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by ziotom78 11mo ago
Thanks for the link, I was not aware of this story.
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by ziotom78 1y ago
Absolutely, the shortcut help is so useful! I believe that Nano and Pico copied it from Wordstar.
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by ziotom78 1y ago
I run Kitty and use this feature regularly. Most of the time, I rely on it within Yazi [1], a TUI file manager, but I can also display plots within the Julia REPL, thanks to the KittyTerminalImages.jl package [2]. It's even more crucia
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by ziotom78 1y ago
I was going to reply, but kakacik already said what I wanted.
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by ziotom78 1y ago
What strikes me is the fact that nuclear power has received an incredible amount of backslash after the Chernobyl incident (a few thousands deaths) and the Fukushima incident (one disputed death), but hydroelectric power is considered a &qu
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by ziotom78 1y ago
That's a fair point. I think the author intended the post to be a treasure trove of ideas for your own scripts, not as something to blindly include in your daily workflow.
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by ziotom78 1y ago
It has been said that Italy is extremely vulnerable to fake news. I am not sure that we are more vulnerable than others, but it is a fact that local media provide news that is sloppy at best if not even willfully deceitful. A couple of exam
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by ziotom78 1y ago
Right, but I believe nobody can claim that Human error bugs go to zero for Rust code.
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by ziotom78 1y ago
I fully resonate with point #2. A few days ago, I was stuck trying to implement some feature in a C++ library, so I used ChatGPT for brainstorming. ChatGPT proposed a few ideas, all apparently reasonable, and then it advocated for one that
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by ziotom78 1y ago
Interesting! I wasn’t aware of pumped hydro. I checked one of the links in the thread, and it does look like a promising technology. Has it been proven at the scale and reliability needed to balance a fully solar-dominated grid year-round?
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by ziotom78 1y ago
Nice, thanks!
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by ziotom78 1y ago
The course is meant to teach students how to write numerical code (integration, PDEs, Monte Carlo, …) rather than to teach OO design itself. C++ is the chosen vehicle, and the professor has a strong OOP background, so the course material en
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by ziotom78 1y ago
I’m a teaching assistant in a C++ course for second-year physics students. The goal is to teach numerical and data analysis, but the course is structured around a very object-oriented style. For example, every function is defined through in
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by ziotom78 1y ago
I’ve happily used KDE for years, but recently I switched to XFCE. My only real pain point with KDE was that the screensaver often refused to resume after the monitor turned off due to inactivity. To unlock it, I had to open a framebuffer te
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by ziotom78 1y ago
They are so safe that nobody has ever attempted a terrorist attack against them since the first fission reactor (1941). Terrorists have targeted the Twin towers, the Pentagon, the White House, the Bataclan, Nice, but no fission reactors nor
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by ziotom78 1y ago
It's not the best way to visualise a correlation, I agree, but the article is interesting and full of valuable information, so why stop reading?
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by ziotom78 1y ago
Just a couple of days ago, I submitted a few pages from the PDF of a PhD thesis written in French to ChatGPT, asking it to translate them into English. The first 2-3 pages were perfect, then the LLM started hallucinating, putting new senten
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by ziotom78 1y ago
This might depend on the brand of the smartphone, as I am a regular Firefox user and I never experienced any unwanted change in the default browser of my Huawei P20 and Samsung A52 phones.
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by ziotom78 1y ago
The B-flat sonata is one of my most beloved pieces! There is a recording by Brendel released by Philips that contains the last three sonatas and the three Klavierstücke [1]. I highly recommend it! [1] https://www.pianistdiscograp
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by ziotom78 1y ago
Same here, SurfShark produces the following error: { "websiteUrl": "https://github.com/XXX/YYY/", "blockedUrl": "https://github.githubassets.com&#x2
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by ziotom78 1y ago
Point two is critical. I have found that the best way for me is to avoid using copy-and-paste. Instead, I put the browser on the right corner of the screen and my text editor on the left, then transcribe the text word by word by typing it u
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by ziotom78 2y ago
And let's remember that most of the Ukrainian refugees have been hosted in Europe [1], something for which I am proud of being European. This has a monetary cost that Trump's administration seems to ignore when they keep saying th
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by ziotom78 2y ago
"Blind watchers of the sky" is one of the best presentations of Kepler's and Galileo's oeuvre I have ever read. (I am an astrophysicist, but this book can be read by non-specialists too.)
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by ziotom78 2y ago
Here is a fantastic rendition of the scene: https://youtube.com/watch?v=IuHZPR8e5c8
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by ziotom78 2y ago
A memorable occurrence in this happens in "Sense and Sensibility", Part III, Chapter XII, when Elinor Dashwood learns that the man she loved and believed had just married was in fact free: “Is Mrs. Ferrars at Longstaple?” “At Long
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by ziotom78 2y ago
This reminds me of the difficulties Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette had in conceiving an heir: > In a letter to his brother Leopold, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Joseph II described them as "a couple of complete blunderers."[
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by ziotom78 2y ago
I'm not a native English speaker, but could "natural" be appropriate for this context?
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by ziotom78 2y ago
They are used also to characterize the statistical properties of fields over the sphere. A notable example is the pattern of hot/cold spots in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR, [1]). They are distributed stochastically,
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by ziotom78 2y ago
Well… If you are in Purgatory, you will eventually enter Paradiso (=Heaven), and for t→+∞ the ratio between the time spent in Paradiso and Purgatorio will diverge in favor of the former!
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by ziotom78 2y ago
“Super expensive” for who builds them, or "super expensive" for the end user paying their electricity bill? Also, there are safe solutions to store nuclear waste. They are not 1.0e31% secure, but many other kinds of power plants c

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