Derbasti

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by Derbasti 9y ago
One more feature request: Hitting Win-Right twice on the left monitor should move the window to the left tile of the right monitor.
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Lua is incredibly easy to embed. The whole Lua interpreter including the standard library is about 150kb. That's Kilo, not mega! You can swap out the memory allocator or the number type on one simple header file. Lua was built specifi
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I love the name!
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What would I want to do with Python in a web browser? I wouldn't be able to use most of the standard library, and I wouldn't be able to use most PyPi packages. Sure, it might be a better language than JavaScript, but you would hav
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Another technique that helps me is always holding back a few smallish productive tasks that you can do if you are stuck on another project. More often than not, switching projects for a few hours clears my head for the original project and
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That's just the premise.
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Write a whole article about DuckDuckGo, and don't mention bang searches. !py searches the Python documentation, !w searches Wikipedia, !g searches Google, !a searches Amazon, and better yet, !gde, !wde, and !ade search the German Googl
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by Derbasti 9y ago
I don't like how Numpy, Matplotlib and Pandas are portrayed as "Data Science". There is nothing particular to "Data" in these three packages. All I see is "Science". All scientists need numerical simulatio
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> That’s wonderful for the planet, but a bit of a worry for profit. I can't even begin to express my utter disgust at this statement.
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It seems like the OP really wants to use a database instead of a file system.
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Imagine two processes appending rows to a csv file. If writes were non-atomic, they might insert partial rows, or overwrite each other.
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by Derbasti 9y ago
> The first version of the Internet Protocol is IPv4. Version numbers are great!
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How is performance? Last time I checked LuaLaTeX was significantly slower than XeLaTeX was significantly slower than pdfLaTeX (on the order of 5s > 1s > 0.1s for the same document).
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by Derbasti 9y ago
Can you tell Firefox to print in headless mode? I want to write reports using HTML and JS, but printing is always an issue.
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Can Word import PDF? How would I keep editable copies of the Math code? I use a similar workflow for PowerPoint slides, where I have dozens of files with a minimal LaTeX template that render math fragments to tiny PDF files, which I can the
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by Derbasti 9y ago
You can use the syntax. It still renders using Word's hideous math renderer.
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Also, he implies that LaTeX documents are always typeset in Computer Modern and the plain article template (which is ugly!). XeTeX can use all the same TTF/OTF fonts Word uses. Oh, and let's not forget that Word's math render
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by Derbasti 9y ago
How would Google Docs update a graph in a document from an external graphics file? All my graphs and tables are generated in some programming environment, and updated frequently. In Word, I would have to right-click every single graph, sele
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by Derbasti 9y ago
The European Union requires publicly funded papers to be publicly available. Elsevier did not provide open access, and was therefore deemed illegal for publicly funded research. They have since introduced open access options, and universit
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Bash on Windows is like using a flightstick in a car. It sure works, but they weren't built for each other. Eshell is just Emacs, and Emacs doesn't make much of a difference between OSes. The point is, Emacs comes with a lot of to
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by Derbasti 9y ago
Eshell was what brought me to Emacs in the first place, as it is a shell that works the same way on Linux, macOS, and Windows, and thereby saved my sanity.
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Because it is the resonant frequency of water. Early microwave ovens polluted that frequency band so heavily that no other service used it. Nowadays, microwave ovens don't send out radio waves any more, so the frequencies are available
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Most Open Access journals have special exemptions for poor scientists, institutions, and countries. On Elsevier and Hindawi and IEEE, if you are from a low income country, Open Access publishing is free.
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Assuming that ‘yes‘ is primarily limited by memory performance and kernel calls, the language runtime should have little influence.
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But where are the tools? Of course I can always write a shell script, but the vast majority of GUI tools is not programmable. I would love to automate my image capturing workflows, my tax filing, my invoicing, my calendaring, my contacts, a
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by Derbasti 10y ago
On an infinite time scale, you are certainly right. We're all going to die pretty soon, and so will our programming languages. In the meantime, though, Julia seems rather healthy, and this particular Python fanboy is nevertheless inter
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No paged media makes page formatting much too painful.
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by Derbasti 10y ago
Does it support paged media?
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Client and protocol are open source. What more do you need?

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