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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 ca…

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 k…

"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 unt…

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 co…

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 require…

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 …

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…

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 over…

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

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 h…

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 c…

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…

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 s…

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 …

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…

yep i have sc running :)

awesome, i will definitely check those out! i'm still interested in a breakdown of your music :)

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 …

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…

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 struc…

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 pr…

try nested_dd = lambda: defaultdict(nested_dd)

avoiding poor wifi connections is the default, but you can turn that off in the advanced wifi settings

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 …