maksimum

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   by maksimum 10y ago

   I think the problems I gave examples of do relate to the UI. If not, then what we define as "UI" seems pretty trivial.
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   by maksimum 10y ago

   > I can say without a doubt in my mind that there is enormous cronyism and nepotism going on in the US. And do you have any evidence that is more than anecdotal? FWIW (not much) I am finishing up a CS PhD, and there are many Indian stude
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   by maksimum 10y ago

   Re #1: Yes, maybe I could get the main use cases to approximate OS X well. But (a) I don't want to learn how multiple windowing systems work and how to script them, and (b) then to fine tune them so corner cases are covered: how to int
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   by maksimum 10y ago

   Conventional wisdom is that Mac laptops have had the best trackpads since the 2006 macbook pro. When did you last try a Mac trackpad? On the other had, only recently has Microsoft started build/licensing well tuned trackpads.
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   by maksimum 10y ago

   Definitely could happen, but it would have to be a confluence of driver and security updates in one.
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   by maksimum 10y ago

   Sometimes it's easy, sometimes Apple breaks drivers. In general I just wait for tonymac to tell me... I really should use his affiliate links or donate. I've upgraded the same 2010 hardware from 10.6 to 10.12. Installed a GTX 1060
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   by maksimum 10y ago

   Besides native UTF support and fonts what advantages do the XeLaTeX and LuaTeX ecosystems offer over LaTeX? You mention writing a novella as your use case, but I don't think that's a particularly difficult task for a typesetting e
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   by maksimum 10y ago

   Do you also believe that investment into physical transportation infrastructure is "unnecessary"? If not, why do you believe digital transportation infrastructure is less "necessary"?
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   by maksimum 10y ago

   I believe it has to do with the processing power of the intermittent routers/switches able to handle that many packets per second. Not sure how parallelizable ISP-scale switches are though.
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    by maksimum 10y ago

    How valuable is the information on your laptop to the NSA? If it's under $100k you're probably ok doing what Stallman does https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html . If you have information worth over $5M to t
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    by maksimum 10y ago

    You're definitely not alone. For some reason comments are often more interesting than the articles themselves, and people never think of monetizing their comments. Somehow karma is enough of a reward. If I had to watch an ad for 30 sec
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    by maksimum 10y ago

    And what would the contrasting preferences be? People who are willing to pay for journalism for news' sake?
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    by maksimum 10y ago

    > If everybody stops doing that - what exactly are you going to re-post? An issue is that for a high quality investigative story, say the Boston Globe's story about how the catholic church covered up abuse by priests for years, is t
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    by maksimum 10y ago

    Try finding influencers with high pagerank (page 1-2 for your business type) and paying them to review/feature your products and link to your site.
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    by maksimum 10y ago

    > In my estimation, it's possible at each of these schools (and many others) to eliminate or nearly eliminate 3-5 top Student and Academic affairs officials, and their support staff, without anyone noticing for days or even weeks an
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    by maksimum 10y ago

    Are you referring to surveillance/data processing technology specifically or technological advances in general? If it's general advances, I don't see how it's really relevant. To some extent, similar technologies are ava
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    by maksimum 10y ago

    I'm also using a RX 480 on my Ubuntu 16.04 machine. We only got free-sync support very recently, and there is no overclocking/fan control or GUI of any kind. Also, as far as I understand the open source driver is only included wit
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    by maksimum 10y ago

    Back in 2009 my dream was to run OSX with a Thinkpad keyboard and trackpoint. Now that I have OSX on a Thinkpad X220 my dream is to run i3-wm with unified application design language and underlying foundations. On OSX Spotlight works well a
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    by maksimum 10y ago

    I'm still confused about the use case. Is the purpose of a cache like this to create a unified interface to accessing and storing web pages? So you can write code to scrape pages based on their URLs, but then you can re-run without cha
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    by maksimum 10y ago

    I agree with your point about avoiding vendor lockins, something I experienced for myself with MATLAB. I also happened to buy a RX 480 recently, so I'm happy to hear it's good for GPGPU. But I'm curious in how the FLOPS on th
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    by maksimum 10y ago

    A sample size of 1-10 C's isn't necessarily better than a sample size of 100ks of users who aren't intimately interested in their privacy. I think C's don't have the time to think about the multitude of possible wor
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    by maksimum 10y ago

    You could consider repeat messages as adding insult to injury. For example you can see in the 24-message conversation with the SEO company, that repeat messages seem to aggravate the spammers.
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    by maksimum 10y ago

    Not sure if this applies to DDoS, but a baseline ML method for security is outlier detection. For example, (1) you get a dataset that is mostly "good" data, with some "bad" data (2) you cluster it using something fast li