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by pletnes 9y ago
I heard many times that perl is «write only». Unicode operators takes it to the next level.
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by pletnes 9y ago
Nope, I ran into word documents that word could not render just last month. And I hardly use word; I edit about 1-5 docs per month.
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by pletnes 9y ago
That still leaves plenty of space for additional apps and data. Also you can uninstall e.g. Libreoffice post-install to slim it down.
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by pletnes 9y ago
I have a 30 GB OS partition on my ubuntu box. That works nicely. Obviously you won’t be doing big data analyses, but everything runs fine, and with lots of apps installed. Raspbian runs on 128 MB RAM or whatever.
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by pletnes 9y ago
I have a laptop with 250GB ssd and i7 cpu. The experience is eerily similar. Not in detail (office installs easily) but the feel is the same.
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by pletnes 9y ago
Perl erasure? After using the linux command line (or its many «relatives» like cygwin, mac os, unixes) for more than 10 years now, I’ve talked to exactly one person that used perl to accomplish anything at all. He used it to edit text files
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by pletnes 9y ago
Great arguments. Add one: bash is a more lightweight dependency, frequently available even on windows, weird *nix versions and minimalistic environments (e.g busybox linux, fresh arch install, ...).
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by pletnes 9y ago
What you need is the conda package manager (from anaconda python), in my opinion. Docker is very powerful, but is useful for other purposes (e.g deploying code) than simply grabbing a bunch of python modules and running analyses in a notebo
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by pletnes 9y ago
A significant fraction of the time, win10 is indexing files, running antivirus scans, running win update (multiple times a day), etc. This will often pin 1-2 cores. On my dual core i7 laptop from 2016. That’s not good performance. Since I
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by pletnes 9y ago
Not windows 10.
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by pletnes 9y ago
Mailing lists and shared mailboxes might be used by several people (support@foo.com). Noone uses them to sign up to online services I guess, but the address might be stored in a database and be assocoated with several people somehow.
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by pletnes 9y ago
Most comments revolve around JIRA as an issue tracker. I think those miss the point. Atlassian products are never best in any given category (in my opinion); however, they all integrate easily and (almost) out of the box. Choosing JIRA over
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by pletnes 9y ago
This was disappointing. Not a word about correlations between subsequent numbers, period length, all the things that matter if you’re actually generating significant amounts of random numbers.
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by pletnes 9y ago
Well suited? Zip? I’ve tested some hacks to get a file below email server file size limitations. Unzipping an excel file, then tarballing it into a .tar.xz archive can cut the size by 30%, say. The only issue is that the receiver might not
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by pletnes 9y ago
Sure. Cmake has a brief man page and a big bulky HTML manual.
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by pletnes 9y ago
Fingerprint scanners changed the game again for me. Saves countless times of typing the pin code over and over.
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by pletnes 9y ago
I disagree. man pages are optimized for time spent. The cryptic synopsis at the top is enough if I’m checking a frequently used command. The examples are at the bottom for newbies, which need to spend some time reading anyway. man pages are
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by pletnes 9y ago
Ssh to access various servers/git repos/my desktop. Ssh in a local window is always snappy. Terminal access in a RDP/VNC window is not. Not to mention modifier key issues etc...
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by pletnes 9y ago
Firefox cannot be a dominant monoculture like windows can. It is not an operating system.
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by pletnes 9y ago
They were probably never interestedin selling your passwords. Browser sync is way more than password sync.
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by pletnes 9y ago
Tree style tabs work ok on FF57. I expect it to become more polished with time though.
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by pletnes 9y ago
Yes, it had that for years - including master password protection.
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by pletnes 9y ago
I wonder why they did - FF was always safer in so many ways, helping you instead of the advertisers, having a separate certificate store made it safe against nasty BIOS level viruses, etc etc
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by pletnes 9y ago
I think google did a «good job» (not as in «good guy» but as in «effectively») pushing chrome by shoving it down your throat on the google search page. They will keep doing it. Therefore, it’ll be the first alternative after booting into wi
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by pletnes 9y ago
Browser sync in FF also does not sell your data, and works on all major OS-es, including obscure linuxes. I also love the «send tab» functionality - need some info on my desktop tomorrow? Send tab, and it’ll be there when I log in!
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by pletnes 9y ago
Crippled? Sorry, I don’t get what you’re trying to say. Tree style tabs work fine in FF57. Only annoyance is that the top tab line cannot be removed. That’s supposedly coming soon though.
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by pletnes 9y ago
Tree style tabs work OK though. Yeah it’s not the same and it’s not as slick as it used to...
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by pletnes 9y ago
Mathematically trivial, but great notation to explain the point of Bayes. Brilliant!
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by pletnes 9y ago
Sure, and nothing prevents those people from grabbing the last 2-compatible numpy version.
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by pletnes 9y ago
That’s about the same time python 2 support drops in general. Sounds strange to support packages after the underlying python has moved on. Kudos to the numpy team for writing the most awesome python module under the sun, and for providing g

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