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by srvmshr 2y ago
True, it is considered one of the two top honors in Math since last decade. Previously it was the only distinguished prize. There was a growing need for another award which bridged few gaps. The 40 year cutoff age, awarded every 4 years to
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by srvmshr 2y ago
From ACM: ACM has named Avi Wigderson as recipient of the 2023 ACM A.M. Turing Award for foundational contributions to the theory of computation, including reshaping our understanding of the role of randomness in computation, and for his d
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by srvmshr 3y ago
It may not be the Wifi but something more upstream. If ISPs interlinks have microwave towers, then the physical swaying would have some effect on channel interference. I don't quite understand how (because the general direction remain
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by srvmshr 3y ago
I keep Adobe products only on iPad or iPhone, where the app seems sandboxed. In Mac/Windows, Adobe CC (or any product line FWIW) spawns files and folders like cancer in /Library or /System. It's just hallmark bad softwar
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by srvmshr 3y ago
Windows 8 Metro UI and its flat glyph-inspired iconset (similar to minimalist signage, e.g in EU traffic signs) was such a disaster that 8.1, that soon followed, allowed options to toggle between Metro (for those who preferred) and the clas
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by srvmshr 3y ago
Truthfully Haiku/BeOS was closer to Bluecurve and OS/2 pretty much inspired Windows 95 & 98.
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by srvmshr 3y ago
Windows 2000 startup screen (as well as the ill-received Windows Me) was very elegant for its time. I think the Windows 7 GUI emulation in 8.1 was also pretty good.
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by srvmshr 3y ago
> Then it gets all silky with frosted glass, desaturated colours, and muted gradients, which just does not have the Aqua feel to me The JonnyIvification of Apple interfaces starting with Mavericks & iOS7. Although it has grown on us,
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by srvmshr 3y ago
I sort of agree with that. That was the peak Linux GUI we saw (at least so far). Sadly after the Gnome GTK2 vs GTK3 forks, none of the child products carried the same finesse as Gnome 2.4/Bluecurve. They were sharp, colorful and vibran
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by srvmshr 3y ago
Getting reminded of late 90s & early 2000s design choices, the glassy feel of Bluecurve icon themes of Redhat Linux looked way ahead of their competition [1] Most people didn't have access to Classic Macs OS 8.5~9, which probably h
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by srvmshr 3y ago
Japanese bath areas are 99% of the time separate from toilets. And the Toto models don't require a hot water line. Yet its pretty common to have heated jet functions. These models allow these features. Its more to do with economics of
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by srvmshr 3y ago
Those streams and rivers exist. Look up industrial pollution in China, India or Vietnam. The manufacturing base which got pollution to that point is just geographically shifted. When running industries, there is unfortunately no free lunch
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by srvmshr 3y ago
I am by no means a Modi supporter. All my replies have been scathing and critical of his government. That said I am amused too, at how you are completely normalizing Trump and Modi -- two autocrats of varying ambitions. But last I checked,
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by srvmshr 3y ago
> The US style of 2 party system of presidential democracy and the role of electroral college are a bit problematic but the average US citizen isn't less political aware than the average Indian. I don't think I will agree wit
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by srvmshr 3y ago
Your experience could vary from mine, but the average boomer in India loves having political discussion on dinner tables, stemming from what they probably read in the papers or from channel switching over the day. TikTok hardly scratches th
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by srvmshr 3y ago
TikTok bans in India and US are very different. India did it as a kneejerk response to the Doklam border incident of 2020. When you don't intend a full scale war,the other recourse is to hurt China economically. I distinctly remember t
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by srvmshr 3y ago
As far as I understand reading the article (and some Wiki pages around it), it seems to be a consortium of people trying to protect the dark night sky. However, this article hasn't made it clear if the 'sanctuary' implies it
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by srvmshr 3y ago
Asking as a complete amateur, how do these people databases & privacy companies work? They claim to get personal details, family connections, social media content and even court records etc for not-so-exhorbitant price ($30 per report
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by srvmshr 3y ago
But has it been passed by the State congress as a law/regulation? Curious to learn more. The article does not tell more than this snippet > The designation was given by DarkSky International, an organization dedicated to protecting
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by srvmshr 3y ago
Unless I am missing the distinction, Oregon outback us being protected as a sanctuary whereas Central Australia, Kazakhstan plains, Hokkaido in Japan etc. are larger but without any guarantees of dark sky protection (?). Please correct me i
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by srvmshr 3y ago
I have an active Instagram account. Today, coincidentally was the first time I thought of promoting my best few posts as an ad to improve reach to fellow photographers. Bad luck! The app now seems to be back online but my ads which were sup
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by srvmshr 3y ago
This part is so true. Adobe under-the-hood SWE feels so shoddy. It feels as if their products, although delivering the good, is strung up by different patchworks. And it spawns files & folders all over your system
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by srvmshr 3y ago
China Eastern 5735 was suspected to have gone down due to pilot suicide, but the media rarely talks anything about it even after a year. Maybe future report might tell. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Eastern_Ai
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by srvmshr 3y ago
To have this kind of perfect reproduction, 3 poses need to be in 3 separate global shutter readouts (at best) within space of 0.12~0.15s i.e a burst at about 8-10 fps. iPhone sensor still raster-reads so I would have expected more motion be
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by srvmshr 3y ago
Rolling shutter doesn't produce such clean discrete artifacts, but more of how rotors are bent for helicopters when readout between motion isn't fast enough. This image is as if global shutter took 3 separate shots of 3 separate p
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by srvmshr 3y ago
Probably need to have iOS beta enabled explicitly or have a TestFlight account to actually access such feature. I too feel this photograph was stage managed somehow
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by srvmshr 3y ago
Hi Francois, will there be breaking changes between 2.0 & 3.0 API
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by srvmshr 3y ago
My advisor used to say: "One of the CS bestsellers which is seldom read. That puts it right next to Bible" From the practical element, mostly No. People won't use this as a first book - or the second or third. But if you want
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by srvmshr 3y ago
> are you supposed to be forbidden from re-using the experience you gained working for a company ? No but adding implementations to competiting company's product based on the innovations seen in the first falls squarely under IP mis
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by srvmshr 3y ago
In the case which I referred to being personally privy, a high-speed data bus of a rapid imaging system (which was a crowning advantage for the first) was 'adapted' over in a slightly different form. Personally, you could say &quo

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