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by mnl 8y ago
There was no way no create a pdf file with a Mac back in 1993. It didn't take off until Acrobat 3 a few years later, and then you couldn't make decent pdfs unless you bought Acrobat 4 and use Distiller. You'd typically share
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by mnl 8y ago
I don't understand this opinion of "little fundamental physics". First, what do people actually know about all of modern physics to make such a statement? There's despair at HEP, yes, but it's because we can't
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by mnl 8y ago
Not really, actually we understand pretty well electromagnetism, electrodynamics, plasma physics and numerical methods for those. We can simulate these things, so there's no need to reinvent the wheel going full Faraday at the 21st cen
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by mnl 8y ago
I just can open this djvu file with a viewer and display foreground, done. I can focus on reading it, which is the whole point of me accessing this file. I don't have to process a bloated PDF version with any other tools you just don&#
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by mnl 8y ago
Tell me how I can remove the background of a yellowed old book I have to read or print for my research side-project with a PDF file. I don't understand dismissive generalisations about a tool coming from people that don't use it.
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by mnl 8y ago
I've been using it for years. For scanned materials it's simply better: files are smaller, rendering is snappy, and if you're into old books its background/foreground model really pays off. Quite strange this scepticism
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by mnl 8y ago
Let me remind you of the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939, and its hefty toll on Spain. Like all civil wars, it never really ended.
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by mnl 8y ago
They lost control of their own currency. That's not just "one tool". It doesn't work and without full economic integration it never will. I think I know what I'm talking about as I'm living with this problem, h
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by mnl 8y ago
So you think you know your Biology well enough after some edX courses... OK. Maybe if you had an actual degree you'd get the gist of Dyson's argument and your contribution would be more interesting. He's arguing that maybe ge
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by mnl 8y ago
It's just strange for me reading something like "I don't know anything about Dyson, but -proceeds to talk about Science-". I think you should know him, he's been around. Science is made by people, it's a good i
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by mnl 8y ago
He's been a very accomplished theoretical physicist* (a mathematician actually) and an inquisitive mind. He also has met literally everybody, he's living History of 20th century Physics and more. You just can't ignore this ki
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by mnl 8y ago
Well, then what are they testing exactly? This is beyond broken, it's a fundamental misunderstanding of how physical products are supposed to work. Software people have gotten used to dismiss the principle of least astonishment because
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by mnl 8y ago
Internet was supposed to give everybody a voice and the chance to be heard, a wider open door to whatever information they wanted, it was the global village dream, the digital land of freedom and opportunity. Ha! we were too naïve, it has j
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by mnl 9y ago
I don't know about that. I'm a physicist myself and found his 2016 IAC presentation embarrasing. I wasn't expecting a crewed spacecraft inside the Jupiter radiation belts, nor a 70s artist impression of the surface of Europa.
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by mnl 9y ago
"Well, too bad another of our customers made a mistake and killed himself because he didn't get what 'autopilot' means (for us). Deal with it. Yours, Tesla" You all know the game Elon is playing here, what's th
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by mnl 9y ago
More interestingly, why is 355/113 so close to Pi?
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by mnl 9y ago
Have you ever been infected like that? I was in 2001 with Code Red, in a perfectly updated Windows 2000 based network. The lessons learned helped me to get to know what I'm doing if I want to use unsupported software in parts of the in
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Children struggle to hold pencils due to too much tech, doctors say(theguardian.com)
20 points by mnl 9y ago|3 comments
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by mnl 9y ago
I'm very happy with 8.1 (support until 2023)+Classic Shell+Classic Explorer (no breadcrumbs)+MacType (sane font rasterizer).
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by mnl 9y ago
Forget about that manual binary patch, now you have to install MathType in order to edit your Equation Objects. Apparently WIRIS bought Design Science in September and they say you will still be able to use a free lite version after a 30 da
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Microsoft have removed Equation Editor 3.0 from Office(support.microsoft.com)
1 points by mnl 9y ago|1 comments
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by mnl 9y ago
Thank you, I get it now. You're absolutely right and that could be really interesting. The problem is you don't usually have large sets of data in elementary uni labs, because of schedules really, but that would be the best. I&#x2
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by mnl 9y ago
Well, I'll stay on the post topic. It's unlikely that you can get the lab notebooks from most of 20th century Physics, this is what you're really looking for. It's not that important, because once the results are publish
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by mnl 9y ago
I'm sorry if I came across that way, didn't mean to. But you have to realise that it's tiresome all this new internet phenomena of laymen questioning the work ethics of actual professionals because they think they could possi
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by mnl 9y ago
>How would you describe in a single sentence the growing precision of our calculation of the speed of light constant over the last 300 years? I don't know, first I'd talk about how it was discovered that light behaves like c re
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by mnl 9y ago
I'm sorry, but usually people can't waste their time working in easy to understand datasets with a wiki for amateurs (for free), unless it's for some kind of teaching (that they're being paid for). If you're really
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by mnl 9y ago
I understand that in principle the new model of extensions is the way to go... but then Firefox without Session Manager, FireFTP and no way to read MAFF files just doesn't have the distinct functionality that kept me using it in the de
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by mnl 9y ago
And no MAFF nor MHTML support in Quantum... as MAFF is/was great, now I have to keep yet another browser just to read my old files.
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by mnl 9y ago
Maybe it's because for instance there were exactly zero engineers working with radio waves before Maxwell and Hertz, or zero engineers working with semiconductor transistors before, basically, Brattain, Bardeen and Shockley. Electromag
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by mnl 9y ago
Actually they look like rather voracious flesh-eating/bloodsucking tiny shrimps: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/bitten-teens-dad-films-bri...

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