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by peatfreak 4y ago
How is the keyboard on the X250 compared to other X200, X220, ... series Thinkpads?
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by peatfreak 4y ago
What's the keyboard on the X270 like? Personally I like the X200, X220, X230, ... series (as well as T400, T430, ...). One of the primary deciding factors is the quality of the keyboard. P.S. What's it like to run 9front on a lap
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by peatfreak 4y ago
> The best alternative IMO to medium.com from the reader's point of view is a personal blog. What are your favorite options for personal blogs? I'm strongly leaning towards self-hosted WP.
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by peatfreak 4y ago
Why is this? I'm drawn to WP for my own personal site, because there is a critical mass behind WP, it's a transferable skill, there's a lot of nice stuff that comes out of the box, there's a well established web design
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by peatfreak 4y ago
> I'd argue that a WordPress site with the default template is less offensive at this point. I wholeheartedly agree. And for this reason, and many others, I'm planning on setting up my personal website/blog using Wordpres
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by peatfreak 4y ago
It's playful and interesting, a bit like a thesaurus but not nearly as good. Take it with a grain of salt. I would like to see something similar for semicolons.
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by peatfreak 4y ago
Easier said than done. This style of doing things is very common in large corporate environments such as financial services. The first time anybody works at a place like this they are shocked by all the IT red tape, but it's an inter
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by peatfreak 4y ago
Thanks for elaborating. I've been hearing all sorts of criticisms of C++ ever since the 1990's (!!!) but I've been out of the loop for a little while and maybe need some catching up.
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by peatfreak 4y ago
Can you please elaborate?
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by peatfreak 4y ago
I find that this is among the many impressive things related to this story!
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by peatfreak 4y ago
I was taking this article seriously until I arrived at the Terrence McKenna bit. His opinions are highly subjective, based on personal experience with drugs, and they aren't a compelling, testable, or comparable line of thought. Not
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by peatfreak 4y ago
I'm wondering about whether using exceptions in the utility functions is misusing Python's exception handling system... Look at is_integer() for example. Is catching ValueError -- if the token cannot be converted -- a Pythonic th
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by peatfreak 5y ago
Am I the only person who is irritated by the misuse of the phrase "23-fold", which really means multiplied by 2^23, not multiplied by 23?
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by peatfreak 5y ago
> "gonna" Truly, only a professional outfit could have written a Twitter update with spelling like this.
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by peatfreak 6y ago
I don't like the part where Elon Musk is saying that "isn't it a shame" that the Egyptians' pyramids and the Romans' aqueducts were highlights of science and engineering, and that the skills to create them atro
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by peatfreak 7y ago
> We can't effectively say for certain whether there's a correlation with throwing in a higher power or just group therapy on its own in this circumstance The higher power is not "thrown in" to AA, it is the critical
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by peatfreak 7y ago
Indeed :-) Courant & John, to be exact.
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by peatfreak 7y ago
I'm pretty skeptical about these "best of" lists of books for self-directed mathematics education. I have my own "best of" list that is very different to this list, although there are a couple of crossovers. If you
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by peatfreak 7y ago
After reading all the positive comments about BRK in this thread I came across this article: https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/hypocrisy-berkshire-hathaway... For somebody with little knowledge of financial services (i.
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by peatfreak 7y ago
What is GR? General relativity? So there are two Jan Hesthavens? One (a man) who works in GR and another (a woman) who works in signal processing or time series analysis?
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by peatfreak 7y ago
Do you think this is "indispensable" on the general sense of the title?
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by peatfreak 7y ago
Doing your own research, visiting libraries , reading reviews, etc. These are the best way to find books that you never would have found otherwise. Otherwise you're going to end up with the same old stuff (SICP, Release It!, GEB, Cod
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by peatfreak 7y ago
What do you mean by "very accessible"? Are you referring to the design and implementation of this interaction technique? Or the accessibility of the UI?
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by peatfreak 7y ago
What are the main differences between TeXmacs and LyX?
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by peatfreak 7y ago
> BTRFS has no future This is FUD. Btrfs is actively developed and its problems and limitations are acknowledged by upstream in an honest way. Many people DO use it with no more problems than they have with XFS or OpenZFS. The only pe
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by peatfreak 8y ago
> Maria Popova’s Brain Pickings [2] newsletter is arts/literature oriented, well produced, and full of insights - but often quite long. I love Brain Picking, although unfortunately I feel that her articles have a certain sort of &qu
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by peatfreak 8y ago
At a previous organizion I worked at, about 5-7 years ago, I made very heavy use of Tokyo Tyrant and T. Cabinet (the predecessors of Kyoto Tycoon and KC). We had many instances throughout our infrastructure, and many engineers had at least
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by peatfreak 8y ago
> Improving the cooling, the quality of the USB cable, and the power supply are also really good ideas. What have you found so far to be the best options? In my experience the quality of cabling and power supplies are the factors that mo
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by peatfreak 8y ago
> But I power them off dedicated wall warts. ... and what effect are you implying that this has in this particular context?
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by peatfreak 8y ago
> Might be the long cables I use The long cables where? I think I know what you're getting at but I would really love some more explanation if possible.

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