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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Yes it's a bit of a crutch. I prefer it to Thunderbolt's default view, though.
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
The discussion is happening at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14299893 - the two threads were submitted seconds apart
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
There's also https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/gmail-con... for those that have become used to seeing the content of all emails in a conversation.
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
If you're interested in truly space-efficient hash tables—as in "at every point in time, at least 97% of the space of the table is used for elements"—check out this paper by a colleague of mine: https://arxiv.org
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Dina Katabi held an invited talk on WiTrack at SODA this year, it's absolutely incredible what they can do. This technology can not only track movement of people around a flat or house, but also heart rate . There are more details at
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Well I certainly agree that nobody should take him seriously but I'm unconvinced that that matches up with reality. His blog does get a lot of comments.
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Neither was I? "Open Source vs Free Software" is exactly about BSD/MIT/... vs GPL. As a cofounder of the OSI, ESR is most certainly not a centrist on that. To quote Wikipedia on the OSI: " The Open Source Initiative
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Your observations don't correlate with the actual political opinions of prominent advocates of what boils down to the ages-old free software vs open source split. You don't need to look further than ESR for a striking counterexamp
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Ah, my bad, I didn't know you could build Chromium for Android. That second link hasn't been updated in over a year, though.
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
But Android isn't really open. Without the Google Play Services, you can't use half of all apps, or even get push notifications without ruining battery life. Your device likely also uses a bunch of binary firmware blobs without wh
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
No, the dupe detector was changed about a year ago to allow for resubmission of articles that failed to gain traction. If you have questions for the mods, email them. Discussing the dupe detector is off-topic and boring.
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by lorenzhs 10y ago
I live in the south of Germany (that's central Europe) and cycle to work year-round. Cycle paths are cleared of snow just like roads. All you need is a winter jacket, a beanie that goes beneath your helmet, and a pair of (leather) glov
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by lorenzhs 10y ago
This paper cites that one in its first paragraph: " Until now, only two ways to shape glass in a 3D printing process have been demonstrated: a fused deposition moulding approach in which soda lime glass is heated to around 1,000 °C and
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by lorenzhs 10y ago
I don't use it (I'm a big fan of the trackpoint), but the trackpad's surface feels very pleasant. Can't comment on the accuracy, I probably wouldn't even be able to properly judge or compare it to the MacBook, but
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by lorenzhs 10y ago
The model supported by coreboot is the first generation X1 Carbon, which is 4-5 years old now. I'm talking about the 5th generation, which has only been available for a few months.
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by lorenzhs 10y ago
If you're willing to comprimise on price, the new ThinkPad X1 Carbon is a fantastic Linux business laptop.
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by lorenzhs 10y ago
Agreed, it's still very bad. I don't want to imagine how many company PCs are affected by this, and which percentage of those is going to get the firmware update.
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by lorenzhs 10y ago
Thankfully this doesn't look quite as serious as the SemiAccurate article earlier today made it look (it's AMT, not ME), and doesn't affect consumer CPUs. But if you have AMT provisioned, then holy cow this is really really b
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by lorenzhs 10y ago
This is nothing new. Nearly all of the food we eat didn't exist in that form a few thousand years ago. " Selective breeding of both plants and animals has been practiced since early prehistory; key species such as wheat, rice, and
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by lorenzhs 10y ago
The sugar content in the fruits we eat today is the result of selective breeding, not GMO. Everything is bred to look delicious and have a high sugar content. Other qualities (such as taste) are sadly secondary. The Golden Delicious apple
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by lorenzhs 10y ago
Yes, absolutely. There was another talk by someone at ESA on the feasibility of a moon elevator as well: https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-8407-an_elevator_to_the_moon_and... , which is also quite cool. The gist is that whil
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by lorenzhs 10y ago
ESA's director general Jan Wörner spoke about ESA's plan for a lunar village at 33c3: https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-8406-the_moon_and_european_space... "Refocusing on the moon as a platform for future dee
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by lorenzhs 10y ago
Similar situation in Germany. With Aldi Talk, you can get 1GB and 300 texts/minutes for 8€. When valuing the text/talk component at 0, that still works out to 2.18 cents USD per 2.5MB, an order of magnitude less than the claimed 2
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by lorenzhs 10y ago
ThinkPads allow you to set the charging limits, e.g. "Charge up to 90% but don't start charging if above 80%". Works on Linux, too (e.g. using tlp, which also has a "fully charge it this one time" command when you n
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by lorenzhs 10y ago
I agree that in userspace, linked lists rarely are the way to go. Chasing pointers is too slow. We're talking about kernelspace, though, and different rules apply there. Memory allocation works very differently, and you have to handle
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by lorenzhs 10y ago
even std::unordered_map is easy to beat on most workloads if you relax the standard's requirements a litte, because the standard more or less requires hashing with chaining (" The elements of an unordered associative container are
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by lorenzhs 10y ago
You picked the parts that fit easily into just about anyone's morning routine and ignored the inconvenient part of arriving at the office sweating. My entire post was about avoiding the sweating in the first place.
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by lorenzhs 10y ago
But it's not just five minutes, you also need to bring fresh clothes and a towel. Your commute also needs to be a lot longer than mine (4-5km) for that to provide any time savings at all. That's why I'd rather ride more slowl
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by lorenzhs 10y ago
I have a merino base layer for outdoor activities and its care guide advises the use of regular detergent and a normal wash cycle: http://www.icebreaker.com/en/customer-service/product-inform...
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by lorenzhs 10y ago
That seems like a lot of work. Here, most cycle commutes are quite short (up to 5km) and people just ride at a speed where they're not out of breath or sweaty. I just lock my bike and get to work (or rather, the coffee machine). Any sp

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