KGIII

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by KGIII 9y ago
I'm always happy to help. I get a great deal from HN, lots of things to learn and smart people to answer questions. It makes me happy when I'm able to give a return contribution. If, for some reason, you have further questions, un
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by KGIII 9y ago
Then again, the language is 'Go.' I am not sure that was the best naming choice and I've heard complaints that it was initially difficult to search for it. My understanding is that 'golang' has helped as a query. So
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by KGIII 9y ago
So very, very true. This is not the right forum for telling my story of the garbage purloining skunk who got his head stuck in a peanut butter jar. You know the adage about how a skunk won't spray in an enclosed area, so that you can t
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by KGIII 9y ago
Some of the comments from people whom I infer are significantly younger than I, seem aghast at the idea of having enjoyed the non-connected life as a youth. They are similarly quizzical when they learn that I seldom carry a cell phone and s
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by KGIII 9y ago
When you say the results weren't even close, and if you have time and don't mind, could you share some numbers/elaborate on that? My experience with HPC is fairly limited, compared to what I think you're discussing. In m
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by KGIII 9y ago
Yup. I agree. I even find the experience fantastic on the original iPad, as well as a brand new one. I find it just fine on my phone, which isn't nearly as large a screen. I am guessing it is an individual taste thing. That makes some
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by KGIII 9y ago
I wonder if that's a personal thing? Over the past year, I've been trying to join the mobile revolution - sort of. The majority of my browsing is now done on a tablet. I read quite a few PDFs and don't actually have any compl
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by KGIII 9y ago
Not really, look at the myriad rendering issues between the most popular browsers. PDF should result in pixel-for-pixel reproducibility, browsers don't do that in practice. That's why we still test pages in different browsers and
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by KGIII 9y ago
FWIW, PDF is an open standard. There exist both open and proprietary readers and creators. It has been an open standard for nearly a decade. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format
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by KGIII 9y ago
Have you seen pandoc? That should be able to do that and the comments about results are usually positive. https://pandoc.org/epub.html One final thing, and wildly off topic, is that when you do your defense, remember that y
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by KGIII 9y ago
I'm not sure I understand. Well, I understand what you're doing but I'm not sure why you'd dislike PDF. PDF has the great benefit of rendering the same on every system. With very few exceptions, PDF will look exactly the
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by KGIII 9y ago
Ah! This is even better. It led me to finding this: http://icl.cs.utk.edu/hpcc/hpcc_results_lat_band.cgi I do believe I get it. Now to find out what kind of applications are greatly benefited from this. Thanks HN! You
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by KGIII 9y ago
That makes some sense, so I'll just post my thanks in this one reply so I don't have to thank everyone individually. Much appreciated. It does lead me to one additional question - is the need for additional speed great enough to j
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by KGIII 9y ago
> dna = ''.join(random.choices('atgc', weights=[30.9, 29.4, 19.9, 19.8], k=3_234_830_000)) On a tablet, I highlight and pull down. It grabs it all and I can then read it. It is a very awful workaround that impacts
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by KGIII 9y ago
With distributed computing and cloud hosting allowing for thousands of instances, with huge amounts of resources such as obscene terabytes of RAM, is there still a need for supercomputers? They are, effectively, the same thing, right? I am
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by KGIII 9y ago
You may be interested in George Price. There are a few documentaries that cover his life and work. He was very interested in altruism and his efforts to figure that out are believed to be why he killed himself. Basically, it drove him insan
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by KGIII 9y ago
You might be surprised about that. To use a blunted instrument as a descriptor, you cause an accident and it results in complete stoppage of traffic. However, much smaller things can actually impact the flow of traffic in a significant mann
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by KGIII 9y ago
This may sound strange, but I'm sometimes grateful that, when I was a wee lad, Internet wasn't invented and computers took up whole rooms. I think I'd have wasted even more time than I did. It means I read a lot of great book
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by KGIII 9y ago
Thanks for the correction. I had originally typed 'meta data' but thought headers were the same thing. Thanks!
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by KGIII 9y ago
Refresh the thread. They are working on something they call Bridge. They have an employee here, in the thread, posting links and answering questions.
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by KGIII 9y ago
Proton has a free tier, if that helps make it more clear. Though I'm not sure that free vs. paid is such a distinguishing characteristic that makes it impossible to compare. If I give you some blueberries and you buy some from the stor
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by KGIII 9y ago
To add to the above post, the headers have to be unencrypted, else they'd have no method to actually send the email. If it were encrypted, they'd have no idea what the address was, or who to bounce it to if the address doesn'
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by KGIII 9y ago
Given their vast amounts of information about mail, might their spam filter work by only examining the header? That is, of course, still 'reading' mail - though it may be an acceptable trade off for privacy minded people. And, if
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by KGIII 9y ago
I don't do much climbing anymore, but I figured it'd be nice to send them a few bucks. So, that's done. If anyone else wants to help keep people safe while they climb, even if you're not a climber, here is the donation l
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by KGIII 9y ago
Raccoons, black bears, and skunks are all smarter than many people seem to think. They can find their way into most anything in common use. There have been cars broken into by bears, for example.
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by KGIII 9y ago
I've never had one. At least not one of the ones people consider social media. HN and Slashdot are both social media, but nobody seems to call them that. So, no Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc... G+ may have made me a profile. The othe
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by KGIII 9y ago
I have not. I will ponder the implications. I kind of want to see what it does without my prompting it.
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by KGIII 9y ago
If it helps, I don't have Spotify.
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by KGIII 9y ago
The link in another response to me has a link to a clarification video from Musk. I didn't watch it, as the text was adequate. It looks like no licensing is required and that they've been legally dumped into the public domain in a
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by KGIII 9y ago
Your link seems to indicate otherwise? Notably, that it will enable Apple and others. They also seem to think it is a legally binding statement, if a little vague. That was my takeaway, actually.

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