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The points i.i.d. with respect to Lebesgue measure on the square. Happy?

Did he ever find out why the library was deleted in the first place?

In case anyone is interested in how to prove "(N + M) Choose (M) paths": Any such path ends at (N,M). Such a path can be represented as a sequence of N+M bits, 0=right, 1=up, where…

Sorry-- I was unclear. The regex is not for organization. It's just an easy and flexible way to browse subsets of your library, like smart playlists in iTunes, but more powerful.

Thanks for the tip, beets looks great. I use quodlibet on my laptop but this looks perfect for my squeezebox server where a GUI is inconvenient.

Have you tried Quodlibet? https://code.google.com/p/quodlibet/ It comes with a Musicbrainz plugin which allows you to select an album in your library and search for it on musicbrai…

Surprised to see no mention of the website Criticker. Been using it for a few years now (ever since I cancelled Netflix and missed the recommendation engine). Criticker's rating sy…

Duplicity is a simple tool for signed/encrypted (PGP) differential backups using a variety of protocols including: ssh/scp, local file access, rsync, ftp, HSI, WebDAV, Tahoe-LAFS, …

> my bottom touchpad is configured in X to be 100% scrolling hey, that's a good good idea. i have always just had mine disabled. thanks!

Everyone here seems so satisfied, but to be honest I am still skeptical. It would be nice in the "browse flights wanted" screen you showed some baseline price for the requested fli…

Agreed. You really don't have to be a savant to memorize these. Only about half of them are non-obvious. Another quarter are just spellings of letters. And the last quarter might b…

The themes I mentioned makes them visually compatible. Note that there is no fiddling, the widgets are actually rendered using the other toolkit so your Qt application inherits all…

> Consider the myriad of UIs which run on X, many of which aren't compatible with one another If you are referring to window toolkits, they are all compatible in the sense that you…

...we are the most mature and responsible generation ever Just because the hipster ideal is more "mature and responsible" than related social movements which preceded it, does not …

All routers that I interact with support port forwarding via UPnP so applications can open ports themselves. For example, BitTorrent clients like Transmission use this to set up po…

I followed along the examples by piping into the command line ALSA player 'aplay', which is I think included in all ALSA installs.

Lucky for us, the new IEEE 802.11 was ratified in September and includes (finally) 802.11s for mesh networking. There is support in Linux and FreeBSD for several of the most popula…

Actualy the Wundermap on wunderground.com does this very well. It does a Google maps overlay so you can see your exact location. Also there are various options for highlighting the…

Couldn't disagree more. His vilification of these so-called "shadow jobs" boils down to this vague and indirect reference to an increase in "fatigue". I don't find any substance to…

These were for university. This sort of addresses your point: Now, after thirty years, these problems seem easier. Mostly, this is because the ideas of how to solve these problems …

Yes, a quadratic Bezier is only piecewise differentiable. If you need it to be completely smooth you can use a higher order Bezier (i.e. a higher order polynomial). But the reality…

Yes, if you want a constant speed you need to re-parametrize by arclength, which is straightforward for quadratic (or, more generally, polynomial) curves as there is a simple close…

Nope, from the the footnote: "Prices are per person and are for e–tickets and include all taxes & fees in USD."

ORD to HNL 12/28 to 1/5. Hipmunk: $1092. Kayak: $917. (Both reservations have one layover in each direction and include tax. Kayak sends me to United.com directly while Hipmunk tak…