knolan

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   by knolan 7y ago

   I’m an aeronautical engineer with a PhD in fluid mechanics, there’s not too much else to say on the transition to academia TBH. Regarding teaching, my exhaustion with an over dependence on PowerPoint for every aspect of communication in ind
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   by knolan 7y ago

   For whatever reasons, probably because I don’t say ‘no’ or I’m too arrogant to say ‘I don’t know’, I’m one of those people who always tries to help. I don’t keep a brag document but I do keep a folder called People where there are folders
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   by knolan 7y ago

   The Irish bag tax has been increased from €0.15 to €0.44 over the years.
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   by knolan 7y ago

   While Ireland has certainly lead the way in the plastic bag tax we’re still doing poorly when it comes to waste management. There’s still a culture that accepts fly tipping in picturesque areas of the countryside, litter is still a problem
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   by knolan 7y ago

   Oh I know. I’ve deliberately chosen to follow the new default. I’m one of those people who avoids customisation because I often have to work with students and remote machines.
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   by knolan 7y ago

   I would really disagree, the 2.5–2.7 UI was excellent. It was fast, efficient and extremely customisable to match the style of popular alternatives. The 2.4 era UI was a very different beast however. The main issues new users have are often
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   by knolan 7y ago

   I would compare the Blender UI to Vim. Once you spend a bit of time with it you wonder why every other piece of software isn't this efficient. I'd also go so far as to say that the 2.80 UI overhaul has slowed me down a bit. Things
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   by knolan 7y ago

   I'm running the 2.80 release candidate on my 5k iMac with an AMD card on 10.14. It doesn't support rendering on the GPU but the CPU rendering works just fine. I can't imagine the GPU is any faster than the CPU either, certain
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   by knolan 7y ago

   Blender is an incredible achievement for the open source community. It is an extraordinarily capable bit of software and 2.80 brings so many huge changes and refinements. While it still remains a complex bit of software it is not has diffic
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    by knolan 7y ago

    A significant number of the academics I know and work with have a MacBook of some description. They’re incredibly popular in Universities. I can run PowerPoint for teaching as well as all the *nix stuff I need for research.
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    by knolan 7y ago

    SpaceChem was the best iPad game I’ve ever played. It’s a shame Zachtronics decided to drop support due the changes with iOS 7.
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    by knolan 7y ago

    I see plenty of men texting too.
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    by knolan 7y ago

    Pretty sure Apple made the same mistake on iMac boxes.
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    by knolan 7y ago

    So this is just like Mathpix? https://mathpix.com/ I’ve never found typing out LaTeX equations particularly tedious, unless you’re doing multi-page derivations in which case you’re spending more time checking for errors.
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    by knolan 7y ago

    Here’s the current state of cameras in screens. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/06/get-ready-for-under-...
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    by knolan 7y ago

    It really is an exceptional game. It took me three years to finish it. It almost felt that I avoided playing it sometimes incase it ended. Now we’ve the Netflix series to look forward to and Cyberpunk 2077 from CDPR.
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    by knolan 7y ago

    The comment regarding QuickLookUIService is interesting. Not because I use an eGPU but because QuickLookUIService is always reported as using significant energy on my mid 2014 15” MBP. This has encouraged me to dig deeper and to try to find
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    by knolan 7y ago

    Apologies, for some reason I misread the hierarchy of your post.
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    by knolan 7y ago

    $1999 https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/189126/... The XE is something a vanity chip however. The HK maintains the same single core performance but obviously only achie
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    by knolan 7y ago

    Mantle lead to Vulkan. Your point about Vulkan simply arriving too late for Apple is not as clear cut as you make it.
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    by knolan 7y ago

    What about AMD’s Mantle?
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    by knolan 7y ago

    My limited understanding is that Apple A series chops benefited initially from expensive manual layout while many ARM chips of that time were using more machine driven layouts. Also Apple, as Apple does, city out a lot of legacy bits and pi
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    by knolan 7y ago

    I disagree. MacOS is hugely popular in academia. A significant amount of researchers use MacBooks as it allows them to have the best of both worlds by having a machine that runs MS Office for preparing proposals and dealing with Admin as we
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    by knolan 7y ago

    Thank you, it really wasn’t clear.
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    by knolan 7y ago

    Is this something I can use locally or in Jupyter or do I have to use GlowScript?
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    by knolan 7y ago

    Yes, thank you.
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    by knolan 7y ago

    Also worth mentioning AnandTech: https://www.anandtech.com/show/14407/amd-ryzen-3000-announce...
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    by knolan 7y ago

    I had noticed that it appears to happen a lot here on HN but I didn’t want to say incase of confirmation bias.
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    by knolan 7y ago

    Zooms fine for me on my iPhone 7. Reader mode also works, which is like a magic fix crappy website button nowadays. Tangentially, had anyone noticed a weird zooming bug on mobile safari that appears to cancel a zoom gesture and jump back to
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    by knolan 7y ago

    It’s not clear at all what the problem is. Imgur renders both of your images with very high compression on my devices so I can’t spot any difference. Secondly can you please define ‘tear my eyes out’? You’ve not provided any attempt any any