jbrains

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[–] jbrains 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

There is an implicit binary choice here, so "whether" fits. Both work, although I, for one, prefer to use "whether" for binary choices and "if" when there are more options. This is similar to my preference for "between" only for two things and "among" for more than two.

[–] jbrains 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The phrase "I'm wondering if... can..." needs a noun or pronoun between "if" and "can". As soon as you try to remove that (by moving it out to "The monkey who..."), the phrase stops being grammatical. We'd understand you, but it would require significant effort to parse the sentence. That seems to be what makes this sound strange, no matter what we try to do with it.

I don't know whether other languages can do this, but English can't.

[–] jbrains 4 points 1 week ago
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[–] jbrains 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Your last paragraph contains the clue. What message do you genuinely believe your brother will understand from you refusing to attend his wedding? Will it do any good? Does it seem likely to change anyone's behavior?

If yes, then don't go. If no, then put that thought aside and reconsider whether you actually want to go, then decide based on that.

[–] jbrains 20 points 1 week ago

Would you enjoy it even if he didn't care? Would you enjoy it even if he leaned against it?

If yes, why?

Perhaps trying to answer these questions would help you clarify your feeling about it.

[–] jbrains 4 points 1 week ago

I found that text difficult to parse, due to a relative lack of punctuation. This means that I spent my energy trying to parse the sentences and my brain struggled to engage with the meaning and significance of the text. Maybe if I tried reading it again a few more times, I'd find it easier to follow and therefore easier to understand.

Maybe it's just as well that I never tried to read any Joyce. Or maybe if I'd tried, then I'd be better prepared for this. 🤷

[–] jbrains 2 points 3 weeks ago

Forget "affirmative voice" for a moment, since that seems to be tripping others up as well as you. Prompt Engineering suggest sounding like the LLM, asking questions with "the same voice" as the one the LLM uses to respond. Perhaps PE needs to clarify this with some examples, because calling it "affirmative voice" hasn't seemed to make it clear enough.

I suggest asking them, then perhaps sharing what you learn for the benefit of other folks who are similarly confused.

The only interpretation that comes to my mind is avoiding "not" and "don't". Ask for what you want instead of what you don't want. 🤷 That's just a guess.

[–] jbrains 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

I keep mine in Bitwarden, I export that data every 3 months and store it in a Backblaze backup, I have it written on a piece of paper stored in a locked fire box in my house, and that paper scanned in my phone.

I can't imagine not having at least one of those in 10 years and I can't imagine all four failing in the same week.

Does that give you any helpful ideas that would work for you?

[–] jbrains 3 points 4 weeks ago

Combine with jc to process CSV files. This is how I get data into my plain text accounting system.

[–] jbrains 2 points 4 weeks ago

Do you struggle to remember the names of commands or how to use them or how you have used them in the past?

[–] jbrains 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Underrated or not widely known?

I love lazygit and I'm still surprised at how many people are shocked when they see it for the first time. Not exactly a command, but a very handy text UI tool.

For more elementary tools, I can't believe how many people know about ! and ctrl+r who don't also know about fc and edit-and-execute-command.

 

I run a lemp10. I saw a notification of a firmware update, but when I applied the update---apparently successfully---the firmware version did not change. Now I see no pending firmware update.

What happened? Is this normal? Task failed successfully?!

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submitted 1 year ago by jbrains to c/unket
 

... men jag minns inte varifrån jag känner igen den.

 

I tried to upgrade my recovery partition today and it failed with "No such device"/OS error 19.

I found this discussion on Reddit in which @mmstick suggested restarting, but with no explanation as to why that was needed or would work. It worked for me.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pop_os/comments/xun8vu/error_updating_recovery_partition_no_such_device/

I'd like to know why it worked and why it was needed, mostly for two reasons: to generally understand the situation better and to imagine what I might have been able to do that didn't require restarting.

Thanks.

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