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by carlob 12y ago
In my experience tethering via bluetooth the bottleneck is BT not the cellular network. I get 4-5x the speed by using USB.
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by carlob 12y ago
The 208 has 64MB, 3.5G and costs about 50-60 euros.
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by carlob 12y ago
They have a few. I've owned the 515 (fell from the fourth story and kept working for a solid year), and I currently own the 208. Both have HSPA or something, 3.5G anyway. No wifi though, you'll have to either use bluetooth or USB
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by carlob 12y ago
The problem is that the quality of the audio out of the raspberry pi is terrible. I wonder if these HDMI audio extractors I see in the comments are any better. I have a raspberry pi connected to a projector that doesn't have audio out
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by carlob 12y ago
> It vexes them in the same way that many with color television sets were long ago bothered by the anachronism of black-and-white films, even carefully conceived black-and-white films. Is he obliquely saying that the 16:9 version of the
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by carlob 12y ago
> […] will calculate the 1 000 001st and 1 000 002nd numbers in 4 seconds. Classic version would take much more time, as the program has to operate with multi-thousand-digit numbers. I'm not sure what classical algorithm of computin
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by carlob 12y ago
Other than the technical problems I also wonder if the person who invented this location-based unlock has ever been married… - Honey, your phone is locked. - Yeah, I always keep it locked, just in case. - Did you know you can make it unlock
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by carlob 12y ago
Apparently WW can be a viable female: http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_9139000/913...
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by carlob 12y ago
Don't be too snarky about Starbucks: coffee before Starbucks was much worse than it is now. From the wikipedia article linked in the sibling comment you'll see that Starbucks pretty much sparked the good coffee revolution in the U
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by carlob 12y ago
Most of the stuff you say easily extends to a large part of Italy. I know coffee in Rome is often not as good as in Naples, but we also go on coffee dates and fight to be the one to pay for everyone. I would like to convey the pleasure of p
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by carlob 12y ago
Heh, what an appropriate theme for Christmas :)
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by carlob 12y ago
Another way of say of saying this is that a drum beat has no definite pitch because it's too short. It's exactly the same property of Fourier transforms behind the uncertainty principle.
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by carlob 12y ago
> In the end i disabled retina resolution and am running native 1680x1050 now. Definitely not as crisp but i got used to it and system load is considerably less (especially when playing back video and such) now and battery life improved
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by carlob 12y ago
In a way you are right, but I know quite a few exceptions. Also remember that the cost of living even in a large Italian city is much lower than in SV, NYC or Boston. In terms of professional recognition things are definitely improving, but
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by carlob 12y ago
> 2. Please, please tell me where they are! My email is hn_handle@my_employee and you can probably infer my_employee from my submissions :)
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by carlob 12y ago
No, believe me. If you think that the pizza you get for 8-9€ is decent, take the time, once in your lifetime, to visit Naples. There are a couple of good pizza places in Paris, but prices hover around 15€ per pizza.
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by carlob 12y ago
I lived four years in Paris and the fact that junk food culture is absent in France is a myth! University cafeterias serve fries every day as one of the options and there are a lot of kebab places throughout the city, but mind you not a goo
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by carlob 12y ago
I might be wrong, but I found the kind of room that $1000 pays for in NYC to be way nicer and larger than the one you can get for a similar price in Paris (though the usd/eur has increased 20% since I checked).
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by carlob 12y ago
> To be fair, a lot of “random brasseries” are pretty good, you can eat a good meal for €10 everywhere in the city. You'd have better luck with a random $3 slice of pizza in NYC IMHO. Don't get me started on the kind of lunch €
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by carlob 12y ago
I did the computation myself I think in the span 2000-2013, using data from Wolfram|Alpha and I was surprised to find that Paris had 46% of days with at least one shower. Here are the cities I had checked: London 42 Paris 46 Rome 23 Boston
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by carlob 12y ago
Only if you compare by the room, not by the surface. If you can consider a 3m x 3m a room go for it!
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by carlob 12y ago
Finding an apartment in Paris is a special circle of hell, get help by whomever is hiring you, because it's a very lengthy and humiliating process for foreigners. I've visited apartments for about two months before finding a place
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by carlob 12y ago
There are a bunch of nice things to be said about Paris and the tax rebate system they put in place for startups and companies that spend heavily in R&D. However I think that Paris has a very low quality of life in most of the fields th
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by carlob 12y ago
I remember following molleindustria games back in the day when they were flash-based. Thanks for sharing this (but fix your link, so that it gets a wider audience).
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by carlob 12y ago
You'd be surprised to know what fraction of the documentation he's actually written himself.
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by carlob 12y ago
> You could buy a pair of Sony MDR-7506 that measure similarly (IIRC, a bit better, even) for $85. Or Superlux HD668B which can be found for $30 last time I checked.
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by carlob 12y ago
I remember reading something that disproved your point b): mixing students from different socioeconomic background (which in general is a very good proxy for academic performance) benefited the poorer students a lot and hardly had any impac
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by carlob 12y ago
Next time you visit Rome and you find the subway system lacking, try imagining how deep we need to go. On a related note: Ikea was planning to open a shop in the outskirts of Rome some 25 years ago. They had their store designed and just wh
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by carlob 12y ago
Let's take a moment to remember Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Ui2deAKr8 If I recall correctly this is a love song that takes a deeper spiritual meaning in the context of qawwali.
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by carlob 12y ago
Great to know people using such an interesting language (and also being based in Europe)!

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