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by ktpsns 8y ago
Using Fortran in Jupyter CNA be extremely handy to learn certain algorithms by interactive exploration. Despite all the nice and modern alternatives, Fortran is so popular in HPC world that still generations of students will have to learn i
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by ktpsns 8y ago
One of the most sophisticated Linux terminal emulators I worked with is Konsole, the KDE terminal. However, I never worked long enought with iTerm2 to learn all the features. My feeling is that there is a growing crowd of Linuxers who go fo
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by ktpsns 8y ago
It makes me sad that this is a "celebration of girlhood" but boys are not even mentioned in this article. Why can't boys also practice hobbyhorse training?
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Comparing Cos, the Language Below PDF, with JSON and XML (2012)(jimpravetz.com)
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What's the use case you had in mind? Running offst as a daemon on an average 8h-a-day workstation/PC/Laptop? Or on a server? In any case, a mobile phone is basically offline most time -- It seems to be online thanks to push-s
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by ktpsns 8y ago
Interesting! Do you plan a less nerdy user interface? I'm afraid to say so, but a mobile phone app could be a game changer. (Yes, it would drain the battery, and yes, it could run on an old phone because many people have them in their
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by ktpsns 8y ago
I don't think that config file (or even script code) obfuscation is a sensible way of hardening a system. If the database access credentials are really the weak point of a system (I don't think so), the database authentication its
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by ktpsns 8y ago
> [...] simulated experience of having a stroke (particularly in the occipital lobe of the cerebral cortex, where visual perception occurs.) [...] That sounds pretty scientific. Does anybody have a (citable) reference or scientific publ
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I'm impressed nobody mentioned libvirt ( https://libvirt.org/ ) here, an open source framework for managing all kind of virtualization platforms. It is especially well suited to take off all heavy work of managing QEMU.
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All major toolkits have confirmation modal windows, input modal windows, etc as single line "calls". Of course it's not a "custom window" but it is one.
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What's Chrome's strategy with HTTPS? The text is scarily blurry: > And of course, Lite mode will continue to respect your privacy. When Chrome optimizes an HTTPS page, only the URL is shared with Google and other information su
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Especially, it takes one line in almost all toolkits to create Standard dialogs such as window.alert("Hello world"); You can show such windows even from the terminal in Powershell, Linux, OS X. With one line of code. It&#x
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by ktpsns 8y ago
Every donation is significant. It's just uncommon in science to mention donations in the first sentence at all. As a reader, this suggests something exceptional. My point is only that this number isn't.
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by ktpsns 8y ago
Social Media Trap -- I installed the Leechblock extension for Firefox which helped me a bit. Also going to special places like silent libraries is helpful for me to concentrate. As final escape, think about going offline. Documentation can
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by ktpsns 8y ago
The worth of a single CPUh on a cluster is roughly 0,1€. That's a 30k€ donation from google. Weird that they put this number at the front. My guess is that they run on a large number of CPU cores. On 1000 cores, it's already 300 m
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by ktpsns 8y ago
Just to put the statement "35 CPU-years of idle computer time donated by Google" into relation: One year is ~8640 hours. This means 302.400 CPU hours. That's nothing compared to a single research proposal (we count in multipl
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by ktpsns 8y ago
Technically, that's not correct: Xubuntu is just an ubuntu package ( https://packages.ubuntu.com/disco/xubuntu-desktop ). You can install any other Ubuntu (Debian) packages.
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by ktpsns 8y ago
From my Linux desktop experience, I could not disagree more. When my 16GB ThinkPad runs out of memory, the OOM Killer blinks for a fraction of a second to kill the faulty process. If I had a swap partition, disk IO would render the system u
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by ktpsns 8y ago
Well, I understand why one wants to use a native GUI toolkit (Cocoa) instead of a more generic but cross platform one (for instance Qt). GUIs just feel smoother. This has always been a thing for Mac OS applications -- but interestingly neve
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by ktpsns 8y ago
Isn't it amazing that even with these "apparently solved and very basic" problems like i18n, there are still so many low-hanging fruits, and an open source project can do better than many companies. I'm German and I disa
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by ktpsns 8y ago
Here is also the link to the change as introduced in Matplotlib 3, to put it in reference: https://matplotlib.org/users/dflt_style_changes.html
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by ktpsns 8y ago
Does anybody enjoy plan9's /net FS? I am familiar with netcat and enjoy it as the (self named) "Swiss army knife of networking". I wonder about advantages of the /net FS in everydays Linux workflow.
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by ktpsns 8y ago
One of my favourite and more exotic for the web is Genshi https://genshi.edgewall.org/ , a XML based (and lesser known) templating engine. Downside for using XSLT is its overall speed.
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by ktpsns 8y ago
What about SSDs? I think they put fewer chips on the same PCB boards instead of "deactivating" some of them to sell lower cost versions of the same disc.
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by ktpsns 8y ago
Can anybody elucidate about why fork() is still used in Chromium or Node.js? They are not old-grown traditional forking Unix servers (unlike Apache or the mentioned databases in the paper). I would expect them to implement some of the alter
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by ktpsns 8y ago
My father passed away last year, and I have every single email ever written to him or from him. That's only thanks to being the "computer guy" in the family and a chaotic number of overlapping backups (in time). It's an
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by ktpsns 8y ago
While some people tend to say Perl was chosen by the young bioinformatics community because of it's excel in text processing, I think Perl was just the go-to scripting language in the late 90s. In my field (numerical relativity), Perl
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by ktpsns 8y ago
Basically a merger of IPython and IDLE. Unfortunately the last update is from 2012. In the meantime, the community moved on --- I feel that JupyterLab is the most state of the art fancy notebook/shell concept available.
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by ktpsns 8y ago
Go to your Facebook settings, there is a page which lists all your activities in Facebook (it should scare you and stop you from using Facebook...). That's an easy way to find any comment you have written anywhere.
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by ktpsns 8y ago
Jumping between addresses is the way how assembler programs/machine code works. A high level language shall abstract, bringing powerful concepts like scopes. If you short-circuit the high level logic by directly using gotos, you will s

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