ziotom78

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by ziotom78 5y ago
I understand that it is frustrating to hear somebody telling you that they lack confidence in your tool simply because it «lacks a webpage», maybe after you have spent so much time creating and polishing it! However, considering the huge am
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by ziotom78 5y ago
However, in principle there should be a (perhaps very small?) component due to the inner magnetic momentum of neutrons [1], right? After all, they are made of quarks, which have nonzero charge. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by ziotom78 5y ago
Yeah, you are right, these limitations are not much of a matter of the language itself.
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by ziotom78 5y ago
NumPy is not a good comparison, because Julia can produce faster code which takes less memory [1]. The Python library that is closest to Julia's spirit is Numba [2], and in fact I was able to learn Numba in a few hours thanks to my pre
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by ziotom78 5y ago
I am using Julia extensively since 2013, and I can say that it's awesome! But don't try to use it if you're looking for a general-purpose scripting language: Python is far better suited for this. Similarly, if you want to pro
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by ziotom78 5y ago
Yes, being a high-speed particle particle you should use relativistic momentum to describe the hit, but the idea is the same.
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by ziotom78 5y ago
Unfortunately there is no safest path. In free space, like in my home, dust is everywhere.
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by ziotom78 5y ago
The big problem with near-light speed travel like the one suggested by Lubin is the potentially fatal interaction of the spacecraft with interstellar dust. Even considering their faint density, the long journey would make the spacecraft int
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by ziotom78 5y ago
I use regularly UnicodePlots.jl for Julia when connected through ssh to HPC servers. It has boosted my productivity!
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by ziotom78 5y ago
When using the Julia REPL I regularly use KittyTerminalImages [1], which is awesome because it fits perfectly with other plotting packages. [1] https://github.com/simonschoelly/KittyTerminalImages.jl
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by ziotom78 5y ago
Sometimes I still use WordPerfect 6 for DOS for writing text. It's insanely fast and, as other have said, the «reveal codes» feature is awesome. Unfortunately, its equation editor is far more cumbersome than plain LaTeX for writing equ
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by ziotom78 5y ago
I agree with this suggestion: Lazarus is a great choice if you need to develop a GUI program.
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by ziotom78 6y ago
Thank you for having let me discover Espanso, it's exactly what I needed!
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by ziotom78 6y ago
Thanks a lot!
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by ziotom78 6y ago
> Ironic part is the same group that says "life is sacred" are also more likely to be pro-capital punishment. Probably true in the US, but far from reality in Europe.
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by ziotom78 6y ago
Some time ago I looked for these data but was not able to find a «sound» source, apart from organizations promoting/fighting euthanasia. Do you have links to some objective sources? I would love to have a look at them.
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by ziotom78 6y ago
I agree. After having tried several other players (Amarok, Banshee, Rhythmbox...) I have settled on Audacious. It's quick to start, plays every format I need, and is not as invasive as other bigger programs.
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by ziotom78 6y ago
Well, I believe that the biggest problem is that there are very little incentives in doing that. Everybody (your university, the Government, the funding agencies...) rushes you to publish as many papers as possible, get zillions of citation
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by ziotom78 6y ago
Sigh, I feared this answer! :-(
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by ziotom78 6y ago
Exactly!!! :-)
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by ziotom78 6y ago
It has been a long time since I tried MATE. Do you mean that the file dialog does not implement recursive search? If it is so, then I must consider switching! (At the moment I am using Xfce.)
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by ziotom78 6y ago
I have found a (cumbersome) solution to this using Xfce. Its Thunar file manager does implement type-ahead, so whenever I need to open a file that is saved in some deeply-nested folder, I open Thunar (using a custom shortcut, Ctrl+Alt+E)
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by ziotom78 6y ago
Sure, but once a platform is read by billions of people and is influencing what they think, I believe it is reasonable that people discuss about the opportunity to regulate this kind of stuff.
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by ziotom78 6y ago
The very fact that you can still use F-Droid invalidates this statement.
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by ziotom78 6y ago
The few times I tested, Ruby 2 was ~2x faster than Python 3 in tasks involving iterations on long lists.
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by ziotom78 6y ago
How nice! It has been a few years since I started thinking of doing something similar. I have used Turbo Vision a lot in the past, both within Turbo Pascal and Turbo C++. This project seems very solid: I enjoyed reading how much care was sp
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by ziotom78 6y ago
It's a pity I can't upvote your comment more than once!
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Some teachers in my department are consistently putting images from code in their slides and web pages. In this way they force students to retype the code instead of just copying-and-pasting it. Another case could be to make sure that the c
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by ziotom78 6y ago
This was exactly my problem. I tried to love DDG, I really did, but this behavior was so annoying that I turned back to Google a few months ago. (No, I do not consider typing "!g" before any search that contains quotes a solution
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by ziotom78 6y ago
This was more or less my experience. My old HP laserjet (P1005) was a crap: it required to be connected to a computer through the USB cable every time it was turned on, so that the 500MB HP Windows driver could be able to upload the firmwar

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