lorenzhs

46 ms·

451.
by lorenzhs 8y ago
That date coincides with a total lunar eclipse over parts of Asia, Africa and Europe btw. Should be fun to watch. More info at https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/LEplot/LEplot2001/LE2018Jul27T...
452.
by lorenzhs 8y ago
Ah yes, silly me. "[...] in 1975, still under 40, he secured a position at a new research university of Germany’s armed forces" - must have missed that earlier. Thanks.
453.
by lorenzhs 8y ago
Just an odd observation: in one of the photos, the UniBwM car has a Bundeswehr license plate (Y-320624), yet there's no mention of any military involvement in the article. I'm guessing here, but maybe that was just a trick to get
454.
by lorenzhs 8y ago
There's a paper on how this works from Microsoft Research and KIT (where all of the commonly used routing techniques were developed!): https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
455.
by lorenzhs 8y ago
I'm a PhD student in theoretical computer science and have an academic interest in this sorter. But his build system is just too much of a pain to deal with voluntarily. Not to mention that his cpu cycle counting doesn't actually
456.
by lorenzhs 8y ago
I use https://openpaper.work/en/ - the direct scanning feature doesn't support duplex (yet) so I additionally made a small wrapper script around SANE's 'scanimage' command to scan, which also direct
457.
by lorenzhs 8y ago
There’s a nice but somewhat technical analysis of card shuffling things in “Proofs from THE BOOK”, a book I can highly recommend to the mathematically interested (requires some mathematical background, like what you’d get in a good CA curri
458.
by lorenzhs 8y ago
Isn't that what ccache provides? Admittedly it's not perfect but it sounds like it might help your use case. https://ccache.samba.org
459.
ESA Council Decides on the Conpletion of Ariane 6(m.esa.int)
1 points by lorenzhs 8y ago|0 comments
460.
by lorenzhs 8y ago
Approximate counters are much much older than HyperLogLog. Here’s something from 1978: https://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/exc/reading/morris... . Of course this solves a different problem because H
461.
by lorenzhs 8y ago
Nope that’s more like cache write speed. Single-threaded sequential access to RAM is typically more like 10-15GB/s for current server CPUs: https://panthema.net/2013/pmbw/results.html - it’s true that worksta
462.
by lorenzhs 8y ago
Yes it does. I would recommend ublock origin over Adblock Plus any day. That said, you could also disable “acceptable ads” to get rid of these with Adblock Plus.
463.
by lorenzhs 8y ago
Does anyone have a recommendation for a good keepass client for iOS? Is MiniKeePass still the best option? I've been wanting to switch to KeePassXC + something for iOS for a while but I'm not sure what the best way to go is.
464.
by lorenzhs 8y ago
Spotify, CityMapper, Revolut, and while technically not a startup, I think OpenStreetMap should count as well.
465.
by lorenzhs 9y ago
WeeChat's (the IRC client, not the similarly-named Chinese messenger) relay protocol uses websockets. This is what enabled us to build Glowing Bear, a web frontend that connects to your WeeChat instance from your browser. I like to thi
466.
by lorenzhs 9y ago
One of the best anti-virus tools on any platform is a good adblocker (I prefer ublock origin). It completely removes large classes of infection sources (malvertising, fake download buttons, etc). Then disable macros in office products. If e
467.
by lorenzhs 9y ago
Not only that, Google apparently has agreements with mobile network operators to ensure that their long-lived connections don't get closed after a few seconds or minutes of inactivity. Some mobile ISPs close idle connections after as l
468.
by lorenzhs 9y ago
First up, let me be clear that wireless technology is utter black magic to me. SpaceX's satellite internet service may or may not work in densely populated areas, I have no idea. But what if their target market (at least for the beginn
469.
by lorenzhs 9y ago
In part, euphemisms like "personal injury" are used to avoid encouraging copycat suicides. In 2009, a popular German footballer's suicide-by-train received a lot of media coverage. The number of railway suicides more than tri
470.
by lorenzhs 9y ago
For the record, I checked and 138a:0097 is in fact the correct vendor/product ID.
471.
by lorenzhs 9y ago
I have last year's Thinkpad X1 Carbon. Excellent Linux support (great battery life, everything works out of the box except for the fingerprint reader) and a fantastic machine. Screen is good, it's quite a bit lighter than a MacBoo
472.
by lorenzhs 9y ago
That's not a description of an idea, just like a paper doesn't only consist of the title. This kind of argument is insincere and not helpful at all.
473.
by lorenzhs 9y ago
There's a very detailed Bundesbank report on popularity of means of payment in Germany that was recently updated: https://www.bundesbank.de/Redaktion/EN/Topics/2018/2018_02_1... -- the full report (
474.
by lorenzhs 9y ago
That's a battery longevity feature and not a safety feature, though. Any consumer electronics device should be safe to charge to 100% and be left plugged in.
475.
by lorenzhs 9y ago
Lenovo does this. I was recently notified about the X1 Carbon (2017) recall/inspection (potentially loose screws inside the case) by the reseller.
476.
by lorenzhs 9y ago
That is a different issue, though. The "Related Work" section is there to tell the reader about related approaches to similar problems, previous research on the same topic, etc. It's where you distinguish your work from what
477.
by lorenzhs 9y ago
Zeroconf (Avahi/Bonjour) takes care of making that wireless printer work regardless of which DNS server you’re using. I’m not insinuating that “joe public” is dumb. He just doesn’t need to care about DNS on his local network, there’s s
478.
by lorenzhs 9y ago
Ordinary users don't have anything that resolves to local IPs, so this is a non-issue for just about anybody. Plus, many if not most ISP-provided modem-router-AP-boxes don't let you configure the DNS server they use, making your
479.
by lorenzhs 9y ago
Yes obviously, but sailing is similarly remote from civilisation, you’re a small group with nobody else nearby. So the changes would be similar, except that it’s trivial to mount on a boat so the changes the GP was thinking about actually a
480.
by lorenzhs 9y ago
Have a look at the Notebookcheck reviews, they’re very thorough and test things like thermal throttling/efficacy of the cooling system which aren’t mentioned in most other reviews. I was in the same position last year (T470, T470s, X1C

More ›