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by plg 8y ago
I really want to get into Go, I like that it's opinionated, I like that it's compiled, I like that it's garbage-collected, I like that coroutines are built-in. My primary use case is scientific computing, both data processing
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by plg 8y ago
emacs for email: what's the current best accepted practice? I'm using Fastmail for my email and I'm on MacOS
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On Switching from an iPad Pro and a Macbook to a Pixelbook(speirs.org)
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Are the data available somewhere?
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by plg 8y ago
I tried going to one once but the address I had for the conference center pointed past the end of the street ?!?!?
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What Can We Learn from Dartmouth?(sciencemag.org)
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Transition and Triumph: A Transgender Scientist’s Story(undark.org)
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by plg 8y ago
Fastmail web interface is pretty darn snappy
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What Facebook Knew and Tried to Hide [audio](nytimes.com)
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If Only Apple Would Let You Use Your Own Domain for iCloud Email…(kirkville.com)
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by plg 8y ago
My hardware is all apple. My OS's are all apple. But I use GSuite for email/calendar. Email because I use my own domain and Calendar because we use it at my workplace for scheduling shared resources (conference rooms etc). I suppo
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Ask HN: If I use GSuite does Google mine my data for their own purposes?
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PCam: histopathology dataset for fundamental machine learning(basveeling.nl)
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The 2018 Retina MacBook Air(daringfireball.net)
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Ask a Hostage Negotiator: What's the Best Way to Get a Raise? [2015](theatlantic.com)
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by plg 8y ago
Thanks, I found this as well. It's perfect for my needs.
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Ask HN: Software for making control model diagrams?
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by plg 8y ago
I switched to fortified vanilla soy milk about 2 weeks ago, (from 1% milk), and holy moly what a difference. I have a big bowl of breakfast cereal and milk for breakfast, and also milk in a morning latte and a mid-day latte. Switching to so
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by plg 8y ago
Reminds me of the 1984 Tom Selleck movie Runaway (trailer: https://www.imdb.com/videoplayer/vi1803551001 )
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by plg 8y ago
what an awful looking letterhead design, I'm surprised
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Ask HN: How to stop MacOS apps pre-empting frontmost app?
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by plg 8y ago
Honest question: what are the reasons to code this up using OOP, creating a neural network object plus methods, instead of data structures and functions that operate on them? If it’s just personal preference, I’m fine with that, I’m not try
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by plg 8y ago
Yes I agree
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by plg 8y ago
In many top universities in Canada, promotion to Full Professor doesn't confer any particular benefits. No salary raises (unless your Faculty are unionized, and you are below the mandated "floor" salary for Full Professor ...
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by plg 8y ago
I don't understand ... they've eliminated the Mail server? or you just have to click a button to install it specifically? or you have to manually install one of the open-source mail servers yourself? (in which case why use MacOS s
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by plg 8y ago
This was a thing when I was in middle school, but for books https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choose_Your_Own_Adventure They were all the rage
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by plg 8y ago
Yes I was asking which countries are known to routinely demand login credentials for online services, and I don't mean who does it for a small number of persons-of-interest but I mean who does it routinely?
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by plg 8y ago
question: what countries on border entry can demand usernames/passwords to online services?
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by plg 8y ago
why not Safari? Or is the issue non-MacOS OSs
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by plg 8y ago
They recommend (in another article on congressional campaigns) using Google Drive over Evernote or Dropbox. How about iCloud Drive? Trustworthy/secure as Google Drive?

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