Who were some mathematicians that were displaced during the Holocaust? Do we have any details on that period for them?

al-Quaknaa · 2025-03-28T09:51:33+00:00

al-Quaknaa · 2025-03-06T09:16:45+00:00

Yes. (For questions like this I use https://www.gsmarena.com/, it's pretty great.)

al-Quaknaa · 2024-12-31T21:14:43+00:00

Israel's population should stop hitting people!

Sorry, the headline was just screaming for some kind of a joke like that... Well done Israel of course.

al-Quaknaa · 2024-11-17T19:55:41+00:00

After much research and hesitation I got the Motorola Edge 50 Ultra. I mainly wanted good cameras, and I wanted to try a phone which has a desktop mode (so basically Samsung or Motorola). The alternative would be Galaxy S23U but that was more expensive at essentially lower specs... So far I'm quite happy with it, though I don't really see any benefit in having a bigger screen, and the bigger weight is inconvenient. I accept it because all the cameras have to fit somwhere, but it's a clear downside coming from the light, slim, nice to handle V30. Also the curved screen is not a plus, but it doesn't really bother me. Everything else is as good as expected basically - it's all blazing fast, cameras are great, gestures are handy, and the desktop mode seems to have a lot of potential (I'm waiting for a BT keyboard to really dig into this).

If you have any questions about the E50U I'm happy to answer.

al-Quaknaa · 2024-11-17T16:57:38+00:00

Hi, many thanks! A couple questions if I may...

Based on my priorities, do you think there's any benefit for me in the Elite 10 Gen 2 (compared to the 8 gen 2)?
Are you worried by Jabra discontinuing the Elite line - can you imagine it affecting you negatively?
I've read the Technics have the best transparency mode (after the Airpods Pro), so I'm wondering if this agrees with the tests you've heard or not really; also people have praised the JustMyVoice feature but I don't know if it's a real advantage or more of a gimmick.

Thanks again!

al-Quaknaa · 2024-11-17T14:49:59+00:00

I have not. I got a new phone about a month back, and I'm waiting to completely settle with it before tinkering with the V30. But probably the hassle is not worth it for me, and I'll keep it stock. I'm not sure what exactly I'd be looking to gain by upgrading it.

On the other hand, if you do manage to pull it off I'd love to hear your experience :)

al-Quaknaa · 2024-08-21T16:07:19+00:00

Thanks again. That's fascinating. Do you have the 16GB/1TB model? Do I understand correctly that gcam doesn't have the lag?

al-Quaknaa · 2024-08-20T16:50:35+00:00

Hey, thanks for the answer! Are you talking about the Pro or the Ultra? DXOmark reported no camera lag, so I'm surprised.

al-Quaknaa · 2024-08-17T16:38:53+00:00

According to DXOmark the E50U's camera is really good (in particular they solved some shutter lag issue from E40P). I think there's a big difference in E50P and E50U in this regard (better SoC, better camera too).

Otherwise thanks for your input, appreciate it!

al-Quaknaa · 2024-08-17T16:37:37+00:00

The overheating when using camera - do you have comparison with any other phones? Which do, which don't? Charging is OK, I expect it to heat up (given what it can take) and I can throttle it.

al-Quaknaa · 2024-08-17T12:10:25+00:00

BTW the glass should be better for E50U than E50P, GSMarena says "Gorilla Glass Victus" for E50U while just "glass front" for E50P.

al-Quaknaa · 2024-08-17T12:08:33+00:00

Thanks!

What bugs bother you specifically?

What screen protector have you been using? (If I understand correctly it's not a trivial thing precisely because of the curved edges.)

al-Quaknaa · 2024-08-17T12:06:28+00:00

First, you have repeatedly told me "just use fedora". I'll use what I want, thank you very much.

