StreakyCobra

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by StreakyCobra 8y ago
You can do it with Yalp Store [1], it lets you filter apps with/without ads. [1] https://github.com/yeriomin/YalpStore
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by StreakyCobra 8y ago
Concerning the price I don't think it is a strong argument. I have never been a mac user, but I have friends who had quite old macs that were still performant enough after 8 years for running recent software. They paid more, but it las
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by StreakyCobra 8y ago
I don't know if it is part of the bests, but very interesting anyway: Modern Dictionaries by Raymond Hettinger [1] It's about Python 3.6 dictionaries improvements. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p33CVV29OG8
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by StreakyCobra 8y ago
I was a baby when this video was made and I discovered it for the first time today! I would never have believed such a video had been made, and cannot imagine one being made nowadays in big corporations. I guess it must have been fun to liv
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PaqRap, or when senior VPs of Compaq did a rap video in 1990(youtube.com)
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by StreakyCobra 8y ago
I don't have a strong opinion about this case, but it would be more correct to compare it to this situation: You come home one day, entering by the main door as usual, and when going down in the garage you notice the key on the floor w
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by StreakyCobra 8y ago
You want a challenge for today? Try to read this fully, in one go, without crying.
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by StreakyCobra 8y ago
For the curious there is an ongoing construction of such pumped-storage in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. It is called Nant de Drance [1] and is located at the Emosson Dam, between the "Emosson Lake" and "Old Emosson La
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by StreakyCobra 8y ago
I tried the HP35s of a friend for a few days. It is globally a nice RPN calculator and not too expensive for starting. But I don't want to get one because this calculator have a quite long list of known bugs [1] that have been sitting
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by StreakyCobra 8y ago
Switzerland is "kind of" a famous for his apprenticeship system. I myself went trough an apprenticeship, and that didn't prevented me to get a University Master's degree later on. A random web search gave me this relativ
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by StreakyCobra 8y ago
Yes, the article linked [1] also mentions it. But it also shows what have been removed, such as: «“Don’t be evil.” Googlers generally apply those words to how we serve our users. But “Don’t be evil” is much more than that. Yes, it’s about p
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by StreakyCobra 8y ago
«In May, Google quietly removed “Don’t be evil” from the text of its corporate code of conduct, deleting a catchphrase that had been associated with the company since 2000.» So it is now official, Google can not longer be considered as &quo
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by StreakyCobra 8y ago
This kind of visualization can be really useful for impaired people. I can guess that street steepness is an important concern for people in wheelchair, a few degrees more and it become impossible to move. And even if topographic contours m
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by StreakyCobra 8y ago
«The Encyclopedia should be managed by a prestigious Editorial Board which appoints a hierarchy of editors to moderate articles. [...] Serving as a member of the Editorial Board could become a prestigious office for senior professionals
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by StreakyCobra 8y ago
In complement to the Nature's article: The FNS/SNF (Swiss national science foundation) explains on its website the reason for not signing it (yet): http://www.snf.ch/en/researchinFocus/newsroom/Pages
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by StreakyCobra 8y ago
I found the article that motivated me to switch to bépo back in the time. It also also suggests a method that I used to do the transition: https://ploum.net/216-le-bepo-sur-le-bout-des-doigts/ (in French)
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by StreakyCobra 8y ago
Year s is a little bit too much yes. I also did a full switch after 1 month of "klavaro" [1] training, but I think it took me nearly one year to be "fully" adapted. By "fully" I mean not thinking anymore about
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by StreakyCobra 8y ago
Anything other than [AQ]WERT[YZ] layout-based keyboard is already a big improvement for your fingers. The differences between Workman / Colemak / Dvorak and so on is mostly a matter of taste. One thing to note is that widely used
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by StreakyCobra 8y ago
I experimented with MIPS before, mainly for side projects, and I found them amazing for easily solving optimization problems. Reading this article, I felt the logic used for constructing the Sudoku solver is quite close to what I would have
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by StreakyCobra 9y ago
This has been changed in Python 3.6 only, due to a change in dictionary implementation to make them more efficient. "Modern Dictionaries by Raymond Hettinger" [1] is a quite interesting and technical talk about these changes, expl
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by StreakyCobra 9y ago
Indeed, this has been implemented in G'MIC [1], which can be used as a plugin in gimp. I definitively recommend it! (based on the exact same paper :-) [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsHgQY6025I
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by StreakyCobra 9y ago
For interested people, there are also old maps of Switzerland available as "Journey through time" on the government website [1] They are ranging from 1844 to 2013. It's based on Dufour and Siegfried maps, which are presented
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by StreakyCobra 9y ago
I discovered AOC this year, I clearly recommend it over ProjectEuler if you want programming challenges that requires less math knowledge to go through. It is also a great platform to learn a new programming language. I'm using it as a
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by StreakyCobra 9y ago
https://twitter.com/sci_hub/status/731467465973174273?lang=e...
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by StreakyCobra 9y ago
Indeed. For me this would already be a problem at the workplace though, not only from home.
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by StreakyCobra 9y ago
True, being intrinsically motivated to solve problems doesn't mean people have discipline or desire to do so for work. Albeit it is not a sufficient condition, it is still helping to be a problem-solver I think. I may be wrong though.
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by StreakyCobra 9y ago
This is one opinion. I always see people criticizing all sort of tests because they are not good regarding to some criteria. Well, this is true for all of them. Those tests are trying to divide billions of people into few categories, you lo
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by StreakyCobra 9y ago
The fact that INTJ and INTP may usually be problem-solvers does not mean that other types may not be as well. A -> B doesn't mean than ¬A -> ¬B I'm just saying that HN is really biased toward known problem-solving personalit
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by StreakyCobra 9y ago
Yes! And discussing this on HN is totally biasing our impression on the subject. HN is full [1-5] of INTJ, sometime refereed a "problem-solver", and INTP who I believe share, at least partially, the same love of solving problem. N
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by StreakyCobra 9y ago
Indeed. I recently looked for an MP3 player for trail running. My sister has an iPod nano that I liked for having tried it a few times, but when I saw the price it was a no go, especially when I saw that I can get the same functionality for

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