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by rerx 8y ago
The Czech / Slovak word for "where" seems to be even more significant: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=Compiz,k...
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by rerx 8y ago
Does it come with Mac performance improvements?
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by rerx 8y ago
To reliably triangulate elevation from GPS data you need quite a lot of satellites. Air pressure gives a better signal, but obviously needs to be calibrated for weather etc.
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by rerx 8y ago
Late 2016 15 inch Macbook Pro, LG 5k screen with the scaling set one tick into the "more space" direction. With Firefox performance is still significantly worse than with Chrome. This is a real bummer, I really miss tree style tab
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by rerx 8y ago
The asynchronous parameter server based approach to distributed training just does not make any sense in a cluster of GPUs. Communication overhead would be massive. Synchronous training with the ring-allreduce method of Horovod etc. is the
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Russian and Portuguese Translation on DeepL Translator(deepl.com)
2 points by rerx 8y ago|0 comments
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Is Facebook the AOL of the 2010s? An Examination of Social Media Network Effects(calnewport.com)
2 points by rerx 8y ago|0 comments
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by rerx 8y ago
Run Emacs in Evil mode or similar and you get modal editing inside a special editor mode. If anything, Emacs is an extra-modal editor. :)
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by rerx 8y ago
> Vim is already the best and most customizable modal editor Weird statement. "Best" is up to debate, but "most customizable" is definitely Emacs. I cannot really imagine a really good non-modal programmer's edit
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by rerx 8y ago
> 93% of plastic polluting the world's oceans comes from 10 rivers. This statements contradicts your article, which states: "A recent study estimates that more than a quarter of all that waste could be pouring in from just 10 r
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Microsoft Translator Releases Next-Gen Neural Machine Translation Technology(blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
5 points by rerx 8y ago|0 comments
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by rerx 8y ago
How does KDevelop compare to Qt Creator as a general purpose C++ IDE?
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by rerx 8y ago
I missed some discussion of how this is built on top of async/await. Edit: Here is a recording of the talk where you can both see the slides and the speaker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOyJiN3yGfU
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by rerx 8y ago
Pre-exposure rabies vaccination is generally not included with statuatory health insurance in Germany. Still, the insurance carrier often covers it if the vaccination is indicated for a country you travel to. The three shots cost about 200-
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On Physician Burnout and the Plight of the Modern Knowledge Worker(calnewport.com)
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by rerx 8y ago
Just looking at those product photos I am pretty confused. How is that a display that "goes from edge to edge"? There is bevel on each side...
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by rerx 8y ago
I suppose he wants to sell his book, which is probably formatted for printing. And German only. https://www.amazon.de/KOMA-Script-Sammlung-Klassen-Paketen-L...
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by rerx 8y ago
All of these are about the monthly "Who is hiring" thread. None of these are about the Hacker News "jobs" listing that you get to by clicking the link in the top bar.
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by rerx 8y ago
The self-attention mechanism is explained very well in this blog post. Because of this it is very much worth a read for anybody interested in the state of the art of deep learning models for machine translation. Other parts of the Transform
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The Illustrated Transformer(jalammar.github.io)
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New DeepL Pro pricing plans: Free trial, lower prices, team accounts(deepl.com)
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by rerx 8y ago
The article concedes that it is a "polemical definition" -- it may still be the first documented usage.
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by rerx 8y ago
Don't touch the touch screen while the engine is running.
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by rerx 8y ago
Walker sounds quite sceptical of this story in his book, sleep deprivation may be effective as treatment in some cases, but could be a cause of depression in more cases.
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by rerx 8y ago
Depriving people (especially, but not only, adolescents) off their sleep is disastrous for their mental health. For instance ADHD may be linked to lack of sleep (Walker suggests this in his book, I don't know how strongly this is back
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by rerx 8y ago
Sure, having some variation in circadian rhythms among the members of a group makes it easier to have guards at most times of day and night. But such variation exists independently of age: There are "owls" and "larks" at
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by rerx 8y ago
One of the many fascinating facts I learnt from Matthew Walker's "Why We Sleep" is that the biorhythms of teenagers are shifted to later hours compared to those of adults in all human cultures of the globe, even in those rare
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Optimised Ubuntu Desktop Images Available in Microsoft Hyper-V Gallery(blog.ubuntu.com)
2 points by rerx 8y ago|1 comments
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Life Is a Picture, but You Live in a Pixel(waitbutwhy.com)
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by rerx 8y ago
I agree. I liked Palm OS back in the day and used to have two generations of Sony Clié PDAs with resistive touchscreens. The first one (an SL10) had a grayscale square touchscreen and a little "Graffiti" area below it where you co

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