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by chazeon 3y ago
Battery life, RAM size, and size and weight. I used to use an XR, it is okay in terms of battery life, but it is very unpleasant to hold in hand. Then I switched to the 12 mini, it is nice to hold, but the battery life it much worse than se
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by chazeon 3y ago
iCloud has become a real nightmare when I try to build something in Swift Playground and open it also on Xcode on a Mac. On iPad I was constantly reminded of conflicts, saying that the file is edited elsewhere, while in fact it was just I l
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by chazeon 3y ago
I expect the old behavior is to see other people's stars, but when I filter only the stars, there is no entries there.
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by chazeon 3y ago
Now the best hope you get is Ladybird
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by chazeon 3y ago
Back in the day, VLC or LaTeX used to use fc-cache to rebuild its font catalog when you installed some new font, and it could take quite some time if you have a lot of fonts installed. I wonder if Quicken does something similar.
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by chazeon 3y ago
Back in the day, VLC or LaTeX used to use fc-cache to rebuild its font catalog when you installed some new font, and it could take quite some time if you have a lot of fonts installed. I wonder if Quicken uses something similar.
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Building a Blog in Django(til.simonwillison.net)
1 points by chazeon 3y ago|0 comments
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by chazeon 3y ago
It's really painful to look at all those screws. A few days ago I opened up a ThinkCentre m900. There is only one screw and you can get access to RAM, and SSD.
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by chazeon 3y ago
I also had a problem with Sandisk 2TB portable SSD. But it dies for a few days and comes back. It's wired. I will not keep anything important in that drive after this incident.
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by chazeon 3y ago
I do computational physics and I use Snakemake. On HPCs, we only have user-level access. We are not allowed to perform long-running processes on login nodes, could be killed at any time due to a violation of rules. That said, anything that
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by chazeon 3y ago
A fleet of three ThinkCentre PCs, m920x2 and m720x1, they use 8th Gen Intel CPUs. These three run Windows 11, Arch Linux, and macOS. Homelab is running mostly on the Arch Linux one with Docker supplemented by the Windows 11 one running some
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by chazeon 3y ago
One good plastic build that people praise about is Valve's Steamdeck
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by chazeon 3y ago
There are a lot of differences. By design, Airflow needs a centralized server/daemon, whereas snakemake is just a command line tool, like make/cmake. This would become an issue in the HPC environment. In Airflow the workflow is as
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by chazeon 3y ago
If you go to NYC, you will find a lot of iMacs on front desks.
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by chazeon 3y ago
Have you tried iSH[1]? [1]: https://ish.app/
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by chazeon 3y ago
I think now Apple’s Notes app does this right now.
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M2 Max is basically an M1 Ultra, and M2 Ultra nearly doubles that performance(9to5mac.com)
3 points by chazeon 3y ago|0 comments
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by chazeon 3y ago
I have the exact the same feeling with Steam vs iPhone, iPad, Vision, or whatever they advertise as the next computer . What SteamOS has is a desktop that allow user to run real browser with proper ad blocker, has a desktop that user can
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Reddit’s API Pricing(initialcharge.net)
1 points by chazeon 3y ago|2 comments
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by chazeon 3y ago
If they really want to make it a work machine, there is too many things that needs to go from iPadOS when using keyboard. For instance, customizable shortcut is an obvious thing that is missing on the iPadOS.
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The Three Ages of -I Names: An American Tale(namerology.com)
2 points by chazeon 3y ago|0 comments
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by chazeon 3y ago
If Instant Pot goes out of business, I wonder where people should go to get electronic pressurized pots?
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by chazeon 3y ago
I recently bout BBedit on their 30th birthday event. BBEdit / TextMate has the Mac feel that I enjoy editing long-form text in (recently, a lot of latex manuscripts); meanwhile, vscode is where I write code. I don't know what cont
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Achieving 20-day standby time on iPad Pro by disabling Apple Home(defcon.social)
5 points by chazeon 3y ago|2 comments
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by chazeon 3y ago
Apple themselves clearly know their bad reputation in the gaming community, and their lock down model for selling software will also not be embraced by many gamers. In this respect a $399 Steamdeck is a better device than Apple’s piece with
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Intelligent brains take longer to solve difficult problems(medicalxpress.com)
11 points by chazeon 3y ago|7 comments
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10 years after launch, a look at how NYC’s Citi Bike nearly failed(gothamist.com)
2 points by chazeon 3y ago|1 comments
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by chazeon 3y ago
> It’s fine to make the point size bigger, but just a little. Use the smallest increment necessary to make a visible difference. If your text is set in 12 point, you needn’t go up to 14 or 15 point. Try a smaller increase—to 12.5 or 13 p
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by chazeon 3y ago
Looking through the toc I hope I had known this book earlier. Now I am looking for books for the math of more advanced topics, such as stochastic calculus, etc.
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by chazeon 3y ago
Here are some examples: e.g, Martingales for Physicists, Deep Learning and Physics

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