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by claudius 10y ago
It’s a generic feature of X available in all desktop environments (essentially there’s two copy-paste mechanism which you can use independently). Much easier to use than manual C-c C-v, especially if you have a third mouse button also on yo
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by claudius 10y ago
Meh. I was issued a Macbook with some version of Mac OS X by my employer as well. Shitty screen, no trackpoint. Very very sharp edge on the front making it very difficult to rest your hands nicely. Chaotic GUI, outdated software (esp. Bash
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by claudius 10y ago
Fairly hassle-free. I have both the 2015 X1 Carbon (with Debian Jessie) and 2016 X1 Yoga (with Debian Stretch). I needed to install an extra xserver-xorg-input-* package for the touchscreen on the latter to work nicely and Firefox Aurora to
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by claudius 10y ago
Well, you usually need a university address or some endorsers to post to the arxiv, but true, most people could probably post that. On the other hand, the arxiv is also the default method of communication in quite a few fields (physics and
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by claudius 10y ago
> If you have forgiven Lenovo after last year's man-in-the-middle scandal, they continue to make the best keyboards Meh. The one on my 2015 X1 Carbon is okay, but the keyboard and trackpoint are the worst parts of my X1 Yoga – the t
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by claudius 10y ago
You shouldn’t have. Google trusted the phone too much, using it instead of the user-supplied secrets to determine who was allowed to access the account. Whether or not the account used multi-factor authentication seems quite perfectly irrel
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by claudius 10y ago
Somalian banks tend not to have passporting access rights to the EU market.
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by claudius 10y ago
> The thing about speculative execution and out of order execution to remember is that you always get the expected result from a single threaded perspective. Could you elaborate on this? I thought at least speculative execution was handl
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by claudius 10y ago
> The problem is not that Kabbaj was lying. It's that he was too charming. Elsewhere, this sort of thing would be called corruption, specifically bribery of a public employee.
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by claudius 10y ago
Actually, no, the library-provided full-access website for APS journals is much nicer. If I want a preprint, I can usually find it on arXiv and last time I looked at it, I found sci-hub to have a rather confusing interface.
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by claudius 10y ago
And wherefrom can you get Signal except for the Google Play store? I was looking for it a while ago to install on my phone but only found two other projects which were threatened by moxie and then shut down.
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by claudius 10y ago
I have one in my work browser to redirect a journal’s website example.com to example.com.library.university.example.net in order to get the full access. Having a simple button for this made my life a lot easier, though I admit that it is so
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by claudius 10y ago
For standard levels of indentation, I get that tabs may be useful, but in /etc/fstab, I absolutely hate them – how many do you put if the individual elements vary in size? Always just one, resulting in e.g. this_is_a_long_li
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by claudius 10y ago
I don’t know of a mechanism in quantum mechanics that would allow to pack information more densely (or even infinitely dense as would be required by O(1) random access times), what did you have in mind?
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by claudius 10y ago
The author does address this point in part three of the series where he compares access times to a small area of a larger memory region. Even with absolutely sequential access to an array of size K, you first have to find this particular ar
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by claudius 10y ago
For the analysis in the article, it is enough to assume an unlimited amount of space into which you can put your memory as well as an unlimited amount of time. For your own analysis, you can of course make any assumptions you wish, but the
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by claudius 10y ago
> Here's why we don't: YOU CAN'T. But that’s one of the main points of the article: You don’t have to. Asymptotically, you won’t be better than O(sqrt(N)) because physics does not allow it. You can put all the different ca
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by claudius 10y ago
This already started to happen a while ago (couple months?) in Munich. Amazon packages are delivered by a specific Amazon delivery person instead of DHL as before. Now I don’t need to sign anything any more when at home and when I’m not at
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by claudius 10y ago
That’s a lie. The EU was never intended to be solely a free trade area, it was conceived as an ‘ever closer union’ and a lot of work has been put into it becoming one since 1952. De Gaulle certainly was right in vetoing the UK application r
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by claudius 10y ago
> EU Commissioners are not elected democratically. Well, they are suggested by the democratically elected governments of the member states and either accepted or rejected by the democratically elected European Parliament. > Furthermor
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by claudius 10y ago
> rely on libc instead of the raw OS APIs? The argument here is that on Windows and Mac OS X, the libc library is the ‘raw OS API’ and it hence makes perfect sense to rely on it if you want to support such operating systems.
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by claudius 10y ago
The arXiv is not necessarily a tool where everybody can publish everything. It is primarily a tool for the community, which consists mostly of people with affiliations. If you want feedback for something as an outsider, go to conferences an
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by claudius 10y ago
No. It just means that there are some more events that may occur and may change the probabilities of some events slightly. That is, where before we assumed that decay only occurs through events A and B, with A chosen 45% of the time and B c
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by claudius 10y ago
The wikipedia page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_graphics_... has some somewhat helpful graphics at least explaining the relative abstraction levels of the different entities.
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by claudius 10y ago
It depends. Clang, GCC and the Intel C++ compiler all support #pragma once perfectly. Personally, I prefer it, as it is only one line rather than three and I don’t have to think of a unique name for the header guard. Supposedly it breaks if
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by claudius 10y ago
It absolutely is so black and white. If I buy a computer from you and you send me a parcel which explodes in my hands, no amount of hand-waving is going to get you out of this -- this even holds if you just distributed notes "Call this
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by claudius 10y ago
Okay, I understand that there are not that many usecases for a 500€ note and whenever I paid something >500€ in cash, I appreciated the flexibility of 50€ notes. But that Harvard Kennedy School also asked for the withdrawal of £50 and
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by claudius 10y ago
Hm. Mirakel 3.0 apparently doesn’t work, but 2.8.2 is still on F-Droid. Compared to the "Taskwarrior" app there, it seems much more polished, with the Taskwarrior app, I have a hard time figuring out how to e.g. add subtasks to a
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by claudius 10y ago
I think even if Windows was not dependent on ARM, Intel would continue to own the PC/notebook market for a long, long time to come. As soon as your device is large enough to fit even a 30-Wh battery in, you can already afford to use In
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by claudius 10y ago
Right now, yes. But these surcharges will be banned entirely from June 2017.

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