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chicago cats have taken over the apartment, we're gonna have to pet our way out

bidrectional text formatting library and more 

Skribidi seems like an easy way to tackle handling text correctly in just about most circumstances. Without pulling in too much dependencies.
github.com/memononen/Skribidi

being in beautiful parks filled with native plants and animals makes me seething mad that there are golf courses here. they should all be forests and prairies and ponds and swamps. fuck your little game, give that land back

So called AI, (orthodox) Jewish halacha q, religion, boost ok/welcome 

Recently I heard from someone here the idea that the current "AI" LLM hype may halachically amount to idolatry.

But, is there already rabbinical psak/advice or discussion of this out there?

Asking for a friend (myself) who might be forced into such stuff by their employer.

#Mazeldon

extracted wikipedia 

English is like 247ish GB, but you need about twice that to actually extract any of it at all. Nothing can handle file listings this big.

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extracting wikipedia 

So everything graphical uses tar wrong. And just doing it manually works, but I have to have enough disk space to extract the tar from within the 7zip archive as a result. Around 200GB before final extraction, just to get started.

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extracting wikipedia 

file roller is next to bat, and I am able to list the /en/ directory within root, but I've been stuck loading the file listing for articles/ with a severe CPU bottleneck and 5GB of disk reads queued up in memory waiting to see Dr. CPU. No more I/O on the disk containing wikipedia for the past... 10 minutes? At least it isn't crashing? A slimegirl can hope.

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extracting wikipedia 

Process engrampa dumped core, coredump file size on disk 1G.

Engrampa seems to trigger a segfault when giving me file listings of the the contents of the root folder, not even the "articles" directory.

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:sayori_like: downloading wikipedia
:sayori_dislike: extracting wikipedia

Alright, which one of you took my copy of "Advanced Mothematics: Chaotic Systems & Transcendental Lepidopterans," by Ж. Мотылька, 2nd edition, MIR publisher, published on 1980?

You should have asked permission! I dont mind lending my books, but these anomalous books are really rare, and I can't afford to lose them! :blobfoxworried:

Does anyone have the knowledge to do a bit of free online consulting on professional laser hair removal machines for me?

I'm planning on starting a #workercoop trans beauty salon.

:boost_ok:

#trans #transgender

admin announcement: gnomefield is being sent to the shadow realm. say your goodbyes.

non-vegan food 

I found something on the internet

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