almost like a noSQL database. But Obsidian doesn’t let you do that. It has to be markdown.
I got off track there, but there it is.
- Comment on My thoughts shopping around for a wiki solution 2 weeks ago:
Was it the backend, maintaining the DB and juggling extensions and such, or was it organizing the wiki itself? I’ve heard lots of people complain about maintenance. My personal project currently uses Mediawiki with sqlite as the DB. I’m essentially the only editor and almost the only reader, so it’s more of a CMS than anything.
Because the wiki is public, I have to maintain a separate KB (currently Obsidian) for drafts and scratch notes and other “thinking out loud” such and such that I’m not ready to present to the public. That’s why I’m looking at something with access control. I’d like to consolidate all my work on this project to a single place, with notes and drafts accessible only to me, that I can publish when I’m satisfied. Dokuwiki with a crapload of plugins seems to be the closest.
- Comment on My thoughts shopping around for a wiki solution 2 weeks ago:
logseq
Forgot about logseq. It’s an outliner first and foremost, so not what I’m looking for.
silverbullet
This one’s almost there. No version history. For accessibility reasons I’d like something that clearly separates the acts of writing/editing and reading/consuming. It works better with screen readers. In silverbullet, headings only look like headings, but they’re just undifferentiated text to a screen reader. Obsidian has the same problem). I get why people want a seamless editing experience, but it’s very important to me to keep track of how my ideas change over time, and Obsidian and Silverbullet are constantly saving your edits, making versioning difficult.
Helix notes (mentioned recently in another post) tries to get past this by having a “save new version” button.
QOwnNotes
Very very simple. I can see why some would be attracted to it but I’m not.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 29 comments
- Comment on The "western hemisphere" rubs me the wrong way 2 weeks ago:
It’s completely arbitrary, and people at the time it became standard were very aware of this. Before, each country had its own prime meridian centered on its capital. In 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Prof. Aronnax tries to find out Captain Nemo’s country of origin by getting him to specify which meridian he uses. I can’t remember how Nemo avoided this, I think it was by using the American prime meridian centered on DC, when it’s very obvious Nemo isn’t American.
spoilers for a 150-year-old novel
Nemo is Indian, BTW.
- Comment on Eventually, coffee moves from a drink that gets you going to an emotional support drink. 2 weeks ago:
I very rarely drink coffee. I figure if it’s just going to get to the point I need it just to function normally then I might as well not start. I’m already a morning person anyway.
The exception is when I take exams. Coffee helps with the ADHD. I’ll usually drink it black since it’s not the drink I’m after it’s the caffeine.
- Comment on My phone, iPad, and laptop finally all use the same USB-C charger. The galaxy is at peace. 2 weeks ago:
iPhone. The title is a reference to the opening of Super Metroid.
- Comment on Quidk! I need a chili recipe. What would you add to a pound of hamburger, diced jalapenos, chili powder and bloody mary mix? 2 weeks ago:
Update 2
This was for a chili cook off my family holds every year. I won.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 103 comments