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solrize

@ solrize @lemmy.world

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  • Programming book recommendations?

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  • Structure and interpretation of computer programs (SICP) is a classic. It's readable online or you can get a printed copy.

  • An alternative to Contabo (VPS provider)

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  • Dedi will perform a lot better and be more consistent and reliable. They're not THAT expensive if you're making nontrivial use of them. Otherwise maybe you can keep moving around between Contabo products. Keep in mind too that hdd performance will seem a lot better when you're not sharing it with dozens of other users. I have an HDD server and it's fine for browsing. Might not be great for large seek-intensive databases but I'm not currently doing that

    Anyway you can also ask on lowendspirit.com which is a forum about budget vps.

  • An alternative to Contabo (VPS provider)

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  • Get a Hetzner dedicated server. Don't mess with vps once it gets that large. Look on hetzner.com/sb for auction servers that might be better deals than regular ones. And does your 800gb of storage really have to be all SSD? Hard disks still exist and cost lots less.

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  • Looking at your past posts you might have mental health issue like depression. You could see a psychiatrist about that maybe. Re COVID, maybe look at r/longcovid on Reddit and see if your symptoms compare. I hope things clear up for you.

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  • No that's not till you're older. Did you have covid? That can cause lingering issues like that. That can improve over time but maybe not completely.

  • Would you use a self-hosted, AI-powered search engine for your favorite sites?

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  • AI has become an abbreviation for "bad" and I wouldn't want that, but yes, I've been interested for a while in building language models into search engines, to give the queries more reach into the document semantics. Unfortunately, naive approaches like looking for matching vector embeddings instead of (or alongside) search terms seems near useless, and just clutters up the results.

    I'd be interested in knowing what approaches you're using. FOSS, I hope.

  • Good self-hosted webmail client?

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  • I used Squirrelmail briefly. It had a minor security bug which was easy to fix, but when I reported it to the devs, I couldn't convince them that it was actually a bug. I decided that they weren't paranoid enough to be working on that type of software, so I stopped using it.

    Currently I'm not self-hosting email but am using mxroute.com which has a FOSS mail client that seems ok. I can't check right now what it is, but maybe later.

    Fastmail's webmail is pretty good and they said something a while back about releasing it as FOSS but idk if that has happened.

    Right now I mostly use Thunderbird rather than webmail. It sucks in many ways but I've had too much going on to pursue alternatives.

    I think Google got it right early on when they realized that email clients should be backed by a serious search engine. The search features of a typical IMAP server aren't enough and the one in Thunderbird is crap. So I think this is an area where FOSS clients could use some work, if it hasn't already been done.

  • What are your last-minute purchases before tariff hell begins?

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  • Might get an SSD for my laptop. Resisting new computer. Must ... resist...

  • Lemmy vote aggregation idea

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  • The forums I've enjoyed the most didn't have voting and I'd rather that Lemmy just shut it off. VBB has a "thank" button you can click on posts, but they still show up in chronological order. That's less gameable and less subject to outrage amplification and similar social media hazards. This isn't Facebook and we don't need to reproduce Facebook's evil.

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  • Yeah I'm not mercantile enough to go around doing stuff like that, but I understand the thought. I don't NEED another laptop. It was tempting, but I can keep making do with what I have now.

    Added: I probably should buy a new SSD if there are still some affordable ones out there. I could use it, will probably need it, and prices have been going up since even before the tariffs.

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  • There is still some Lenovos on sale at bestbuy and it's a little bit tempting to buy one due to FOMO if the prices might suddenly go up. I considered it earlier in the year, but moved my stuff to an old Thinkpad T520 instead and am using that right now. I think I can stay with the T520 for now.

  • Should I learn rust?

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  • You might give Go (Golang) a try. It's lighter weight than Java, pretty fast, and easy to use.

  • Should I learn rust?

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  • What is the code written in now? What happens if you clean it up? What is the project if I can ask? Everything has a runtime, though some are more complex than others. You might like OCaml which is where Rust got some ideas, or Haskell if you like brain benders. Rust (like C) is for when you need very efficient code, and you incur some pain in order to get that.

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  • Why should anyone care about the gumroad code anyway? The software is the least important part of running a service like that.

  • RISC-V With Linux 6.15 Adds Support For BFloat16 "BF16" Instructions [and more]

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  • Why does the os care about some new arithmetic instructions being present? Are there new registers to save or what?

  • Why can't California and New York make their own medicare for all?

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  • Funny thing: insurance companies donate to both parties ;).

  • Why can't California and New York make their own medicare for all?

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  • California had a bill like that pass the legislature in 2022, and Governor Newsom vetoed somehow stopped it from making anything happen. I don't remember the details but he basically didn't want to upset the insurance industry, which I would have thought was the whole point of such a bill. He later backed some kind of watered-down bill which as far as I know did nothing.

    https://calmatters.org/commentary/2023/10/newsom-resurrect-single-payer-health-care/

    solri

  • Can I make a forum website with Ruby on Rails?

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  • You could but it's no longer in vogue. Try Elixir instead.

  • Introducing RPGCPF - A Toolkit for GCPF Compression

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  • What is Godot and why does this yet another format exist?