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[–] kevin@mander.xyz 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not sure if you're the one to ask, but are there any good alternatives to Strava built on OSM? I don't need all the fitness analysis and social features, I just want to track my walk route and get basic info like miles traveled, elevation change, average speed, etc

[–] kevin@mander.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago

By this logic, you and everyone else agree to climate change. Everyone in Venezuela agrees to Maduro.

It has nothing to do with majority, it's a collective action and balance of power.

[–] kevin@mander.xyz 3 points 10 months ago

Your plan can only help people on the lower end of the economic distribution. What we need is technology to let rich people live longer so that they can continue to enjoy the fruits of what can only be their completely deserved and meritorious wealth.

/s

[–] kevin@mander.xyz 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I did not know that - my point is that system76 is not at all sketchy about it. They actively encourage tinkering, make it clear that you won't void your warranty, and have extensive technical documentation to explain how to do upgrades etc

[–] kevin@mander.xyz 6 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Upgrading/tinkering doesn't void your warranty. Explicitly.

And their customer service is top notch. I thought I bricked my gazelle when I upgraded the memory, but their customer service walked me through how to fix it - didn't even bat an eye.

[–] kevin@mander.xyz 2 points 11 months ago

You are of course welcome to your opinion. Use whatever tools bring you joy. But I'm a huge fan of helix, and think zellij is great (though I prefer wezterm's mux server when I can use it).

[–] kevin@mander.xyz 2 points 11 months ago

I don't have any particular allegiance to rust, though once it's set up, being able to install through cargo rather than being to figure out whatever package manager or build system is nice, especially on various HPC environments where I don't have sudo.

Btop does look cool though

[–] kevin@mander.xyz 2 points 11 months ago

What I mean is that many of them have basically the same functionality with the same arguments. I don't mean I have pristine memory for the differences, but things like alias ls="eza" is basically a drop in replacement with some added features. So when I'm on a server without it, everything is basically the same, just less fancy.

Helix and fd are an example of the other pattern - they are huge improvements over existing tools, to the point that when I'm forced to use the basic ones, I'm actively crippled. But as an argument not to use the better tool day-to-day, this doesn't make sense to me. Why would I force myself to suffer 95% of the time to save myself from suffering 5% of the time?

I mean, for helix/vi it's even clearer. Vanilla vi is basically unusable for me anyway, and I needed a huge number of plugins to be serviceable - on a basic cluster environment, I'm going to be crippled anyway, so...

[–] kevin@mander.xyz 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

they either don't improve upon or add functionality that's not available, or simply add eye candy. Gaining pretty colors is nice, but not worth losing familiarity with ubiquitous tools.

The thing I like about a lot of these is that I don't lose familiarity with existing tools. When I end up on a cluster that doesn't have them, I'm a bit annoyed, but I can still operate just fine.

The principle exception to this is actually fd - I now find find (har!) almost unusable without having a man page open in a separate terminal. But that's because fd is so much more ergonomic and powerful, I would never give it up unless forced.

[–] kevin@mander.xyz 54 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (17 children)

Yes. The only things I use regularly that aren't aliased to or replaced by a rust-built tool are mkdir, ln, and rsync.

  • cd: zoxide
  • ls: eza
  • cat: bat
  • grep: ripgrep
  • find: fd
  • sed: sd
  • du: dust
  • top/htop: btm
  • vi: helix
  • tmux: zellij (or wezterm mux)
  • diff: delta
  • ps: procs

Probably some others I'm forgetting

[–] kevin@mander.xyz 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wow, reading that left me quite confused until I realized that it's elder scrolls and not Buddhism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalpa_(time)

Your point stands regardless 😅

 

My friend from graduate school (first author here) pulled me in to do some machine learning in a really interesting dataset.

In brief, we found that there are (at least) 2 distinct causes of what are currently lumped together as "long covid".

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I'm gonna try to post about research that I read here, mostly because I need more incentives to read papers. But if people want to post pictures of pretty microbes, or the other stuff that tends to be popular on Reddit, I'm down with that too

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by kevin@mander.xyz to c/main@mander.xyz
 

👋 Hi Everyone, I'm a computational microbiologist studying how the get microbiome affects child development. I used to be an immunologist, and still dabble in that for research as well.

I write code primarily in the julia langage (though I can python and R a bit too), and I'm also into fermentation (shout-out to the fermentation community on this instance), gardening, rock climbing, and Zen Buddhism.

I'm part of the reddit exodus, looking forward to seeing more of the fediverse grow! If you're a mastodon user, I'm also over there, though not nearly as active as I plan to be here (twitter was never my thing either).

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