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hexomancer

2,328karma·288submissions·July 25, 2016
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I have always wanted to really understand this data structure. Sure, I can follow the analysis with the potential functions and all, but I never really understood how Tarjan came up with the functions…
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You seem very sure for such a wild claim. The observable universe is finite, as for the whole universe, we have no idea (unless you know something that I don't).
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Just to be clear I did not create this website, I just saw it on reddit. All credits to the original author: https://www.reddit.com/r/woahdude/comments/vxeeqo/i_mad…
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Video Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTmCI0Xp5vI Features: * Quickly preview or jump to figures/references/equations/etc. (even if the PDF doesn't have link…
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> I'm not buying a piece of hardware to strap to my face for just that one thing. Obviously this was just one example to demonstrate the convenience of VR/AR over smart phones. You would …
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You can connect usb GSM adapters to have the mobile network on a laptop (same for all the other sensors). It is just a lot more "convenient" to have a smartphone in your pocket rather than c…
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My contention isn't that it won't happen only that it's irrelevant. Smartphones are just UI. They don't really make anything new possible. An absolutely perfect smartphone will be …
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It's funny that you chose fork to make your point because in my opinion window's version is vastly superior. First of all the name CreateProcess is obviously much more readable than fork. Wh…
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> Galaxies studied were very far from Milky Way and hence much older You mean younger, right?
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It was down for me but it is fixed now.
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I forgot to mention that you need to also add this line to your `prefs_user.config`: use_heuristic_if_text_summary_not_available 1
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I am not very familiar with chrome's PDF API (or lack thereof) but I doubt that it is possible.
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If you want to try it out on a PDF, I have implemented this in sioyek PDF reader: https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek You need to enable experimental features in `prefs_user.config` b…
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If you want to try it out on a PDF, I have implemented this in sioyek PDF reader: https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek You need to enable experimental features in `prefs_user.config` b…
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I never said that python is a bad language. In fact it is my favorite language and I probably have written more python code than any other language. That has nothing to do with it being slow though. A…
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Python is so slow that I ironically don't care about performance improvement that much, because if you are writing any performance-sensitive part of your software in python you are screwed anyway…
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Video Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTmCI0Xp5vI Features: * Quickly preview or jump to figures/references/equations/etc. (even if the PDF doesn't have link…
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You are right. These issues have beenn fixed in recent commits but the release builds are from an older commit.
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Shameless plug: If you use okular to tead research paper and textbooks you may be interested in sioyek which is an open source PDF viewer specifically designed for that. https://github.com&…
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Or you could just add this to your chrome search engines and set the shortcut to r. Now you don't even have to press control. https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Areddit.com+%s …
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The only thing more annoying than carousels are websites that hijack mouse wheel to do their own (always) poorly implemented scrolling.
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You may also want to check out sioyek which is an open source PDF viewer specifically designed for reading research papers and textbooks. https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek Disclaime…
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Sorry I have no idea about that. But a quick and dirty fix for your problem could be to split your pdf file into multiple files each with less than 200 pages.
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I'm working on sioyek, an open source PDF viewer desgined for reading research papers and textbooks. Any contribution is welcome, but I'm mainly looking for maintainers for linux packages. …
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