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by choochootrain 2y ago
the article mentions https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai , which i have been using for a few years to get me to 90% parity with i3. it has quirks and limitations, some of which can be fixed by disabling system integrit
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by choochootrain 7y ago
a few years ago i quit my full time job but negotiated a consulting arrangement with the company on an hourly basis. it was beneficial for them because i was able to offboard and knowledge transfer much more effectively over a few months of
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by choochootrain 8y ago
"privacy-focused" until governments subpoena messages from the world's largest and most active digital network. or until advertisers demand more knobs for their retargeting. or until zuckerberg changes the company priority ye
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by choochootrain 8y ago
its a two-edged sword. if you can trust the application code to effectively schedule itself then it's good but you can also get bugs and perf issues where a synchronous chunk of code blocks progress on everything (see js blocking the m
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by choochootrain 8y ago
what a blast from the past - i remember this game and it blew my mind when i first realized i had the power to plot a polynomial through all those points with little effort required
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by choochootrain 8y ago
i think it's more about the culture which allowed that image (even in its cropped form) to proliferate as it did: > About six months later, a copy of the [Playboy] issue turned up at the University of Southern California’s Signal an
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by choochootrain 8y ago
i agree with you but you have to keep in mind that pages which load fast on a fiber connection and render and respond quickly on the latest macbook don't guarantee the same for the average user. giving devs 4 year old laptops would hel
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by choochootrain 8y ago
well then you must be inhuman because subconscious bias plays a part in online advertising. sure you can mentally block them but eventually you will fatigue from the cognitive overhead. sorry to paint such a bleak picture but this stuff is
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by choochootrain 8y ago
i love that i can try this out anonymously - how do i set priorities for the 3 parts of the day? right now i can only set the morning priority by clicking on the day
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by choochootrain 8y ago
i think the low contrast in your Geoff.Greer.fm logo and the "go dark" button might be what GP is talking about. i didn't realize the button had words until i saw the hover state had opacity: 1
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by choochootrain 8y ago
i last used cloudformation over a year ago and it was a pretty shitty experience overall. bread and butter resources like vpcs would fail to provision in time which would cause a cascading failure and result in the entire stack failing and
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by choochootrain 8y ago
i'm coming at this from the tech side but with an appreciation for the small scale farmers who have done this for generations. my family was all farmers and here i am now. i'd love to understand your vision if you're willing
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by choochootrain 9y ago
the original paper is quite readable: https://www.ee.columbia.edu/~dpwe/papers/Wang03-shazam.pdf shazam's value is obviously in how it scaled this method to millions of users and songs but implementing it for
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by choochootrain 10y ago
cool idea! how are you locking out the apps? my first thought is the SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW permission which lets you draw over other apps but maybe theres a better way to do this in the new APIs.
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by choochootrain 11y ago
this is pretty awesome. something similar to this is being used by Silver Push to unify devices to the same owner: http://blog.silverpush.com/silverpush-says-its-using-audio-b... i'm not a fan of this kind of covert ad
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by choochootrain 11y ago
yep i have sc running :)
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by choochootrain 11y ago
awesome, i will definitely check those out! i'm still interested in a breakdown of your music :)
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by choochootrain 11y ago
i've been playing around with supercollider lately and i would love to see a writeup on your process for creating this. sound synthesis is really cool but i've been having trouble finding good resources for understanding things li
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by choochootrain 11y ago
thanks! the problem templates are pretty simple but i think we can do better now :) as you progress through the concepts, we introduce more challenging problems. we used http://www.skulpt.org/ to run python in the browser.
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by choochootrain 11y ago
in the past i have used cloud9 and nitrous.io for teaching, and i had students clone a template repo with exercises and lessons. this is awesome to me because its a much more structured way to manage projects, especially for students who ha
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by choochootrain 11y ago
i wonder how the medicare fraud strike force is currently doing this, and how we, as technologists can improve the process. working around HIPAA makes this an particularly hairy problem but from what i understand it is still possible to cre
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by choochootrain 12y ago
try nested_dd = lambda: defaultdict(nested_dd)
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by choochootrain 12y ago
avoiding poor wifi connections is the default, but you can turn that off in the advanced wifi settings
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Unicef Tap Project: Go without your phone to help give clean water(tap.unicefusa.org)
1 points by choochootrain 13y ago|0 comments
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by choochootrain 13y ago
how do you recommend getting into this sort of stuff? i have some basic experience with microcontrollers and i'm interested in some dsp hardware projects but i'm not sure where to start as the classes offered do not touch hardware
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by choochootrain 13y ago
I've never used Go before, but this is making me seriously consider trying it out. All of the DSP classes I've taken recommend Matlab + the DSP toolbox, and I would love to have a serious alternative.
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by choochootrain 13y ago
slow scan tv receiver for ARISS (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station). i implemented this as part of a class project using $20 tv tuners hacked into a crude sdr. http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ee123/fa12&#x
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by choochootrain 13y ago
I know these guys and I'm continually impressed with the quality of the work they put out. Good work!
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by choochootrain 14y ago
if youre bored with facebook and google and such, no one is forcing you to write about their every single move. there have been plenty of new and exciting things happening recently in medicine, transportation, energy, etc. they just don't h
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by choochootrain 15y ago
flashbake is version control for writers based off git. It checks specified directories every 15 minutes for changes

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