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by tenfingers 11y ago
This is no news to anybody that ever tried an ad blocker, a proxy/content filter or even a generic hosts file. The difference is very noticeable. In fact, it's the main reason I run such filters. The difference is not only in traf
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by tenfingers 11y ago
How does the current Lenovo Thinkpad line fares? I've seen a couple of devices recently and they look solidly built with above-average quality overall. But I didn't own any recently (my last Thinkpad was from IBM), so I cannot com
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by tenfingers 11y ago
And it's a shame this is the case, though. I do publish projects with github because of the popularity of the platform, but I really don't approve github pull requests, and I also don't like github over-simplified issues. Tog
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by tenfingers 12y ago
Depends on your requirements on code/performance, but in one of my projects I've been gradually switching over to python 3 (actually, moving old stuff over from 2) by using this module: https://pypi.python.org/pypi
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by tenfingers 12y ago
A generated changelog and/or a list of changes straight out of source control is not a substitute for a good release notes files. In fact, while I used to do the same in the past (back to cvsps!), I now just use the log as a template f
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by tenfingers 12y ago
Aspect ratio has nothing to do with resolution. 16:10 is much closer to the golden ratio, which allows to split the screen vertically in half and give two vertical screens with roughly the same ratio again. 16:10 has proportionally more ver
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by tenfingers 12y ago
Attic has still problems for large backups (when the block index gets >2gb). There are also several minor issues due to the tool being relatively new (file selection is lacking). Check it's issues page: https://github.com
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by tenfingers 12y ago
I've been using backup2l with a custom driver that just calls "tar | gpg". I wouldn't flag it as "lacking". Backup2l can be used with any archiver. If duplicity had an option to chose a backup ancestor, you cou
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by tenfingers 12y ago
memtest86 has this feature in beta, and it's already generating some heat. I would be personally more interested in this test on memtest86+ though.
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by tenfingers 12y ago
16:10 is a much better ratio for working compared to 16:9.
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by tenfingers 12y ago
Most animations nowdays don't mask any actual delay, but actually introduce new ones. Often, they cannot be skipped. Even more often, they're not properly chained, in a way that breaks the interaction if you're doing somethin
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by tenfingers 12y ago
This is a good example of why formal verification is incredibly useful. I tried to invest some time in learning some of the proof verification languages and tools, but so far I wasn't too successful. It looks like that to formulate a p
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by tenfingers 12y ago
We're using almost exclusively HP here: the EliteBooks always had/have crappy trackpad buttons (to the point of being bothersome). I noticed this in their EliteBook line since 10 years, so they just don't care about it. The k
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by tenfingers 12y ago
Maybe it wasn't clear enough, but you cannot change linetypes of the series when using "seaborn". You could manually iterate through the generated artists and change those after the fact, but this largely removes any benefit
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by tenfingers 12y ago
This rings a huge bell^H^H^Hgong to me. MPL is relatively complete, but it has been one of the worst libraries for plotting that I've ever used. You can make nice plots with it, but you can do the same using most of the other libraries
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by tenfingers 12y ago
Books come in absolutely random factors. The book "advanced engineering mathematics (8th edition on my desk)" is just as wide as A4, but less tall for some reason. I regularly print documents in A4, and full-width text is absolute
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by tenfingers 12y ago
Another reason to be enthusiastic about GCC is support for OpenMP.
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by tenfingers 12y ago
The idea that thisFunction and this_function are the same might be worse than the problem they're trying to solve. I cannot unfortunately have experience with larg-ish codebases in nim to tell if this would result in an actual problem
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by tenfingers 12y ago
It's worth nothing that functional programming is hard not because of the functional paradigm, but due to the constraints you have while solving a problem (memory, for one). This requires changing the simple, composable functions that
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by tenfingers 12y ago
Thanks for the explanation!
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by tenfingers 12y ago
record/playback tools are immensely useful for debugging. For instance, with rr, you can easily playback the same run through valgrind to isolate complex memory issues that would be very hard to debug by looking just at the final state
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by tenfingers 12y ago
Regarding the sound card, from the description it looks like the "crappy" sound card also employs a high-pass filter. Is there a reason for it? What kind of circuit design in the DAC could cause low frequencies/significant di
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by tenfingers 12y ago
Rust covers the lower-level much better. In Julia for example you currently don't have a nice way to modify C-like structs. You can offset memory directly, but it's a pointless exercise. Even if a record-like syntax is added, the
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by tenfingers 12y ago
I have R 3.1.x and I never noticed (it's in "compiler"). It's off by default... pretty sad.
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by tenfingers 12y ago
I would say Julia's target is much wider than R. R is actually a nice language (also with multiple dispatch!), but it's basically useless for any actual numerical work. Too slow. There have been efforts in the past to introduce a
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by tenfingers 12y ago
I personally never had a failing build, and I'm following the master branch. I cannot relate to the author for that specific point. Julia seems to be reasonably unit-tested to me for being such a young project. The testing framework is
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by tenfingers 12y ago
Most of the remarks are deserved. The exception hierarchy is not consistent currently, but the language is still evolving a lot, including on a syntax level (julia 0.4 deprecates the short dict/array syntax, just to name one). To be ho
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by tenfingers 12y ago
I have no idea about sakura, but being a libvte-based terminal, I highly doubt it's comparable (or even approaches ) xterm in term of rendering speed. I'm wondering how people can compare these terminals mentioning speed , consi
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by tenfingers 12y ago
I'm not against any of these projects in particular (they all solve a specific problem), however as you describe, all the recent infrastructure being pushed on desktop and servers is poorly designed and initially badly implemented. I c
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by tenfingers 12y ago
Up to this day, while libpulse0 is required by some package, I have no pulsed running. Everything is using alsa directly, and I'm using jack for audio work. The impact of pulseaudio is way lower than systemd, and never actually impacte

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