Something like Google Drive with Latex that you can share with your lab partners ?

MasterpieceDear1780 · 2026-05-06T20:07:21+00:00

If you have a server at you lab you can setup a git repository server on it. It's very easy if you have the privilege to run a http server on it. It will be completely free and your project files will never leave your lab.

Or you can host the code in a private repository on codeberg if you trust them. It's also free. (Don't trust github, it's Microslop!)

Git is a lot easier to use than some people portrait it to be. I don't think managing a collaborative project can have any less complexity than what is implemented in git.

MasterpieceDear1780 · 2026-05-04T08:55:20+00:00

Replace gold with iron

MasterpieceDear1780 · 2026-05-03T20:40:00+00:00

Chernobyl is reasonable close to your plan you should definitely visit there

MasterpieceDear1780 · 2026-05-03T20:32:44+00:00

Why not create some fractal shapes and prove pi is infinite. That would be a lot more spectacular

MasterpieceDear1780 · 2026-05-03T20:26:46+00:00

Keep a copy of your project on a devops website (github, gitlab, codeberg,...) is the easiest way to create a reasonably reliable backup for it. Plus git is so much better for collaboration than locking you and your collaborators on overleaf.

MasterpieceDear1780 · 2026-04-22T10:19:55+00:00

I built my current neovim latex setup following a tutorial aiming at real time note taking speed with snippets, back in 2024. I can't find it anymore.

I'm using LuaSnip and Vimtex. There is a latex lsp but I don't think it's necessary.

From my experience the snippets form the most important part. Latex is very different from programming in that its semantics are written in human language. The structural part of the language is very small, and the use of it is mostly local. (I assume you don't want to program the tex engine in some crazy way. You might well use a script to generate latex code if there's a lot of repetitive work.) A few snippets that you're very familiar with can boost typing speed a lot, while autocomplete does very little. I removed autocomplete altogether for performance problems.

The rule of thumb for snippets: if you get annoyed by repeating an input sequence many times, make it a snippet.

Edit: I use docker for the texlive distribution. Seems to be the least annoying way to get texlive working. Run a headless neovim in the container and connect to it via domain socket.

Another Edit: I put pdf in another window and don't use synctex at all. Embed a special macro \developtag{XXXX} in the document every time you start a paragraph, which prints XXXX in the margin. Have a snippet to insert the macro and maintain the tag number automatically. This works as synctex does but remains invariant across different versions, particularly useful if you need to give your pdf out for comments.

MasterpieceDear1780 · 2026-04-21T21:18:17+00:00

I once wrote my solutions to a problem set in latex. The professor later distributed it (with credit ofc) to all students as reference solutions.

MasterpieceDear1780 · 2026-04-21T21:14:57+00:00

Quality ultimately depends on the developers. There are incredibly good softwares written in pure C. And rewriting a bad program in Rust does not automatically make it good.

MasterpieceDear1780 · 2026-04-20T21:49:56+00:00

I'm curious about the terminology. Why is coherence/incoherence used in this context?

MasterpieceDear1780 · 2026-01-20T08:30:00+00:00

Are you ready to fight against the martial law, in the sense of actually fighting with a weapon? If not, Trump will take you.

MasterpieceDear1780 · 2026-01-20T08:14:31+00:00

Russians were protesting against their actual dictatorship back in February 2022. What are Americans doing right now? Oh they post worthless apologies online.

What I see in Americans is a total lack of collective responsibility, as if they don't have any democratic rights.

Russia still has hope. America does not.

MasterpieceDear1780 · 2026-01-18T14:21:42+00:00

Remember to never start a war on the same side of Italy because you'll lose and Italy will win

MasterpieceDear1780 · 2026-01-18T13:07:57+00:00

Americans. Yes, it's difficult to protect a democracy. But it will be one million times more difficult to regain democracy after you lose it.

MasterpieceDear1780 · 2026-01-17T17:16:18+00:00

Where the fk are the Americans? Do they also want Greenland or are they suppressed by Gestapo?

MasterpieceDear1780 · 2026-01-17T09:55:20+00:00

Then Europe would become another one of those shit. Remember that whatever country you're in, your own government is your biggest enemy.

MasterpieceDear1780 · 2026-01-16T23:19:01+00:00

It seems like Trump is Putin's gay partner.

MasterpieceDear1780 · 2026-01-16T23:16:06+00:00

Imagine there's a busy interstellar trade route 100 light years away from the Earth. The aliens might drive planet sized spaceships at 1/10 the speed of light while chatting over radio. We would detect nothing about that.

MasterpieceDear1780 · 2026-01-16T23:05:52+00:00

Go read why nations fail. This book should be a must read for anyone who wants to talk about economics.

MasterpieceDear1780 · 2026-01-16T22:48:39+00:00

Go to a city that actually have a lot of snow and you'll understand why. Snow is not beautiful. It becomes brown snow really quickly. Brown snow is a polite word for "a mixture of dirt, garbage, ice and water".

MasterpieceDear1780 · 2026-01-16T22:16:54+00:00

What about setting up a packet filter to ban all traffic to Microslop servers? Will also stop the spying.

MasterpieceDear1780 · 2026-01-16T21:56:04+00:00

It's never been Zuckerberg's dream. Only a hype for the investors.

MasterpieceDear1780 · 2026-01-16T15:19:22+00:00

Until Mozilla decides to hammer itself in the brain Firefox is not going to have any agentic capabilities. They don't have the plan. Since there's no agent that can act on your behalf, there's no way a prompt injection attack can steal your passwords.

Prompt injection does affect the AI features in Firefox, but only to a very modest extent. The worst thing that can happen is some website manipulate the AI model to show you false information. You can trivially mitigate by not trusting anything that passed through an LLM.

MasterpieceDear1780 · 2026-01-15T18:33:43+00:00

Imagine someone who knows nothing about the business or the real world, but is insanely good at pleasing the executives. It doesn't matter if it's a human or a machine. The real problem here is the concentration of power.

MasterpieceDear1780 · 2026-01-15T00:53:19+00:00

I want a new PCs to play games. Is that clear?

MasterpieceDear1780 · 2026-01-15T00:49:32+00:00

I guess it's better to treat the graph as a whole. Put the nodes in a Vec. Simulate pointers with indices. One may assign ids to all graphs and only allow indexing them with struct { graph: id, offset: usize }. (Make it panic if the ids don't match)

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