I have a Pulse 15 from like 5 years ago and I’m still quite happy with that machine.

Jap… bin gestern erst am Versuch mein Minze 20.04 hochzubewerten gescheitert. Hab dann stattdessen LMDE drübergebügelt…

Medically: nothing

As a European, wearing outdoor shoes at home indoors feels gross and unhygienic.

TeXStudio if you want something that is easy to set up. VSCode + LaTeX Workshop if you need features from VSCode (other extensions, git integration,…).

Note that you still have to bring your own LaTeX installation (I always use TeXLive, but there are other options)

For literature I’ve found Zotero + BetterBibTeX plugin very nice, otherwise JabRef also exists but is much more “raw”.

Reference management is one thing LaTeX is really good at. Especially if you use it with a literature management system such as Zotero.

VSCode + LaTeX Workshop Extension is what I use today, but I would recommend TeXStudio as editor if you don’t need any specific features from VSCode.

eh, back when the “exodus” was happening it felt like every second post is about defederation. Nowadays you don’t hear much about it anymore, but if you only looked back then I see how you could come to that conclusion.

Boost feels a lot like rif which I was using and which shutdown made me switch to lemmy.

Sure you can do that, but it’s more work for both parties assuming the message hasn’t been read. I’m just saying that both Signal and WhatsApp have had this feature for quite some time now and it has come in handy for me a few times already.

That’s certainly an issue, but for me it was already quite useful for deleting unread obsolete messages (e.g. deleting “can you bring milk” after you realized that there still is some), or messages accidentally sent to the wrong person. I think limiting to a short time frame and/or only unread messages would solve most of the possible abuse.

That’s all very interesting. I might even consider re-learning the d (and the b for that matter).

I’m writing notes for myself and I can read them. When I’m writing for someone else (which rarely happens for handwritten notes) I take the time and effort to write nicer.

Also, I specifically didn’t write the example carefully because the use case for me would specifically be handwritten notes I made for myself.

Also if you’re not writing in cursive? I just checked some templates for kids to learn the letters, and at least the ones I’ve found do a circle first and then strike down. For example here. In cursive the materials I’ve found go halfway clockwise, then anticlockwise to complete the circle, up and down again like this.

I wonder whether this is something cultural.

How else do you write them? Worth mentioning that I learned cursive in school and we had to write in cursive until like middle school when I then mostly transitioned to a happy mix of cursive and non-cursive

Well, I haven’t had any issues at exams with my handwriting. But if I write something for myself, and fast then it’ll look somewhat like this. If I’d take my time it’ll be better but that’s not the point.

I like dotted paper, the dots are less distracting than grids, lined paper sucks for sketches/etc. and with plain paper I’m missing guides. But I agree that on this particular one, the dots are a bit too prominent.

That’s perfect. Now I’m just wondering why chatGPT is apparently much better in OCR than a dedicated OCR model like EasyOCR or Tesseract.

Btw, Deepseek did a good job but not perfect. I also fed chatGPT a full page of notes and the transcription to markdown worked quite well, although not perfect. However, if I supply the same note as part of a larger pdf, it will refuse to transcribe it, stating that it’s unreadable.

If you look closely, a green shell gets thrown. So that would work.

No one commenting about this being physically impossible (unless the car in front is significantly slower/stopped)?

+1 for mediawiki

Although you really need to consider the peer group you are working with, and make the contribution as little work as possible. In my experience, as soon as the course is over people won’t want to do any extra work like change the formatting or integrating with existing materials. And requiring to use a specific format (even if it’s something dead simple as markdown) might already be too much friction.

In my experience shared cloud storage (GDrive, Dropbox,…) works quite well, even if the feature set is very limited. Being able to simply plonk your .docx/.pdf/.whatever into there is very easy and low friction.

A different solution I saw that worked was a forum where you could also upload files that could be categorized into the different courses and were then accessible by others. If you were to self-host this, you’d really want to make sure somehow that it’s not exploited to spread malware or worse.

Anyways, I wouldn’t think too much about how well the material can be represented, but rather how you can get your peers to continuously contribute to it. The best representation is useless without the data going with it.