Aicy

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by Aicy 5y ago
The article mentioned thst reducing thr number of channels decreases the energy use, but surely this is for some kind of tradeoff? Would he nice to hear what this might be since the article did not mention or speculate it
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by Aicy 5y ago
crap how do I fix this edit: ok closing and reopening amazon did the trick :)
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by Aicy 5y ago
Exactly, the same happens with the word "technology". Are scissors technology? They used to be but now they are comparatively too well understood and simple. Just like with AI, we label things technology that are on the forefront
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by Aicy 5y ago
I don't. In reality it can incredibly difficult and expensive to switch all your infrastructure over to a new cloud provider, and hybrid / multi cloud is expensive and complicated to design and operate.
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by Aicy 5y ago
Still not the same thing as lecturing you on politics INSTEAD of cutting your hair. Your reply is a classic example of HN taking an analogy too far / too literally and removing it from the original argument being made.
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by Aicy 5y ago
I would say it's more worth your time to adapt to the change and use the new lingo. For example I see the term "ethical hacker" used quite often, especially for security professionals, and it's held in high esteem.
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by Aicy 5y ago
It's been a while since I've seen Godwin's law in the wild.
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by Aicy 5y ago
Language changes. It's the 2020s not 1980s. Wait until you learn how people use the word "phone" now to describe a small general purpose computer.
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by Aicy 5y ago
No one is going to be arrested for being associated with the word hacker alone with no accompanying crime Unless you can find any evidence of this happening you're just being ridiculous.
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by Aicy 5y ago
I think by science he more means "established science" that has lots of evidence and is peer reviewed. Sure, science can be wrong, but peer reviewed resesrch is a lot more reliable than just some guy's opinion.
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by Aicy 5y ago
I don't think it's wonderful since it does not explain itself well at all. Quite ironic really. Personally I always aspire to think like Richard Feynman - if I can't explain something in plain English to a novice then I don&#
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by Aicy 5y ago
I studied category theory at university and have no clue what he is talking about. It seems nonsensical and not well written. Edit: I realise this might be an unfair criticism since this is the author's private blog, and may expect rea
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by Aicy 5y ago
I did a University module on Godel' Incompleteness theotem and the complete lecture notes which gave all the lead up, explanation and the proof itself along with lots of othet related material was only about 50 pages in total if I reca
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by Aicy 5y ago
That's the point. There is uncountably many infinite sequences, but we only have countably many symbolic representations, so we can't write most real numbers down even with infinite time.
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by Aicy 5y ago
Mathematicians have definitions of all those things. And if you are working in something like the quaternions so do all the previous you mentioned (real numbers, complex numbers) because they are subsets of the well defined quaternions. I a
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by Aicy 5y ago
(The first half anyway, after that it just becomes a sketch proof of the Banach Tarski theorem)
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by Aicy 5y ago
Learn set theory! Specifically ordinals (just one formal defintion of a number) This vsauce video is actually a really accurate (and entertaining!) introduction to set theory: https://youtu.be/s86-Z-CbaHA
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by Aicy 5y ago
> Any given irrational number may not be possible to write down. There's no "may" about it! By definition an irrational number has an infinitely long decimal expantion that does not repeat, so none of them can be written
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by Aicy 5y ago
I understand very well that the peano axioms for example are logical and not circular. My point was that I think your explanation relies on the experience on what a number is, having used those equations before with the terms actually repre
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by Aicy 5y ago
You can make this argument on literally any definition - you have to start with something. So dictionary.com says the defintion of distance is: > the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc. That works for me. I
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by Aicy 5y ago
I don't think this is a fair critisim - they've just said it reverse order. They should start with the set of real numbers, denoted R, and then this can be split into two disjoint subsets - the rational numbers and the irrational
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by Aicy 5y ago
Personally I find these definitions a bit circular. Equations like "a + x = b", "ax = b" and "sin(x) = 0" have no meaning unless you have an understanding of what the terms mean, or could mean.
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by Aicy 5y ago
What mathematicians are you talking about? Set theorists and number theoriests have very precise definitions of numbers. Maybe by "number" in general do you mean something that encapsulates both "real numbers" as in leng
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by Aicy 5y ago
Not exactly true. You can formally construct the set of real numbers with set theory and then say a number is an element of that set Wikipedia page on different approaches: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construction_o
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by Aicy 5y ago
From Wikipedia: > In mathematics, a real number is a value of a continuous quantity that can represent a distance along a line That's the intuitive definition that makes the most sense to me.
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by Aicy 5y ago
Not really, there will still be a lot of variance day to day, week to week etc in on how many people log on and play. I think it's unlikely that every kid will be using 100% of their playtime every weekend, and thus giving a perfectly
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by Aicy 5y ago
I think it's unreasonable to expect so much from a company that doesn't make money. The non-desktop docker product on it's own is crazy good, I think it's reasonable to expect docker desktop to improve once docker actual
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by Aicy 5y ago
Haha that's a good one! I imagine the same is true for extending your arms up to the air to ask to be noticed
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by Aicy 5y ago
As someone from England I can confirm that's true, although I think both meanings as possible depending on the facial expression that goes along with the shrug
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by Aicy 5y ago
Using your own domain is not self hosting, you are still using Protonmail's servers to receive and store your emails.

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