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by phee 10y ago
Is it really Apple's font? I believe WhatsApp on Android uses the same. I guess everyone identifies them as Apple's because WhatsApp is not popular in US. I find it way uglier than Google's, too much detail makes them unusabl
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by phee 10y ago
Well, not sure where you read I drive close to anyone. What I'm trying to say is that erratic drivers are dangerous because you learn to predict what a normal driver would do in a typical situation (e.g. jogger too close to the lane =&
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by phee 10y ago
I agree, legal or not, I very much rely on other drivers "signals" when driving. Over the years you learn to predict what the driver in front of you would do in a normal situation and adjust your driving in advance. I'm still
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by phee 10y ago
As others have said, I would go with simulated annealing, or any non convex optimization algorithm you're more comfortable with. But first I'd investigate what's really the gain of closely packing the candies. Would shipment
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by phee 10y ago
> but in Italy they do expire They do expire but you don't have to take a new drive test. It's more about periodically checking you're still physically fit to drive (e.g. you need to take a mandatory eyesight test every fe
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by phee 10y ago
No idea, I don't use ubuntu. According to OP it's pulled by default in 12.04 and 14.04 as long as you choose to enable multimedia codecs at install time.
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by phee 10y ago
GStreamer is highly modular, so it makes totally sense to ship a set of plugins with subpar code, unclear patent/licensing, barely maintained in a dedicated package. They called it "bad", what do you expect? The issue here is
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by phee 10y ago
> Where there is no ground pin, North American power supplies must meet UL1310/CSA No.223 So, as far as I can tell, with a brief skim of the standard, a class 2 device should have no more than 0.5 mA leakage current, right? I just m
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by phee 10y ago
right, it's so powerful it's also interfering with your sarchasm detector, apparently.
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by phee 10y ago
About reversed hot/neutral. We have these[1] symmetrical adapters in Europe. How are you supposed to know the proper orientation? You are not. Because you either have an earthed metal case or you have a double insulated device. My mags
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by phee 10y ago
The point is, how did Apple manage to get away with it for all these years? why weren't they enforced to ship only the properly grounded adapter?
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by phee 10y ago
connect the two prong adapter, take your shoes and socks off, feet on the ground... feel the vibe! the best shocks you get at the edges or at the pointy edges in that groove to lift the display up.
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by phee 10y ago
I definitely experience it a lot with math. I think the way we learn and "write" math is somewhat different from how our brain does it. So you need to give it a bit of time to translate everything to its language and back to the f
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by phee 10y ago
About questions not being great, do they match what you could expect in a real world interview for a strategy quant position?
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by phee 10y ago
Guess like all engineering jobs, sometimes your job is so far from practice and so involved in regulations, meetings, standards, bureaucracy, reports, a little refcard with the most basic things can help to quickly reset your brain for the
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by phee 10y ago
"That - he said - nobody knows". It's kind of different from "we live in a sea of energy". I honestly think inertia is a lot easier to grasp than energy. It's a phenomenon you can experiment, describe and name,
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by phee 10y ago
Definitely too much, mostly by a vocal minority of the userbase. I guess design is not enough, you need good charismatic leaders to be able to sell it to the community, and you need to be strong enough to not care about the criticism. That
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by phee 10y ago
GNOME development has been mostly design driven since maybe 2008, the whole 3 era had professional designers on board since the beginning.
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by phee 10y ago
brew install mactex And consider ditching natbib for biblatex/biber
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by phee 10y ago
> I got tired of having to fiddle with the system Never understood this argument... I use both Linux and OSX, I spend the very same amount of time to get from a fresh install to a friendly dev environment. Install bunch of extra stuff (e
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by phee 10y ago
Actually I believe this particular example is basic and pretty understandable C. I was talking about the more broad idea of knowingly writing clever code to raise the entry barrier for new devs. Or just writing clever code for whatever the
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by phee 10y ago
>In quite a few cases non-trivial code doubles as filter for less skilled devs Right, until the less skilled dev it's you, months later after you moved on to other stuff, and have to get back and fix some clever shit you wrote but d
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by phee 10y ago
Sure, but you'll agree that's not the common acceptation. Anyway, I guess it was a typo for costumes. I found interesting the implication that you need to "consume" to have fun.
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by phee 10y ago
Fun use of words given the context, consumers.
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by phee 10y ago
IIRC git was already a huge success, i.e. most big freesoftware projects (Linux, GNOME, xorg, gstreamer and many more) ditched other VCS for it, when github was still in its early stages.
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by phee 10y ago
As far as I can tell looking at Youtube videos, any Chinese chef able to hand pull noodles would learn how to do it in 5 minutes. It's an amazingly similar technique. I'd say it's more an issue of finding local people willing
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by phee 10y ago
> Can you rather easily read Latin texts (assuming you haven't studied Latin, and are proficient in Sardo). I guess the statement about "closeness" comes from the study (Pei, Mario 1949) referenced in the Wikipedia page ab
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by phee 10y ago
The analogy is with anything with a brain, not just animals. Take a poorly trained human and put him in a decision-making position, he will probably make bad decisions. But no amount of training will guarantee you that he won't make an
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by phee 10y ago
As far as I can understand DB troubles aren't that urgent, but this way Germans believe they're the ones needing bailout so Merkel can get away with saving MPS without losing much consent.
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by phee 10y ago
Add slow loading... not really bad by itself but terrible when the partially loaded pages constantly move and rearrange as new elements are ready.

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