ibrahima

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by ibrahima 12y ago
I was just thinking of something like this the other day. I was kind of lamenting the fact that my phone has the same resolution display as my laptop (1080p), and newer phones have even higher resolution screens, yet I can't really get
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by ibrahima 12y ago
Are you serious? Going from tiling window managers to Windows 8, I was like... this could be the start of something great for Windows, but it's still way too basic for me. All Windows 8 seems to have is a split view with adjustable spl
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by ibrahima 12y ago
Hmm, so what is it about Xmonad that you like exactly? Reading the FAQ I see this: > When xmonad starts, workspace 1 is on screen 1, workspace 2 is on screen 2, etc. When switching workspaces to one that is already visible, the current a
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by ibrahima 12y ago
Well, I think for the use case most people use it for on the web, embedding a few equations in a web page, it's just fine, because everyone who writes about math already knows LaTeX. It doesn't really matter that no one is actuall
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by ibrahima 12y ago
> Google says you can shrink smartphone UX to a smartwatch; Apple says you shouldn't, and you should do these other things instead. The fact that you believe what Apple says about Google rather than taking the two minutes to actual
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by ibrahima 12y ago
Eh, those Kindle battery life estimates are based on low daily usage IMO. When I'm reading a lot I can easily run down my Kindle in a week. As a watch you would probably be updating the display far more often than an occasionally used
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by ibrahima 12y ago
I thought Android Wear devices had some sort of gesture detection so that the screen only turns on when you move it towards your face?
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by ibrahima 12y ago
Haha, I got an S3 prototype card from a friend's dad who worked there once, it was pretty awful. I think it was supposed to be around the performance level of a Radeon 9600 but it really wasn't, and it was pretty crashy too (thoug
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by ibrahima 12y ago
Sometimes it's hard to tell if someone on this site is parodying an out of touch techie or actually is one. It's a lot easier and cheaper to just eat fresh, healthy foods than it is to try to invent a new food alternative.
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by ibrahima 12y ago
> Professors in probability theory/statistics often do not have great computing skill, they might know enough to get around in R/Mathlab, and teach you the basics in these tools, but a lot of times you are left in the dark in t
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by ibrahima 12y ago
Hey, that's pretty neat, I was just thinking it shouldn't be that hard to do something like that. I would love to be able to read academic papers on my Kindle Paperwhite, this might help with that. Reading on a regular tablet is a
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by ibrahima 12y ago
Very nice! Incredibly simple to get started with, and like you said, if all you care about is staying healthy the important thing is consistency and reducing options makes it much easier to be consistent. I guess it doesn't really look
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by ibrahima 12y ago
When they say reduced power consumption, they're really talking about overhead. Let's say to supply 5W at 5V, they needed to take in 7W at 120V. This means that voltage step down process results in some power being wasted as heat.
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by ibrahima 12y ago
Romain Guy, a Google engineer (formerly Android, now works on their robotics stuff I think) has tweeted about riding his, so that sounds right.
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by ibrahima 12y ago
I would much rather hand assemble machine code than program in sed. I imagine most people have a better understanding of how computer architecture works than how to do arithmetic and logic with sed.
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by ibrahima 12y ago
I feel much the same way (though, considering I learned English at the age of 4 and never really learned much more of my parents' language after that, calling English my second language is grossly misleading). I feel a vague attachment
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by ibrahima 12y ago
Hah, being a grad student in machine learning I feel this quite strongly. The popular science perception is that computers are already close to being smarter than us (BS articles about Turing tests don't help...), whereas it seems like
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by ibrahima 12y ago
I don't know what it is, but somehow being in front of a laptop reduces my cognitive ability significantly :/. I actually take notes on a tablet just so that my notes are all in one place but I kind of wonder if I should go back t
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by ibrahima 12y ago
So in some sense there are two major features of vim, one being the composable commands, and the other being the modal editing. They seem to not necessarily be related, for example there's this thing called 'god-mode'[1] for
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by ibrahima 12y ago
I think for a lot of hackers, being able to run from over a terminal/ssh is a critical "design" feature.
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by ibrahima 12y ago
You're probably thinking of readline[1] actually. At the least that's why bash supports emacs keybindings (though I am never sure if a feature is from the shell or the terminal emulator). I believe you can configure readline to ha
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by ibrahima 12y ago
AT&T and Verizon are usually the only carriers that bother locking bootloaders with no authorized unlock option. Most international/unlocked phones have some way of unlocking the bootloader. Samsung has recently started locking thi
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by ibrahima 12y ago
That's very interesting, as someone who occasionally contributes to the odd Android fork. I kind of feel like repo is this weird semi-black box which does things I don't expect, like reverting my topic branches back to the remote
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by ibrahima 12y ago
Besides, quantum algorithms courses are offered, but like you said, I don't really see the point.
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by ibrahima 12y ago
I have to question whether this is actually true though. Yes, they have deviated somewhat from the design of older Thinkpads, but I think it's debatable whether they're objectively worse, for the most part. I will say that things
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by ibrahima 12y ago
Well, certainly it's significantly more credible if it's an actual Github employee putting their name on it and standing behind that sort of statement. At least in that case you would hope that the possible repercussions of making
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by ibrahima 13y ago
Eh, most apps are not doing computations like this in their main thread. Android does have some touch responsiveness issues, but this article has nothing to do with that.
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by ibrahima 13y ago
It's really awkward to write large programs in MATLAB IMO. It just sucks as a programming language. The object oriented parts make no sense and it feels like they were bolted on as an afterthought.
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by ibrahima 13y ago
Hmm, I've almost never had issues with PDFjs, and the handful of times it's been a problem Evince has worked fine. It is the default PDF viewer in Firefox now so I assume it works well enough for them to do that. I think the PDFs
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by ibrahima 13y ago
Hah, neat. The name reminds me of Netflix's Chaos Monkey[1] but this is a little different in that everything it does is supposed to be valid behavior. [1] http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/chaos-monkey-rele

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