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by harha 6y ago
Makes sense, I can see some benefits in having more control of what happens with the memory, rather than trying to fit the model I have in mind into the datatypes python. Found this post [0] fitting: > The best thing you can do when deal
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by harha 6y ago
Out of curiosity, is there anything in particular that makes C++ preferable for simulations? I’ve been trying to get into the topic lately - for now I’ve stuck to python and Julia for the visualizations that are more familiar to me.
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by harha 6y ago
On the software side, it would be nice of the developers to do so, no harm to them and a great benefit to those still using the program. Now on the hardware side[0] there's a mismatch in incentives: an otherwise functioning piece of ha
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by harha 6y ago
For 1. I would say R is a good option. It works relatively well everywhere and has an ok IDE, lots of packages that make life easier (tidyverse). I also wouldn’t recommend python for exactly that reason.
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by harha 6y ago
Malicous life, just heard a very interesting episode about Jan Sloot and his compression system. [0] 50 things that made the modern economy. [0]: https://malicious.life/episode/jan_sloots_data_compression_s...
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by harha 6y ago
I've got the Brio and I'm not impressed by the quality, but then again, it works pretty well out of the box for video calls or general recordings, so I guess it's ok. Not sure if I could have gone much cheaper and still had s
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by harha 6y ago
Meanwhile more and more websites are adding “legitimate interest” controls to ads and analytics, as a way to keep them activated. It’s so absurd from a user perspective, they even have separate controls for normal and legitimate interest ad
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by harha 6y ago
Had a similar experience, “data” is used where it seems useful to explain an already made decision. Criticism is hostile and un-googley when it doesn’t fit the narrative. At the end of the day for the sake of the promo it’s not worth arguin
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by harha 6y ago
You will have to compare them to their contemporaries, for instance moving from Hotmail and GMX to Gmail was great, not only for the free storage but also for it‘s simple UX. Ironically the lack of display advertising and advertorials was o
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by harha 6y ago
I think it seems more like Google doesn’t care about UX because they don’t prioritize/reward work on a product once it doesn’t grow in user numbers. They do care in the early stages when there’s an opportunity for quick growth (and pro
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by harha 6y ago
I agree that people know about data collection and don't care to some extent, but I'd argue that they don't understand the consequences and the extent of this. If they'd be presented a bill of what they're being ove
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by harha 6y ago
The fonts don't change with my browser, not sure if it's because of Safari or the domain blockers I use. That being said, there was a recent discussion on dev fonts that might be interesting: https://news.ycombinator.co
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by harha 6y ago
From what I've seen, the ratio is quite different. They'd rather make many less good hires who do as they're told than a more complicated one, even if that person were better at all the attributes. You can tell people a lot a
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by harha 6y ago
Maybe, but the examples are no where near as relevant and recognized as they were in the 80s. Google could just as well end up as Hewlett Packard, depending on who takes care of finding ways to squeeze out revenue, restructuring and downsiz
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by harha 6y ago
I was literally just looking for this two days ago when I had to reinstall my main system and of course ended up searching here. [0] One thing I noticed: I really want a different font for my terminal than for my editor – for the terminal I
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by harha 6y ago
> You can just scrap the company and do an other one. In this case probably yes, that's what the limited liability is for in companies. Though if you have legal issues with the old company, some jurisdictions may not let you start a
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by harha 6y ago
I wonder if companies can be held liable by customers and/or competitors if they break that promise. My (very brief, IANAL) intro to civil law in Switzerland covered an interesting detail in contracts: contracts (or parts) need to foll
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by harha 6y ago
I’ve gone to using cables wherever I can. Depending on the wiring a power line network adaptor might speed up things substantially. That being said, setting up WiFi is a pain, I frequently set up raspberry pis with Ubuntu and just can’t get
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by harha 6y ago
True, you should back up to avoid some strange edge case, but Apple markets itself as the company that makes using computers simpler and claims it works with the model. As a user I'd expect at the very least it not to systematically fa
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by harha 6y ago
Possibly, but given its google I wouldn’t assume it’s more (or less) respecting of user privacy just because it costs something. For the business products there may be strong business rationale behind it (it would categorically rule out too
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by harha 6y ago
At what speed? As far as I understood, all the presented performance increases are for optimized apps. I guess this is also where Apple sees the primary customer base. For developers, scientists, etc., it would be interesting if it improves
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by harha 6y ago
Is there any information on what type of software will run? Will it run things like R, Julia, Postgres, Docker (which I can work with reasonably well on my late 2013 MBP) and will we see any of the speed improvements or will some of the pac
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by harha 6y ago
This was quite fun, this type of problem solving deserves more attention in the business world.
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by harha 6y ago
In Europe this is highly irregular, and it did raise a bunch of red flags, as it should. Unfortunately no actions were taken, there seem to be communication issues within and across the ministries involved. As long as this isn’t fixed, more
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by harha 6y ago
Too late to edit my previous post, but here is the article: "Fejzulai is also believed to have travelled to neighbouring Slovakia in July accompanied by another man, where he attempted to buy ammunition suited to the weapons he used in
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by harha 6y ago
While at the same time these governments fail to properly use the information they have and are able to gather through traditional intelligence work properly to avoid the type of attacks they claim putting up backdoors will prevent. Most re
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by harha 6y ago
That’s not always so easy to find, it’s often in a small font in a hardly visible color at the bottom of the email. Having a button that’s always on the same position is more useful.
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by harha 6y ago
Cool, it seems to work most of the time, i guess where it doesn’t the spam folder is the place to go.
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by harha 6y ago
So I’ve heard. I’ve become more sensitive lately about providing external services my data. While I can’t avoid Google completely, I don’t use their web or mobile apps. Same goes for other services, though the issue with google connecting t
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by harha 6y ago
Apple Mail parses the unscribe link and offers an unscribe button on the top of the message. That's easier than a forward and not yet another service.

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