andrewcooke

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by andrewcooke 6y ago
i need to go out, so this is just off the top of my head, but isn't this really just some kind of efficient approximation? in which case (1) can it be extended to other problems trivially (so that we have an optimization library that
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by andrewcooke 6y ago
the garmin data actually is in an open format. i've written software to decode it using publicly available documentation. the software is free to use. you can copy the (.FIT) file off the watch over USB.
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by andrewcooke 6y ago
if anyone is interested, i have a project that allows you to process and visualize data from garmin devices (FIT files in general). it includes a command (ch2 fit records <filename>) that dumps the contents of a file. it's not
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by andrewcooke 6y ago
this is excellent, except that it doesn't read so well.
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by andrewcooke 11y ago
http://gallium.inria.fr/~fpottier/publis/mezzo-icfp2013-long... http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4960 thanks; these are all very interesting.
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by andrewcooke 12y ago
it's more than that. i cannot get to my (presumably clean, running linux, carefully maintained) home machine situated in chile, connecting from the uk.
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by andrewcooke 12y ago
ah, thank-you. that makes more sense.
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by andrewcooke 12y ago
what an awful diagram. it implies there's some kind of symmetry that relates all four, but when you look at the details there are asymmetries. if you think it was helpful look at it again and explain why di appears in two quarants bu
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by andrewcooke 12y ago
you want mode, not median. there's no reason to think that the background is close to the median colour. that's kinda the whole point of the article... (median works well if you have symmetrically distributed noise, which is tru
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by andrewcooke 12y ago
i just wanted to say thanks to the truecrypt devs for a decade of largely unthanked and criticised work that, as far as i can tell, has been impressively reliable. [kinda disappointed that, despite arriving so late to this thread, no-one se
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by andrewcooke 12y ago
just want to second uml distilled. if you need to use uml you should read it - it's very slim and very practical. http://martinfowler.com/books/uml.html also, uml with a tool like enterprise architect (which is
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by andrewcooke 12y ago
when openssh uses certificates it still uses its own protocol (even with the x509 patch - without that, the certificates used by openssh are not even the same kind of certificate as those used by openssl). the problem with the openssl libra
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by andrewcooke 12y ago
they seem to use accelerometers - either in your phone/table (which you have to then place on the mattress under a sheet) or in a wristband or watch.
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by andrewcooke 12y ago
yeah, one of those (thanks). edit - knowing it was a watch i've found this - http://www.sleeptracker.com/ but if you have something simpler / less expensive / more attractive to my partner (less nerdy lookin
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by andrewcooke 12y ago
can you give a hint? i think i understand the article (well, i haven't read it, but i sometimes need to tailor code to work better with the cache on a cpu), but i don't know what you're referring to.
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by andrewcooke 12y ago
a simple, motion-sensitive sleep alarm. i just tried to find one, but they all require a phone or tablet. they're nothing simple and stand-alone with a very basic interface.
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by andrewcooke 12y ago
maybe he needs someone else to show him how to be happy. shrug. in my experience, people telling me how to live my life tend to be a pain in the arse. but maybe i am projecting.
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by andrewcooke 12y ago
i've stood my ground for my beliefs when people were ridiculing me for doing so. it's a lonely position to be in. i didn't share eich's views here, but he's free to have them, and the reason for the problem is, iro
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by andrewcooke 12y ago
so what? my impression is that colin is happy with things as they are. why should he change his business, which makes him happy, because someone else thinks it should be different? the aim of life is to be happy, not to meet someone else&
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by andrewcooke 12y ago
its the same thread that's already been linked to and discussed in earlier posts here.
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by andrewcooke 12y ago
it would help just to have the y axis labelled correctly. afaict the y axis label is the same for both graphs (the default and the alternate link provided as sibling answer)!
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by andrewcooke 12y ago
it's not a "non-apology". it's simply not an apology. are you so used to people kowtowing to indignant internet hordes that an authentic voice explaining his position just confuses you? and why should he issue an apolo
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by andrewcooke 12y ago
> nmap -Pn -A -T4 nsagate.apple.com Starting Nmap 6.40 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2014-03-23 21:27 CLST Nmap scan report for nsagate.apple.com (17.254.0.48) Host is up. All 1000 scanned ports on nsagate.appl
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by andrewcooke 12y ago
Wut? Python is going to get better because it has a head start? What's the logic in that? Surely the incumbent is less likely to improve than the challenger because it's already been polished. IOW it's usually the new guy
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
i don't know if this helps anyone, but it's vaguely related to the article. if you're read taleb's "antifragile" then you can think of agile development as "antifragile development". and if you do t
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
If you're English, be prepared for some weird attitudes (you're sometimes treated as "an enemy" just because you're English). It's nothing terrible (certainly not as bad as racism towards racial minorities (I&
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
meh. op is just a generic, post-hoc, bitter whine because someone pissed them off. you could replace the whole thing with "stinky brad with a stupid beard" and it would be as useful. also, read anti-fragile and fail more often.
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
a lot about julia, jenkins (and ci in general) and docker (partly i think, and inspired by anti-fragile (below), because i've decided it's ok to be wrong more often). on the non-technical front, i've learnt i have a problem c
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
not ubuntu particularly, but i use rdiff-backup with a cron job (and rotate a couple of external drives, one kept elsewhere). [i am just pulling things back after failing to convert raid 1 to 5 and losing my raid in the process!]
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
can evanescent waves couple with the environment to generate the plasma?

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