Osmium

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by Osmium 12y ago
> The iOS push notifications are what has been causing me to move my email over to GMail. Don't rely on Gmail for push: they discontinued Exchange-support recently, though they grandfathered in old users. What's irritating to m
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by Osmium 12y ago
I found this article very informative for an outsider: http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21600106-he-will-proba... I'm not advocating the conclusions or opinions in the article (I simply don't know e
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by Osmium 12y ago
Actually, those two points are related: I started using iterm2 precisely because I also started using tmux, and tmux integration is much better with iterm2 than with the native terminal (and for me at least I find tmux much simpler than usi
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by Osmium 12y ago
> 1. You have to hunt down a check or track down your account number and routing number from your bank where you have your debit card in your wallet. In the UK at least, your account number and sort code are also on your debit card?
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by Osmium 12y ago
Simply never used lualatex. Should I be?
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by Osmium 12y ago
> Nice to see them finally getting with the times. Every other browser has had this technology for years. Citation needed? Safari's had a JIT JavaScript engine since 2008, and was one of the first (if I remember correctly). This is
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by Osmium 12y ago
I personally hold the opinion that XeLaTeX should be the default anyway, e.g. Texpad app (iOS/Mac) already does this. I don't know of any downsides to choosing XeLaTeX over LaTeX.
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by Osmium 12y ago
It would seem to me that if you're going to replace a hand with a prosthetic anyway, that it makes little sense to limit yourself to normal keyboards. Keyboards are designed with the limitations and function of human hands in mind. Why
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by Osmium 12y ago
There's also ProVoc for OS X which was great in its time, and still works, but has now abandoned: http://www.arizona-software.ch/provoc/ But luckily it's been forked and now lives on as iVocabulary: http:&#x
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by Osmium 12y ago
> But this is ridiculously inefficient. I'm sorry, but I don't understand this. How is that inefficient?
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by Osmium 12y ago
> Why do they go through all the trouble with their encryption when they leave themselves a backdoor. I am no means an expert on this, so someone else please correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to remember reading that it's not
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by Osmium 12y ago
I really like the idea of a virtual world that runs in parallel to our own: millions of camera-containing devices out there, all hooked up to the internet, continually building and refining a virtual facsimile of the real world. Then you co
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by Osmium 13y ago
> Fastmail.fm is a completely different option, I am using that as well, their biggest problems are: - lack of proper push email (on mobiles) - lack of good contact management I'm a paying Fastmail.fm user, but I really hope they ha
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by Osmium 13y ago
You can write Julia code in an IPython notebook, which is great. And (as I recently learnt) there's a PyCall package to easily call Python functions from within Julia, so you can take advantage of Python packages too. I'm yet to
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by Osmium 13y ago
I confess, I've never used Midnight Commander, so I thought I'd be a good guinea pig. I just installed it on my Mac and I don't find it at all intuitive. Two specific issues I had is that we're limited to displaying ever
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by Osmium 13y ago
> The engineering world would be a much better place if more people built beautiful, easy to use GUIs on top of the confusing command line apps we all rely on. I can't tell you how much I agree with this. Far too little engineering
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by Osmium 13y ago
I'm not saying I disagree, but there is a benefit to default values, and that's a unified design throughout the web. For the technically inclined, we can always use custom CSS, but often the people who would benefit the most from
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by Osmium 13y ago
This seems especially true considering (a) how much web design has changed in the last few years due to mobile devices and the responsive web and (b) how unprepared we were for that change. I'm frequently reminded that the most readabl
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by Osmium 13y ago
Thanks – sadly, for myself, the algorithms I need aren't part of Accelerate (I've most recently been using SciPy for its spatial algorithms). The benefit of SciPy is that there's just so much breadth, along with an easy way o
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by Osmium 13y ago
It looks great. Sadly doesn't have the specific tools I need, and regardless the license is prohibitive if I ever wanted to publish something on the App Store (regardless of if I open sourced it myself), so it's not really an opti
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by Osmium 13y ago
Thanks! I didn't realise this. This looks really useful.
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by Osmium 13y ago
I just noticed FreeNAS defaults to `PermitRootLogin without-password` and doesn't have a GUI option to change it to `no`. I'm not sure if that's the default on FreeBSD generally, but it surprised me.
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by Osmium 13y ago
> Numpy and Scipy are so mature in this respect it is difficult to compete with them. Tell me about it. What I'd give to have something equivalent for Objective-C (or certain other languages too, e.g. Julia). I'm looking at PyO
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by Osmium 13y ago
I'm curious, but how would a company arrive at the number '7'? Is it somewhat arbitrary? Any reason you'd want it to be e.g. prime?
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by Osmium 13y ago
This is just for point releases, you still get access to betas of major new versions, not to mention the ability to sign apps and publish in the app store, which is what that $99 is really about... It continues to confuse me why Apple has t
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by Osmium 13y ago
Just wanted to second this: I don't think we know enough about how safe these things are. It's very different to have something like graphene packaged up in a computer chip vs. free-floating in the air. I also have no idea if comm
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by Osmium 13y ago
Sad conclusion, but that's what science is all about. Fantastic analysis.
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by Osmium 13y ago
Loosely, it refers to the degrees of freedom an electron has in the material. For example, if you consider the 'density of states' – a quantity which can be thought of as the number of electrons at a given energy level – it has a
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by Osmium 13y ago
> Where you get that stuff: the robots are designed with CADnano, which is free software: http://cadnano.org/ I'm sorry, but there's CAD software for designing DNA structures now?! When did this happen? As some
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by Osmium 13y ago
Thanks for the explanation regarding key-derivation functions. Regarding the calculation, I was using the value for printable ASCII characters which is 6.57 bits of entropy per character.

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