Audalin

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[–] Audalin 3 points 1 year ago

You could also help preparing XFCE for eventual Wayland compatibility: https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/wayland_roadmap .

[–] Audalin 12 points 1 year ago

Okular (a rather good PDF viewer) can't save sessions (open files & positions) in non-KDE environments.

The issue has been open since 2018: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=397463 .

There's some partial merge request but it's been dead for a year.

[–] Audalin 1 points 1 year ago

Finishing Pynchon's V.

[–] Audalin 1 points 1 year ago

Finished Absalom, Absalom!, read If on a winter's night a traveler, started The Crying of Lot 49.

For much of the time I was reading Absalom, Absalom!, it used exhausting language to describe events it mostly failed to make me interested in. That got better once a critical mass of unexpected turns accumulated; my final impression is pretty good.

Demian Veen (from Ada, or Ardor) might even largely be a reference to Thomas Sutpen. In fact, there could be dozens of Faulkner references in Ada I'd entirely missed due to ignorance of Faulkner at the time. I guess I'll reread it later.

[–] Audalin 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have just started Absalom, Absalom!.

[–] Audalin 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you're going to finetune a foundation model, it'd make sense to choose Mistral - once they release a 13B.

Also consider adding function calling to the home assistant use case.

[–] Audalin 3 points 1 year ago

Currently reading Pynchon's Against the Day.

An excellent novel, though it requires a bit of patience at the beginning.

[–] Audalin 2 points 1 year ago

Sure, they're just typically from the same industry with similar perspectives, similar blind spots and similar affinity for rants on topics X, Y and Z. Some get annoyed by this after a while so ignoring comments is a valid choice if you feel like that.

[–] Audalin 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Probably. Still, it might be useful for blog discovery. One doesn't have to read the comments.

[–] Audalin 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Many such articles are reposted on HackerNews occasionally: https://news.ycombinator.com/

[–] Audalin 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know - I was unfamiliar with Pynchon before starting Against the Day. I had a list of his books to look into: the choice of my first one was random.

It's going unexpectedly well for me so far - but such things depend on the reader as much as on the book.

I've seen other people recommend The Crying a Lot 49 for that purpose though, probably because it's much shorter.

[–] Audalin 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Pynchon's Against the Day. It becomes brilliant once you endure the first N pages.

In fact, Pynchon is now one of my favourite authors.

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