xioxox

42 ms·

421.
by xioxox 10y ago
It's been great for our use case - we've been using it for about 5 years like this. We use it for rsyncing data onto as a backup (not the only one!), making daily snapshots. md is more flexible than zfs's raid, but less flexi
422.
by xioxox 10y ago
Have you tried btrfs on an md RAID device (for interest)? We've run it for a while, but we don't care too much about performance.
423.
by xioxox 10y ago
I don't think comments would be useful. To make a proper comment on a paper requires a significant amount of work (as does refereeing). Lowering the barrier to entry would produce some first impressions, the usual moans about lack of c
424.
by xioxox 10y ago
Are you sure? I think it's only funders like Wellcome that require open access. My UK collaborators (in physical sciences) don't publish in open access journals.
425.
by xioxox 10y ago
This link claims it may be possible to open an account without UK management (e.g. with HSBC), but I'm no expert here: https://www.rapidformations.co.uk/blog/business-bank-account...
426.
by xioxox 10y ago
I don't think so - men are heavier than women on average, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_body_weight . Is it a mistake in the table or a weird sample?
427.
by xioxox 10y ago
I see in Table 1 that their average human female is 6 kg heavier than their average human male. Strange!
428.
by xioxox 10y ago
As someone with UK and German bank accounts, I prefer the UK banks: * Free real debit cards you can use online vs crappy card that only works in person * Free, as long as you're careful not to go overdrawn vs frequently charge per mont
429.
by xioxox 10y ago
You'd still need some people to work on running welfare programmes. Not every basic need can be met by a fixed sum for everyone. For example, some disabled people need extra money to run a car, get equipment in their homes or perhaps e
430.
by xioxox 10y ago
Sorry, but that's crazy. I was previously involved in this mission. The whole community was really excited to see the first results from the soft X-ray calorimeter. Furthermore, there was going to be an open call for proposals for obs
431.
by xioxox 11y ago
14/40 I said vague and dim for most of them, but it feels like fleeting glimpses of bits more than anything else. I can't really imagine coloured objects, though I sort of label an object as coloured. Geometric arrangements are ea
432.
by xioxox 11y ago
I'm not convinced by this argument. It's perfectly possible to stick to a well defined subset of C++ if you're scared by certain features. Just write a coding standards document and enforce it. Operator overloading is very im
433.
by xioxox 11y ago
We already have C++, so is this required? If you want C with a dynamic vector, you could write C in C++ using std::vector.
434.
by xioxox 11y ago
Interesting, though a lot of posts seem to be about the US by default. I see he's missing Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as mappings for the UK. It would also be useful to add capital or major cities as synonyms (e.g. Paris, Lond
435.
by xioxox 11y ago
Is the BBC news site any good? I used to use it a lot in its old form, when there was less whitespace and more content. When I look at it now it seems like there's barely anything there. Most of the stories appear to be videos, which I
436.
by xioxox 11y ago
Try my Veusz plotting app and library - http://home.gna.org/veusz - it has a nice interactive GUI, is python scriptable and extensible via plugins. It's based around Python, Qt and numpy. It can export to PDF, EPS, SVG
437.
by xioxox 11y ago
Some of my favourite are the ship names in Ian Banks' culture series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spacecraft_in_the_Cult... They're all great, but here are some examples * Only Slightly Bent *
438.
by xioxox 11y ago
You can't as easily block adverts based on it.
439.
by xioxox 11y ago
I've haven't noticed any increase in developers with my main project, which is very user heavy. It's a multiplatform GUI application, something which attracts a lot of non programmers. If you write some sort of library, you&#
440.
by xioxox 11y ago
Surely it's a good thing for British teachers to have higher wages? It would encourage British people to go into teaching, become educated and pass on that education. Britain has a problem with stagnant wages and concentration of wealt
441.
by xioxox 11y ago
Such networks already exist, e.g. http://www.faulkes-telescope.com/ or http://www.schoolsobservatory.org.uk/
442.
by xioxox 11y ago
Really? There's plenty of old hardware which no longer works in recent Windows versions. It's not in a manufacture's interest to update a driver to recent OS versions. In Linux drivers usually remain for a long time.
443.
by xioxox 11y ago
Interesting. It's also unclear to me why a system of books and ledgers of rules couldn't be conscious if they are self modifying. Who knows what property of the system insides of heads gives it this sense of "self" and h
444.
by xioxox 11y ago
Modification of gravity has been found wanting. See e.g., the bullet cluster, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster
445.
by xioxox 11y ago
I think that's a bit unfair to label all scientists like that. There are many of us that care about writing good code and working in version control. You just need to browse github to see many such people. There's not much incenti
446.
by xioxox 11y ago
Ryanair have recently changed their marketing strategy to try and tone down their heartless image and appear to be nicer. See, e.g., http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/may/02/ryanair-new-...
447.
by xioxox 11y ago
AVX 2 is required to get the wider integer instructions, so this would require Haswell processors.
448.
by xioxox 11y ago
Because publishers often change their systems, so links can break. URLs can also be very long and difficult to include in text documents. Some journals I've published in have moved between several publishers. The DOI is an identifier w
449.
Views of the Solar System(damianpeach.com)
74 points by xioxox 11y ago|13 comments
450.
by xioxox 11y ago
Many things happen the way they do just down to luck or chance. If that microscopic quantum fluctuation hadn't been there our galaxy wouldn't have existed. Some people believe in karma. Maybe this is covered as a principle, howeve

More ›