thelittlelisper

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by thelittlelisper 13y ago
I'm very happy with xmonad. I'm running a very minimalistic desktop consisting of fast applications that do one thing, do it well, and can be controlled from the keyboard (zsh, urxvt, emacs, remind, mutt, zathura...). As a very we
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by thelittlelisper 13y ago
It is also compulsory if you follow the International Baccalaureate program, under the name of Theory of Knowledge. I think this is extremely useful for future social / natural scientists and engineers.
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by thelittlelisper 13y ago
org-mode has a pretty good phone app for iPhone & Android for when you're on the road: http://orgmode.org/manual/MobileOrg.html
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by thelittlelisper 13y ago
Well, Janellia is actually in my research area, so you pretty much nailed it.
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by thelittlelisper 13y ago
The major problem with Academia (actually the Academia subset where I'm unfortunately stuck in) is entirely different. Here it is very rare that people above grad students and perhaps postdocs do any research at all. They're just managers,
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by thelittlelisper 13y ago
This would be brilliant. Does any other framework support this? (outside Clojure)
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Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Methods for Hackers(nbviewer.ipython.org)
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by thelittlelisper 13y ago
Thanks. Care to elaborate on this? It's difficult to leak details and make an impact. Academia is really screwed up. 90% of what gets published is a blatant lie, but nobody seems to care. Most researchers live in a distorted reality.
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by thelittlelisper 13y ago
I wholeheartedly agree with this. I work at one of the top cancer research labs in the world, and you'd be surprised how dysfunctional our organization has become. It's perfectly described by what edw519 has outlined. Seeing millions of dol
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by thelittlelisper 13y ago
As a zsh user, fish looks fantastic thanks to its lightness, responsiveness and default settings. I'm only slightly unhappy about fish requiring python (actually python2 in Arch Linux). AFAIK, this is needed for the web server configuration
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by thelittlelisper 13y ago
Well, running a lightweight desktop helps. I cannot say how much, though. Try monitoring wakeups using powertop while your machine is iddling. Anything above 30 or 40 is bad.
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by thelittlelisper 13y ago
If your connection drops often it's a nightmare.
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by thelittlelisper 13y ago
I only recently discovered isync (mbsync), which is sad given that it is crazy fast and written by the mutt author. offlineimap is cool, but it is sadly quite slow and crashes often. New releases usually bring as many bugs as they fix.
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by thelittlelisper 13y ago
Mutt / Notmuch + isync (mbsync) / offlineimap works fine...
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by thelittlelisper 13y ago
I always go back to mutt. It does one thing, read email, and it does it well. The key is to set it up appropriately. Don't use mutt for downloading your email, especially if you wanna deal with IMAP. Use isync (mbsync) for that purpose (I u
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by thelittlelisper 13y ago
These are my energy tweaks for a 2008 MacBook, I don't have my x220 here, although they are machine independent: echo 5 > /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode echo 1500 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_
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by thelittlelisper 13y ago
Just 3 things: - Install powertop and enable all suggested tweaks - Depending on your kernel you should downclock your i915 graphics card and force pcie_aspm - Later kernels (>3.6?) have a power regression which leads to higher consumpt
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by thelittlelisper 13y ago
I'm not saying I would. I prefer the trackpoint. But they should provide a decent trackpad or get rid of it altogether. I don't need both. This would make more space for palmrest, which is too small in x220.
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by thelittlelisper 13y ago
Have you tried diagnosing with powertop?
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by thelittlelisper 13y ago
It runs fine (i haven't tried many multitouch gestures). Most hardware is Intel (except wireless card, which is a b43, also supported). With a few simple tweaks I can achieve equal or better battery consumption than OS X.
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by thelittlelisper 13y ago
My favorite options are the Air (11 / 13) and Thinkpad x220. Other options include Thinkpad x230 (newer than the x220) but worse keyboard, x1 Carbon, Dell XPS, Chromebook Pixel, Asus and Samsung. I ended up buying both an Air 11 (my own mon