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NextHendrix

379 karma · joined December 14, 2017

physics graduate, fpga engineer
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NextHendrix··on Study Finds No Single Genetic Cause of Same-Sex Sexual Behavior
both?
NextHendrix··on Study Finds No Single Genetic Cause of Same-Sex Sexual Behavior
As someone who knows nothing about this subject, if the cause doesn't appear to be genetic then what does that leave? Environmental? Something else?
NextHendrix··on xkcd: 562k Accounts breached according to haveibeenpwned
I wonder how many of those passwords are correcthorsebatterystaple
NextHendrix··on Pay a visit to Cambridge’s computer museum
That colossus is a replica, the original machines were all destroyed
NextHendrix··on Lawsuit: Autopilot didn't prevent Model 3 from driving under semi at 68 MPH
gdpr-walled in europe
NextHendrix··on Ask HN: How do I make sure my non-technical parents are safe online?
Choice of operating system won't affect whether or not people type away their details into random websites. Putting Windows and Linux in the same box and pushing iOS over them is also puzzling. Why would someone's non-technically literate parents happen to be running a Linux distribution on their personal computers and why would that make them more susceptible to giving their details away than running OSX?
NextHendrix··on A researcher needed three hours to identify me from my DNA
possibly celebrity (or otherwise) children being found to have been from the wrong father
NextHendrix··on The password “ji32k7au4a83” has been seen over a hundred times
Most of twitter seems to be self-congratulatory posts about users' beliefs
NextHendrix··on Linux Desktop Setup
KDE5 is super nice and doesn't resemble the horrors of KDEs past, at least in my opinion, you should give it a try after all this time to see all the great work they've done since you last saw it.
NextHendrix··on Linux Desktop Setup
I currently use the Sticky Window Snapping[0] plug-in which allows resizing tiled windows together (see the demo at the link) and that does most of what I need. A lot of what I do now is fairly horrendous when attempted with a tiling window manager (music production with lots of vst windows open, using mouse heavy programs like Vivado and gimp), which soured me to tilers after using them for years.

I still have my treasured xmonad config available as an xsession for when i'm just doing dev things, and use it most of the time on the laptop I do programming with, but in general plasma5 is such a step up from any older versions of KDE it just works really nicely for everything else.

I'll have a look at the KDE tiling plugins although I'll be surprised if it can replace my xmonad setup (would be nice though).

[0] https://store.kde.org/p/1112552/

NextHendrix··on Vim.dev is redirected to Emacs website
Both have terminal and gui interfaces. The main difference (by default) is that vim has a mode for moving around and a mode for entering text and emacs does both at the same time (mostly by holding ctrl for moving around), but both can be configured out the wazoo to do either to some degree.
NextHendrix··on Linux Desktop Setup
Absolutely. I, like many others, spent quite a few years in the gentoo/arch+minimal riced tiling wm camp but am now happy and comfy on "bloated" fedora 29 and kde. More than anything it just feels like i've grown out of it, and it's nice having a computer I can actually rely on for once.
NextHendrix··on 9999999999999999.0 – 9999999999999998.0
Actually Wolfram|Alpha does give 1, but Mathematica 11.3 gives 2.
NextHendrix··on Open source software in quantum computing
"Experimental quantum computing is still a relatively new discipline and comparable to the early days of classical computers in the 1950s."

This is one of the most interesting aspects of the current state of quantum computing. For anybody who 'wishes they were there' in the early days of classical computer development, whether it be Bletchley Park or Bell Labs, this is as good a chance as any to be one of the pioneers.

Anyone interested in the nitty gritty should brush up on their maths skills and pick up a copy of the excellent "Quantum Computing: A Gentle Introduction" by Eleanor Rieffel and Wolfgang Polak.

NextHendrix··on Sandspiel – A falling sand game built in Rust and WebGL
I wasted hours on these types of games back in the flash era, people were constantly releasing new ones with more types of sand and various effects and combinations, its a shame that whole segment of internet history was deprecated along with flash, good times.
NextHendrix··on [dead]
Apparently he's just been arrested https://oilcitywyo.com/crime/2018/08/30/recent-arrests-8-30-...
NextHendrix··on An update on uBlock
Was also blocked for me which confused me until I noticed the different shape of the logo
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