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by enriquto 3y ago
Easy, just use a mirror! But what about the opposite? A sunny landscape when it's cloudy outside, and a cloudy landscape when it's sunny?
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by enriquto 3y ago
> to beautifully executed mastery Imagine a Mona Lisa that only smiles in a cloudy evening!
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by enriquto 3y ago
> LED lightning often causes mixtures of pigments that look the same under daylight to look different under LED lightning. I'm surprised that this extremely cool phenomenon is not embraced by artists and exploited as an essential pa
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by enriquto 3y ago
I said that you can use scanf(3), not that you should. You can use "s.split()" in python, if that makes you feel safer.
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by enriquto 3y ago
In a few years we will rediscover column-based, punctuation-free text files that can be parsed with single call to scanf(3).
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by enriquto 3y ago
ytalk has to be the best user-interface that I've ever known. It's a multiplayer tmux! We used it to do pair programming remotely around 2003. Your terminal is divided in two parts, one half for you and the other half for your
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by enriquto 3y ago
Was it the 30/6/1973 [0] ? There's an excellent book [1] about this adventure written by its senior scientific advisor (Pierre Léna). The flight went under the shadow of the moon for 74 minutes ! [0] https://www.i
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by enriquto 3y ago
You are probably right. But I'm so afraid to lose my message history that I'm not willing to do an experiment to replicate this.
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by enriquto 3y ago
There is desktop electron app that works mostly OK (as far as electon apps go). Unfortunately, you need a mobile phone with the signal app to start using it.
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by enriquto 3y ago
Oh, please, stop already with this phone number nonsense. I want to use signal from my computer, without need for a mobile phone at all. (Also, to be able to easily synchronize history between different computers).
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by enriquto 3y ago
There's nothing special about the browser. Bitmap images are blurred by fractional scaling. That is inevitable.
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by enriquto 3y ago
Does the scaling change the kerning of the letters? This looks horrific! (and, yes, blurry, or "antialiased" as is custom to name it).
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by enriquto 3y ago
Fractional scaling, by definition, will make stuff blurry. Clean bitmap graphics and fractional scaling are incompatible requirements. Proof: consider a pattern of alternating black and white pixels: 0, 255, 0, 255, 0, 255, etc. This patt
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by enriquto 3y ago
> how on earth is remembering the location of some log file, buried in /var/log somewhere, hopefully, or maybe next to the application in /etc/ or /opt/, easier than remembering journalctl -u unitfilename ?
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by enriquto 3y ago
What would a canonical hacker do here?
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by enriquto 3y ago
What's the point? Just add encrypting filters at both ends of the pipe.
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by enriquto 3y ago
Any hackers left here? Why no one mentions netcat? # send cat file | nc -l -p 8888 # receive nc IP-OF-SENDER 8888 > file this works as long as both computers are connected to the same network, for example the inter
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by enriquto 3y ago
If you solve the Navier Stokes equations, you'll give a couple interviews at some local media and then keep working in other problems. The director of your lab will not make a career for himself talking about your achievment. Some e
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by enriquto 3y ago
> Otherwise only those that master talking will get exposure. Or maybe we shouldn't organize our society so that "exposure" is such an overwhelmingly positive thing.
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by enriquto 3y ago
I love this! There is some slight friction (headless mode still seems to require imgui), but the plots look great and I may replace some of my gnuplot scripts with brplot. It seems much better integrated in a unix workflow.
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by enriquto 3y ago
> For anyone who is interested in just getting satellite imagery (though I understand the fun of pulling it out of the air) If you download satellite images from the internet, but you are connected via wifi, you are still pulling them ou
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by enriquto 3y ago
why would you? This seems much simpler.
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by enriquto 3y ago
Even safer: your program does never perform any actual deed. It just prints commands that you can run afterwards, using an external program, ideally a shell. This has the advantage of allowing the user to edit all the actions one by one
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by enriquto 3y ago
I guess not, but why does it matter? Let people enjoy other things.
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by enriquto 3y ago
> Most people today don’t know what the command line is, much less why they would want to bother with it. This is true today, and it was true as well "in the 1980s", to use the same time frame as TFA. The difference is that to
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by enriquto 3y ago
I loved the dialogues and the poems, with their various translations. The discussio around the "musical offering" is incredible, and helped me learn to appreciate music (not only Bach). This is one of my favourite books! The ma
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by enriquto 3y ago
For a bit of context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tissot%27s_indicatrix This is an essential tool to teach, not only map projections, but the more general concept of Riemannian metrics! See also the Dupin indicatrix,
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by enriquto 3y ago
I don't always use the mouse, but when I do, I only use the mouse, no keyboard needed at all. Using CTRL+C/V requires an unholy synchronization of mouse and keyboard. But unix-style middle-click paste is entirely mouse-controll
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by enriquto 3y ago
> It is the equivalent of seeing somebody use right-click to copy-paste What would you prefer, instead? CTRL-C, CTRL-V? SHIFT-INS, CTRL-INS? some vim incantation? As a select-to-copy/middle-click-to-paste guy, seeing people use t
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by enriquto 3y ago
> So? Can't that be abstracted away once in a custom lib, of the 3-4 plots you use 99% of the time, and be done with it? This does not beat gnuplot's simplicity where you don't even need to define that. The following line

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