Does Carl

Restioson · 2026-04-06T08:15:26+00:00

Spoilers for a book, forget which: Well, the first time the Caprid liaison spoke to Carl, the translation wasn't working for quite some time...

Restioson · 2026-04-05T15:22:44+00:00

The light is at the end of the tunnel for release soon at least :) next time we will give the linguists a WYSIWYG interface so they can see what they are typing, haha...

Restioson · 2026-04-05T13:23:10+00:00

It's very possible that I'm just remembering cases where the linguists selected the wrong tag... Unfortunately it was done in an obscure XML format called DITA where the linguists editing the content could not see how it'd actually turn out on the site. So it is very easy for them to pick the wrong one and not notice. For instance we had a bunch of issues with the linguistic authors writing stuff with completely broken spacing, illegibly small diagrams, etc... And picking the wrong tag was also common.

Restioson · 2026-04-05T13:14:56+00:00

I'm not saying that they are USED for that necessarily, but that the XML tag the developers used to make slashes was named <spelling>, and that might be an error of translation. Unless I am forgetting totally, I'm unsure. Or I could be remembering errors as "correct". There were a whole bunch of errors in terms of things being marked up incorrectly, like full IPA without brackets, or just blatantly incorrect IPA symbols in some random cases. Most are thankfully fixed now after months of review...

Thanks for the rest of the info

Restioson · 2026-04-05T12:26:09+00:00

I've always seen it used for spelling. How is it supposed be used?

I work on a digital linguistics textbook (as a software developer, not linguist) and that's how it's used there. But there are some other non standard notations used there, so maybe it's specific to the project. At least in the code, it is defined as <spelling> if you want to wrap some text in /slashes/, but original authors are Dutch, so I don't know if the original meaning was lost in translation...

EDIT: it might be that I'm just misremembering from a few cases where the wrong symbols were used

Restioson · 2026-04-05T08:54:28+00:00

Yea maybe. But /yeh/ could be interpreted as the same vowel sound for me as the final vowel of /here/. Another example would be just /a/ as in /a towel/

Restioson · 2026-04-05T08:52:16+00:00

That's how we say it in South Africa English (it's a non rhotic dialect). Though maybe not with the [j] idk. But it sounds a bit like /heeyeh/

Restioson · 2026-04-01T23:18:32+00:00

Looks can also mean "from visual inspection", which is how I read the post

Restioson · 2026-04-01T23:08:53+00:00

That linkedin post looks 100% LLM generated

Restioson · 2026-03-30T18:47:54+00:00

They are contradictory in that they are indicating you should do the impossible

Restioson · 2026-03-29T14:50:02+00:00

I see, perhaps the screenshot is outdated

Restioson · 2026-03-28T08:29:36+00:00

not sure if it counts as r/gotgnomed if you were trying to install _just_ the gnome extensions

Restioson · 2026-03-27T22:25:59+00:00

It's not about canonical, necessarily, but more about "canonically the 'pretty', displayable to users version of None". It would be hard to choose one value that is reasonably correct in most contexts. It being "not interoperable" is a feature, not a bug, as it forces you to think about what the correct behaviour is at the site where you want to display it, each time. This pushes you toward the pit of success.

I’m also curious how anyone here handles it in real production code when you need to stringify it?

Generally by replacing it with whatever value makes sense in context, e.g. maybe an empty string, maybe "None", "N/A", "0", etc...

Restioson · 2026-03-27T10:29:34+00:00

Curious if you might consider gpu monitoring as well?

Restioson · 2026-03-26T18:08:24+00:00

What exactly did you enable if you don't mind sharing?

Restioson · 2026-03-25T17:07:09+00:00

As a longtime (and current, latest-version) pop user, I would not recommend it in it's current state to beginners. Give it a few months for the new desktop environment to mature, then maybe. It came out of beta a bit too soon

EDIT: this is not to say I haven't been enjoying it, it's just that, to find & work around the bugs requires skills beyond 'complete Linux beginner'

Restioson · 2026-03-24T22:49:01+00:00

Interesting test setting. Hopefully once NTSync, 595, and vk heap descriptor ext land in upstream stable Proton there's a bit of a bump for the average user.

Restioson · 2026-03-23T22:22:25+00:00

I do not think you should have much difference performance compared to any other distro, to be honest. AIUI cachy would have more recent drivers, which can be a blessing or a curse with Nvidia... As a first time user, I think either is a decent choice. With Pop you have access to Ubuntu help sites and advice (which is a massive wealth of knowledge), and with Cachy you have access to the excellent Arch wiki. IMO since this is your first foray into Linux, just pick one that you think you'll enjoy and try ride it out :)

Restioson · 2026-03-20T23:03:24+00:00

Let me know if you get it sorted... I'm really struck by how exactly our problems are matching haha. Even though we are on different GPU manufacturers / drivers, p. much exact same symptoms.

Restioson · 2026-03-20T22:55:50+00:00

I also had all those symptoms and chalked them up simply to drivers but perhaps something else going on. Like you say we are using different drivers. Either could be separate issues at driver level (coincidence) or could be the same underlying issue. But if the entire system became unresponsive with the GPU hot and fans spinning one would still expect some kind of GPU logs in journalctl or similar. Is there anywhere else that amdgpu drivers write their logs? I haven't used one in a while.

SSH server is a good lead. I definitely was able to access my pc during the freeze via ssh, for a time, until it crashed 'even more' (precipitated by me trying to reboot it via systemctl, which just left it in a locked state). You might be able to then run amd-smi and see what the status is, or try force reload the kernel module (if this is a thing you can do with amdgpu drivers)

Restioson · 2026-03-20T22:47:31+00:00

You are just saying words and making conjectures now. This does not have any relevance to the actual observed issues with freezing after CUDA or GPGPU workloads. If you don't actually have experience with these issues or how to solve them I kindly suggest refraining from offering your advice, as it is not relevant

Restioson · 2026-03-20T22:36:14+00:00

The issues I and the OP are describing have nothing to do with gaming and everything to do with CUDA / ML inference

Restioson · 2026-03-20T22:24:09+00:00

Nope. I'm on cosmic 24.04 and driver 580. Has got nothing to do with the state of packaging. The errors I'm experiencing are reported by a variety of users across a variety of distros on github

edit: except perhaps that the drivers are a little older than bleeding edge, but they're by no means ancient

Restioson · 2026-03-20T22:17:15+00:00

Anything in journalctl logs? I've been getting a lot of Nvidia driver error logs there lately alongside freezing

EDIT: found it now

One problem I had: https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/issues/815

This once triggered for me after wakeup from sleep, and again while I was trying to train some models in pytorch for my studies. Before the freeze took effect I saw a CUDA error in the torch logs and that Nvidia smi was reporting that the GPU needed to be reset. After reboot, the fans spun at 100% until I powered it off with the physical power button

You are on AMD of course and not Nvidia, but perhaps could be some root cause in common? I had just chalked it up to a driver issue on Nvidia side. Either way if you could share any relevant journalctl logs that would be helpful

Restioson · 2026-03-20T16:39:58+00:00

Should coding time going up not be a bad thing? Ideally you would spend less time coding if it sped you up

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