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by enriquto 4y ago
> If your explicit goal is to have a modern phone without Google specifically, you really should consider Apple. Apple is much worse, I don't consider it a viable option. I was gifted an ipad recently, but couldn't use it witho
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by enriquto 4y ago
Thanks! I'm going to try it! But how can you be sure that you are getting the real thing? Fastmail does not publish checksums of their apks. I asked their user support (which is otherwise excellent) if they could publish apks or at
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by enriquto 4y ago
This is an interesting list of reasons. Even if it is long, I'd say it's still somewhat incomplete... I was motivated by this list to stop depending so much on google. But it's harder than it seems. For example, if you pur
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by enriquto 4y ago
The interface is really cool. But is it possible to globally set the default "fuzziness" to zero? I'd like to get only exact matches in all circumstances.
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by enriquto 4y ago
> Leave the light pollution, the noise, and all those urban attributes in the city. "The noise"... are you advocating for a rural setting without cars here? Most of light pollution and noise in the cities comes from cars and c
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by enriquto 4y ago
It got me laid. In 1996 I was a teenager and my dad taught me html and ftp. I wrote a website with some cheesy poems and drawings, and uploaded it to geocities/athens/acropolis. Also, I put links to my page on several web directo
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by enriquto 4y ago
Not all bugs are memory bugs. A memory-safe re-implementation would likewise introduce many new bugs, so it would not be necessarily better than the battle-tested current implementation. That said, re-implementations are always cool.
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by enriquto 4y ago
He will reply with a pile of word salad again and again, never addressing the crucial API issue.
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by enriquto 4y ago
Thanks for the explanation. I guess that these features are important for their users, but I'm definitely not one of them. (In fact, lsp is so ugly that it's a positive feature not to support it, but I digress...)
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by enriquto 4y ago
Just my graybeard opinions: - Love the possibility to download a single-file static executable that works out of the box, without need for a bizarre install method - Love that basic vim keybindings work - Hate that it does not come with a m
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by enriquto 4y ago
> Do you frequently encounter issues which are caused by the Fortran portion of Numpy's source code? No practical issues at all. The problem is not the pip install numpy that only happens once, but the import numpy that must appear
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by enriquto 4y ago
Plotting is a complicated beast. If you just want to multiply matrices, there's no "using" statement and you get sub-second running times. Still geologically slow, but at least somewhat manageable.
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by enriquto 4y ago
What is your point? You have exactly the same option with Octave.
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by enriquto 4y ago
Yes. I was using julia as a shell calculator to multiply small matrices. Octave happens to be much faster for this (admittedly niche) use case.
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by enriquto 4y ago
Will try! The image warping was done by an external program. Julia was used just to multiply two matrices of size 3x3 for each image in the collection. Launching the interpreter took almost a whole second, the rest of the computation was
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by enriquto 4y ago
> Why use Octave instead of R, Python, or Julia? I use Octave daily, for many numerical tasks (and also python and julia). It has some advantages with respect to Python: 1. The sparse linear solvers in octave are considerably more perfo
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by enriquto 4y ago
Unix shell is a proper language and has very solid principles beautifully laid at its foundation by Douglas McIlroy.
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by enriquto 4y ago
Not at all. But I remember dearly my first 3D program (a rotating wireframe dodecahedron) was all stretched out. The screen coordinates had to be scaled by a factor like 6/5 or 5/4 before display.
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by enriquto 4y ago
The non-square 320x200 pixels. What a thing of beauty.
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by enriquto 4y ago
> For me, a search engine's job is to find relevant web pages quickly. I disagree even with this. Please, no "relevant" pages bullshit. Give me just pages that contain the search terms verbatim.
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by enriquto 4y ago
So, a random person on #openbsd once said you to RTFM and you are still salty a few years after? My (also anecdotal) experience with the openbsd community is very positive, so here's that.
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by enriquto 4y ago
> Instead, you start with an anecdote This also works in math. Best professor I had, he spent half of the lesson explaining the life and motivations of some mathematician (Riemann, Fourier, Weierstrass, ...), and why he was so obsesed wi
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by enriquto 4y ago
It's not so clear that she doesn't want people to use that image. She has assisted several times at image processing conferences, and has stated recently that she was proud of the fact that so many people used that photo. The do
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by enriquto 4y ago
Yes, the only reasonable css I'd concede is a max width in ch. But this should really be a browser standard to begin with.
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by enriquto 4y ago
I honestly prefer the original version without css. Plain browser styles have a kind of raw beauty that it's very hard to surpass.
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by enriquto 4y ago
Precisely; that would be a good reason!
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by enriquto 4y ago
> everyone makes typos and corrects them with a backspace or mod+backspace for the whole word, but this is never accounted for, so a very frequent Backspace key is very far away. This! I use a variant of the classic typematrix layout [0]
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by enriquto 4y ago
No, I mean that you have to re-shade the maps with light coming from the south-east, and display them with the south up. This will give the correct effect for the northern hemisphere. A more universal solution is to orient your maps with e
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by enriquto 4y ago
> In Swiss-Style Relief shading, the light comes from North West I would rather say it comes from the top-left. If you orient your map with the south upwards, it will look ok, as if the relief was shaded in the morning.
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by enriquto 4y ago
On the other hand, P isnt't always easy. The class P is a huge ocean, and so far we have barely scratched the surface of a tiny droplet from that water. This gives us a false impression of comfort, as if a problem was somehow "so

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