userabchn

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by userabchn 2y ago
If you like LXQt but would prefer lower RAM usage, then consider LXDE. Even with NetworkManager and PulseAudio, mine only uses 300MB.
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by userabchn 2y ago
Even in cities that currently have underground rail systems, I think public transport within cities is inefficient. So much time is wasted stopped at stations, and not going directly from your origin to your destination. If the tunnels were
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by userabchn 3y ago
I chose an ambitious/important topic for my PhD. Perhaps it is because stories usually have happy endings, causing us to be overly optimistic, but I imagined that if I just worked really hard on it then eventually I would solve it. In
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by userabchn 3y ago
> Maybe America just has a uniquely depressive social media environment? Perhaps America is a bigger target than other countries for foreign influence operations that seek to cause division and depression using social media.
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by userabchn 3y ago
I also suspect that there isn't an easy way to reduce the resolution that the default iPhone camera app takes photographs at (that I could find) because Apple wants them to be big so that you will need to buy cloud storage.
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by userabchn 3y ago
Before paying for mock interviews, it might be a good idea to first get practice with something like https://grow.google/certificates/interview-warmup/
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by userabchn 3y ago
> Travel to beaches will go up I am perhaps missing your point, but if people will be able to experience incredible VR worlds, couldn't people happily spend their time sitting in tiny windowless rooms rather than physically travelli
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by userabchn 3y ago
One of my colleagues predicted, when ChatGPT was first released, that AI would reduce the value of knowledge work relative to manual labour, but I disagreed as I think the main thing holding back robots from replacing many manual labour job
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by userabchn 3y ago
Or someone with an interest in making Boeing look bad, such as Comac or a foreign government that wants to tarnish the reputation of one of America's largest exporters.
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by userabchn 3y ago
I wonder whether the recent release of the Comac C919 [1] has anything to do with it - either through pushing Boeing to cut corners to compete on cost, or through malicious amplification of bad news stories involving Boeing. [1] https:&#x2
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by userabchn 3y ago
Or "contains _ of EU and non-EU origin" (which I always interpret to mean probably 100% non-EU, but I wish they would at least say which countries)
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by userabchn 3y ago
The similarities between the Irish language and Middle Eastern languages was one of the reasons why people thought there had been a mass migration from the Middle East to Ireland, and I think this was at least partly what led British Israel
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by userabchn 3y ago
With so many promises being made about "Vision 2030", I worry that the amount of discontent that results when it turns out to be a disappointment might lead to instability
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by userabchn 3y ago
More infiltration: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/germany-investigates-ru...
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by userabchn 3y ago
I recently visited King Abdullah Economic City (KAEC, [1]) in Saudi Arabia. It was intended to have a population of 2 million, but according to the Financial Times only had a population of 7000 in 2018. It was like a ghost town when I visit
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by userabchn 3y ago
Indeed, however at least TurboTax has competition so that the experience, while unnecessarily complicated, is not as unpleasant as it could be. I have recently been thinking about this as I have just filed my taxes, which, in the country I
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by userabchn 3y ago
A bank called me to ask me security questions. I said that I would call back using the number on the bank's website. They said (and the bank confirmed when I did call the number) that there is no way to be transferred to the security q
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by userabchn 3y ago
Kaupthing [1] was offering very attractive interest rates in 2007. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaupthing_Bank
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by userabchn 3y ago
I was at Nvidia's GTC conference in 2010 and my friend who was with me suggested that we should buy Nvidia stock. I was sceptical as I felt it was highly likely that Intel, which had so many more resources, would soon release a superio
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by userabchn 3y ago
Currying (of functions) named after Haskell Curry[1], after whom Haskell is also named. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_Curry
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by userabchn 3y ago
The computer I use most of the time is a 19 year old (2005) laptop. I run Debian with LXDE and Firefox on it and, although you have to be a little bit patient with some websites, I am generally still very satisfied with it.
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by userabchn 3y ago
Very impressive. My only comment is that it wasn't immediately clear whether I needed to click the microphone icon each time I wanted to respond or not.
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by userabchn 3y ago
There is another Martello tower on Dalkey island.
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by userabchn 3y ago
One thing that has kept me from ever returning to MIT (where I did my PhD) is that I don't think I could bear the feeling of loss that I am sure would overwhelm me when confronted with the sights and smells and memories of that period
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by userabchn 3y ago
The one in Dalkey (south Co. Dublin) is supplemented by another tower on top of nearby Dalkey hill that could see ships from further away and signal down to the Martello tower.
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by userabchn 3y ago
There is no Anki package for Debian 12, and the binaries on the Anki website are only 64bit, so on my 32bit system I use the online version on ankiweb.net, which actually works pretty well.
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by userabchn 3y ago
In the past few months I have talked (separately) to three Chinese students who were doing PhDs in different countries. I asked each what their plans were for the future, and was struck by how determined all three were to not return to Chin
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by userabchn 3y ago
It made me feel, more than I have ever felt before, that Google is now run by non-technical business people who don't seem to understand that many people who have at least some awareness of how this technology works, and so are probabl
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by userabchn 3y ago
Why wasn't automatic updating to this halted immediately? The "grave" bug report was yesterday, but today unattended-upgrades updated me to the affected kernel and I restarted before I heard about the problem.
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by userabchn 3y ago
> maybe you should also get comfortable with simply running the red lights on these quiet roads, since nothing is coming. At least in your case, you have a giant machine with airbags to protect you if you make a mistake. I do not have a

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