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by bigdict 6y ago
GTK 3 worked pretty well for a side project on Linux and macOS. I like C, so I went with GTK as opposed to C++ with Qt. I suspect that Qt is a slightly better (both look and dev ergonomics) and more portable solution, but not sure.
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by bigdict 6y ago
$830 is a great deal at those specs.
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by bigdict 6y ago
Linux works great on X1 Carbons, not so much on new Apple machines. Keep the X1 if you care about that. Also the next gen Carbons are supposed to have a 16:10 screen.
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by bigdict 6y ago
Orthogonal, but the website design is very refreshing!
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by bigdict 6y ago
Chronologically, The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides makes most sense. It's a shift from the Greek-Persian conflict to Athens vs. Sparta. You can read Plutarch's Lives in parallel (no pun intended), it's pu
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by bigdict 6y ago
Or a moment of noise in solidarity with the engineers who got promoted for shipping the shiny new thing.
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by bigdict 6y ago
Does NeoVim support that out if the box? For regular Vim I'm using https://github.com/christoomey/vim-tmux-navigator .
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by bigdict 6y ago
In what way is a celebrated and highly promoted Stanford, Apple, and later Google alum a marginalized voice?
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by bigdict 6y ago
This sort of news is always like a splash of cold water to the face to me. I haven't produced any breakthrough research as an undergraduate. Have I accomplished enough? Am I too complacent? Should I be doing more, working more, studyin
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by bigdict 6y ago
Yeah, it's like saying "well all Apple is doing is throwing good engineering at the problem". All they've really done is taken an advanced process, coupled it with a powerful architecture they've been iteratively im
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by bigdict 6y ago
Is that true? Intel chips are known to be overpriced.
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by bigdict 6y ago
Or do support Linux on M1 because you do want it, and reward Apple for making good hardware.
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by bigdict 6y ago
See the upward dent in the weekly cycle starting in mid March of 2020. The cycle exists because your home ISP is more likely to use IPv6 over the corporate/work provider. So there's a spike on the weekends. WFH measures have conse
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Higher IPv6 usage caused by COVID-19 WFH restrictions(google.com)
1 points by bigdict 6y ago|1 comments
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by bigdict 6y ago
This would be much more interesting if the features weren't anonymized. At this point this is just a widest/deepest neural net competition on some unknown bunch of features.
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by bigdict 6y ago
Why is World of Warcraft listed under "Developers"? Actually…
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by bigdict 6y ago
Don't worry about tabulation, you got the content right. The slide deck is a PR piece aimed at tricking people into giving more of their lives to corporate interests.
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by bigdict 6y ago
Right, but Google supports Google search without bang operators.
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by bigdict 6y ago
Is this cross compilation to x86 or a native compile to Arm? That could be playing an important role if it's easier to optimize and emit code for one architecture versus the other.
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by bigdict 6y ago
Many computer architectures struggle with arithmetic vs. memory performance. A typical CPU can do a lot of computation per unit of time, but ends up starved because of low memory bandwidth. I hope that we see either an existing fast memory
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by bigdict 6y ago
Oh no way, thank you!
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by bigdict 6y ago
What is the best way to download this dataset? Last time I messed with it I had to pay for a Google Cloud bucket and run through some awkward sequence of steps to eventually get a local copy. I think I ended up following the advice here: h
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by bigdict 6y ago
I wonder if M1 dominates an i9-9980HK at multithreaded workloads that make full use of available SIMD? Does an M1 dominate at peak theoretical flops?
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by bigdict 6y ago
It was, but isn't anymore.
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by bigdict 6y ago
I was hoping you would support the argument you are making on this topic in this conversation. I have no interest in wading through your old comments, especially if they are as handwavy as the new ones.
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by bigdict 6y ago
You keep restating your thesis without giving any evidence.
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by bigdict 6y ago
No one is perfect, so it's about how you handle your mistakes. Was there anything specific that discredits Taibbi and Greenwald as trustworthy reporters? EDIT: Greenwald not Gellman
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by bigdict 6y ago
Greenwald's writing does tend to be long-winded and repetitious, but I see both Taibbi and Greenwald as a force for good. They don't turn a blind eye to information unfavorable to either presidential candidate, even as it might be
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by bigdict 6y ago
I'm a recent fan of both of these gentlemen so your comment is very interesting to me. Both seem to position themselves as journalists who value accuracy over advocacy… Could you point to an example of what you are describing?
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by bigdict 6y ago
What's the gist?

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