AncientPC

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by AncientPC 5y ago
I've tried a few and this is my favorite habit tracker app on Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.isoron.uha... Ad-free and FOSS: https://github.com/iSoron/uhabits
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by AncientPC 5y ago
As they say in poker, "Play the person, not the cards. But also sometimes play the cards."
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by AncientPC 5y ago
A disagreement between two individuals should be initially communicated between those two and ideally resolved privately. Hopefully both sides have enough empathy to understand the other's perspective to reach an amicable conclusion. A
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by AncientPC 6y ago
What happens when two countries' laws conflict with one another?
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by AncientPC 6y ago
I don't care that the p90 UI latency performance is better, the p99 performance on Android devices is terrible (UI stuttering). I use a Pixel 3 and iPhone 8 on a daily basis.
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by AncientPC 6y ago
You're confusing CPU and memory pressure, and attributing blame to the wrong component. Android's lack of smoothness is due to thread contention, whereas the iOS kernel uses a dedicated UI thread running at high priority. RAM size
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by AncientPC 13y ago
Cache version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http%3A...
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by AncientPC 13y ago
An out of contract iPhone 5 (16GB) costs the same price: http://store.apple.com/us/buy/home/shop_iphone/family/iphone...
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by AncientPC 14y ago
That's more accurately described as memoization, as caching is a broader term. Also, you might want to look into Sieve of Eratosthenes, as you only have to test up to sqrt(n) for primality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_of_Eratosthen
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by AncientPC 14y ago
I'm sorry you've had poor experience with Linux, I've had plenty of them myself. I'm tired of dealing with ACPI / driver issues as well. That's why now I just buy ThinkPad and Intel-only chipsets. If you're going to use Linux, you have to r
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by AncientPC 14y ago
Just to add another data point, Arch Linux on X220: 1. 4-6 hrs with 6 cell battery. 2. Yes, Intel everything (HD4000, wireless, etc). 3. Yes, 1 resume crash total this year. 4. Yes, attached to external monitor via DisplayPort -> DVI ri
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by AncientPC 14y ago
This illustrates another pain point for Apple: the inability to change default applications. Say Google releases a maps app for iPhone. Every time you get an address in a text, email, Facebook, Yelp, etc it's going to open up in Apple Maps
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by AncientPC 14y ago
Probably because there's no easily accessible data store like IMDB for famous mathematicians or computer scientists.
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by AncientPC 14y ago
I do it for photos and video (~60GB worth on microSD card). Obviously barrkel does it. Just because you don't use a niche feature doesn't mean others don't. There's a saying in photography how everyone only uses 80% of their DSLR's capabili
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by AncientPC 14y ago
There are extensions to get rid of the redirect: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dohbiijnjeiejifbgf...
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by AncientPC 14y ago
htop (and by extension top) is for CPU / memory / load information only. Normally to get network and disk stats I have to run a combination of dstat, iotop. A simple screenshot comparison: http://i.imgur.com/eQPuQ.png OTOH htop takes up ~
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by AncientPC 14y ago
Agreed. I've submitted lots of pull requests and taken over a small, popular project but none of it shows up.
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by AncientPC 14y ago
Except there are plenty of other Android devices with those features (except tablet battery part).
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by AncientPC 14y ago
I still care about Flash on mobile. Why? A lot of Asian sites (Chinese & Japanese) still use Flash for video and nav menus. I have a rooted phone, so I'll probably find some way to sideload Flash back on.
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by AncientPC 14y ago
To relate this to tech, there was an earlier study done that showed progress bars that updated in smaller increments (~1% steps) felt faster to end users than larger increments (20% steps) even though the time for the smaller increment prog
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by AncientPC 14y ago
How so? I'm running Xmonad with GNOME 3.4 right now.
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by AncientPC 14y ago
Two factor is magnitudes better than password only, but it's not foolproof. Security is only as strong as the weakest link. CloudFlare was hacked recently because the attacker was able to redirect voicemail to another account, then use the
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by AncientPC 14y ago
I can't find the links at the moment, but some HFT guys have responded to relevant Slashdot articles over the years. From what I remember from those accounts, traders often like to tweak algorithms at the last second and there is little to
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by AncientPC 14y ago
The Zune was too little, too late. 54 days later, Steve Jobs announced the iPhone. At the time Apple was selling a 5th generation iPod or an iPod mini, and the iPod nano was less than a year away.
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by AncientPC 14y ago
It's fun to bash on the most recent security naiveté, but can someone explain why GNU Mailman still emails users' passwords after subscribing? Mailman warns users that passwords will be mailed plaintext, but why mail passwords to begin wi
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by AncientPC 14y ago
It is also free from the Kindle Lending Library: http://www.amazon.com/Habits-Highly-Effective-People-ebook/d...
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by AncientPC 14y ago
I suspect this is a uniquely American thing. Similar to Dell's failed entrance into Asia, Americans are uniquely content with purchasing plenty of merchandise without ever physically examining the product.
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by AncientPC 14y ago
Civilian pilots log plenty of flight time, but their flying experience is nothing compared to fighter pilots'. Time is not a substitute for quality. My code has significantly improved compared to what I wrote a decade ago (or even a few mon
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by AncientPC 14y ago
I did a lot of PHP over the years, trying to migrate over to a Python web stack. A big hurdle is ops dev. All hosting services support PHP out of the box. Now I'm faced with the "distro choice". Which server do I use (lighthttpd / nginx / t
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by AncientPC 14y ago
I disagree. I've been to concerts and football games where people are holding up iPads up high to record videos / take photos. It's a distraction and a nuisance. I say good riddance. I have my phone / DSLR to take photos, but I regularly vi

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