majoe

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by majoe 2y ago
git is now so ubiquitous in software development, that it's hard to justify learning another version control system. You're probably better off learning the core concepts and using the most common git commands through some GUI.
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by majoe 2y ago
The upper bound of the approximation error of random Monte Carlo methods decreases with O(1/sqrt(N)), whereas the error for quasirandom Monte Carlo methods (omitting some details) decreases with O(1/N) (where N is the number of sa
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by majoe 2y ago
Foot is really great. I often open terminals for executing single commands, so I appreciate its short startup time
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by majoe 2y ago
Not only in imaging. More generally, blue noise is often used with all kind of Monte Carlo simulations, since the more evenly spaced sampling can speed up convergence. Raytracing can be seen as one such MC simulation
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by majoe 2y ago
One of the claimed benefits of sodium based batteries, that I remember from the press statements of CATL, is that they don't burn, even when you but them in a fire. The also should work in a wider temperature range, which is especially
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by majoe 2y ago
I still like the Effective Modern C++ books by Scott Meyers, although they are a few years old already. The modern parts of C++ are alright (inelegant and cumbersome, but alright), but because the language has grown over the years and best
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by majoe 2y ago
OK, I give it a shot, though it's been a long time since I worked with polaritons. Let's start from the beginning. If you look at a single atom, you find distinctive energy states for an electron, but in solid state physics these
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by majoe 2y ago
I think the "Leichenschmaus" is underappreciated, both for the communal aspect and also simply for how good it feels to eat good food after the emotionally demanding funeral. I told my wife, that if I die before her, to cheap out
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by majoe 2y ago
Packaging is indeed a weakness of Python, but to be fair, that Python packages are frequently wrapping C, C++ or Fortran code makes packaging a lot harder compared to nodejs.
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by majoe 3y ago
There is Collabora Office [0], which is built on LibreOffice. It also has a Nextcloud integration. [0]: https://www.collaboraoffice.com/
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by majoe 3y ago
Plasma 6 was released recently with man fixes and improvements for the Wayland session, which is now the default. So it may be worth to try it again.
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by majoe 3y ago
To add to what others already commented. The EU has been setting energy efficiency targets for itself for several decades now. In the most recent update to that target "EU countries will be required to achieve an average annual energy
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by majoe 3y ago
I also recently tried different terminals, because I was annoyed by the startup time of konsole. I eventually settled for "foot" [0], which I think is a bit underappreciated. It would be an interesting addition for the benchmark,
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by majoe 3y ago
From all the modern C++ features, concepts are imho the least offensive, though. I never heard anyone calling them dangerous or anything the like, which wouldn't make sense, since they are a compile time feature.
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by majoe 3y ago
How good is wayland support on Nixos currently? Did you have to make a lot of tweaks to your nix configuration? Last time I tried it a few months ago, albeit with plasma5, it kind of worked, but I had to do many tweaks in my configuration a
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by majoe 3y ago
If your old relatives "cannot even handle passwords", I doubt they will install alternative App Stores or sideload some apps straight from the internet. On Android, there is usually a setting to allow apps from different sources a
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by majoe 3y ago
+1 for KDEConnect, it's a great piece of software. The other day I figured out my last problem with it: My phone was coupled with my laptop and desktop computer, but desktop and laptop were not coupled to each other. This lead to awkwa
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by majoe 3y ago
Not sure what the situation on MacOs is, but you don't need to use home-manager, do you? You should be able to simple use: nix-env -I <package_name> Or (new flake enabled CLI tools): nix profile nixpkgs#<package_name> That&
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by majoe 3y ago
Civilized is such an overloaded term. What you and other commenters are lamenting is a lack of human rights, not a lack of civilization. We often take human rights for granted, but in antiquity (less so in the Middle ages) the only rights,
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by majoe 3y ago
tl;dr: Quantum computers are not only interesting for their practical applications, but also for furthering our understanding of Quantum mechanics. I had a similar feeling until I took a course on 'Theory of Quantum Information'.
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by majoe 3y ago
Raytracing simulates geometrical optics. That it doesn't take interference pattern into account is therefore a mathematical limitation and of course true, but irrelevant for most applications. There are other effects (most notable volu
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by majoe 3y ago
Mojo is a superset of python, but, when I remember correctly, they are introducing C++ like move semantics to achieve "C like performance". While formally this solves the "2 language problem" (and by design creates the s
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by majoe 3y ago
Small nitpick: I think you mean the second law of thermodynamics. Also the second law of thermodynamics is an empirical law. It is based on observations and not proven. To say, that a perpetual motion machine can't exist because of the
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by majoe 3y ago
> ...Westerners... > ...Western-thinking When did we become Westerners and started to think in the same way? I recognised a trend for such expressions in the news, too, in the last few years. It's misleading and creates a "w
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by majoe 3y ago
They do have a fixed release window, don't they? So the amount of versions per year is not really meaningful. Laying off the Servo team is one example I remember, that didn't look like Mozilla cares about Firefox. Personally I kee
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by majoe 3y ago
What made Julia so difficult to package? I'm genuinely curious. > ... because of how little they care about increasing the safety in the language (like Rust or Ada). I think it's a bit harsh to compare Julia to Rust on that fro
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by majoe 3y ago
The argument presented above rules out a infinite chain of simulations inside simulations. It may still be possible to have a finite chain of simulations, where the fidelity successively decreases. At some point down the chain the simulatio
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by majoe 3y ago
What may be beneficial for Ireland, is certainly not beneficial for the other nations in the EU. I don't see why it's bulllying, when Germany or France try to enforce the treaties they have with Ireland (as an EU member).
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by majoe 3y ago
To elobarate on that, the hurdles for monitoring employees are really high. It is always illegal to do it secretly and conversations etc are considered private even if you're in the office and talk with collegues. Also worker's co
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by majoe 3y ago
Come on, of course this is not a thorough benchmark, but just a random thread in a forum, where someone wants to get a feeling for the performance of a new technology. They could have used @benchmark instead of the @btime macro, though. The

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