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I function by being stubborn, and having a wife who can help with a few things. If BankID worked on a free OS then that would be nice for a few things (like paying taxes, which I s…

I'm in Sweden. I want to go back to the old ways. I hate how much the US controls our daily life. I hate loss of privacy and the presumption that everyone has a Google or Apple acc…

You should take a look at the Bourne book, if you can get hold of a copy. It's an amazing book which draws on the generation or more experience in working with mechanical systems, …

There are two books you should take a look at. "Methods of Information Handling", Charles Bourne - https://archive.org/details/methodsofinforma0000unse/page/n5... (not available to…

Being a father and raising good kids is an invaluable role in society. As an immigrant in Sweden, I love that I had so much paid parental leave to be with my babies. In the US, whe…

You might consider prefixing with 'ChatGPT claims…' as a clearer expression of uncertainty.

The comment about using Google was more a curiosity. I hadn't seen the Variety link until yesterday, when I went to Google to reproduce the answer to verify it was from a text quer…

Your first link was cited in the 2nd half of Google AI's answer, and one of the top Google answers, so I think you are using Google as your information source. The large majority o…

Well, in my case going to a Peanuts comic and looking at hands was pretty easy, and didn't involve any questions about negative environment or labor consequences, the massive hamme…

The effort to fact check with LLMs is also high. Here's one from a few days ago. Someone used AI to generate an image in the style of a Charles Schulz Peanuts cartoon. Someone else…

Over the last few days I have learned that using code generation tools are increasingly used to create a "clean room" version of a product, using a definition which is far from its…

The README says "PyMOL-RS is a clean-room rewrite" but when I look at ./pymol-mol/src/dss.rs I see things like: //! - PyMOL's layer3/Selector.cpp - SelectorAssignSS function //! - …

I looked at the PDB parser. Will you be adding support for using duplicate CONECT records to store bond type information? That's a RasMol extension that PyMol supports. You'll also…

You might mention in other forums, like the RDKit mailing list (though that's almost moribund). I looked at the SDF reader, since that's what I know best. I see a few things which …

Oh, I should have pointed out my Python lexer-driven parser at https://hg.sr.ht/~dalke/smiview/browse/smiview.py The lexer: https://hg.sr.ht/~dalke/smiview/browse/smiview.py?rev=ti…

I see you include the dot disconnect "." as part of the Bond definition. You also define Chain as: Chain I believe this means your grammar allows the invalid SMILES C=.N

That's "SMILES". Yes. Here is the yacc grammar for the SMILES parser in the RDKit. https://github.com/rdkit/rdkit/blob/master/Code/GraphMol/Smi... There's also one from OpenSMILES …

Link to the actual "etude" https://archive.org/details/wetherell-etudes-for-programmers... (Wetherell has a number of small, interesting programming "etudes", one of is to write a …

Could someone explain what "democratising" means here? Is it any different than "user-friendly", "enabling" or "simplifying"?

I ... probably did? I didn't. Things were a lot looser then. I brought a 6-pack of Negra Modelo as carry-on for a trip to Europe. The airport x-ray staff in Albuquerque recognized …

On the return from my first trip to South Africa I carried 12 bottles of wine in my luggage. That was back when flights included two free checked items. On my second trip to Europe…

I was a nomad for about a year. Towards the end I was tired of the constant leaving. I asked for advice from an NGO who moves countries often. She said what happens is the NGO memb…

I work in a chemistry research field. Most people I know run Python programs for their research. No one I know uses Go. I only know a handful who use Java. Rust and Julia are oddit…

You mean Bank-id på kort? https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank-id#Bank-id_på_kort says it only supports MS Windows and MacOS, not Linux. Fundamentally though, that doesn't change the…

The Swedish non-government system (BankID) doesn't work well for me. My Swedish identity must not be dependent on the permission of a US company nor the US government, while BankID…