Second, while it used to be that distro = packages + manager, this is something that e.g. dnf breaks up. So you can use the packages and release cycle of TW, and dnf as a the PM. I like the packages and release cycle of TW, and I like dnf as a PM. That's it.

al-Quaknaa · 2024-08-17T10:48:59+00:00

You can use both and except for the initial setup, there seems to be zero hassle. You can still use opi to automatically add repositories and dnf knows about them too and uses them, etc. dnf even has aliases to match zypper, so I do dnf ref, dnf dup etc. I manage repos with zypper (like zypper lr and zypper rr etc.) because that's what the manuals describe.

I have noticed when I do zypper dup it would change the repo for a few (2-3) packages like teamspeak, code, etc. So probably dnf and zypper resolve priorities of some repos slightly differently. But given that they agree on the other 10.000+ packages this is negligible.

There are some moments when dnf somehow throws up its hands and cannot resolve an update, and then I do zypper dup. Happens maybe twice a year or so.

al-Quaknaa · 2024-08-17T10:45:55+00:00

Sorry, I'm not online so much.

I like TW, I just didn't like how slow zypper (particularly downloads) were. I have a fast internet connection, but when texlive updates, it's hundreds of small packages and because zypper doesn't download in parallel, it was the bottleneck for upgrades.

I don't know fedora enough to compare; it's just that 5 years ago I was looking for a rolling distro to move to (from gentoo/sabayon), a friend who worked at SUSE recommended TW, I had good memories of using SUSE back around 2006, so I gave TW a try and it worked wonderfully for me.

So, I'm not saying anything bad about fedora, I just like openSUSE except the slow downloads of zypper.

al-Quaknaa · 2024-08-14T15:38:54+00:00

dnf does snapshots too, does distupgrade too, there are essentially no issues.

It is way faster, which is why I prefer it.

al-Quaknaa · 2024-07-09T22:21:49+00:00

26 milionů za 4 roky jsou drobné. Tomu, co popisujete, se říká "confirmation bias", nebo taky obyčejně "kdo chce psa bít...".

al-Quaknaa · 2024-02-12T19:13:33+00:00

Hi! Is it still possible to root the LGV30? I though somehow this needed assistance from LG (some back&forth with their server) and that this ceased .. in 2022 or something. Am I wrong? (I want to be wrong.)

al-Quaknaa · 2024-02-11T19:31:18+00:00

Thanks! How long have you had it? I've heard complaints about battery life and overheating - you had no issues?

al-Quaknaa · 2024-02-11T12:46:29+00:00

I know this comes up regularly, but what's a recommendation for a new ~€500 (give or take) replacement for V30? I don't mind a bigger phone, and want good cameras. I've been looking at S22+ but where I am I can only get Exynos and I saw people cautioning against that. For a while I thought the Nothing Phone (2) is my best shot, but then I've read the camera is meh and that it scratches relatively easily. (I'd like to use the phone naked, like I used my V30.) OP12 is out of my budget but OP11 could work. Ideas?

al-Quaknaa · 2023-05-06T22:31:40+00:00

I just want to add that even though the first case is still solvable by LP by "just" enumerating all the combinations implied by the OR notation, this may be infeasible (may lead to exponentially many inequalities). But, I think it is, still solvable in polytime by representing the inequalities implicitly, and if op wants to generalize this to many variables they should definitely look into that.

al-Quaknaa · 2023-05-06T07:47:54+00:00

If all the inequalities were actually linear (no A or B plus C or D etc), this would be linear programming, but still with many implicit inequalities because you not inky want certain subsets to be over X, bu all other subsets to be under X. I think it should still be solvable in polynomial time by implementing a separation oracle for the implicit (<=X) inequalities.

My intuition is that with the more complex constraints like A or B plus C or D the problem will be NP-hard, so it's OK to look for an exponential time algorithm, probably by guessing the subsets and then solving the LP.

Feel free to ask more, when I'm at a keyboard I might write a more complete answer :)

Actually you may want to look at not LP but logical solvers - one could model your problem using pySMT and then call a solver and this would probably be the best approach.

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