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by xioxox 13y ago
If you're interested in scientific visualisation, you can take a look at Veusz: https://github.com/jeremysanders/veusz Writing a 3D vector renderer would be very helpful to support 3D plots. Also, adding some ext
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by xioxox 13y ago
The tests in my largest code work at a very high level. They are a number of example documents, chosen to exercise particular features, which are processed by the program and compared with known output. The tests have been pretty effective
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by xioxox 13y ago
University (degree level) cost != PhD cost In the UK, in the sciences, a PhD place comes with funding from a research council. An institute gets funding for places, which they award. For arts subjects (I believe), an application by the stud
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by xioxox 13y ago
Yes, I maintain Fedora and Debian packages for my upstream project (I'm not a Debian developer - I pass my package to a sponsor). Debian is much harder to get right, though I do have more experience maintaining Fedora systems. The Debi
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Veusz: a free GUI scientific plotting package(home.gna.org)
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by xioxox 13y ago
I wonder why they allow skype? As far as I know skype use their own billing for credit. This isn't a physical product, so I can't see why this shouldn't be disallowed by the terms of service.
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by xioxox 13y ago
I'm looking forward to a Motorola phone with an SD card slot. Maybe without Google pushing cloud storage we can finally store our own files.
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by xioxox 13y ago
I don't need this website. I can go through the thousands of pages of wiki spam I've been hit with. I don't know why they think my wiki would have pages describing random teenagers from Germany who enjoy horseriding in their
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by xioxox 13y ago
You could try my veusz plotting GUI / plotting package as an alternative to matplotlib: http://home.gna.org/veusz/ I think the output looks nicer than matplotlib by default, and you can have a nice GUI and script
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by xioxox 13y ago
5k seems absurd, though there is a big differential in the UK between those who own a house and those who do not. If I lived in London, 1e6 GBP would be necessary for housing alone, a ridiculous sum compared to the average wage.
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by xioxox 13y ago
Would private enterprise really fund fundamental research, such as particle physics at CERN or astronomy? These things are important for our understanding of the nature and the universe, but the economic return is extremely hard to predict,
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by xioxox 13y ago
It reminds me a lot of Starglider 2. That was a great game from the 80s, which let you fly between several different planets to complete a set of missions. The graphics and gameplay were pretty amazing at the time on the Atari ST and the Am
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ESA's New Vision to Study the Invisible Universe(esa.int)
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I disagree - I found reading it was like being hit over the head repeatedly by the same point. The point isn't very profound either. It's more like a database dump of what Eco researched over the last few years on conspiracy theor
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by xioxox 13y ago
You can easily get the "Tyranny of the majority" under some democratic systems, particularly with direct voting on particular laws. You need a balance where you have freedom for unpopular subgroups in the population but sufficient
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by xioxox 13y ago
Interesting, but this review shows there's no SD card, so I won't be buying it. http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/motorola-moto-g/4505-645...
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by xioxox 13y ago
Hopefully it's a good competitor to these (people tell me so), but I hadn't used them before embarking on Veusz! I mainly got annoyed with the state of command-line plotting facilities in astronomy and unix (like IDL, gnuplot, etc
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by xioxox 13y ago
You could try my Veusz http://home.gna.org/veusz/ package. GUI, scripting and multiplatform. Quite a few satisfied users!
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No Infinity and NaN :-(
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by xioxox 13y ago
I like to use gmane to browse projects' mailing lists and post to them. I use a NNTP client to do this. It's great when it works, except for the few cases where posting is broken (seems to be mostly google groups lists). On the we
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by xioxox 13y ago
Coincidently, I had a paper published in Science last week (coincidently using NASA facilities, but do note that I am not based in the US). Science allowed me to put a copy of the paper on the free-to-access preprint site, arxiv.org. This w
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by xioxox 13y ago
I like this extremely short postscript raytracer I saw quite a few years ago: http://www.is.titech.ac.jp/~sadayosi/lab/h-takasi/ops.html %!IOPSC-1993 %%Creator: HAYAKAWA Takashi <h-takasi@is.titech.ac.
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by xioxox 13y ago
Sorry, but what do you mean? There are plenty of accounts in the UK where you don't have to pay anything, as long as you don't go overdrawn. I have an account with the Halifax which actually pays you £5 a month if you pay in over
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by xioxox 13y ago
ZFS doesn't support an arbitrary graph of snapshots, even with cloning. There is a "zfs promote" command that can be used, but can only be used in certain circumstances. For example, I wanted to take the latest backup of a sy
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by xioxox 13y ago
We've had a very positive experience with btrfs, using it on a redundant system for a few years. It's a lot more flexible than zfs in some respects. For instance, all the snapshots are modifiable and can themselves be modified. Yo
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by xioxox 13y ago
It's really the integrity checking. As you say, mdadm is much more suited if you need to change the geometry of you array, add disks and so on. It's much handier for the smaller business, who can't afford a second send of dis
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by xioxox 13y ago
My Veusz plotting package is pretty responsive and is written with PyQt. A few of the inner loops were recoded into C++, but the majority of the code is python.
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by xioxox 13y ago
For goodness, stop this hyperbole. At least in the UK, the health benefits of cycling far outweigh the danger: http://cyclehelmets.org/1015.html
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One aspect of German addresses is rather strange, I find as a foreign resident. If a building is split into individual flats, each flat does not have its own number in the address. Letters are addressed to names in a building. We have to de
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by xioxox 13y ago
It's dangerous to choose anything someone else might choose. My favourite technique for good passwords is to think of a memorable phrase (preferably with numbers) and take the initial letter of each word. "I can sleep at Nandos, providing I

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