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by ktpsns 8y ago
If somebody wonders how this sounds like, here is a demo: https://youtu.be/IXuc8elSm_4
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by ktpsns 8y ago
Academic trends are ruled by money. In theoretical physics, computer simulations is where the money is. For the students, that means they are doing computer science related work, frequently the physics part is lacking. The route to leaving
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by ktpsns 8y ago
Apparently the author of jwz.org doesn't like HN. This is him, by the way: https://web.archive.org/web/20170125134508/http://sleepmode....
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by ktpsns 8y ago
Well, on most "virtual" mobile phone keyboards you can long-press the modifier key in the same way as CAPS LOCK and friends worked on our old mechanical keyboards. Nevertheless, virtual keyboards need to be improved, and in my opi
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by ktpsns 8y ago
In short: Industry nations should grow in order to lead solutions to environmental pollution. This is racism, camouflaged as doing well for the planet.
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by ktpsns 8y ago
That's a very detailed study. As a user, I whish there was an easy way to just change the keyboard to what I want to input. Android/Google keyboard seems to have something like that nowadays (deeply hidden, however), i.e. the poss
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by ktpsns 8y ago
I started the same way you did ~15yrs ago. I first learned JS, then PHP (this remains useful: the other way around would only allow you to generate static pages). PHP is a mature language today, you can get very far by learning frameworks s
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by ktpsns 8y ago
Have a Thinkpad X1 yoga, can confirm that this test works on Windows 10 but does not on standard Ubuntu linux. It's something which annoys me regularly, but one get's used with it, especially if one doesn't sit in front of
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by ktpsns 8y ago
In scientific computing, the number 130TB doesn't tell you much. The header figure in the article ( https://www.spe.org/media/filer_public/e3/31/e331595a-7594-4... ) could be made of 130TB volumetric
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by ktpsns 8y ago
Apparently this article discusses the Videotex technology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videotex , where Minitel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videotex was the most prominent brand. This seems to
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by ktpsns 8y ago
I sometimes noticed for long uptimes (like more then a year), the uptime command shows an exclamation mark. However, I cannot find a threshold or even the code for the exclamation mark at http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb&#
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by ktpsns 8y ago
As a user, I don't understand this deprecation of an infrastructure which "just works".
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by ktpsns 8y ago
For me it does not work on Firefox 66.0.
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by ktpsns 8y ago
This is fantastic. A real concurrent to mathjax, which is notoriously slow on pages like mathoverflow - exactly the shown example :-) Even better, both are open source. Amazing, thanks for all of that, lovely world!
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by ktpsns 8y ago
> scientific data primarily at a larger scale (100 GB to petabytes) Buying hard discs (100TB for a few 10kEUR a few years ago) is a real investion in our institute. As far as I understood, with distributed storages each participant volun
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by ktpsns 8y ago
Well, that would be ironically if a website announces not to store cookies (as a user I also expect nothing else on my computer) but then makes use of some pesistent storage. Let's be honest: These badges which consume screen spaces
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by ktpsns 8y ago
I wonder how the game development community interacts with OSS Linux file system developments such as FUSE, gvfs (GLib/Gtk/GNOMES VFS) or KIO (KDEs VFS). The problems discussed here remind me of overlay filesystems in Linux as wel
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by ktpsns 8y ago
Ten years ago, UltraVNC or RDP were the fastest remote desktop options for Windows. I also can recommend TeamViewer, despite it has a slightly different focus.
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by ktpsns 8y ago
> removing options for recipients to forward, copy, print, and download Oh please... Everybody can do a screenshot nowadays, and even Google itself integrated OCR into its Screenshot tool at Android a few years ago. What a waste of time
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by ktpsns 8y ago
I'm 30, just graduated in a computational science field, got a baby. I could "do" FIRE just from my savings from the last 10 years, thanks to the great social system in my central European country. Due to the baby, I stayed a
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by ktpsns 8y ago
Interestingly, this way of function definitions is "still" the way subroutines/functions are defined in (modern/all time) Fortran (if one ignores the syntactic differences). Also, at "old" C, declarations only
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by ktpsns 8y ago
Wow, I wasn't aware of the chattr command at all. Here is a list of available: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chattr Apparently, they are very file system specific. That's why they are not widely used. I guess
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by ktpsns 8y ago
Isn't it great to have the choice wether some tool manages the system or one does it manually? Thanks GNU/Linux, thanks all the Linux distributions maintained by hundreds of volunteers!
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by ktpsns 8y ago
On the other hand, the scientific community certainly does not carry out an ongoing switch between JavaScript and Python, as the author percieves in the web world. Python is an ideal example of a scripting language that got so popular in so
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by ktpsns 8y ago
I use x2go actively for all my servers. It is very fast, even over slow connections (much better performance then VNC and RDP used to have) -- thanks to great compression techniques (so do not expect 256 colours when connecting over GSM net
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by ktpsns 8y ago
Just as much as "a picture is worth a thousand words", I claim a movie can be worth a thousands of pictures. Of course it heavily depends on the research field. I recently worked in fluid dynamics where it is natural to watch mo
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by ktpsns 8y ago
Back in time when I used Dropbox actively (~2014), I had one account for each computer. Reason was just seperation of concerns; I simply had a shared folder for all accounts. Today this seems a practical way to circumvent this new #no of de
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by ktpsns 8y ago
Of course it is, science works differently then 30 years ago. But the output, at the end, is still papers which look not only like 30 years ago, but like 100 years ago! With Latex, we have a powerful tool at the hand which makes sure every
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by ktpsns 8y ago
I like how the first comment at the end of the page asks: > It’s like JupyterHub, but for people who only know javascript? That also was my feeling. And since Jupyter is language agnostic, why not just run a JavaScript kernel, such as
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by ktpsns 8y ago
Congratulations! I'm not that much into the buisness -- I wonder why the market-dominating Adobe photoshop software didn't support this first?

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