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by giu 6y ago
Bought a Philips AC2887/10 air purifier (uses a HEPA filter) two months ago for my appartment, and it has noticeably improved my quality of life at home; I definitely can recommend it.
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by giu 6y ago
I have a conflicting relationship with "How to Win Friends and Influence People," and maybe some of you may relate to this. Disclaimer: I only read a small, initial part of the book, and I'll explain the reasons behind this.
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by giu 6y ago
>>> row = [""] * 3 #row i['', '', ''] >>> board = [row] * 3 >>> board[0][0] = "X" >>> board [['X', '', ''], ['X',
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by giu 6y ago
Soundcloud's great for finding new music, too; I have currently 1842 tracks and mixes that I liked over there. MixCloud [0] is another source for finding a lot of new electronic music tracks; the absolutely nice thing about MixCloud is
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by giu 6y ago
A few months ago a coworker introduced me to the Cercle channel on YouTube [0]. If you look through their top videos [1] I'm sure you'll find a lot of sets that you like! My favorite Cercle sets are the following: - Black Coffee&#
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by giu 6y ago
> Listening to new music is one of my favourite activities Same here. I always get so damn happy when I find a new track that I really like. I've added a weekly reminder to listen to my Spotify account's Discovery Weekly and Re
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by giu 6y ago
In the linked article, the author also included some videos of himself implementing some of the presented parts e.g. exclusive Fibers [0], including writing the necessary C code using the Ruby C API. Recording yourself writing code and then
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by giu 6y ago
Funnily enough, one of my first GreaseMonkey scripts that I wrote 9 years ago was one that added the ability to collapse threads here on HackerNews [0]; this functionality was finally added in the past year or so to HN (not based on my impl
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by giu 7y ago
Even if it's a PR stunt, what's so bad about this specific case? It costs Cloudflare little (this for one depends on how the mentoring is set up), yes, but it also provides a possibility for students to work on interesting problem
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by giu 7y ago
The Applications chapter in the "Introduction to High Performance Scientific Computing" book [0] (it's freely available as a PDF) has some chapters dedicated to relevant computational physics problems, i.e., Molecular Dynamic
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by giu 7y ago
Could you maybe elaborate more on how to achieve this with Java, i.e., run an entire week and never get GCed? I would imagine that using immutable types is one of the tricks used in such a scenario.
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by giu 7y ago
The dining philosophers problem comes to mind, which originally was formulated by Dijkstra [0]. You can find implementations in different languages at Rosetta code [1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dining_philosophe
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by giu 7y ago
Absolutely. From the WHO page [0] > Common signs of infection include respiratory symptoms, fever, cough, shortness of breath and breathing difficulties. In more severe cases, infection can cause pneumonia, severe acute respiratory syndr
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by giu 7y ago
As soon as I read "Self-Compassion" I knew it has to be Dr. Kristin Neff; I read her book ( https://self-compassion.org/self-compassion-kristin-neff/ ) a couple years ago and it was quite an eye-opener for me.
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by giu 7y ago
I'm very worried about southern Italy; the medical infrastructures are not really top-notch down there, sadly. Disclaimer: I've spent quite a lot of holidays in the south, since both my parents grew up there.
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by giu 7y ago
Thanks a lot for the keywords; these are very good starting points to look for further stuff on the topic! Didn't know that there was a term (i.e., real-time computing) for this kind of systems / constraints.
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by giu 7y ago
I'm always fascinated about software running on hardware-restricted systems like planes, space shuttles, and so on. Where can someone (i.e., in my case a software engineer who's working with Kotlin but has used C++ in his past) re
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by giu 7y ago
I did a math-heavy degree, so most of my lecture summaries were all written in LaTeX due to the nature of the content (lots and lots of equations; I published most of my lecture summaries on my homepage). For a few other lectures I used Ope
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by giu 7y ago
Excellent tool! Used it heavily while writing my lecture summaries during my studies. Also, interesting to know: the backend was re-written in Haskell at one time; it gets mentioned in Daniel's thesis [0] http://danielkirs.c
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by giu 7y ago
I once ran a script on production to re-push some old data for a customer based on log entries. This script used the log timestamps to decide which data to re-push. Didn't realize that the timestamps in the log files were UTC, and I ju
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by giu 7y ago
(Not OP) I've been using Jekyll [0] for my personal homepage [1], and I'm very happy with it. [0] https://jekyllrb.com/ [1] http://accaputo.ch
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by giu 7y ago
Very good point about sending test e-mails, which also reminds me of the next friendly reminder: SES has a Mailbox Simulator [0] where you can send e-mails to specific e-mail addresses and check the notifications you receive, e.g., bounces.
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by giu 7y ago
Just a friendly reminder, since I've worked with SES in the past: Don't forget about bounces when using SES [0]. From [0]: > If your bounce rate is 5% or greater, we'll place your account under review. To sum it up, try to
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by giu 7y ago
Also worth mentioning is the fact that the Scala programming language was created at EPFL: https://scala.epfl.ch/ Martin Odersky (the original author) is still a professor there and teaches some Computer Science courses: h
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by giu 7y ago
I enjoyed my time there a lot (did a BSc and MSc there) and can recommend it to anyone who's interested in the engineering and natural sciences. School doesn't cost much (I paid around 600CHF per semester), provides a great infras
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by giu 7y ago
A very useful resource that I've used quite a few times in the past for comparing floats: https://floating-point-gui.de/errors/comparison/ . The latter also provides the following link to unit tests that cover
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by giu 7y ago
I've been reading for 30 mins to an hour before going to bed for the past 6 months as part of my "sleep hygiene" routine. Honestly, this has been quite the game changer for me. For one, I'm always looking forward to it,
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by giu 7y ago
Just created a pull-request; I added links to some articles and sections hosted on Paul's Online Notes page ( http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu ). This site helped me quite a lot during my studies, and I'm sure the same hol
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by giu 7y ago
Damn, I would have loved to have this book during my studies in Compuational Science and Engineering [CSE] (especially the chapters on Molecular Dynamics and the N-Body Problem, since these topics are great examples for the introduction of
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by giu 8y ago
The Incremental Diff feature is awesome. IntelliJ IDEA has this feature by default, and I find it really useful.

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