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by vmarsy 10y ago
> the only sites I can reliably use currently are text sites like hacker news and amp pages. I can have a site like reddit even take 30-40 seconds to load. What about reddit's AMP pages [1]? [1] https://redditblog.com&#x2
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by vmarsy 10y ago
Good luck to the author. I used to love in my windows phone 7 back in 2010 when I could combine text, fb messenger, Skype, etc. into one thread. With the people hub you would also see the Facebook and Twitter feed for a particular contac
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by vmarsy 10y ago
This looks like an awesome project! You mention tmux, what about GNU Screen? does it work as well? I don't remember major perf issues using vim within screen, I'm afraid to use Alacritty and then never be able to come back to my p
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by vmarsy 10y ago
So do I. What I particularly like with print is let's say when remembering a specific formula, I would remember it better by picturing its exact position in the printed book. It works even better with handwritten "cheat sheet&qu
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As I mentioned in another comment[1], there is in this paper a 500 lux experiment where LED were found harmful. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13331492
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multiple experiments were made, one at 6000 as the GP mentions, but also one at 500 lux. There's more information here but in French[1][2]: On the other hand, by exposing the same animals to a luminous intensity similar to that
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LEDs may cause retinal toxicity at occupational domestic illuminance(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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by vmarsy 10y ago
While Second-system effects seems to be describing software, the "human" version of it is apparently called Sophomore slump [1]: A sophomore slump refers to an instance in which a second, or sophomore, effort fails to live u
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by vmarsy 10y ago
With one AWS and 2 Azure data-centers coming to France (one of the Azure one is supposed to be in the "south of France"), this would probably help reducing the latency and increasing bandwidth between those data-centers and the US
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Nokia Sues Apple in Europe and the US for Infringement of Nokia Patents(nokia.com)
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What you're describing is more in the domain of program verification, there's already work like this, for instance dafny [1], where you can have functions like this: method Abs(x: int) returns (y: int) ensures 0 <=
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by vmarsy 10y ago
Technically it's the National Postal Service, France isn't a Federal government. (Apparently it's a Unitary Government [1] ) [1] http://www.lewishistoricalsociety.com/wiki/tiki-print_articl...
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by vmarsy 10y ago
Great stuff for people working with C++ Templates! I've seen it explained by Bjarne and Andrew Sutton, the benefits are clear for people used to work with the STL. Unfortunately, Concepts won't be there yet, they are not coming i
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by vmarsy 10y ago
big companies like Microsoft/Google/etc don't even offer most of their employees stock options, but instead they offer RSU (Restricted Stocks Units). Those are easier to understand, there's no exercising decision to be
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Google will launch a refreshed Contributor ad-removal service in early 2017(venturebeat.com)
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by vmarsy 10y ago
It's probably not "gears" per se, but to choose between "P", "R", "N" and "D". Electric car needs to be able to reverse too :)
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by vmarsy 10y ago
That's an interesting point of view! As a UX designer veteran, you must know these numbers better than most of us here, do you know how ubiquitous retina screen are? On desktop, the Firefox Hardware report [1] tends to show that they t
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by vmarsy 10y ago
The robot moving aspect of blockly reminds me of one of the awesome Dr. brain game (1994)[1], is there other kid-friendly games like this those 2 were inspired from? [1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xqDGPYMcWGk
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by vmarsy 10y ago
"Prior to our work, Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, and Opera all accepted 512-bit primes, whereas Safari allowed groups as small as 16 bits" I wonder what the minimum are today! (Article was from 2015)
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Messenger Announces Global Launch of a New Powerful Native Camera(newsroom.fb.com)
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by vmarsy 10y ago
I think that even working on digital information, physical meetings can be useful[1], but I agree, a company could minimize those meetings and encourage working from home more often, however you claim that WFH equals to keeping your sanity.
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by vmarsy 10y ago
> This is false sharing You probably know this is the official Computer science term for it, but for those who don't and want to learn more about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_sharing
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by vmarsy 10y ago
> > No electronic scheme can do that: anything that runs in software means that the correctness of the system depends on the experts' word only. > No paper ballot in box scheme can do that: anything that is run by officials me
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by vmarsy 10y ago
How would you do the comparison? Wouldn't it require storing all the previous passwords in plaintext? If only the hash and salted password is stored, as recommended, how would you know that "myOldPassword21" and "myOldPa
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Congress Moves to Curb Ticket Scalping, Banning Bots Used Online(nytimes.com)
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by vmarsy 10y ago
This is great research! 10,000 times lower power is only for the "passive wifi" devices, but these passive wifi devices require a "heavy-lifting and power-consuming plugged-in device" nearby. Assuming that device consume
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by vmarsy 10y ago
Is this solution not fitting your needs ? https://mspoweruser.com/ntfs-260-character-windows-10/
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Design Patterns for Container-Based Distributed Systems(usenix.org)
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by vmarsy 10y ago
> Justifying this as "just to make sure people aren't cheating" is like justifying the police putting a camera in everyone's living room "just to make sure people aren't criminals" or putting a GPS coll
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by vmarsy 10y ago
I found a quite impressive list of scientists behind this open letter, including professors from big U.S. schools such as Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Penn State, CMU and many others. The primatory signatories of this article are : Andreas

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