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Doesn't work on prepaid plans.... Anyone know how to access this and turn it off for these users?
Re:An Elementary Introduction to Information Geometry [pdf] on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @10:17PM (#24646569)
Almost 50 self-citations... Is this normal?
Re:Pluto.jl – a reactive, lightweight, simple notebook on Friday August 28, 2020 @11:53AM (#24306370)
This would be better if there was VS Code integration with their notebook system.

Personally, I will never code in a web browser and don't understand how people can do so with large code bases.

Re:Apple to kill Epic’s accounts on Friday the 28th on Monday August 17, 2020 @03:26PM (#24190853)
Is it bad that I hope they do kill Epic's account?

Epic launches a preconceived plan with media attacks and the most ridiculous 1984 reference that actually doesn't make sense in the current context against Apple. If I'm Apple, even if this is a straight up attack on me, I just follow the rules in my TOS and block them like I do others who don't follow the TOS. If you don't like the TOS, fine you don't have to be on my platform and have access to my users. It's as simple as that. The fact that so many are rebelling against this, is actually good for consumers in the long run, they may flock to other platforms albeit there's now only two viable platforms, Apple and Android. Windows got bit by the dust, but I do wish they were still around to create a healthy three ecosystem battle.

Epic's a billion dollar company with huge resources fighting another billion dollar company. It's kind of hilarious watching this pan out, with Epic pretending to be some small indie corporation fighting a huge conglomerate.

Re:Run for Your Life on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @02:42PM (#24124137)
No comment on the article, but the website is a beautiful example of a text first design.
Huh, their explanation makes no sense. Do they review every single Spotify song or Netflix movie and show? I don't see how this is any different.
Re:Julia 1.5 Highlights on Monday August 03, 2020 @01:49PM (#24040966)
Sadly, this is very true. Yeah Julia is fast, but not as fast as python and matlab in the REPL and quick analysis work. I can get going with data analysis and plotting far faster for exploratory work due to the zero precompilation overhead in those languages, where as in Julia this overhead is brutal. Julia people will probably down-vote this, but sadly, as an interactive language this is it's Achilles heel. I have to explain to people why the code is taking so long to show up due to JIT et al., and non-experts don't understand that this is just an initial overhead.
Re:Julia 1.5 Highlights on Monday August 03, 2020 @12:50PM (#24040107)
They should really list all the contributors that added to the release instead of highlighting the few people that added some of the listed features.
Re:Autodesk criticised by architects on Monday August 03, 2020 @02:36AM (#24034768)
It's actually nothing like sketchup, it's a full fledged parametric modeler, which sketchup never was.
Re:Autodesk criticised by architects on Monday August 03, 2020 @02:12AM (#24034667)
The thing is, with Fusion 360, they created a product so good no one can match them at this point. It's pretty remarkable how fun and easy it is to use compared to Pro/E and Solidworks. With regards to Revit, I've never used this software, but I wonder if it's a similar situation.
Yes that's the only way to do it, but then you kinda cirumvent the whole tailwind philosophy. The tailwind typography package is an attempt to fix this, but right now it's annoying to use.
Yes I tried it out, except it's extremely alpha at this stage. It's not at all easy to customize.
Played around tailwind css this weekend, pretty good and enjoyable. There's some quirks that make it slightly annoying to use with a static site generator that takes in markdown files and converts them to html. In this case it becomes annoying to style these files via something like tailwind.

For simpler projects there's tachyons as well, which shares a similar philosophy and is a bit simpler in scope.

Re:RIP ROP: CET Internals in Windows 20H1 on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @04:03PM (#23910400)
TLDR? Why does this matter?

"As a reminder, Intel CET is a hardware-based mitigation that addresses the two types of control-flow integrity violations commonly used by exploits: forward-edge violations (indirect CALL and JMP instructions) and backward-edge violations (RET instructions). "

Why are these important

Re:Zulip 3.0: Threaded Open Source Team Chat on Thursday July 16, 2020 @02:18PM (#23862015)
Honestly I found Zulip way too confusing. Am I the only one?
My setup is an Asus monitor connected to a usb hub using HDMI, and it works wonderfully. I wonder what's causing issues in your chain.
For those on Windows there's Twinkle Tray, works remarkably well. It has the ability to set timers, which I set to dim my monitor at night and increase the brightness during the day.
Re:CUDA 11.0 on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @10:46PM (#23776487)
Do you know what exactly I should search for when looking for a "TB3 to PCI-E x16 adapter"? Will this utilize all thunderbolt lanes available? I've got a newer laptop that, I believe, has all lanes available.
Re:CUDA 11.0 on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @09:39PM (#23776173)
I'd like to play with CUDA, but I just got a new laptop without an Nvidia GPU, coming from one that had a built in Nvidia GPU. It's got a thunderbolt port, but unfortunately most of the gpu's are quite expensive at around 400$. Does anyone know any cheaper options?
Re:KeePassXC 2.6.0 Released on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @11:58AM (#23771141)
I'm curious why would anyone on Windows use KeePassXC instead of KeePass. Are KeePass plugins compatible?
Re:Turn your phone into a wireless webcam on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @10:41PM (#23766409)
I've used DroidCam over USB and for me it was slower than over wifi.

What do you mean by adb port forwarding?

Re:Turn your phone into a wireless webcam on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @01:48PM (#23761945)
Has anyone compared this to DroidCam? Is it faster/lower lag?
Re:Rust on the ESP32 (2019) on Monday July 06, 2020 @11:32PM (#23755437)
Right, that's ultimately what I am worried about.
One major question I have: how come we haven't seen any innovations to desktop monitors? Most of the innovations come first to TV's and smartphone displays. It seems like the pace of desktop monitor innovation is slower.
Very interesting. One thing I don't fully understand is the difference between mLED and uLED. As I understand, mLED have a an array of separately controllable backlights, but what exactly is uLED?
Re:Rust on the ESP32 (2019) on Sunday July 05, 2020 @02:38PM (#23740846)
There's also this guide https://rust-embedded.github.io/book/

Although, I'm more interested in learning STM32 development, due to recommendations that it is far superior to ESP32 boards. Anyone have some tips on how to get started on this front as a hobby?