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by dfdz 5y ago
It’s much worse than you are describing: NYT put wirecutter behind a two layer paywall. They no longer let regular NYT subscribers from accessing Wirecutter, one has to buy an extra subscription (I assume almost everyone buying this will al
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by dfdz 5y ago
After a long discussion of sea algae the author makes several good points. Here is a short summary to save others time. On Mobile: > The basis of performance shifted from small binaries to smooth interaction. > Log-in disappeared comp
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by dfdz 5y ago
The thumbnail of the youtube video made me laugh Smaller. Smarter. Sooner. 2018 Currently 2021 where is my fusion energy? But this time must be different, after this advance we are only a few years away from fusion energy?
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by dfdz 5y ago
Anyone who has used Netflix and HBO MAX (the best and worse streaming site, respectively, in terms of streaming tech) will beg to differ that Netflix is not a tech company...
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by dfdz 5y ago
Just to follow up, my attempts to get vimtex to work unfortunately were unsuccessful. However, along the way reading neovim plugin docs I started to figure out the difference between neovim and vim and was able to get things working via th
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by dfdz 5y ago
Thank you for the detailed answer, I really appreciate it. It it great to know that the main developer for vimtex uses neovim. I will try the neovim/vimtex/zathura combination used by the dev!
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by dfdz 5y ago
Hi tjdevries, I have been thinking about switching to neovim from vim. Do you have any advice/reference for setting up Latex Synctex (Forward and Backwards search) for neovim and evince (on Linux)? From looking online there seem to be
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by dfdz 5y ago
The device I longed for a Decade Ago is an 8.5 x 11 inch E-ink reader (for PDF documents). Anyone know if I can get one these days?
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by dfdz 5y ago
While I do think this Gall’s law is mostly true it’s statement gave me a good laugh since clearly Gall didn’t pay attention in Discrete Math/Logic class. The “inverse” Gall discussed is in fact logically equivalent > A complex syste
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by dfdz 5y ago
If we are being technical (and I must assume that we are given that you are making a technical critique), then everything you are claiming is wrong. 1. The phrase “an NP Hard problem” refers to the computational complexity of a problem as t
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by dfdz 5y ago
What does the word "teaching" mean in the context of this post? Writing blog posts? If you want to learn about moral/life philosophy, then there are some great free courses on Coursera https://www.coursera.org&#x2F
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by dfdz 5y ago
Since no one is discussing it, here are the technical details of the change: >once the 12 GB SLC cache is exhausted, and their [write] performance [decreases] from 610 MBps (the original speed) [to] 390Mps. I am not saying what they did
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by dfdz 5y ago
Here my conspiracy theory, which closely related to what you are saying. The BBC was investigating OnlyFans and found damaging stuff[1]. The leadership at OnlyFans was trying to think of a way to avoid the resulting bad press so they come u
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by dfdz 5y ago
https://browser.geekbench.com/macs/macbook-air-late-2020 https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/intel-core-i7-1165g... Honestly, this anti-macbook is way better than I expected.
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by dfdz 5y ago
Can someone please update the link to the latest version https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.06.21261707v...
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by dfdz 5y ago
> This worked well for nearly a decade but by 2013 the cracks were already showing. By then we had client apps for all platforms, with each one requiring their own separate purchase, often across multiple app stores. And paid upgrades to
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by dfdz 5y ago
> None of this is helped by ... the continued low uptake of password managers to both store and generate passwords This article contains reasonable advice, but I am not sure that is advice that anyone is interested in. Let me explain.
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by dfdz 5y ago
I really like the idea of building a PDF viewer for research papers. One feature that I don’t see mentioned that would convince me to use the product is fast search (possibly after some pre computation) When I’m reading a long technical doc
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by dfdz 5y ago
A recent high profile example is the lab leak "conspiracy theory". Facebook block discussion of the possibility that Covid-19 started from a lab leak, but now scientists are seriously considering the issue. Imagine if Google had t
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by dfdz 5y ago
To follow up on this comment, I think that math should be viewed as a giant tree structure or pyramid At the bottom are all sorts of applications of linear algebra and optimization (calculus) are related to machine learning, deep learning (
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by dfdz 5y ago
I think this quotation best summarizes the article "When someone misuses the red cross,(the video game industry being just one of many), we seek their cooperation in ending the unauthorized use" The red cross is a protect trademar
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by dfdz 5y ago
> 3D integration In case anyone missed it, AMD announced a basic "3D" design last month https://www.hpcwire.com/2021/06/02/amd-introduces-3d-chiplet... Essentially AMD "stacked a 64MB 7nm SR
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by dfdz 5y ago
I hope everyone read the disclosure at the bottom of the article: "Each of the companies above qualifies for inclusion in the X Factor Index as of this writing, however, this may not have been the case in June 2011. Therefore, the hypo
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by dfdz 5y ago
A friend challenged me to solve this digit memorization mini game. The objective is to memorize 12 digits in around 3 seconds, and enter the memorized number in 7 seconds. I managed to get 9 digits semi consistently by memorizing three 3-di
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Can anyone pass this 12-digit memory minigame?(sharkiller.ddns.net)
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by dfdz 5y ago
My point is that for codes like this, the issue is not vectorization. Just evaluating the special functions exp and sqrt is taking 90% of the time. You can evaluate these special functions in parallel, but that is about it.
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by dfdz 5y ago
This example is not really testing Fortran vs. Julia, but rather testing the speed of the math library you linked to. The most expensive part of the fortran code is evaluating sqrt and exp. For example on a 5600X the current Fortran code (w
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by dfdz 5y ago
"However, his love for physics was intact and urged him to go back to school. Therefore, he enrolled at Princeton University to study physics and mathematics in 1933. There he wrote a thesis on solid-state physics under the guidance of
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Online Cheating Charges Upend Dartmouth Medical School
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by dfdz 5y ago
I am really confused by this article. The section "First An Issue" is a great example of how NOT to teach math. First, the class of sequences under consideration is not clearly defined. (I am not going to invest time solving a pro

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