Derbasti

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by Derbasti 13y ago
Maybe Mozilla could invent some standardized encryption technology. They are the only ones that are remotely trustworthy enough to do something like that.
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by Derbasti 13y ago
The sad thing is, we don't have international law for these things. Thus, it is usually easier to ask a foreign intelligence agency if they could spy on a domestic suspect than to deal with it within the country. And this hurts so much
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by Derbasti 13y ago
Actually, Emacs 24 was quite an important release that improved many things. For example, it introduced an integrated package control and lexical binding.
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Viemu for XCode(viemu.com)
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by Derbasti 13y ago
Wasn't FP invented long before OOP? All the early LISP stuff was technically FP (even though they did not call it that at the time). Wikipedia seems to say that OOP was invented in the AI labs at MIT. In the same LISP mentioned above.
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by Derbasti 13y ago
Firefox requires your master password (if you have one) to view your passwords in plain text.
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by Derbasti 13y ago
I would like to use Linux for ideological reasons. I only realized the value of doing so in the last few years. After buying my last Macbook. Besides, what's the ideological difference between Dell, Apple, Lenovo and Asus as hardware
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by Derbasti 13y ago
I would use Linux mostly for ideological reasons. For most of my work, I need a terminal, a text editor and a web browser. Ocassionally some light vector graphics work and a simple sound editor. I can do all this on any Unix-like system. It
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by Derbasti 13y ago
Thank you for those links. I have not yet been successful in booting any Linux in EFI mode on the MBP. EFI mode is required for using the integrated GPU. Currently, EFI mode on an MBP seems to require a custom-built kernel, which frankly is
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by Derbasti 13y ago
You wish. For years, I have been trying to run Linux on my dual GPU Macbook Pros. This generally works, but Linux always uses the "big" GPU, thus battery life is abysmal.
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by Derbasti 13y ago
While Python scripting in Vim is very cool, my understanding was that Vim's scripting API was rather limited in comparison to Emacs. Vim only exposes a few hooks with the majority of the editor features implemented in its C core, while Emac
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by Derbasti 13y ago
I always try to make a point of showing appreciation when someone programmed something cool.
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by Derbasti 13y ago
> You could use Lisp for everything, just like you could walk anywhere or build a bike yourself, but why would you when you could just pick out a car and just accept the limitations and dangers of driving on the roads? At least with a c
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by Derbasti 13y ago
Mozilla is plain awesome. Just donated some money to them.
555.
by Derbasti 13y ago
I jumped a long time ago. But to this day, there is no web app comparable to GMail or GCal.
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by Derbasti 13y ago
Computer is too complicated if you need to learn how to use it..
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by Derbasti 13y ago
You don't want to install Emacs on a server? Who cares, I use TRAMP anyway.
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by Derbasti 13y ago
Have you tried the cffi? I used to use cython, but since I found the cffi, I haven't looked back.
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by Derbasti 13y ago
Think vector notation. Multiply arrays with matrices to get vectors. Add some sum notations and integrals. All that stuff is tedious to express in code but trivial to express in mathematics. Also, many more scientific concepts such as gradi
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by Derbasti 13y ago
I think being able to interpret common mathematical writing in your area of expertise is a valuable skill. I think this is what is meant by "understanding math". I don't know much about anything but signal processing, but I am able to read
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by Derbasti 13y ago
Indeed, it is often beneficial to state your preferences up front instead of sputtering nonsense trying to be "diplomatic". Everyone can interpret what I have to say about text editors much more usefully if I state up front that I love Emac
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by Derbasti 14y ago
What if we never run out of oil? What if there is no global warming? What if nuclear power plants never exploded? I guess we are officially in denial now. Jokes aside though, higher prices for fossil fuels are a reality and regardless of th
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by Derbasti 14y ago
Actually, getting a paid email account is easy. Just about every hosting provider out there also offers an email address. Web access is usually terrible though. If you're lucky, they provide roundcube, which is ok, but certainly inferior to
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by Derbasti 14y ago
GCal will stop to provide CalDAV support come September ( https://developers.google.com/google-apps/calendar/caldav ) Google Reader will shut down in July ( http://googleblog.blogspot.de/2013/03/a-second-spring-of-cle... ) I thought I read
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by Derbasti 14y ago
As an audiologist, I would not recommend wearing earbuds all night. Ventilation is important for your ears. Also, your ears are very adaptable: plugging your ears with earbuds will decrease the sound pressure by about 10 dB, which isn't rea
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by Derbasti 14y ago
Please note that just about all of Europe requires you to be 18 ro get a drivers license. And no, the US is not different. In many places, public transportation in rural areas is just as bad as in the US. You know what people do if they can
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by Derbasti 14y ago
Oh. No more open APIs from Google? A shame. That's what used to make them great. I used to be all over the Googleverse. I searched using Google, I did email and contact management in GMail, had my calendar in GCal, read my news in GReader,
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by Derbasti 14y ago
> having half your product in Ruby and half in C is awful to have to deal with. Why? In many cases, only a tiny fraction of your code needs to be fast. In my experience, it is very reasonable to code that part in some fast language whil
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by Derbasti 14y ago
As far as I can see, most jurisdictions require some action beyond mere thought or talk. Two guys talking over their beers at a bar is not enough. At least that is what the German Wikipedia is saying about European law.
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by Derbasti 14y ago
Luckily, this applies mostly to English speaking countries. The rest of the world seems to require some actual criminal action for prosecution.

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