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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…

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 …

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 …

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…

> 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 …

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.

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…

> 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 …

right, it's so powerful it's also interfering with your sarchasm detector, apparently.

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 me…

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?

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 lif…

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 tran…

About questions not being great, do they match what you could expect in a real world interview for a strategy quant position?

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 mos…

"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 …

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 nee…

GNOME development has been mostly design driven since maybe 2008, the whole 3 era had professional designers on board since the beginning.

brew install mactex And consider ditching natbib for biblatex/biber

> 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 …

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…

>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 …

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.

Fun use of words given the context, consumers.