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karencarits commented on Early Christian Writings   earlychristianwritings.co... · Posted by u/dsego
bossyTeacher · a month ago
Can I ask why do you identify as "Catholic" and not as "Christian"? I have seen that a few times and it does seem like attempt from you to essentially state that you are making your own religion. How much splintering off can you do and still call yourself Christian?

I am asking this in a purely curious way, btw!

karencarits · a month ago
I will actually argue that it is very useful and wish that more people started to be more specific about their faith. Firstly, stating that one is Catholic/Lutheran/... demonstrates that one understand that one is not representing the entire Christianity. Secondly, it is useful for discussion as it makes one's dogmas/axioms more explicit. And thirdly, it allows better granularity as some general teachings are really Christian (like the resurrection and most of the Credo) while other are specific to the tradition one follows (like the sacraments).

For example, a Catholic would hesitate to receive a "Christian eucharist" as the Catholic and protestant understanding of the Eucharist is so profoundly different

A final point, given the subject of the thread, is that since the Catholic Church regards itself as founded by Christ, it is older than the Bible, and that the Bible was primarily written by the Church, for the Church, to complement Tradition. They would consider splintering off Tradition and leaving Catholicism as moving away from Christ (as Christ is head of the Catholic Church)

karencarits commented on Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system   borretti.me/article/hashc... · Posted by u/thomascountz
yanis_t · 3 months ago
I've been working on knowledge base + spaced repetition project, and I know how convenient markdown files are.

1. You can view them anywhere (Github renders them nicely) 2. You can edit them in your favorite editor 3. Formatting doesn't decrease the readability 4. Extensible (syntax highlighting, mermaid, mathjax, etc.) 5. Cross-linking which is a core for any knowledge system is free 6. You can use Git for versioning and backup, etc, etc.

https://github.com/odosui/mt
karencarits · 3 months ago
This looks really interesting! I am studying "knowledge-heavy" subjects with lots of facts I need to learn, and have been looking for software where I can write flashcards directly within my notes, and both review them when reading my notes, and globally across notes. I like to have my notes locally, so I didnt find any good solutions. But there are some parsers for anki that can process markdown documents and extract items within them
karencarits commented on Workday project at Washington University hits $266M   theregister.com/2025/12/1... · Posted by u/sebastian_z
basket_horse · 3 months ago
It’s not rocket science, but you’re vastly underestimating what it takes to run a modern university. Not to mention things like security and support, which a university is not setup well to handle in house. The phds should be spending their time learning and doing research, not managing admin software.
karencarits · 3 months ago
> The phds should be spending their time learning and doing research, not managing admin software

I guess we could also flip it and ask why don't we offer PhDs in developing software for public administration?

karencarits commented on Two billion email addresses were exposed   troyhunt.com/2-billion-em... · Posted by u/esnard
jimmar · 4 months ago
I respect Troy Hunt's work. I searched for my email address on https://haveibeenpwned.com/, and my email was in the latest breach data set. But the site does not give me any way to take action. haveibeenpwned knows what passwords were breached, the people who breached the data knows what passwords were breached, but there does not seem to be any way for _me_, the person affected, to know what password were breached. The takeaway message is basically, "Yeah, you're at risk. Use good password practices."

There is no perfect solution. Obviously, we don't want to give everybody an easy form where you can enter an email address and see all of the password it found. But I'm not going to reset 500+ password because one of them might have been compromised. It seems like we must rely on our password managers (BitWarden, 1Password, Chrome's built-in manager, etc.) to tell us if individual passwords have been compromised.

karencarits · 4 months ago
One possible solution could be to give you an option to send the affected password as a list to the mail address you specify, then only people with access to that mail address will see them
karencarits commented on Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser   github.com/nxtscape/nxtsc... · Posted by u/felarof
sneak · 9 months ago
For a long time I kicked around the idea of a browser extension that archives the full text of any long webpages you spend more than 30 seconds on, for full text indexing and search.

This would be that, but even better.

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karencarits commented on Show HN: AI Peer Reviewer – Multiagent system for scientific manuscript analysis   github.com/robertjakob/ri... · Posted by u/rjakob
isoprophlex · 9 months ago
Submitting your original, important, unpublished, research to some random entity. I would be VERY surprised if more than 2% of academics think this is a good idea.
karencarits · 9 months ago
I guess the paper would be complete enough to publish as a preprint at the stage where this specific service is most useful
karencarits commented on Show HN: AI Peer Reviewer – Multiagent system for scientific manuscript analysis   github.com/robertjakob/ri... · Posted by u/rjakob
rjakob · 9 months ago
Haha fair point, domain name was a 5-second, “what’s available for $6” kind of decision. Definitely not trying to go full corporate just yet
karencarits · 9 months ago
Great! Also, checking journal author guidelines is usually very boring and time consuming, so that would be a nice addition! Like, pasting the guidelines in full and getting notified if I am not following some specs
karencarits commented on Show HN: AI Peer Reviewer – Multiagent system for scientific manuscript analysis   github.com/robertjakob/ri... · Posted by u/rjakob
karencarits · 9 months ago
I'll hopefully get to test it soon. To me, LLMs have so far been great for proofreading and getting suggestions for alternative - perhaps more fluent - phrasings. One thing that immediately struck me, though: having 'company' in the URL makes me think corporate and made me much more skeptical than a more generic name would.

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