stabbles

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   by stabbles 8y ago

   This reminds me of a story about the philosopher Wittgenstein missing the train and deciding to buy a train for himself instead. Googling the story does not turn up many results. Does anyone know if this is in fact true?
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   by stabbles 8y ago

   There's also the yearly Tweakers Express from Amsterdam (NL) to Cologne / Köln (DE) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkOFnvxkZLc
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   by stabbles 8y ago

   What's cool about KaTeX is that you can integrate it nicely with static website generators so that you can skip the latex parsing on the client side; the client only has to load a font and some CSS, no JS required. I've used that
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   by stabbles 8y ago

   I have no idea what you mean with hacking or hacker in this context
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   by stabbles 8y ago

   It's a gamble when you're on a Facebook product website, and you have whitelist certain scripts for the page to render. On other sites I can just block everything that has to do with Facebook.
6. 666.▲
   by stabbles 8y ago

   TL;DR: yes. Are there candidate examples of ideas in philosophy, natural sciences or maths that are so original that only a single mind could think of them?
7. 667.▲
   by stabbles 8y ago

   Debug builds in C++ can be slow AND generate slow code.
8. 668.▲
   by stabbles 8y ago

   I repeated the experiment with 200 000 lines of code, where each line contains an assigment (just a constant) followed by a print statement (printf / std::cout). Results on my Macbook Air are similar: $ time g++ cpp.cpp real
9. 669.▲
   by stabbles 8y ago

   This is very refreshing! "I'm starting a new website using VB. I make a migration file and save it to a local Azure database"
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    by stabbles 8y ago

    The garment industry cannot keep up with the rapid growth in tech
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    by stabbles 8y ago

    For example: you measure concentrations of `p` gases at `n` different places. You collect the results in a matrix A where A_ij is the concentration (a value between 0 and 1) of gas `i` at station `j`. Now you factorize A ≈ B * C in the sens
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    by stabbles 8y ago

    Well... the nonnegative matrix factorization builds a basis for the column space where all entries of the basis vectors are positive. This might be meaningful if the entries are thought of as some positive quantity like weight or energy. In
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    by stabbles 8y ago

    In what sense is OpenGL crippled on the mac?
14. 674.▲
    by stabbles 8y ago

    > Since the composition of diffeomorphisms is a diffeomorphism, large programs (like ray-tracers) will be differentiable as a result. That's just bs. If you just read the ray-tracer article it clearly states that f(scene parameters)
15. 675.▲
    by stabbles 8y ago

    I tried the app on the mac and it's very buggy. I couldn't save settings, and from then it kept on crashing after restarting the app.
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    by stabbles 8y ago

    Yes, that would be very useful to have. Some runtime, or some central application, so that the user just has to download some HTML, CSS and Javascript -- not a complete copy of Electron each time. And if this application could be used to br
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    by stabbles 8y ago

    Ah, great! I can confirm z.lua feels really snappy compared to autojumper after disabling the git related stuff! :) So now I should find a way to make the git prompt faster.
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    by stabbles 8y ago

    I tried it and it seems indeed faster than autojumper on my Macbook Air with bash. However, visually I don't see any difference, probably because other tools run on cd'ing to the next folder (probably git). Also when I do `z doc`
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    by stabbles 8y ago

    "There are also many smaller improvements, including a fix for a bug which is at least 31 years old."
20. 680.▲
    by stabbles 8y ago

    I'm using `pass` for years now and it's perfect. On Android there is the Password Store app which integrates with the OpenPGP app, it's amazing :).
21. 681.▲
    by stabbles 8y ago

    What worked for me: find things to do where you can't be on your phone / laptop, such as running (track your progress with a sports watch and get addicted to something worthwhile). Or find a job in Finland where it's mandator
22. 682.▲
    by stabbles 8y ago

    The animations in the Anim tab of the demo still lag a bit on my Samsung S6. It's always these subtle, uncanny things that tell you it's not a native app
23. 683.▲
    by stabbles 8y ago

    Let's watch educational content and chill!
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    by stabbles 8y ago

    See the discussion in the previous thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18727312
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    by stabbles 8y ago

    Makes me think of that line "If they were right, I'd agree, but it's them you know not me" from Father & Son by Cat Stevens.
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    by stabbles 8y ago

    Why do you think so?
27. 687.▲
    by stabbles 8y ago

    You could just as well use pass [1] or something on a USB stick. [1] https://www.passwordstore.org/
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    by stabbles 8y ago

    My guess is it will happen as frequently as people update their Whatsapp status
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    by stabbles 8y ago

    It's also ridiculously fast, both frontend and backend! The frontend virtual dom was initially Mithril and has later been replaced with snabbdom [1]. No React or Vue.js. [1] https://github.com/snabbdom/snabbdom
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    by stabbles 8y ago

    I flagged this post because the last entry of the quiz requires users to enter their email to receive results. Please don't do that.