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by ianbooker 5y ago
I cannot compare it to SumatraPDF, but I really enjoy Skim: https://skim-app.sourceforge.io/
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by ianbooker 5y ago
I think their AI is already doing that.
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by ianbooker 5y ago
The underlying topic of such questions is: How capable are psycho-acoustical engineered* devices nowadays? When I succeed to design a device to sound exactly like a pro-setup, do I still need the latter? I think that is a increasingly inter
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by ianbooker 5y ago
They did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_Observatory_for_...
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by ianbooker 5y ago
Yes. Zoom is fine, you can either up the resolution for the "speaker view" in your account preferences (maybe just in the paid version), or even better: Use the screen share feature and under "advanced" you can share a s
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by ianbooker 5y ago
Procreate. With the Pencil it is quite smooth and can mimic ballpens or pencil drawings.
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by ianbooker 5y ago
OBS is really the big enabler in (my) online teaching at the moment. I use an IPad with a drawing app, I draw on a predefined colored canvas and overlay it in OBS with a chromakey filter. If that is available to you, it is even cheaper. But
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by ianbooker 5y ago
I wrote my master thesis some time ago on a Samsung Chromebook equipped with an ARM CPU. Back then it was the perfect machine for me: fanless / silent, cheap and it ran Linux and i3wm after 10 minutes of setup. Even the keyboard was ok
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by ianbooker 5y ago
Looks good. But does it scale? And Firefox is not supported?
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by ianbooker 5y ago
From the abstract of the study: "A 0.1 standardized decrease in adiposity was associated with either 52 minutes more sleep, 56 minutes less sedentary time, 65 minutes less light physical activity, or 17 minutes more MVPA." With MV
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by ianbooker 5y ago
Every time I am on a motorway in Belgium I wonder why they have such a huge amount of streetlights on highways. Maybe because it doesn't matter anymore in terms of light pollution? :D
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by ianbooker 6y ago
So your bike was stolen. Will that really affect your life? You need to spend 500 DKK on a new one. Someone threatens you with force: That will affect you. Even if nothing happened physically. You wish you can get rid of that experience for
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by ianbooker 6y ago
I do not understand the benefit in the described scenario: Why not branch for the typo and the code refactoring? Is it a bad habit to reflect your changes after you coded them? I see the benefits for a backlog in Git by using git plan, tho
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by ianbooker 6y ago
This part of CS is indeed more a Geisteswissenschaft ("science of the mind"). I think what is most fascinating when you compare it to more conventional philosophy is the fact that you can quantify your advances so easily and preci
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by ianbooker 6y ago
Time to update XKCD: https://xkcd.com/548/
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by ianbooker 6y ago
Good point on the signatures.
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by ianbooker 6y ago
CP Schnorr is emeritus professor from Frankfurt university. He is respected for his work in cryptography. He has, pun intended, nothing to prove but still works and furthers research. Yes, claiming that "this breaks RSA" is bold,
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by ianbooker 6y ago
But canceling prime does not make you a non-customer for amazon. People tend to forget that. You can still order, you still have your account and the refund is an incentive to "come back" -- although you never left. Not to critici
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by ianbooker 6y ago
In most fields papers / articles are still the one critical metric crucial for career advancement. You will sit on data and code until you are ready to publish, sometimes for years. Datasets and analytical code must be regarded as a sc
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by ianbooker 6y ago
Presumably. It would suffice to just report the tweet ids, then you can "rehydrate" these into full tweets using the API.
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by ianbooker 6y ago
For years I was extremely interested in an e-Ink tablet for reading scientific papers, but while the technology and hardware became more and more available, I realized that there is no scenario that such hardware would ship with software ab
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by ianbooker 6y ago
I was inclined to say that you need the right niche with the right culture. See game streaming with it small but frequent donations. But with enough momentum your apparently can create such a culture in quite some topic areas, like classica
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by ianbooker 6y ago
CSS has a fundamentally different cognitive kalkül. You can do things fast, but if you do not have a deeper understanding, it can get pretty frustrating. At least historically. It is like asking a Python programmer to write Prolog. Anyone c
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by ianbooker 6y ago
What minority did Galileo offend?
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by ianbooker 6y ago
It is "what that is saying"(!). It is another story whether handling the formalities of hiring for German universities is easy. It is not.
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by ianbooker 6y ago
Then you cut out videos you were interested in the first place.
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by ianbooker 6y ago
That is immunity after illness, isn't it? I would not be sure you can extrapolate that for immunity after a specific vaccination. The vaccine from Mainz / Mayence for example trains your immunity by introducing just parts of the s
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by ianbooker 6y ago
HN introduced me to mechanical keyboards and especially the Model M, way before the renaissance we see now. So I sourced some Model Ms (before it was pricey) and Apple Extended Keyboards. For the sake of my office mates, I ended up using ex
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by ianbooker 6y ago
Funny enough: I had the G6 Plus and I would be honestly happy to have used it even a few more years. Just the lack of security updates let me upgrade my phones nowadays.
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by ianbooker 6y ago
I agree with some of the comments, title should be not letsencrypt but certbot, the provided implementation of certifying your server. At least for Ubuntu 20.04, Letsencrypt does not require you to install the Python stack for certbot anymo

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