heyitsme · HackerTrans

5 years agodiscuss

I was just a kid in the 80s, but indeed remember watching "Sonda" - it was fantastic! Going through some episodes now on youtube, does bring back memories. There was another show in the late 80s called "Bliżej świata" (English: "Closer to the World"), which would run for an hour or so on a Sunday night and show snippets from western tv shows. The contrast to the (usually) very bleak communist Polish TV, was striking. For me, back then, watching both of these shows felt like looking through a window into a different world.

heyitsme

5 years agodiscuss

Wow!... if this is true (little reason to think otherwise), then it's completely disheartening. The effort to be honest and upfront with this person would be minimal, and realistically would not even have to change anything from Microsoft's side; after all they are free to develop whatever tools they want.

heyitsme

5 years agodiscuss

It also seems broken on linux (i'm running vim 8.2 on ubuntu 18.04), sadly. Lots of github threads about it.

heyitsme

5 years agodiscuss

I don't password protect the media files on the nfs server - they are visible password-free from any machine on my local network. Of course if someone has sensitive material and/or the local network is shared, say, then some extra setup is needed.

EDIT: another common use-case for me is basically grabbing lots of youtube videos/playlists via youtube-dl, which then lets me watch them on anything and everything than can run kodi commercial-free without jumping through hoops (i.e. browser addons or sideloading third party youtube apps, etc)

heyitsme

5 years agodiscuss

I have a computer on my network that runs an nfs server and hosts media, then use kodi on nvidia shields (or other computers) to access it. It works extremely well... as in not even a single issue for years now. I should stress that this is at the level of just serving files, as I don't show any metadata associated with the media (as it's mainly personal home movies, etc).

heyitsme

5 years agodiscuss

Just to add what others said, could also run it on android tables. Sadly, the linux-running tablet options aver very limited.

heyitsme

6 years agodiscuss

could you give an example of an "non-trivial" thing you're talking about (i.e a few lines of code)? And how you solve it with "Bokeh"? I agree that matplotlib's functional interface is somewhat messy, but that is somewhat historical, and stems from wanting to mimic how matlab works. I personally find matplotlib's OO interface both very powerful, and somewhat intuitive, once one gets a hang of it, hence I'm curious of specific cases where it fails for you.

heyitsme

6 years agodiscuss

Aren't roku devices notorious for gathering data on how you use their hardware and what you watch? In fact as far as I know you can't even use their TVs without actually creating an account with them. If this is still true, it's completely NUTS!

heyitsme

6 years agodiscuss

does that mean that if one starts a new julia kernel, and imports a package, something different happens each time they do that? if not, then it would seem one could at least save on those super long imports. Reading about this a bit more, it almost seems like whatever PackageCompiler.jl is doing could be automated and baked into the the core julia executable with simple options/flags.

heyitsme

6 years agodiscuss

People are being downvoted to oblivion for mentioning this, but for some of us coming from different languages, it definitely takes some time to get used to things. I'm new to julia, so am probably more ignorant about this than most... but importing two packages such as DifferentialEquations and Plots, on my very modern machine takes ~30seconds (this is after they've been "precompiled"). I'm curious, assuming I haven't installed anything new, or haven't changed my installation, why does julia not cache this complied binary somewhere? It seems like this long step has to happen on each new-kernel import, but perhaps it could be avoided? Having an option flag that would cause julia to redo the compilation (because the user has, say, changed something about their installtion), seems like a simple solution.

What am I missing?

heyitsme

7 years agodiscuss

I have little time to play games these days, but I do that. Have two machines, both always on, one of them a windows one for games, the other runs linux for everything else. I use a usb switch to, on-the-fly, change all the relevant devices (mouse, keyboard, headphone dac/amp, etc) and adjust the monitor input to use one or the other. It works extremely well, and takes ~1-2 seconds to switch.

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