[-] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Another reminder that history is written by the victors. There have rarely been good sides in any war.

Edit: Just clarifying that I'm not supporting the Soviets here. Rather, I'm pointing out how these events are not well known.

[-] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Coffee. Caffeine doesn't really work for me in terms of giving me energy, but I like the taste of a nice cup of cortado.

I like tea as well, but can't stand the herbal stuff. Only Camellia sinensis for me.

[-] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

This reminds me. I got some good quality Atta (Indian whole grain wheat flour) for making Rotis a few weeks ago. Haven't even opened the packet yet.

[-] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

We actually changed our plans due to the weather. Were supposed to go to a place near Dallas. But ended up going to Arkansas. Got a great view. It's impossible to realize how mesmerizing it is unless one experiences the totality personally.

[-] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 89 points 1 week ago

Rapist mentality.

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

I want to get a new VPS. It'll mostly be used to host lightweight Docker images, and reverse proxying through Caddy. So, decent CPU and fast network speeds are the main things I need.

I have a cheap VPS with RackNerd. It's fine, but only has a single CPU core, which gets overwhelmed if multiple connections are trying to pull stuff from some service. So, I guess having multiple cores is a requirement as well.

I want to spend around $5/month, but willing to go a little higher if it's worth it. Any suggestions are appreciated.

P.S. I'm based in US and would prefer something in here for lower latency.

Update: Hetzner's CX22 IPV6 only plan seems to be very good in terms of price-performance ratio. But the servers are in Europe. I'm planning to try it out for a while and see how the latency is. It's great that they don't lock you in with yearly plans.

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I currently run a personal wiki for some notes, recipes, and stuff. It's set up using Wiki.js as the server. I'm the only regular user, and I feel like it's a bit of an overkill.

Does someone have any suggestions for a more lightweight wiki server? I tried DokuWiki and mostly like it. But the UI is very old and dare I say, ugly. I love the UI of Wiki.js btw.

My main criteria is that it should be lightweight. I don't need fancy editing features. Happy to work with raw html or markdown files.

I need some kind of permission management to hide some private wikis from the public, but otherwise I don't really care.

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Help with snippets? (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org to c/neovim@programming.dev

My goal is to automatically close the environment while editing a tex file. There was an issue for vimtex asking for basically what I want to achieve. They achieve it using snippets as mentioned there.

The problem is, I have no idea how to set it up. I've never used snippets in nvim. I have vim-vsnip and cmp-vsnip installed as it was needed for another plugin to work. Is it possible to implement this using those?

It can be noted that in vimtex, an environment can be closed by typing ]] which is a mapping of vimtex-delim-close. I basically want to emulate the behavior in VS Code using LaTeX Workshop. It auto-closes the environment, adds an indented line in the middle, and moves the cursor there.

If anyone has any other ideas about doing this without snippets, that's welcome too.

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Kinda accurate lol (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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This post is mostly for me to look at alternatives. I currently subscribe to Trade. But recently I've been hearing about their bad practices like sending packages with wrong weight, or paying very little money to the roasters.

If you like your current subscription, please place a link so that others can check it out. If you don't, and want to switch, tell why so that I can avoid it too.

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For the last few months, I've been splitting a bag of coffee beans into 2-3 portions and freezing them. I've seen that it extends the freshness by a bit. Now, I've been storing them in older coffee bags (the standard sealable ones) since they take up less space than jars and also I'm just reusing something that would've gone to landfill/compost.

I do clean them of residues of older beans and don't use a bag more than 2 times since I get new bags whenever I buy beans anyway. Are there any health/quality issues that might arise from this that I should be aware of? Should I just store them in sealed glass jars instead?

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Anon doesn't carule (lemmy.sdf.org)
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[-] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 96 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yep. They start from a position that most of us can't even dream of achieving.

Most of us don't even realize what being truly wealthy is like. I come from an affluent family. I never had to worry about necessities, had a decent education at the high school level to secure scholarships at good universities. But there are people who don't need to care about anything at all. They can just get any degree with minimal work, inherit the family business, and have someone else run it for them. On the other hand, I've known people who had to drop college or had to go worse colleges since they couldn't afford the fees (I'm not from US, college is not even that expensive here, still some can't afford it). The wealth inequality makes me feel nauseous.

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org to c/foss@beehaw.org

I currently use TickTick for managing my todo tasks. i haven't been able to find an FOSS replacement for it yet.

The main features that I need in an app like this would be:

  1. It should be accessible from the desktop. Don't necessarily need an app, a website is good enough.
  2. It should have a decent android app with a home screen widget for listing all the upcoming and overdue tasks.
  3. It'll be really nice if it can interpret date and time from the task description to add reminders. For example, writing "Remind me to get some milk at 6pm" will put a reminder for that task at 6PM.

Please let me know if you know about such an app. Thanks.

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
[-] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 104 points 7 months ago

I guess we can eliminate formula one. Seems kinda boring to me.

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Thoughts on Saul Gone? (lemmy.sdf.org)
[-] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 213 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Anon thinks speaking and writing in a language is all there is to do in a bachelor's degree. You literally have to read thousands of pages of literature, and need to be able to analyze those pieces critically.

Guys, is lying allowed on the Internet? I'm starting to think that Anon never even set foot in a college.

[-] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 116 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I think this one unites all the genders. Fuck Reagan!

[-] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 166 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Fake: Please be fake.

Gay: I don't care, just please be fake.

[-] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 110 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The original line comes from Chapter 11 Verse 32 of the Bhagavad Gita.

कालोऽस्मि लोकक्षयकृत्प्रवृद्धो

(kālo ’smi loka-kṣhaya-kṛit pravṛiddho)

The most literal translation would be: "I am mighty Time, the source of destruction of the worlds." But काल can alternatively mean Death, and it looks like that's the interpretation Oppenheimer chose. The verb here is a simple "am", as in "I am Time/Death". So the "am become" part is not due to any feature of Sanskrit itself.

But people usually take some liberty while translating poetry. Given the context (i.e. Krishna convincing Arjuna to fight, and showing him his true form), it makes sense to use "I have become" or even "I am become" (as explained in the other comments, it's grammatically correct).

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