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by gradstudent 4y ago
I will never understand why private companies curating their platforms is equated with censorship. In China (and elsewhere) a central government curates acceptable speech. If you don't comply you go to jail. In the "West" yo
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by gradstudent 4y ago
I used flowblade 2.6.0 for my teaching throughout the pandemic. It's a wonderful tool and I never experienced any crashes. Earlier I tried Shotcut, Openshot and others. They were slow to work with (laggy ui), slow to render and sometim
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by gradstudent 4y ago
I was intrigued enough by your description to try this out. The video demo is great and very convincing. But using the app is a pain because of horrible defaults. First, the scroll area is much bigger than the document I'm looking at.
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by gradstudent 5y ago
It's a shame it's not an option for the preconfigured version. Especially as the DIY Laptop pricing has Windows 10 at ~$200.
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by gradstudent 5y ago
Re-read the Assassin books recently afte revering them/Hobb as a kid. They're still good but I found plenty to critique this time around. Like, Fitz receives constant physical and emotional abuse from everyone around him but he re
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by gradstudent 6y ago
This piece feels very long and navel-gazey and sorely in need of an editor. I miss the essays where Paul Graham gets to the point.
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by gradstudent 6y ago
It's true that some review papers are shallow but it's pretty cynical to paint all contributions of this type with the same brush. In my experience, good review papers are more than summaries. They can connect separate lines of re
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by gradstudent 6y ago
From the description of the backend: > Clean geojson to remove dark pathways. Doesn't this eliminate routes with tradeoffs? e.g., cutting through a small park or alleyway may not be so risky (the other end is visible, both ends are
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by gradstudent 6y ago
Do your keyboard media keys work? One of the biggest gripes I had with i3 is things like volume, brightness, mute and so on. It's possible to configure everything to work again of course, but very painful. Other system related things t
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by gradstudent 6y ago
I went down the same road last year and many of the suggestions are same I eventually found. I gave up scaling though because it's garbage. The gnome-tweaks solution mentioned in the article works, but it's buggy. Some apps ignor
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by gradstudent 6y ago
Except when it doesn't? I had all kinds of frustrations with Mint on a 2019 X1 Carbon which had some newfangled digital microphone. Ubuntu 20.04 worked out of the box. There were a bunch of other frustrations too. Bluetooth never worke
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by gradstudent 6y ago
I'm not sure if 1900x1200 counts as hidpi. I have a 4K screen and I find the experience at native resolutions awful. Please install Dia and tell me about your wonderful experiences with that program. Provided you can see any of the ico
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by gradstudent 7y ago
> The database is also working to expand on the amount of free content available online to students Don't worry JSTOR, Alexandra's got your back. http://sci-hub.tw Seriously though, to hell with paywalls and artific
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by gradstudent 7y ago
Having a good story isn't about hiding the faults in your work, it's about making your work accessible to others. It's no good having tons of experiments if you can't explain what they mean and why anyone else should car
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by gradstudent 7y ago
Buffets are terrible places to eat for a vegan or even vegetarian. Options are typically limited to simple salads, various types of potato (fried, baked) and occasionally pizza or pasta: i.e. cheap tasteless carbs. Besides limited variety,
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by gradstudent 7y ago
> Ok. But it is worse for me, and basically everyone else who uses Windows and says that Linux Desktop won't suit their needs. The irony is delicious.
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by gradstudent 7y ago
Do US postal services offer a shipping option where you need to sign for the parcel? I'd try and opt for something like that, if possible, rather than trusting the courier to leave the package on my doorstep. What I'm saying is, t
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by gradstudent 7y ago
About bloody time, Apple. Too bad I bought a ThinkPad back in June after THREE YEARS of ESC'less computing. This after almost two decades of not even looking at non-Mac machines.
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by gradstudent 7y ago
Perhaps the enemy obtained several of our aircraft. In the same sense as one might land a new car in a contest.
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by gradstudent 7y ago
Most shopping centres have entrances near the front and are designed to make you circle out toward the far spaces. So everybody ends up prudent or optimistic (== those that circle back hoping someone left since they last drove past the entr
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by gradstudent 7y ago
I have an LG G4 that has been dropped, knocked, thrown, placed under running water and generally suffered countless other abuses over the last 3 years. Still works like a champ. I tried replacing the old workhorse with a Nokia 8 Sirocco ear
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by gradstudent 7y ago
This comment should be higher. That a poet should want to compare the viscosity and opacity of the sea to wine is a much more simple explanation -- and to my mind much more likely -- than exotic theories to explain why ancient Greeks didn&
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by gradstudent 7y ago
I regard 3-6 months as pretty good for journals. In CS competitive journals can take a year to reject something. Even if a paper is accepted, and the period of time from submission to publication can sometimes take close to 2 years. CS conf
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by gradstudent 7y ago
With respect, I think you don't know what you're talking about. I've never seen cases where a researcher will cite a paper to poke fun at it. One might cite an erroneous paper in order to point out errors if one were interest
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by gradstudent 7y ago
> negative citations also count as citations. If by "negative citations" you mean works that are widely criticised, I don't see the problem. Most scientific papers cite prior works in order to point out their limitations.
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by gradstudent 8y ago
I've never understood why the user-agent string gives out so much system-specific information. Why not return less information, such as only the browser make and version?
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by gradstudent 8y ago
Or it could, y'know, simply paint the proposed target with an overlay which makes it easier to kill but not sympathise with.
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by gradstudent 8y ago
No. CH depends on offline preprocessing while A* is entirely online. Even if you allow for only static environments, vanilla CH are not necessarily the best choice for games maps.
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by gradstudent 9y ago
I think this depends on the specific flavour of Linux. For instance, Linux + i3wm yields a desktop environment where everything -- including seemingly braindead functions like volume control -- needs to be configured by hand on a command li
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by gradstudent 9y ago
Can you please comment on Xi as a general editor and specifically in relation to vim and Emacs, arguably the two best general editors from the last few decades. Thanks!

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