ramLlama

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by ramLlama 11y ago
Yup, I can see it for computational experiments or "applied CS" fields. I realized this soon after I posted the comment, but I didn't bother to update my comment. However, this still isn't clear in their website. I will
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by ramLlama 11y ago
I like this idea, but I do not really understand who it is aimed at. The focus seems to be on reproducibility of scientific experiments and code, which is great! Many existing code artifacts are WOGSL (Works On Graduate Student's Lapto
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by ramLlama 12y ago
Yes, they do. Microwave works on line-of-sight and weather patterns easily mess it up and drop the link. That's why you usually also run your microwave data over a fiber link as backup. Of course, when microwave works, it gives you a d
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by ramLlama 12y ago
Another advantage of having the microphones (yes, there can be more than one!) near the ear itself is for DSP. Many hearing aids use multiple microphones to selectively amplify sounds from the direction you are facing. I think this would wo
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by ramLlama 12y ago
I too wear BTE's with glasses and most people are surprised when I tell them I wear hearing aids. They cannot see them. This is especially true of modern "Receiver In The Ear" (RITE) models where instead of a tube carrying so
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by ramLlama 12y ago
A bigger issue with separating the microphone and amplifier is cosmetic: hearing aids sadly have a stigma attached to them and people are more likely to wear them if they are invisible. There is a reason why hearing aids are produced in hai
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by ramLlama 12y ago
http://www.benheck.com/controllers/ Ben Heckendorn is known for very clever console modifications and has forayed into accessible controllers in recent years. He sells a custom made one-handed controller for a few hund
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by ramLlama 12y ago
This is exactly right. GNOME, KDE and other out-of-the-box solutions make sure to set the GTK and Qt themes so that everything looks pretty. When you use a WM (window manager) rather than a DE (desktop environment), it is up to you to setup
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by ramLlama 12y ago
Thanks! Spacemonkey looks terrific and is pretty much what I envision! I often feel that with the move to "cloud computing" over the last decade, we have essentially made a dichotomy between working "locally" and working
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by ramLlama 12y ago
This is a very interesting problem, espeicially since consumer computing devices quickly shunted to small storage space when SSD's arrived. A few years ago, a laptop with 500GB of hard drive space was rather small! Nowadays, a 500GB SS
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Forekast: Crowdsourced Event Discovery(forekast.com)
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by ramLlama 12y ago
Thing is, userspace networking is a lot like the GPU business. Often times, the software is free or even OSS, but the hardware is proprietary. I know Intel has software for their NIC's to enable userpace networking, but I don't th
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by ramLlama 12y ago
I graduated in 2011 and my sequence used: Alice/Java => "101"-type class C/Perl/Shell => Intro to Systems C => rest of the systems branch Java => Data Structures Standard ML => functional and logic cl
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by ramLlama 12y ago
My understanding is that XFS is now default because it has far better support than ext4 for large (hundreds of TB to PB) volumes. In addition, RedHat employs many core XFS members. With the quashing of the slow metadata performance ( http:&
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by ramLlama 13y ago
That's true, and I completely forgot that you can do that. In fact, that's how I last deposited a check!
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by ramLlama 13y ago
Schwab has been the only bank I have ever dealt with, and I have no intention of moving away. They are a professionally run outfit with focus on all the right things. As mentioned, the customer service is stellar. I have never had to be on
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by ramLlama 13y ago
Agree, this seems like a prototype of Subsonic. Note that I am not knocking this project. It is a great first effort and seems to fit in fit in with the rest of Cozy very well. Speaking of, Cozy looks very nice, and I will explore it later!
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by ramLlama 14y ago
When you start the list traversal, you would have something like Node** link = list_head and as you traverse, you would do link = &(entry->next) Then, when you find the entry that you want to delete, link points to
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by ramLlama 14y ago
True, but as you get used to seeing the vehicle cross from your center mirror to your side mirror, you get a sense of where it is. Your point of reference just changes from your car in the side mirror to the combination of the location of t
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by ramLlama 14y ago
I think this is because you are comparing the business laptop to the consumer edition. While I haven't actively shopped laptops for a few years, I have noticed that the business editions, while a tad more expensive and less "stylish", are u
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by ramLlama 14y ago
I believe double majors do not functionally require as much due to a greater chance of being able to double-count a class. Also, a double major typically means you get one diploma that lists your two majors. A double degree means that you g
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by ramLlama 15y ago
Agreed on DSL. I actually used Tiny Core at work recently, and was pleasantly surprised at the ease of use and customization. Although only power-users would seek to customize it, it is certainly far easier than modifying Arch Linux or the
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by ramLlama 15y ago
I felt the exact way when I read "The Andromeda Strain". For me, it was the exhaustive statistics and bibliography that sealed the deal. Still one of my favorite Crichton works.
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by ramLlama 15y ago
Ah, that was an unfortunate ordering of sentences. I was just giving an explanation for my consumption rate, not a reason for why I wasn't affected. I should have proofread that. I'm sorry.
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by ramLlama 15y ago
Not necessarily. When I was in high school, I drank between 4 to 6 cups of coffee a day. It never affected me. The reason for this is twofold: It's just part of the culture in my family in India, and I really liked the taste. Fast forward a
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by ramLlama 15y ago
My sleep patterns are a lot like the parent commenter. I usually sleep about 7 to 8 hours, but occasionally sleep 9 or so. Do I feel like I've overslept? Sure in that I've "lost" an hour or two that I could have used. But my body doesn't fe
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by ramLlama 15y ago
That is true. I do minimal system administration, so that is not a concern for me. I tend to use a shell for system interaction more than scripting. In that regard, I give more importance to interactivity enhancements. On the other hand, I
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by ramLlama 15y ago
Well, I did say "yes, you can" so technically I did answer his question. However, the implication is that by buying a SIM (which can also be postpaid. It is not strictly prepaid only) and a phone, you get the choice of phone and service. Th
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by ramLlama 15y ago
Yes, I just use the builtin's. Basically os.execute, and io.popen. Popen is not the greatest because you can't get exit statuses from it. But for a quick script that is too messy in shell, it suffices. I believe that there is an extension t
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by ramLlama 15y ago
I have been using fish for several years now. It's community is a fraction of zsh, bash, and others, and I've tried to go back to them, mostly out of misplaced "everyone else is doing it" mindset Fish is a great shell. It's a modern shell,

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