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A good introduction to memory management in PG. The material on pg_backend_memory_contexts eas totally new to me.

⚠ My FIDE rating is ~1300. Take everything I say w/ a grain of salt 😂

I watched Carlsen's games for the first time back in 2016 during his match w/ Karjakin.

I have been following his performance ever since and I've never been able to shake off the feeling, even for a second, that he is to modern chess what Dr. Lasker used to be to chess during his long chess career: "never losing his head" as Tartakower once said.

Match after match, Carlsen has proven to be a head and shoulder above his contemporaries and irrespective of the style of his opponent (aggressive, defensive, slow, fast, tactical, ...) he's always been able to pull it off no matter how tense the position/match got.

Just like Dr. Lasker, he seems to have developed an understanding of the game and style which is not well understood by his opponents.

IMO the chess world is not going to see a new "best" player, until either he loses interest in the game (like Dr. Lasker did) or a new generation of players arise and are able to challenge him beyond what he's been through.

Perhaps Pragg or Firouzja in a decade or so w/ more experience and stronger nerves can do that?

After I restarted my Emacs daemon (after a couple of months uptime), I started getting plenty of errors like below during the initialisation and most of my keys stopped working:

Key sequence C-c [...] starts with non-prefix key C-c

A quick search indicated that error means the "non-prefix key" is already used. In my case, it was C-c which sounded quite weird.

I ran ag on ~/.emacs.d & luckily was able to find the culprit after a few minutes.

I had this somewhere in my init files:

(global-set-key (kbd "C-c 
s a") #'avy-goto-char-2)

Note the newline after C-c - I must have pressed ENTER by mistake and saved the file w/o paying attention.

I thought I'd share this as this may save some fellow Emacs denizens a few minutes confusing minutes.

My immediate reaction was to blame it on the upgrade to 29.1 🤦‍♂️ The morale of the story is find the blame w/i and not in Emacs!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/3758187

It's not the 1st time a language/tool will be lost to the annals of the job market, eg VB6 or FoxPro. Though previously all such cases used to happen gradually, giving most people enough time to adapt to the changes.

I wonder what's it going to be like this time now that the machine, w/ the help of humans of course, can accomplish an otherwise multi-month risky corporate project much faster? What happens to all those COBOL developer jobs?

Pray share your thoughts, esp if you're a COBOL professional and have more context around the implication of this announcement 🙏

It's not the 1st time a language/tool will be lost to the annals of the job market, eg VB6 or FoxPro. Though previously all such cases used to happen gradually, giving most people enough time to adapt to the changes.

I wonder what's it going to be like this time now that the machine, w/ the help of humans of course, can accomplish an otherwise multi-month risky corporate project much faster? What happens to all those COBOL developer jobs?

Pray share your thoughts, esp if you're a COBOL professional and have more context around the implication of this announcement 🙏

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/3731915

Over the past 2 decades I've been trying various medications to help me w/ my long running major depression & crippling ADHD. And none have seemed to work.

Recently, the doctor I'm working w/ nowadays suggested that she's practically running out of options to offer me & that I should take a pharmacogenetics test to help her figure out what should she prescribe.

I took the (expensive) test and the results were eye-opening! The results came out a couple of weeks later w/ a detailed list of some few hundreds medications of various sorts (from pain killers to blood pressure control) along w/ their efficacy for my case. The physician's version also included a list of suggestions and alternatives for each medicine.

In my particular case, it essentially indicated that any medication that I had tried before was supposed to be either useless or to have limited impact on my body. That part is true.

Please note that I've only started a new set of prescriptions since a couple of weeks ago and as such can't really vouch for the accuracy of the suggestions.

I struggled a lot w/ myself to post something this personal. But I thought maybe there are people out there who've got no idea such tests exist and it might turn out to be helpful to some.

Over the past 2 decades I've been trying various medications to help me w/ my long running major depression & crippling ADHD. And none have seemed to work.

