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   by lorenzhs 8y ago

   Connecting a kindle via USB and using Calibre to manage one's library is very convenient as well. It will also automatically convert any DRM-free epubs you may have bought elsewhere to a format that works with the kindle, etc.
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   by lorenzhs 8y ago

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium#Etymology
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   by lorenzhs 8y ago

   That doesn't contradict the article in any way. The article observes that the inadvertent bias in search results tends to reproduce real-world bias against minorities. It makes no claim that the same frequency mining algorithms cannot
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   by lorenzhs 8y ago

   Now you’re in some unspecified distributed model without even defining your variables. Again, models are there to allow us to reason about things without going into every detail. It might make more sense to treat the time to open a connecti
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   by lorenzhs 8y ago

   It all depends on your machine model. You're right in that the RAM model doesn't model the performance characteristics of real-world computers very precisely. That's why it's a model :) Other models exist that can be use
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   by lorenzhs 8y ago

   Thanks for the link, that was fun to read (well, skim). I don't think the term 'algorithmics' appears very often in publications, it's more of an umbrella term for many things. The stuff we work in our group is sort of t
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   by lorenzhs 8y ago

   Thanks, I totally forgot about pdqsort! If I recall correctly, it's partially based on blockquicksort, but includes a lot of other improvements. It's a very interesting algorithm, much faster than introsort etc. However, I believe
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   by lorenzhs 8y ago

   I'm a PhD student in algorithmics / algorithm engineering, so I work with a lot of people who do stuff like this, even though my research isn't related to sorting. Super Scalar Sample Sort (which ips4o is based on) was co-aut
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   by lorenzhs 8y ago

   Especially when targeting realistic machine models, there are a lot of things that are suboptimal about the classical sorting algorithms like quicksort or mergesort. For example, a quicksort with perfect choice of pivot will incur a branch
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    by lorenzhs 8y ago

    Interesting. I don't really remember how long that took me, it's been some eight years now since I switched. I used ktouch to practise, which has lessons for neo2 and, apparently, BÉPO.
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    by lorenzhs 8y ago

    My keyboard layout has navigation as a convenient layer -- https://neo-layout.org/grafik/flat/tastatur_e4.png -- but I don't actually use it. My keyboard is a ThinkPad USB keyboard, and I use the trackpoint i
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    by lorenzhs 8y ago

    Agreed. I use neo2, which is the German equivalent of bépo. It's shipped with pretty much every Linux distro, which means that all I need to do is "setxkbmap de neo". It definitely takes several months to achieve a decent spe
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    by lorenzhs 8y ago

    See my other comment in this thread -- this exists for German with a secondary focus on English and programming (neo2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#Neo ), and it's what I've been using for at
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    by lorenzhs 8y ago

    This looks interesting but the symbol still look very qwerty-ish. I type on Neo-2 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#Neo ), which uses ISO keyboards and primarily targets German, even though the majority of
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    by lorenzhs 8y ago

    My Yubikey Neo has been on my keyring for over three years, too. No problems at all. They seem pretty rugged.
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    by lorenzhs 8y ago

    I think the argument for the ethernet dongle is that it's still a builtin ethernet controller, and all the dongle does it put the connector outside. It's just a bit of plastic and some wires. The advantage is that you can use any
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    by lorenzhs 8y ago

    Also, the whole “play services are running as root” thing, while repeated often, appears to be just not true: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17727705
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    by lorenzhs 8y ago

    https://signal.org/blog/reproducible-android/ makes it very easy.
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    by lorenzhs 8y ago

    Don't forget that the Model 3 was originally planned to be "Model E", but Ford owns the rights to that name. Also, there's a planned compact SUV which goes by "Model Y". U+1F644
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    by lorenzhs 8y ago

    This is addressed in https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/ – using Intel SGX, it's possible for the clients to verify that the server is running the code it should be running. I'm not sure w
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    by lorenzhs 8y ago

    > Google has root, so it can change how app signing works at any time. This argument boils down to "what if the government compels Google to infect your phone with spyware", and it's already been established elsewhere in t
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    by lorenzhs 8y ago

    > An open-source server is certainly a step up from Signal https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server . You are spreading a lot of incorrect or misleading information about Signal in this thread. That makes it diffic
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    by lorenzhs 8y ago

    > It's easier for Google to manipulate a package on Google Play than on F-Droid. That's not how Android app signing works. It's a "trust on first use" model, so once you install an app, any update must be signed
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    by lorenzhs 8y ago

    It is. https://signal.org/blog/reproducible-android/
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    by lorenzhs 8y ago

    > SSTO BFR [citation needed] - I don't think BFR is intended to be single-stage to orbit?
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    by lorenzhs 8y ago

    You're missing the point of Ariane. Its purpose is providing independent access to space for ESA member nations at a reasonable price, and as insurance against a launch monopoly (it upper-bounds what others can charge ESA). Ariane 5
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    by lorenzhs 8y ago

    If you're interested in cutting-edge research SAT solvers, have a look at the annual SAT competition: http://satcompetition.org/ - source code is available for all of them.
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    by lorenzhs 8y ago

    Yes it's easy enough to get unprotected cells, but the hoverboard batteries usually have short circuit and undervoltage protection, both of which are very nice to have as a beginner. If you know what you are doing you can also get RC h
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    by lorenzhs 8y ago

    Regarding the motors, they wouldn't be suitable for this particular project but you can buy broken hoverboards really cheaply. Where I live you can get stripped ones (no battery, no logic board, but you can get hoverboard logic board
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    by lorenzhs 8y ago

    Tyre noise sounds like the more likely source of car noise, at least that's how I previously heard this statement being made.