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by redacted 10y ago
I have the i5 256GB/8GB model with discrete Nvidia GPU in the base (very handy for photography / light gaming). Haven't had issues with RAM although I rarely need to run VMs, and I have a SD adapter in the base to expand the
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by redacted 10y ago
Take a look at the Surface Book. It's the most impressive laptop I've ever used. Great 3:2 screen, excellent build quality, a real touchscreen (i.e., multitouch, pen support with pressure, etc), MacBook-tier trackpad. Convertible
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by redacted 10y ago
IIRC vim's tabs are just views into buffers - you don't need to have a tab per buffer at all. So you can switch between tabs, or between buffers in a tab etc.
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by redacted 10y ago
I did modelling work for a group researching metal foams in my past academic life. Very interesting stuff with a lot of applications if the manufacturing processes can be nailed down. Our funding was a mixture of European Space Agency and a
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Lessons Learned from Working Remotely(meganhuxhold.com)
2 points by redacted 11y ago|0 comments
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by redacted 11y ago
> if a mutant human arose without consciousness, presumably it would have an advantage over other humans The book actually does address this. ROT13 to avoid spoilers: Vg vf fgebatyl fhttrfgrq gung gur inzcverf bs gur abiry ynpx pbafpvbhf
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by redacted 11y ago
(Disclaimer: I am a physicist, but this is not my area of expertise at all . Happy to be corrected here). Relativity is, like quantum mechanics, a fairly simple concept with incredibly complex implications and edge cases. The easiest intui
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by redacted 11y ago
If they launch a hosted version they could call it "Eve Online"
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by redacted 11y ago
> Why AMD is not all over this AMD are barely treading water in the markets they already compete in. Both Intel (CPU) and NVIDIA (GPU) have stolen back enormous mind and market share [0]. I doubt they could afford the outlay of capital a
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Unhealthy Fixation: the war on GMOs is full of fearmongering, errors, and fraud(slate.com)
2 points by redacted 11y ago|0 comments
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by redacted 11y ago
Its a serious problem even in academia. I have had to email authors of papers or go begging on reddit.com/r/scholar more than once, even when I had very expensive university subscriptions available to me.
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by redacted 11y ago
I think this dual-meaning for 'after' is quite common, at least in Ireland and UK (and Australia). Here's an example in lieu of a formal citation: 1. After getting dinner, Alice and Bob met friends at a local bar - Purely tem
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by redacted 11y ago
Reddit shows "percentage upvoted" (which is accurate, while upvotes and downvotes are fuzzed).
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by redacted 11y ago
Unless things have changed recently, MacTex also provided a minimal distribution which was only a couple hundred MB. I used it for my thesis when I was using a space-constrained SSD. You can use tlmgr (texlive manager) to install packages a
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by redacted 11y ago
You can extend them actually: http://osxnotes.net/keybindings.html
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by redacted 11y ago
I assumed it was a reference to the infamous reddit 'test post please ignore': http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/92dd8/test_post_please... which was the most upvoted post on reddit until ab
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by redacted 12y ago
Welcome to Daring Fireball :)
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by redacted 12y ago
Who doesn't know about three.js? A relevant xkcd about your reaction: https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by redacted 12y ago
Irish is mandatory. All primary and secondary school students are required to learn Irish, normally around one hour per day on average. Our secondary school graduation exam (the Leaving Cert) has precisely one mandatory subject: Irish [1].
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by redacted 12y ago
In Ireland, we have the Gaeltacht [1], which are areas where Irish is the primary language. I know a couple of older people who grew up in a Gaeltacht and only learned English in school, never using it at home. This would be much less likel
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by redacted 12y ago
(Disclaimer: I am Irish, and I do not agree with the mandatory nature of Irish lessons.) The fact that 12-13 years of taking Irish classes daily leads to most Irish people having a few words and phrases is a damning indictment of our educ
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by redacted 12y ago
Yeah, I usually like Monday Note's analysis (Jean-Louis Gassee has an interesting history with Apple [0]) but this smacks of clickbait. [0] Apart from being an Apple board member for years, in an alternate reality, Jean-Louis Gassee be
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by redacted 12y ago
I dunno about Linux, but OS X has resisted cross-platform applications to a ludicrous degree. It's a good thing in my opinion, moving to Windows recently really highlighted the quality (in design and general OS fit) that indie OS X app
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by redacted 12y ago
My thinking is that some editors tend to be fashionable. I don't mean that negatively, just that their mindshare is transient until proven otherwise. They have a subset of users that are not massively invested in the platform, and wi
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by redacted 12y ago
> I don't know that it's worthwhile to compare small countries with ethnically homogenous populations, homogenous communities, different social values, and citizens with reduced access to weaponry to a large, ethnically diverse
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by redacted 12y ago
I think the better way would be that such fines are sent straight to a national/federal agency, which in turn disburses the fund across the entire country as needed. That would prevent any corrupt small-town police force from simply fi
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by redacted 12y ago
The story of Cnut and the waves isn't supposed to show the King's hubris at trying to turn back the waves but rather his humility in accepting that, despite being an incredibly powerful man, his powers were nothing in comparison t
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by redacted 12y ago
alilja's issue isn't 1-indexing, it's R's completely insane decision to return usable numerical values for an array access error. In Mathematica or Matlab accidentally using 0-indexing would lead to obvious errors, whil
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by redacted 12y ago
Users of TPB go on the site to avoid paying for things?
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by redacted 12y ago
Have you seen the Android wallpaper app Muzei [0] ? It dims and blurs the image, and launching the app or double tapping the wallpaper itself brightens and focuses the picture momentarily. No idea if that is possible on OS X though. [0] ht

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