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by porcoda 5y ago
When SSDs became the norm, performance stopped being an issue for most of my work. I can still push a machine to its limits with some of my work, but that’s not a surprise: modeling and simulation generally can saturate any system you use.
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by porcoda 5y ago
You and me both: I’ve had the exact same thoughts. I did buy a Sony device (NW-A45), and it’s not quite what I want. It frequently goes into a very slow “creating database” mode when it decides to reindex the SD card. That gets in the wa
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by porcoda 5y ago
I also like that I can prioritize things by sticking them to my laptop next to the trackpad. Important notes that need to follow me away from the desk often get stuck there.
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by porcoda 5y ago
I’ve tried these kind of systems with pre-printed forms/lists/labels on cards or pages. I’m not convinced they’re worth the extra $ beyond my good old fall back: a couple different colored post it note pads and notes organized ar
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by porcoda 5y ago
I clear my head with some coding in Processing (it’s fun to make pictures) or Mathematica. Both are 100% batteries included with no effort to start: I just open the app and right away I can just write code. An hour hacking together a litt
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by porcoda 5y ago
Same. Left it for job that doesn’t involve Haskell and far happier. Turns out picking jobs based on technology misses other important factors like what the technology is used for and how a workplace treats its people. Now I use technolog
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by porcoda 5y ago
iTunes/Apple Music. I use it to manage a huge collection, and the Ui is terrible. Examples: some file I can’t find has a bogus header or something, so every time the program opens or if I add something it spends 10 minutes doing some
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by porcoda 5y ago
I'm biased - I'm a researcher at a big research institution and finished my PhD 15+ years ago. Seeing how the sausage is made shouldn't cause one to become less "pro-science". It should give people perspective tha
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by porcoda 5y ago
True. When I’m at home, the NAS serves up the music to my Linux systems. Unfortunately, not so useful when I’m on the road - in that case you’re right, I’m stuck with the apple devices. I would love for something like iTunes Match that
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by porcoda 5y ago
I use iTunes Match for making stuff available in the cloud (eg, so i can access it all from my phone), and locally store it all on a NAS. Pretty easy.
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by porcoda 5y ago
This is why I still buy music I like - either physical media, or DRM-free files I can archive away. It's more expensive and labor intensive to manage, but at least I don't have to worry about my music ever vanishing for one reaso
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by porcoda 5y ago
Why do we see so many markdown editors? Is there some library or widget out there that everyone starts from to parse and render markdown, and then it just turns into a simple exercise of putting a UI in front of it and adding a tiny number
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by porcoda 5y ago
Seriously? Since when could you buy COTS and expect to get the code too? I don’t remember a source archive accompanying the pre-subscription Adobe, Microsoft, or any other major piece of software that is now subscription-ware. That’s pur
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by porcoda 5y ago
This sort of began when we all got the impression that software should be free, or that we pay a low price once and get indefinite free upgrades. Given that developers need to be paid, and resources cost money, there needs to be a way to r
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by porcoda 5y ago
> People don’t want to run their own servers, and never will It's worth distinguishing "running" a server from "having" a server. I lost interest in "running" my own services a couple decades ago - too
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by porcoda 5y ago
Incentive structure. There is no incentive to favor users. Engineers are measured by KPIs that are decoupled from user experience. Managers have similar measures. Investors are concerned with value measured by quantities unrelated to us
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by porcoda 5y ago
Awesome. My .emacs very slowly accumulates little bits that I like every time I find pages like this. About once a year I find something new that I like and I add it. At this point, my .emacs is about 80 lines (not counting comments) acc
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by porcoda 5y ago
> I’m so tired of this. So am I. Not user hostile? Since when is it acceptable to assume that users don't care about efficiency? People care about battery life, people care about responsiveness, and people care about interface co
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by porcoda 5y ago
Amazing and bad reputation are not mutually exclusive. Electron is an impressive engineering accomplishment, but it also has some dimensions that not everyone likes. Electron is great if you're a developer who wants to write apps in
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by porcoda 5y ago
It’s the Internet - if someone says “I use <X>”, then inevitably you’ll see a handful of passionate comments along the lines of “<X> is the worst technology created since the dawn of man, and <creator of X> really should a
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by porcoda 5y ago
I agree these are annoying patterns, but I honestly don’t notice them. I don’t read research papers like a book, front to back. Often I skip the abstract, skim the intro, skip to the conclusion to skim what they say I’ll find, and then re
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by porcoda 5y ago
I loved listening to Art Bell in the 90s when I was doing college homework or just hanging out at home. I’ll never forget listening to the Sept. 11, 1997 show live with my roommate - that was kind of freaky. ( https://kprcradio.
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by porcoda 5y ago
No problems for me with my M1 Mac. Heavy use of compilers, numerical tools (both native apple silicon and some that still need to run under Rosetta), a couple different editors, some specialized analysis tools, and the usual set of desktop