QuantumRoar

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by QuantumRoar 11y ago
For me, it was (and still is) terribly hard to find libraries that do what I want. Although Hackage has a large database, it's quite confusing and very hard to figure out how a library actually works. A few years ago, I tried to parse
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by QuantumRoar 11y ago
Bands on Bandcamp usually pay more for their equipment and concerts than they earn from it. Those tiny independent bands are the most honest bunch of musicians you can find who do music by themselves and for the sake of music -- not for the
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by QuantumRoar 11y ago
Try these: Ochre https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N1OX319f9o Atomos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwhZ3CC080E Koan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-YgxXc9_w0 Kettel https://ww
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by QuantumRoar 11y ago
I'm too young to remember anything about the earlier days of computing. But somehow, it always puts a smile on my face to see how these fossilized bitflippers look like and how they work.
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by QuantumRoar 11y ago
> Instead of one startup spending a lot of time thinking and researching (and maybe missing the market window if there was one), let ten startups just assume and go for it. Maybe nine will be wrong and fail and one will be right and suc
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by QuantumRoar 11y ago
Really? Is that the way some people reason about their competitors? Something like: "Oh, I guess they're just stupid and we're so smart." Who in their right mind would do such a thing. Even if the competitors really are
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by QuantumRoar 11y ago
I'm sad they didn't show how many people use "teeheehee." I don't know when I started that habit but now I'm using it occasionally.
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by QuantumRoar 11y ago
It does say this as a footnote: "We limit this study to posts and comments and do not look at direct messages through Messenger."
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by QuantumRoar 11y ago
"[...] in order to survive, we need to supplicate ourselves to horrible entities whose motivations we are literally not capable of understanding." Feels familiar. I am trying to protect my privacy to the best of my knowledge but I
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by QuantumRoar 11y ago
There's definitely some truth in the Feynman algorithm. If I had to explain how I did some of my research, I'd probably say it similar to that. While sometimes the manual work to actually show that it works is quite small, other t
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by QuantumRoar 11y ago
Would be nice if an error is thrown when the LaTeX can't be parsed instead of just printing whatever TeX-foo you've written down. Also, I'd like to see Tikz and pgfplots support :)
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by QuantumRoar 11y ago
Yeah, equations seem to be completely broken on Firefox. Is there a reason you use Mathjax? Personally, I prefer using LaTeX -> PDF -> SVG and simply including them as images. Nothing's going to break with that, I guess.
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by QuantumRoar 11y ago
SOI is better than the planar design since you can fully deplete the channel. But it's worse than FinFETs when you consider the control of the gate on the channel and when it comes to thermals. The oxide below the channel also acts as
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by QuantumRoar 11y ago
There's no one way forward. A lot of things might happen and it will only be decided once a company actually ships a new and viable technology. Remember what Intel did with the FinFETs. It was the same discussion then (What could the n
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by QuantumRoar 11y ago
III-V semiconductors like Gallium Arsenide have a high mobility and are probably tested right now in Research labs around the world for CMOS-transistors (it is already in use for something like solar panels). But there's always the pro
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by QuantumRoar 11y ago
I don't think that this is targeted at HPC. I suppose it's more for people who already know C# and need a bit of symbolic computation.
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by QuantumRoar 11y ago
I looked for that once but couldn't find anything. However, it's quite easy to write and manipulate expressions in Haskell. The type system and recursion are a good fit for that kind of task (also, there's an expression parse
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by QuantumRoar 11y ago
It's some time ago that I tried exporting, so I don't recall exactly what I did. As far as I know, I tried it with that command line tool but it simply wouldn't export everything. There's also the issue that if it does e
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by QuantumRoar 11y ago
It would be nice if I could at least export from the OS X keychain (you can always write up a simple script to add them to pass). Internet accounts can be exported, but all the rest won't work. I've given up on it, but I'd li
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by QuantumRoar 11y ago
Recently, I bought a Macbook Pro 13" and it was unusable for me. The effective resolution is to large in the standard pixel doubling mode. Switching it to something smaller cripples the operating system. Since I switch workspaces quite
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by QuantumRoar 11y ago
It's not about it being a surprise that this happens as long as it is allowed. It's a surprise that there are no laws in place to protect consumers. Especially in times when most "tech savvy" people advice the use of clo
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by QuantumRoar 11y ago
Switzerland publicly voted on a strict 12x salary limit for CEOs compared to junior employees. The proposal was rejected after 65% of voters opposed it. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-11-24/swiss-
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by QuantumRoar 11y ago
I think you can still boot from the network. If that's correct, then this whole thing gets ever more mysterious for me.
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by QuantumRoar 11y ago
Well, I was arguing with them for 10 Minutes. They tried to get my administrator password (because I use FileVault) and I refused. They wouldn't even look at the display issue (not software or data related) without the password. In the
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by QuantumRoar 11y ago
How about asking to backup your data (which they ask anyway) and asking that the disk be wiped. There are no problems then. Handing over your password means that there is practically no barrier for a technician to obtain all your data, all
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by QuantumRoar 11y ago
I disagree. Not even someone who's there to help you should know your passwords. Consider that many people use the same password for a lot of accounts. On top of that, they already have your email address. By asking their customers for
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by QuantumRoar 11y ago
It works with a Guest account, if you don't encrypt your hard drive. If you use FileVault, they specifically need your administrator password. So what are they actually doing there?
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by QuantumRoar 11y ago
I added a little bit to my comment above. They are asking people for administrator passwords and put them into forms in their computer system. Rule number one of computing is that you shouldn't ever tell anybody your passwords. Asking
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by QuantumRoar 11y ago
Making a speech is easy, compared to actually doing the right thing. Just a month ago, I was asked by an employee of an Apple Certified Service Provider to decrypt my hard drive in order for Apple to make a "hardware test". There
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by QuantumRoar 11y ago
> I think there is a stigma attached going out alone though - I have random people ask me if I am alone and seem surprised by the answer. I've been doing things alone a lot since I moved to another city. And it really seems weird to

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