Codons. It reminds me of how I was, and still am a biology student by heart. Life happened, and I was forced to pick CS. Other words that I like is bacteriophage, prions and Adenosine Tri-Phosphate.

Self-sabotage

SHGs (which is what you’re talking about, also called SBLP in some places) are not a majority, their lenders/borrowers are often people within the same marginalized group, and it is very slow, so people tend to avoid them. MFIs dominate the microloan industry, and they’re very exploitative.

Microloans, also called microfinances. Very popular in developing countries in South Asia, and also the same thing that is responsible for the suicide epidemic of farmers in India. With high interest rates and fixed time-period constraints, they’re the most cruel and fucked up things to ever exist, they’re worse than indentured serfdom.

It is racist to believe that all Chinese people are a hivemind, and that they shouldn’t be trusted, just because they’re from China. Stop putting your words in my mouth - neither did I deny, nor agree about any concentration camps.

Do you work directly for them or is it more of a 3rd party contractor situation?

What in the paranoid fuck? Go touch some grass.

I don’t know what your use-case is, but as I’ve said before, you should look into these Thinkpad models:

2018:

• P52s
• P52
• P72
• P1 Gen 1
• X1 Extreme Gen 1

2019:

• P53s
• P53
• P73
• P1 Gen 2
• X1 Extreme Gen 2

2020:

• P15 Gen 1
• P15s Gen 1
• P15v Gen 1
• P17 Gen 1
• P1 Gen 3
• X1 Extreme Gen 3

All of them have the option of GPU. Make sure to ask for the relevant machine type or part number to validate if they really have what’s inside of them - use that information to check on PSREF. Try to get at least a hexacore PC with more than or equal to 16GB of RAM. Avoid soldered RAM if possible - some of the newer ones that I’ve mentioned have them - because that way, you’ll end up having to use RAM in Flex mode.

Gaming laptops have some of the worst builds. They break down very easily. This is why people go for Thinkpads and Elitebooks. I think that you can get yourself a 7th/8th gen Thinkpad Pxy, P1 or X1 Extreme series with a gDPU, and that would be a better deal - but do remember, they all have Nvidia dGPUs. And if you don’t really need a dGPU, then there’s the Thinkpad T series with the Ryzen processor.

From Re: Guix System ext4 index full:

Vincent Legoll 写道：

I think the filesystem (or directory) is full of inodes.

No, but it’s a similar hard limit, and one that not even ‘df -i’ will warn you about.

Ext4’s dir_index feature uses hash tables to look up directory entries, so that for directories with a very large number of items (like /gnu/store!), the kernel doesn’t have to do the horribly slow equivalent of:

for i in *; do …; done

Unfortunately, once that hash table fills up, the premier stable Linux file system just… gives up and refuses to write any more data. In a very cryptic way.

The large_dir flag ‘increases the limit’ (the man page does not say by how much) but it doesn’t go away.

Your hash table is full of eels,

T G-R

Fiio is a company that makes these smart music players. Might want to check them out.

I want to see every setter colonial states disintegrated, and back in the hands of their respective natives. The first one would be the USA, the source of every problem in this God-forsaken world.

Oh, if it’s not lemmy.ca and their daily quota of racism…

No, those inodes still won’t clear on their own - sure, you’ll be able to prolong for a few weeks or months, but then you’ll reach a point where you’ll end up with just a single generation, and you can do nothing to clear space. The device will mislead you with free space, but they are not accessible, neither can you try to force freeing space by running disk operations manually where the stores are present - because a) that’s a bad idea and b) you’ll not have the permission to. That’s what happened to me, and I had to reinstall the entire system again.

Besides, deleting generations regularly would defeat the point of having a rollback system. Sure, for normal desktop usage, you could live with preserving the last twenty to thirty generations, but this may be detrimental for servers that requires the ability to rollback to every generation possible, or low-end platform constrained with space, and therefore, limited generations.

NixOS and ext4 user here with no problems.

Yet. Just like most of the articles out there, this problem will start showing up around 5 months to a year, depending on how much storage you have and how much nixos-rebuild switch/guix system reconfigure you use - I had around 512GB, so I ran out of inodes quickly, and despite have lots of storage space, the system was unusable for me.

Here’s the exact issue that even others have talked about:

• NixOS #1

• NixOS #2

• Guix #1

• Guix #2

TL:DR; is, your NixOS and Guix system will break due to high inode usage, preventing you to access shell even after clearing older generations. In most cases, you can not even clear older generations, simply because you ran out of inodes. More about filesystem has been discussed here.

ext4 is just terrible for the inode issue, because you’ll be forced to reformat and reinstall again. Anyone using NixOS or Guix with multiple store write operation should not go near it.

