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by goerz 9y ago
The free account is severely crippled. To seriously side load your own apps, you need a paid account. And I think that’s a travesty!
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by goerz 9y ago
In principle, yes, but for some reason it really bothered me to have to give Apple $100 just to install some open source software on my iPad. I’d much rather have given that money to Nicolas who spent immeasurable effort trying to work ar
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by goerz 9y ago
Not really. Apps that are signed with a free account expire after 7 days, which makes the free side loading pretty much useless. With a paid account, they work indefinitely.
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by goerz 9y ago
"Laser focused on one task" might be a benefit here ;-)
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by goerz 9y ago
The upcoming version of Blink has some pretty awesome keyboard-based selection/copy/paste: you still tap and hold for the initial selection, but then that selection can be expanded with keyboard shortcuts
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by goerz 9y ago
Yeah, I've had to disable all keyboards except the main (English) one because hitting the globe key accidentally was so frustrating. For Emoji, I'm using an app called Symbols which allows be to copy/paste them (yay for multi
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by goerz 9y ago
I do, but it's useful mostly with the addition of shell utilities from Nicolas Holzschuch's fork [ https://github.com/holzschu/iVim ]. At the moment, this still requires sideloading (with a paid Apple Dev accou
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by goerz 9y ago
Isn't Lyft a competitor in almost every market? Personally, I always check both Lyft and Uber to see which is cheapest (and wait for a little while, to see if they price fluctuates)
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by goerz 9y ago
I'm using GoodNotes
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by goerz 9y ago
I'm a theoretical physicist, and the iPad Pro with pencil definitely beats paper for me: I can my move things around, copy and modify an equation, and correct mistakes much more easily. Also, I don't lose notes and I can organize
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by goerz 9y ago
I'm not sure I understand the point. So they identify bots. Then what? How can one get rid of these accounts?
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by goerz 9y ago
Is there an alternative that provides comparable compression?
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by goerz 9y ago
Yeah, but I'm not archiving for the German or Swiss government. For scanned handwritten notes, JBIG2 still beats out anything else by an order of magnitude at least
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by goerz 9y ago
In terms of compression for scanned notes, I haven't found anything that comes close to what even an older version of Adobe Acrobat yields, due to the use of the JBIG2 codec. Has anybody found any way to compress PDF files with JBIG2 o
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by goerz 9y ago
I often like to write out programs by hand (in some sort of pseudocode or whatever language I'm currently using) on "paper", except that "paper" is GoodNotes on an iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil. The benefit is that
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by goerz 9y ago
I haven't updated to High Sierra, but this would be very worrying. Can other people confirm whether or not a Yubikey is working for gpg on High Sierra? I did find this: https://www.yubico.com/support/knowledge-base
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by goerz 9y ago
Considering that Xiaomi or Huawei don't run iOS, it seems like a good deal to me ;-)
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by goerz 9y ago
Yes! I can't wait for an update to the SE (hopefully using the exact same form factor, just updated internals)
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by goerz 9y ago
Sure, Mathematica has had a long head start. I don't see the gap widening at all, though. For me, e.g. SymPy (and more specialized algebra systems for e.g. quantum mechanics I've built on top of it) now match and sometimes surpass
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by goerz 9y ago
Will do! And thanks for all the great work around the Jupyter ecosystem. I didn't mean to come across as too critical!
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by goerz 9y ago
For the classic notebook, there's a "Variable Inspector" plugin that's quite neat. See https://github.com/ipython-contrib/jupyter_contrib_nbextensi... I'm hoping these extensions will be availa
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by goerz 9y ago
I very heavily rely on the "official" notebook extensions from https://github.com/ipython-contrib/jupyter_contrib_nbextensi... This especially includes things like "Table of Contents", "Variabl
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by goerz 9y ago
That's more a restriction of Python, though. It's important to remember that the Jypter Notebook (and now, JupyterLab) is language agnostic. The Julia language, for example, is very well integrated into Jupyter (which, in fact, is
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by goerz 9y ago
For now
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by goerz 9y ago
No, all source code lines should be max 80 columns wide, always. That way, you can put a well-defined number of editor panes next to each other on the screen (3 columns on a 16:9, 2 columns on a 4:3). You're also able to print out snip
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by goerz 9y ago
I vaguely remember that the change to ordered keys in 3.6 was actually a side effect of making the dict implementation more efficient! https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2016-September/...
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by goerz 9y ago
I'd say the way to go is to take the same algorithm (pseudocode), and then implement that idiomatically in all given languages
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by goerz 9y ago
As someone coming from a background of running Fortran programs with runtimes of multiple days, and looking into Julia at some point last year, the original blog post was quite obviously bogus, regarding the performance complaints. Also, 1-
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by goerz 9y ago
I've been pretty happy paying Fastmail to run my email server for me.
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by goerz 9y ago
Sure, at some point the distances are just too great and flying is the only option

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