sidpatil

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by sidpatil 5y ago
Mathematical programming (LP, (M)IP, etc.) feel like superpowers to me. Working with them also helped me realize that many optimization problems are actually just closely-related variations of the same problem.
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by sidpatil 5y ago
Parent already mentioned their investigation of CUE.
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by sidpatil 5y ago
> (there was also some Duck app for macOS?) I believe you're referring to Adium [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adium
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by sidpatil 5y ago
Michigan's tourism board used the theme of The Cider House Rules in many of their TV advertisements during the 2010s. That's where I first heard it, and I thought it fit perfectly.
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by sidpatil 5y ago
Some do. Others have fixed starting dates.
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by sidpatil 5y ago
> I'd imagine single-purpose electronic noses would be a much more tractable problem than general purpose ones. We already have those, to a very limited extent: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_detector
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by sidpatil 5y ago
What are some of the things you'd like to see in industrial manufacturing and engineering?
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by sidpatil 5y ago
The Internet existed for a while before dial-up became widespread. Dial-up was what led to the term "Eternal September".
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by sidpatil 5y ago
> A mug will last for years if you don't drop it Depends. If the mug is cold and you pour a hot liquid into it fast enough, it'll crack. That's happened to me a couple times, but I've learned my lesson since then—pour
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by sidpatil 5y ago
This looks really cool! This would have been really useful to me a couple years ago.
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by sidpatil 5y ago
> and have the outlets alternate circuits. That's the first time I've heard of that. Is that for kitchens only, or for all rooms?
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by sidpatil 5y ago
If I recall correctly, that's what Ford did with the physical knob on their Lightning EV touchscreen.
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by sidpatil 5y ago
> I just have to be pedantic and say that what you are describing is the very opposite of PWM, which runs at high frequencies (e.g. 30kHz), varying the duty cycle over the tiny slice of time. Yes, this is correct. What parent is describi
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by sidpatil 5y ago
If I understand this correctly, this is saying that instead of representing the approximated function as a purely numerical operation (e.g. just a bunch of linear algebra), it can be represented as a program which contains a mixture of typi
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by sidpatil 5y ago
> How is this different from synergy ? It's a fork of an older version of Synergy before they changed their license.
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by sidpatil 5y ago
If someone was trying to enter text into a running application on that machine, wouldn't an on-screen keyboard pop up? (Unless that's been disabled, of course.)
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by sidpatil 5y ago
> Living alone is vastly more expensive than living with someone else. Hmm, how so?
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by sidpatil 5y ago
These are way more expensive than I expected. Prices between 50–80 USD for what amounts to a wall-wart tethered to a battery-shaped piece of plastic with metal contacts. Amazon has similar products in the 10–20 USD range. Still a lot of m
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by sidpatil 5y ago
BeOS and Haiku support this natively. So does Essence [1]. On Linux, I usually use i3 and arrange windows in tabbed or stacked layouts. Other tiling window managers may offer similar functionality. On Windows, I like to use TidyTabs [2]. Th
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by sidpatil 5y ago
I suppose "good performance" is subjective. I run VS Code on a 4k (well, 3840-by-2160) monitor attached to a ThinkPad T440, and the performance is acceptable. The CPU does get busier, but not by much. Though, the biggest limitatio
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by sidpatil 5y ago
(2008)
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by sidpatil 5y ago
> but I think having a group of bros/comraderie is detrimental to mental soundness This contradicts the rest of your post, unless I'm misunderstanding.
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by sidpatil 5y ago
You might enjoy this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA
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by sidpatil 5y ago
What are these things liberating you from ?
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by sidpatil 5y ago
> If you're wiring a home today, I would 100% use OS2 over CatN unless you also need PoE. Won't you end up with a bunch of media converters everywhere though?
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by sidpatil 5y ago
http://web.archive.org/web/20220218003133/http://skiplang.co...
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by sidpatil 5y ago
Reminds me of "declarative" versus "imperative".
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by sidpatil 5y ago
> This is an uncharitably suspicious inferring of the other person's motives. Agreed. The charitable interpretation is a lot more reasonable: a parent/elder wants to spend time with their child/younger, and is even taking
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by sidpatil 5y ago
You don't need a blockchain for that. https://xkcd.com/810/
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by sidpatil 5y ago
> Also word wrappings will lose all the preceding tabs. It makes it 100x harder to read. This depends on your editor. I know VS Code supports indentation/alignment of wrapped words. I believe Emacs and Vim support it as well.

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