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by claudius 13y ago
The Fn key has always been the leftmost key on Thinkpads, so I don’t really care about that. However, even my T410s has the option to swap Fn and Ctrl in the BIOS, so I would assume the T420s to have it, too.
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by claudius 13y ago
As a reader/content ‘consumer’, that’s your problem, not mine.
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by claudius 13y ago
Most local shops around here don’t mind delivering the item you want to your home after a phone call, though likely at a heftier premium than ‘standard’ online merchants.
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by claudius 13y ago
Unfortunately, you can only rebind existing keys in the ‘right’ position. Rebinding doesn’t help you with a physically broken keyboard layout.
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by claudius 13y ago
Unfortunately, the T420s seems to be the last Lenovo notebook with a decent keyboard[0], but even this one contains non-standard elements – most importantly the larger Esc and Del key, which, however, are actually quite useful. But I have t
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by claudius 13y ago
I think the author wants to say that a) computers should use appropriate binary formats for communication between them (e.g. from a web server to a browser), b) they don’t and use plain text in many cases (e.g. HTML) and hence c) text i
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by claudius 13y ago
> I guess binary might be an example of that. 2 values is not something that applies to everything, at least not naturally in the way the human mind works, but it is much more efficient for machines to process information, that makes sen
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by claudius 13y ago
Once again I am happy that ‘Segmentation fault. Core dumped.’ is a perfectly reasonable reaction to malformed user input in my field of work, which only increases my respect for those who write real-world software. Thanks! :)
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by claudius 13y ago
People not wanting men to change their kids’ diapers for one.
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by claudius 13y ago
> Anyways it is Toshiba's reponsibility... Amazon ‘sold‘ you that warranty, not Toshiba. Granted, it is a warranty, hence supposed to be directed at the manufacturer, not the merchant, but it still cannot hurt to ask Amazon – in the
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by claudius 13y ago
> I am really curious to know how Intel graphics drivers work on linux. Intel seems to be more linux friendly compared to AMD/Nvidia. Is the support a lot better? They ‘just work’ – you can change the resolution/screen setup an
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by claudius 13y ago
> First, you cannot draw such a causal conclusion from statistical data alone. From what else but (suitable) statistical can you draw such a conclusion? > Does that sound stupid? I hope so, because it is. Yes. > But that's exa
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by claudius 13y ago
Is there a particular reason for that? I can understand not wanting to ship GPLv3 code if it is embedded sufficiently deeply into the hardware, but it shouldn’t be a problem to ship GPLv3 Bash, as the user can change the binary delivered on
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by claudius 13y ago
OS X (at least the version on the Macbook I got from IT) also ships with a horribly outdated Bash, so I don’t think it healthy to put it up as a standard for anything…
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by claudius 13y ago
Numpy supports Python 3 since version 1.5, released in August 2010. Ubuntu 12.04 and the current Debian stable carry this version. Scipy supports Python 3 since version 0.9, apparently released in 2010 as well with releases in the current D
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by claudius 13y ago
I read it a few years ago and found it quite helpful, too – the most important bit being that (most) people like to talk about themselves.
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by claudius 13y ago
Dominions 3/4, Freeciv and recently Kerbal Space Program, the latter of which I can fully recommend to anybody who enjoys blowing up rockets.
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by claudius 13y ago
The title seems to imply that Kasparov said chess would outlast ‘eSports’ as a whole, when he only appears to have said that it will outlast every individual video game – and judging from history, that appears to be trivially true.
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by claudius 13y ago
By your definition of <, 0 < i and i^2 < 0, however, the OP requires that 0 < p AND 0 < q => 0 < p * q, which is not fulfilled by your < for p = i = q.
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by claudius 13y ago
Mathematica can feel a bit clunky at first, but if Python comes with batteries included, then Mathematica brings its own power plant…
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by claudius 13y ago
I think I’ll wait for a true ‘high-end’ phone from them in the future. I wouldn’t mind paying 800 € for a phone, but I do expect it to run for a few years and really outperform my current N9. Hopefully by the time they get that to any marke
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by claudius 13y ago
Train prices are not too high, the other means of transport are too cheap – both regular cars and coaches receive heavy subsidies and cause existential costs for the environment without having any advantage whatsoever. And if you get a Bahn
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by claudius 13y ago
The size of the head of state is rather constant, and that is the only size discussed here – of course the underlying bureaucracy grows larger in larger countries, but that doesn’t mean the president can suddenly be in two jets at the same
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by claudius 13y ago
But while drug laws are primarily intended to restrict access to one resource (drugs), hotel regulations are intended to ensure that a resource (living space) is available and only as a side effect restrict another resource (hotel rooms). T
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by claudius 13y ago
> > late 18th and early 19th century > opened in 1890 (late 19th century). Check yo fax. HN, of all communities, should be familiar with off-by-one errors. My apologies for the confusion; you are right, I was referring to the late
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by claudius 13y ago
Roughly 1.95m and while standing in the very middle is possible, it does feel more like an airplane rather than a train. Admittedly, I also like to have some space above my head and don’t always feel perfectly comfortable in tight spaces, s
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by claudius 13y ago
Of course they do, just as people walking around in public can have a sensible expectation of not being filmed or photographed randomly.
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by claudius 13y ago
And I am very thankful that the undergrounds in the cities where I spent most of my time were built much later: Tunnelling techniques evolved quickly during the late 18th and early 19th century, allowing for much more ‘comfortable’ tunnel d
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by claudius 13y ago
Yeah, but that last thing holds for nearly everything – whenever I read an article on, say, physics, I cannot help but wonder whether the articles on (e.g.) the war in Iraq were produced with the same complete disregard of correctness.
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by claudius 13y ago
That really depends on the winter, but most have two or three sunny days, at least…

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