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by jmiserez 8y ago
1. Sample size of three people (one per monitor arrangement). 2. A 25" 21:9 ultrawide is not comparable with 2x 24" 16:10 screens. You'd need something like a 44" ultrawide to get the same screen width (omitting bezels)
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Linus talks about the 2.6 -> 3.0 change here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1107.2/01843.html > As already mentioned several times, there are no special landmark features or incompatibi
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by jmiserez 8y ago
Yes, but specifically this article that is unrelated to HN comments: http://n-gate.com/software/2017/07/12/0/
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Yes. Another issue: The author has been promoting GNU Parallel pretty heavily on many StackOverflow questions dealing with xargs or parallel execution, even when an additional tool is neither needed nor wanted (because it's a) not alre
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by jmiserez 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_card_number > The first (leading) digit of the IIN identifies the major industry of the card issuer. 4 and 5 stand for "Banking and financial". > The leading six d
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by jmiserez 8y ago
A problem is that smartphone camera sensors just aren't good at picking up colors exactly. White balance seriously affects the result, e.g. right now it's showing a white sheet of paper as "faint orange" (outside with ov
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In practice, here in Europe credit cards are often worse because the seller can add additional charges after the transaction using just the CC number (even with chip+pin CCs) whereas this is impossible with a chip+pin debit card. And the CC
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by jmiserez 8y ago
Not so fast, it's not just the US. Switzerland has a jaywalking law too, but it's never enforced and the fine is almost nothing (10$).
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Theoretically yes it would save time. Practically, many people wouldn't read it ("no time") or just skim it ("got the gist of it") and having a meaningful discussion becomes impossible. The meeting then dissolves in
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by jmiserez 8y ago
The upcoming Librem 5 phone has a hardware killswitch disconnecting the baseband completely. It's not a mInstream device though. Alternatively airplane mode might work too on regular phones, but personally I wouldn't trust it 100%
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by jmiserez 8y ago
Been looking for something like this for ages. Is there a version that works with local repos? EDIT: at least for emacs, there's https://gitlab.com/pidu/git-timemachine EDIT2: and a different one for Atom with a n
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And in most cases incomplete. Those screenshots don't tell them what I'm trying to do (I'm looking for X, how would that show up in a screenshot/video) and they don't tell them I'm angry because of X (something
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That is literally the exact reason why ever storing such data nonanonymously is a bad idea. It can and will be used.
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> The computer keyboard as we know it has to be extended(...)yes/no and other control keys. The Macbook Touchbar is pretty much exactly this, it shows e.g. dialog options as keys. I know it's not what you want (I like mechanic
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by jmiserez 8y ago
Couldn't you have forked it, removed the deCSS code and used that internally? It's opensource after all, same with VLC.
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by jmiserez 8y ago
Ah yes, that's different. There's no need to install any of that stuff when you pick the DBeaver installer that ships with a JRE. It basically just adds another folder into the DBeaver directory.
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The installer comes with it's own JRE just for DBeaver, so you don't have to install Java systemwide for it to work. And why the hate for Java? Most other languages have runtime libraries or VMs too, does it really make a differen
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by jmiserez 8y ago
Ehm, no?! I want more control over what runs not less. It's my electricity on my phone, I certainly don't need someone else auctioning it off like my phone is a billboard. Your idea basically means that apps that spam ads can us
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by jmiserez 8y ago
An instant internet classic...! Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17350645
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by jmiserez 8y ago
You can do abstract interpretion and calculate rounding precision at each line. The problem is that as soon as you have loops, you'll pretty much get that warning everywhere. Being sure that there is no cancellation is even harder, but
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by jmiserez 8y ago
The disclaimer at the bottom of the donate page is strange: > Contributions go to the Mozilla Foundation, (...) to support Thunderbird. Mozilla reserves the right to find another use for the funds if it determines that Thunderbird is no
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by jmiserez 8y ago
For really big files, I like glogg ( https://glogg.bonnefon.org ). It's just a viewer not an editor but it handles files larger than the available RAM with ease (multi-GB log files).
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And even the former apparently isn't guaranteed on all hardware. I found this gem in the Java documentation, I don't know which processors actually do this: >" Arithmetic operations on signaling NaNs turn them into quiet N
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by jmiserez 8y ago
I think the import/export is no longer lossy since the recent updates, they've been fixing tons of issues. I've only got it a week, so fingers crossed they fixed that one.
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by jmiserez 8y ago
There was this article posted a while ago that used a Stern-Brocot tree and/or floats for ordering: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16635440 It doesn't work in the pathological case though as any float has a
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by jmiserez 8y ago
Yes, and some larger numbers are not representable at all due to gaps. E.g 16777217 is not representable in single precision IEEE 754. There are handy tables here for the range and precision values: https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by jmiserez 8y ago
Also consider an e-Ink alternative like reMarkable. Less features, but closer to real paper.
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Maybe. The paper even mentions this, sort of contradicting your expectation: > Perhaps not surprisingly, the most predictive factor is simply Contributed Codebase Size, the effect of which is shown in Figure 16. > There is a gain of
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by jmiserez 8y ago
Then you or they don't have #1 covered.

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