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by aaren 12y ago
I dist-upgraded to Jessie from my working Waldorf system (using now). It was a little faffy, but not too bad. One problem I've got is black internal borders on some of my menus (e.g. network-manager panel menu), but it doesn't aff
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by aaren 12y ago
That £13k is a tax-free stipend. You don't have to pay income tax and some other things (e.g. an all student house pays no council tax). When you work out the equivalent taxed income that would reduce to that stipend, it approaches £20
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by aaren 12y ago
This could change your life: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf It's a fuzzy searcher for Ctrl-r that shows all possible results, updating as you type.
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by aaren 12y ago
You don't need nested lists: ['FizzBuzz' if x % 15 == 0 else 'Fizz' if x % 3 == 0 else 'Buzz' if x % 5 == 0 else x for x in range(100) if type(x) is int]
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by aaren 12y ago
That was an amazing read! Thank you :)
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by aaren 12y ago
A hidden service is still centralised though, right? Given the current chasing of The Pirate Bay, I'd expect this hidden service to get the same scrutiny as The Silk Road. My take on The Silk Road was that whilst it was quite possibly
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by aaren 12y ago
It might be that a blockchain is the way to go. Bitcoin lets you store 80 bytes with each transaction. Maybe that isn't enough for a magnet link and description, but you could use multiple transactions. Maybe there is more optimal bloc
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by aaren 12y ago
where does the version control repo live?
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by aaren 12y ago
Could a way around the centralisation be to encode the magnet hash database (like btdigg) as metadata in the distributed hash table? Then we just need a seed to get at this somehow, which could be spread around forums. Offload searching of
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by aaren 12y ago
yes, but because the magnet link is a hash of the content it is only ever a snapshot of the magnet bundle.
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by aaren 12y ago
Is there a syntactical reason why Julia can be fast but Python can't? Would it be possible to use Python syntax and get the same LLVM performance? (aside from the difficulty of writing a new interpreter) Put another way, does Julia sac
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by aaren 12y ago
Thank you. Now convinced. I think I just found 'black' a bit jarring as a generic 'not-white' descriptor but now I see the use.
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by aaren 12y ago
> Irish people until recently were considered to be "black", and in the UK, still kind of are. Is this from personal experience? If not, can you link me somewhere? Do you mean sounds Irish / looks Irish / is Irish &#
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by aaren 12y ago
Pretty easy (`make install`). You need Cmake with ssl and a not-too-old gcc (>4.3). This should be the case on a modern system. I recently compiled it on CentOS 5 and had to build my own cmake. https://github.com/neovim&#
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by aaren 12y ago
The threads that you are flagging are the ones that need to happen. I can see why you would flag a whole thread, but I don't think that will ultimately get us anywhere. If you care about the accessibility of this site, then I implore y
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by aaren 12y ago
like this? https://openbazaar.org/
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by aaren 12y ago
pandoc can do footnotes `[^1]` and citations `@citekey` but not internal references (like \ref{fig:blag} in latex). This is a problem for academic writing. I'm determined to write my thesis in markdown and recently wrote a pandoc filte
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by aaren 12y ago
I agree, it would be technically difficult. My point is that there is a mechanism by which you could profit: false market data. Whether you could remain undetected and whether this could actually be implemented technically, legally or logis
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by aaren 12y ago
You could intercept and then re-emit false market data, then trade against whatever position this puts the users of that data in. Whether you could do this, and do it without being noticed, I'm not so sure.
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Keyword arguments in Haskell (2010)(blog.ezyang.com)
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by aaren 12y ago
It's a thought experiment, not a critique of all scientists. I can definitely see elements of that straw man in some scientists that I have met.
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by aaren 12y ago
It isn't just Bioinformatics. Working at the edge of a research group doing technical work that no one else can comprehend can be very difficult and lonely. Don't underestimate the utility of a technical mentor that can understand
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by aaren 12y ago
But as a kid you probably didn't realise that this opportunity was for a limited period and if someone had tried to tell you, you might not have listened anyway. What opportunities do you have right now? Can you see any of those slippi
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by aaren 12y ago
That's a very good point. I had an image in my head of traveling musicians playing lutes but that's a bit unrepresentative! Especially of music that has endured through time (e.g. classical composition). Instead of patronage &#x2F
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by aaren 12y ago
Musicians have only recently been able to make money from recorded media. I see this as a temporary anomaly allowed by the state of technology in the 20th century (i.e. existence of mass media as a physical product). Musicians (and other ar
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by aaren 12y ago
I don't have a citation to hand, only my recent discussions about this, from someone that should equally know what they are talking about: The neurotoxicity has been demonstrated in rats, but at a dose that would be fatal in humans. Ra
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by aaren 12y ago
I just used an old shampoo bottle (housemates still use it). I funnelled in a tub of sodium bicarbonate and added water until it was just runny. 300ml bottle lasts me ~8 months, using about 3 times every 2 weeks. Cost to me: about £3 /
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by aaren 12y ago
Reactive power is the control then. With AC, we have to increase reactive power to shove more real power along the line, but reactive power doesn't transmit very well. Follow on: in a national grid, could we just distribute the product
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by aaren 12y ago
Can you explain like I'm a physics major why HVDC becomes more efficient than AC over ~1000km? A scale analysis would be great - where does the distance D come into the equation? I get why AC is better than DC on ~100km, but I don&#x27
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by aaren 12y ago
How to do it in python in case anyone is wondering: import requests import json url = 'http://data.crossref.org/10.1017/S0022112061000019' headers = {'Accept': 'application&#x2

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