No, this temple is in Tulu Nadu. Since you’re a Malayali, you must know about Bappa Beary, a Muslim trader from Kerala?

The temple built by him is called the Bappanadu temple. It is not only a Hindu temple, but also a Tulu folk-religion temple for Koragajja (Koraga + ajja), and also a Durga temple, I think. Bappa’s descendants are still invited to the ceremony, even to this day.

I know that Tulu Nadu is now a bastion for the BJP/Bajrang Dal/RSS ecosystem thanks to sanskritisation, but this was not the case 40 years ago.

About Sabarimala, I don’t remember properly, but our family head was supposed to refrain from eating meat, wear a black lungi and plan a long-distance pilgrimage to Sabarimala to pay visit to the celibate God Ayyappa. I’ve been told that he had a lowly birth, and that Brahmins are trying to appropriate this God too - this information might be incorrect though.

“Hinduism” as a religion erases the unique folk identities in India. It is a lazy, colonialist way to group an entire subcontinent with a stereotypical, uniform religion.

Religious syncretism in India is a very visible and real thing - not just for “Hinduism”, but also other religions in India. Casteism, on the other hand, is a effect of Brahminism - meaning that not every place in India has the codified chaturvarna (quad-caste) system - especially in the South of India, where’s there’s an incomplete caste system, comprising of Brahmin-Shudra inside, and Dalit/Tribal outside, as opposed to the Brahmin-Kshatriya-Vaishya-Shudra inside and Dalit/Tribal outside classification. In fact, there have been multiple anti-casteist movement before, like the Nath (started from my mother land), Lingayat movement (in mainland Karnataka), the Bhakti movement (somewhere in Tamil Nadu), the Adi-Dharma (in Punjab) and the Arya Samaj movement (around colonial era in Bengal) - there’s more of them, but I can only remember these.

That inertia even allowed it to not become muslim majority.

Not really - there were repeated Islamic invasions aimed to chip the wealth. Religious conversion, however, was a secondary thought. Matter of fact, there was no need for Muslims to convert Hindus in central India, because rulers did not act over religion, but over power. Many Muslim leaders in the North of India had Hindu officials in their court, they also married and did not convert their wives to Muslim, and vice versa. In fact, there’s also a case of a homosexual Muslim ruler called Alauddin Khilji, who had a relationship with his slave Mallik Kafur. Mubarak Shah, son of Alauddin Khilji, also had a male lover called Khusrau Khan. In fact, it was also advantageous for the Muslims to impose jizyah and kharaj tax.

In the place that I am from, which is the south of India, there’s a temple that is often visited by Muslims, which would probably be frowned upon by Muslims from Arab. In fact, these Muslims also take part in animistic rituals - remember how I said that “Hinduism” is a colonialist term? Yes, Tulu-folkism is what is practiced in my motherland, and Brahmins have no control over these rituals - it is the tribal groups Koragas, who organize prayers for the Shudra groups in Tulu Nadu. In the north of India, Sufism, which is a type of mystical Islamism, is the very opposite of radical Islam, and in fact, was open to the idea of “many paths, one Gods”.

I did not play Portal 1, but directly went with the second part. Easily the best game. I’ve also played the precursor to the Portal series, called the Narbacular Drop. Also a nice toy project.

Like I’m on autopilot. Always tired and insomniac.

I don’t play games, so I don’t have such problems - maybe a little bit of mobile games and casual RPG grinding simulator. But if it’s about open-source communities, I use Matrix exclusively. Using IRC is annoying, but I do use it sometimes.

I’ve used a Jetson Nano, so I know enough about how “reliable” Nvidia is. Pooled in money with my college mates for my Bachelor’s final-year project to get an old one in good condition. I will never will never buying anything from Nvidia, because the software experience was dog-shit.

Linux image was stuck on Ubuntu, 20.04, CUDA didn’t work with OpenCV of the box, I had to build it locally, which took an entire day. Enabling the repository would fuck the entire image when I try to download Python libraries, and I would have to reflash it on the SD Card. And well, could I use a different ARM image from, say Fedora IOT? Well yes, but then the CUDA drivers are no longer accessible, because those drivers were never open-sourced, making it useless for computer vision. And what if I accidentally update the kernel? Again, CUDA just stops working. They just abandon their products on their own whims.

I also have a laptop with an Nvidia mobile GPU, and my Linux experience is so utterly terrible with it, I’ve just decided to disable my discrete GPU and use only the integrated Intel UHD driver.