azimir

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[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 hours ago

It's all about biblatex. I only write using Word/docx if they force me to for publication, otherwise I use LaTeX for typesetting. It's vastly superior for serious publications, especially technical ones.

I use JabRef for managing my citation databases.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 hours ago

I did some work In a field with a total of 6 papers over 30 years. It was niche as all get out. Did my second paper cite the first? You betcha. I literally cited every research paper ever done on the topic, including mine.

Now there's 7 papers on the topic.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 hours ago

They are file handles. All three are opened by default for all new processes.

STDIN is number 0 STDOUT is number 1 STDERR is number 2

By default STDIN is connected to a buffer which keyboard chars are put in by the OS.

STDOUT is a buffer read by your terminal emulator to be drawn on the screen if it's a GUI. A raw terminal does the same, but without the windows manager layer in the middle. Essentially, the virtual terminal is reading the STDIO buffer and rendering the characters to it's GUI windows for you.

STDERR is the same as STDIO, but is usually only used for error messages, but they're displayed via a different file handles so they can be captured and redirected separately from STDIO.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 22 points 8 hours ago

The statements about how much people just have to have their cars parked everywhere because there's not enough space for their cars so they need to take over everything for the cars is scary. Didn't the city exist before cars were invented? Maybe there's ways to live without the car at all times?

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 days ago

Given the latest wave of required GOP features, he must have finally admitted to killing a family pet with a shovel.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 days ago

I've now been to Berlin at least 5 times in 28 years. I say at least because I now have to start rebuilding what happened when to have a truly accurate accounting. Once it gets above 10 I'm going to have to keep a note card reminder to have the number around.

Someone with Governor Walz's travel history would be just a blur unless you get official records or work really hard to remember exact trip counts.

Ask Felon Trump how many times he's been to Russia and see what guess he makes. This is a nothingburger of a story.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 19 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I turned down a professorship position at a uni in part because they used windows for the whole curriculum. It would have driven me crazy having to use windows given how annoying it is for dev work. I put value on my sanity and it wasn't worth the modest pay bump to be driven batty every day.

I likely get to teach an IoT class next term. It's going to be so much fun with SBC systems running Linux and Arduino sensor systems! That's worth a ton to me.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 33 points 5 days ago

Trump is a coward. He's a schoolyard bully coward. He got punched in the last debate so he's crying foul in the corner.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Exhibit A: George Santos

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago

Ranked Choice Voting (or ANYTHING with preference polling) would be vastly better than our current system. It would enable 3rd parties to thrive without being nearly the spoilers they are now.

Every voting system as it's flaws and edge cases, but our current First Past the Post system is a trainwreck crushing the Republic by degrading into two majority parties (as it demonstrably always does) and then letting other countries and dark money prop up spoiler candidates to hurt their opponents.

We either fix our voting system or we eventually lose the Republic.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

It wasn't fun, that's for sure.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

... It's nice, though you're still driving a two ton weapon, but now you're used to it.

 

Washington State Department of Transportation is starting to realize that we cannot afford to maintain the sheer volume of roads we build. The maintenance debt that we have built up is bankrupting our governments and it's only going to get worse year by year.

Civilization itself cannot afford to have so many car oriented roads long term.

https://www.thecentersquare.com/washington/article_e69a80be-75f1-11ef-8b50-3babe18f06e9.html

 

The more car trips taken, regardless of how safe you try to make things, or how much you try to educate drivers, or how many 'be careful' street signs you put up, will always increase the chances of a crash.

 

This video outlines some of the relationships between US commuting culture and the perspectives that it's engendered about the role of the city. The, when compared and contrasted to other nations' approach to city design and perspectives shows that it's possible to have a city core that's more than just a workplace.

My city is currently clinging to a small area of interesting downtown core. Everything else has either been bulldozed for parking lots, turned into office buildings with no store fronts, or plowed into wider roads. Every time I show the maps of the city with how car-focused we've made downtown to a city council member they recoil at the desolation, but it's so hard to get change happening.

We need fewer roads, cars, and non-human spaces in our city core areas. Making wider walking paths, biking roads, mass transit (not just busses!), and planting trees to make spaces more attractive will all continue to invite people to come downtown, not just someone desperate enough to drive there, park, hit one store and drive away.

 

What I'm looking for is some kind of desktop tool that uses the OpenAI GPT web endpoint. I'd like something where I'm able to upload one or more documents (text files) and then include them as part of the conversation/query.

I have access to the GPT-4 API and I've been writing Python3 code against it for some various applications. I can see how I'd write a tool that takes in one or more documents to include in the total prompt history, but I'm hoping to not have to write it myself, mostly due to time constraints.

Is there some kind of application that has a similar feature set to this that I should look at? Or, is there a wiki/site that lists off the current tools available that I could look over?

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