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by buo 6y ago
I have installed Spyder both from its own repo, and using Anaconda, and I don't have Kite. I don't recall doing anything special during installation.
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by buo 6y ago
I agree 100%. Threading is essential and I can't understand why modern (and otherwise fine) tools like Discourse don't support it.
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by buo 6y ago
Thanks! I was missing exactly that part of the process.
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by buo 6y ago
My understanding is that the javascript in a web page executes in the client. How can the page owner obtain the video lists?
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by buo 6y ago
Firefox is my main browser on Linux, but sometimes I browse using Chromium. Both feel equally snappy to me -- even though I have hundreds of tabs open in Firefox and several add-ons, and none on Chromium.
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by buo 6y ago
For people who like text-based programs, I'd recommend newsboat: https://newsboat.org/
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by buo 6y ago
To be more clear: I have avoided the commercial use of smartphone technology as it exists today, because for me its drawbacks are unacceptable. So, I am not a user of that technology, but I do not oppose the basic principle of mobile, unive
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by buo 6y ago
I can see your point now. Indeed they can feel inescapable. One thing I try to do is to minimize how much revenue they get out of me. For example, I use uBlock Origin and uMatrix to block their ads and scripts, their cookies, Google Analyti
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by buo 6y ago
I didn't mean to say that I have had absolutely no interaction with any existing Apple or Google service or technology. I'm neither a fundamentalist nor a hermit. Rather, whenever it is my choice, I prefer to select products and t
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by buo 6y ago
I have avoided commercial smartphone products entirely, yes, and very much on purpose. I have not avoided technology in general, not by a long shot.
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by buo 6y ago
I use a $20 LG feature phone. I don't know what OS it runs, but it's not Android.
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by buo 6y ago
As an alternative solution that doesn't depend on defining what a monopoly is, or how to boycott a large brand, how about forcing companies to apply the same terms to everybody? I think at least part of the core of the problem is that
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by buo 6y ago
What do you mean? I don't use Apple or Google products and I use technology every day.
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by buo 6y ago
I'd say they both are more than adequate, and allow for some pretty advanced workflows, since they expose a lot more tools with more fine-grained control than Lightroom. For anyone who tries these programs, many of their developers and
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by buo 6y ago
Interesting. A 2-D being in flatland would consider the inside of a closed, empty circle to be "dark", but from 3-D we can still see inside it. Maybe one could postulate a 4-D source of light.
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by buo 7y ago
My favorite book on the subject is Telecommunication Networks: Protocols, Modeling and Analysis by Mischa Schwartz. It's one of the rare books that go very deep into the math, but explains it almost step by step, so it is very accessib
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by buo 13y ago
If you allow questions with n possible answers, then you need at least ceil(log_n(7e9)) questions, where log_n means logarithm base n. I don't know if there is a simple formula for the case where different questions allow different num
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by buo 13y ago
For an example of an open-source GSM implementation that would allow one to build a base station, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBTS . There are lots of videos about it on youtube where you can see it in action.
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by buo 13y ago
There are some incredible Mandelbulb renderings on DeviantArt, for example: http://jim373.deviantart.com/art/Hall-of-the-Goblin-King-276... http://mandelwerk.deviantart.com/art/13th-Secret-Of-Cathe
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by buo 13y ago
I don't disagree, but don't completely agree either, that free trade is always a blessing. - Mexico is a party to NAFTA and other trade agreements with South American and Asian countries, but 37 million mexicans survive on less th
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by buo 13y ago
I use Arch in my personal machine but Linux Mint for work ( http://www.linuxmint.com/about.php ). It is also based on Debian and Ubuntu, but they're not set on simplifying the desktop the way Ubuntu is. In fact, they hav
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by buo 13y ago
As a Linux user, what I miss most when I use Windows is focus-follows-mouse.
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by buo 13y ago
I have four virtual desktops mapped to WinKey+{a,s,z,x}. I've used this scheme for so long that the keys are hardwired in my brain and I can switch desktops without even thinking about it. In particular, I don't care if the window
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by buo 13y ago
I see plenty of ads: http://imgur.com/bMUkCwi The same search on DDG gets me exactly one ad.
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by buo 13y ago
The point is that, in the context of the paper, you are supposed to group consecutive sequence elements and find their distribution. Consider the sequence 1,2,1,2,1,2,1.... When you take elements one at a time, you have a uniform distributi
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by buo 13y ago
I take your point, I should have phrased my thoughts differently. I did start with "I think", but I could have made it clearer that I didn't mean to criticize the paper, but rather to invite explanations from people who know
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by buo 13y ago
Thanks.
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by buo 13y ago
I'm sorry for being unclear. The authors define a a PRNG as a sequence such that, if you find its distribution (histogram), it resembles the uniform distribution (all values appear the same number of times). In 1,2,1,2,1,2,..., all val
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by buo 13y ago
That's a good point, and that may well be what the authors meant. Since all PRNGs are periodic (at least all I now of), the definition eventually breaks down. I can see how it can be made to work with a bit of extra formalism, though.
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by buo 13y ago
My intention is not to criticize the paper, which I don't even claim to understand. I just thought the authors definition of a PNRG is wrong (or at least incomplete) and that caught my attention. If I'm wrong, I hope somebody will

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