Recently, the doctor I'm working w/ nowadays suggested that she's practically running out of options to offer me & that I should take a pharmacogenetics test to help her figure out what should she prescribe.

I took the (expensive) test and the results were eye-opening! The results came out a couple of weeks later w/ a detailed list of some few hundreds medications of various sorts (from pain killers to blood pressure control) along w/ their efficacy for my case. The physician's version also included a list of suggestions and alternatives for each medicine.

In my particular case, it essentially indicated that any medication that I had tried before was supposed to be either useless or to have limited impact on my body. That part is true.

Please note that I've only started a new set of prescriptions since a couple of weeks ago and as such can't really vouch for the accuracy of the suggestions.

I struggled a lot w/ myself to post something this personal. But I thought maybe there are people out there who've got no idea such tests exist and it might turn out to be helpful to some.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/3560540

You probably have already noticed that nowadays it's becoming fashionable online to share technical material via videos (eg YouTube.)

I somehow can understand the appeal of creating videos for sharing thoughts/news, esp b/c it takes way less time and focus compared to writing things (just hit the record button and go.)

But videos are. 👎 not index-able (at least locally)
👎 not searchable. 👎 not copy-paste friendly if at all. 👎 impossible to skim through.
👎 a major distraction from the train of thoughts.

IMO, in most cases, the more effective and impactful medium of technical comms is the written form: a Mastodon toot, a blog post, a gist, a Pastebin entry or even a Facebook post!

What are your thoughts?

You probably have already noticed that nowadays it's becoming fashionable online to share technical material via videos (eg YouTube.)

I somehow can understand the appeal of creating videos for sharing thoughts/news, esp b/c it takes way less time and focus compared to writing things (just hit the record button and go.)

But videos are
👎 not index-able (at least locally)
👎 not searchable
👎 not copy-paste friendly if at all
👎 impossible to skim through
👎 a major distraction from the train of thoughts

IMO, in most cases, the more effective and impactful medium of technical comms is the written form: a Mastodon toot, a blog post, a gist, a Pastebin entry or even a Facebook post!

What are your thoughts?

When you open a new tab, you can instantly start typing and press ENTER which sends your query to the search engine.

However once that's done, there's no easy way to edit the query directly from the URL bar. The URL bar will contain, well, the URL and not the original query anymore.

Is there a way to edit the search query w/o using the search engine's web page or retyping the whole query again? In other words, is there a way to tell Firefox to show me the previous query in the URL bar instead of showing the URL?

I'd like to try to send as many queries as possible to Google directly from Firefox rather than using Google's webpage (more $$$ for Firefox.)

A collection of utilities for Scala/Java developers who are targeting Persian (Farsi) speaking users.

persianutils 5.0-SNAPSHOT has just been published to Sonatype snapshot repo. The release will be published in a few weeks after some testing.

The main changes are

• Added support for Scala 3.x
• Dropped support for the discontinued Scala 2.11.x

To use it, simply add the following lines to build.sbt:

ThisBuild / resolvers += Resolver.sonatypeRepo("snapshots")

...

libraryDependencies += "com.bahmanm" %% "persianutils" % "5.0-SNAPSHOT"

Please take a moment to report any bugs or ideas in the project issue tracker 🙏

Investors are barely breaking even as the venture is hardly making any profits due to a shortage of chips, divided interests, and more.

... OpenAI has already seen a $540 million loss since debuting ChatGPT.

... OpenAI uses approximately 700,000 dollars to run the tool daily.

⚠️ First off, apologies as I didn't cross check. Take it w/ a grain of salt.

This piece of news, if true, somehow explains why OpenAI has been coming up w/ weird schemes for making $$$ like entering the content moderation space.

On a similar note, I wonder if this had been a key driver (behind the scenes) in the recent investment in open source AI initiatives (Haidra comes to my mind?) Perhaps some corporations who haven't got enough $$$ to fund their own dedicated research group are looking to benefit from an open source model?