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by enriquto 4y ago
There does not seem to be anything "exclusive" about these images. They look like regular worldview 3 images that anybody can buy. From TFA: > The strange gap in imagery raises questions about who gets to access high-res satel
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by enriquto 4y ago
Octave is almost the perfect tool for numerical computing. Only problem is that loops are slow. Some millionaire out here should pay a "stallion" to write a good JIT octave interpreter and the world would be such a better place!
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by enriquto 4y ago
I don't understand why do they need this complicated algorithm. If there is such a blatant bias then it can be detected by sampling a few million random tetrahedra; and that can be done instantaneously. Also, why don't they publi
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by enriquto 4y ago
> JSON sucks. But we're making it better. Why would you make something better at sucking? Just gron the damn thing and grep through it like a normal person.
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by enriquto 4y ago
His (elementary) books on differential equations and on classical mechanics are the pinnacle of mathematical exposition. I cannot fathom the idea that the person who wrote these was not an excellent teacher.
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by enriquto 4y ago
Fortunately, things like snap and flatpak are still fringe projects with no realistic perspectives for a widespread adoption. Which would be ridiculous, anyway: why would you want all the programs in /usr/bin to be isolated &quot
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by enriquto 4y ago
I was going to reply in an impulsive manner (saying, derisively "so how does strace work, then? and why can you attach gdb to already running processes?"). But it turns out that you are right! Well, at least in modern ubuntu&#x2
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by enriquto 4y ago
Thanks for your answers! It's reassuring that most things will still be possible. Still, xeyes is the favorite program of my kid who is starting to learn linux... I'd have a hard time selling wayland to him. > to make key-logg
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by enriquto 4y ago
> I still use X11, where and rely on the following features To which I would add: (1) taking screenshots from the command line (xwd) (2) moving windows around from the command line (xwit) (3) keyboard-free copy-paste between different pr
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by enriquto 4y ago
> There doesn't seem to be any limitations -- anything you can do with FFT, you can do here. There's certainly no limitations if all you want to do is to convolve your image with symmetric kernels. But you asked for advantages
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by enriquto 4y ago
The convolution theorem is much uglier for the hartley transform. I guess this is the main reason. You can see the Fourier transform as a simple variant of the Hartley transform where the linear filtering can be done directly in the freq
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by enriquto 4y ago
Heh. The first thing I do with a new ethernet cable is to break the clip, laptop side. It's orders of magnitude better to have an occasional disconnection than to trip with the cable and make the laptop fall from the table. I did not
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by enriquto 4y ago
> The extension has about 400 active weekly users right now, How do you know that? It sounds a bit scary that you are able to know this number.
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by enriquto 4y ago
Do it on a single commit? (or contiguous series of commits) It's not going to conflict with any other branch because there are no other branches ;) I guess that large refactorings/reorganizations are harder if you have many bra
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by enriquto 4y ago
> and at that point I'm just replicating a branch! Yes. My entire point is that you can always replicate branches with actual, explicit files, and that this is a good thing to do because files are (very often) better than branches.
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by enriquto 4y ago
> the reasonably common case very well where someone is working on changes which are constantly breaking the branch But isn't this bad practice? My grug brain refuses to commit anything that does not pass tests. Check tests, then
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by enriquto 4y ago
I don't understand your comment. The method that I describe only requires that the programming language ignores unused files. As far as I know, all modern programming languages have this feature.
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by enriquto 4y ago
I love linear git! Branches are very confusing for a nonempty set of people. For us, it is always clearer to work with explicit files in the main branch. You are implementing a new feature? Nice: just create a new file on the main branc
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by enriquto 4y ago
> Bicycles aren’t very useful vehicles compared to cars I find this point of view amusing because it is so contradictory to my personal experience. In my case, I started commuting by bike after years of being tired to spend an unpredict
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by enriquto 4y ago
> Who exactly are these new C-standards for? For me and for many colleagues in my lab? C is quite big in scientific computing and signal processing. Fortran would be slightly better, and it is widely used, but not directly around me.
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by enriquto 4y ago
I hope we reach an "I'm Spartacus!" situation here, were none of us can be realistically accused of anything.
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by enriquto 4y ago
Just don't read Kafka then.
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by enriquto 4y ago
> That has a direct translation into json: Sure, but this representation is horrific, and a very clear example of why json is not the appropriate format to store graphs. A more natural format for graphs would replace your punctuation-ri
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by enriquto 4y ago
> I sincerely doubt that any marketed truffle oil is based on petroleum. It's explained right there in the wikipedia article you link to.
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by enriquto 4y ago
I guess the original article [0] is a good starting reference. A post [1] in Tao's blog gives a nice overview. If you just want a short statement of the discrete uncertainty principle: If you define the discrete Fourier transform F(
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by enriquto 4y ago
sure, and they are the eigenfunctions of a Sturm-Liouville operator!
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by enriquto 4y ago
> The discrete Fourier transform doesn't satisfy an uncertainty principle as far as I know. The concept doesn't really make sense. It certainly does. There are different formulations of it (by Donoho-Stark and by Tao, that I k
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by enriquto 4y ago
> you can replace the 'N' sin/cos functions used in Fourier analysis with any set of 'N' orthogonal functions But why? It rarely makes sense to use such arbitrary functions that don't satisfy further proper
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by enriquto 4y ago
> It didn't work. If it is available as open-source, they don't _need_ a different license. Don't they? I'm surprised to hear that. I have sold a few proprietary versions of my AGPL codes (which were identical to th
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by enriquto 4y ago
> Sorry about Vercel's insight stuff, not sure how that got enabled, How do you "accidentally" enable such user-hostile tracking? This gives quite a bad image of the site and the associated project. Will you "accide

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