Beldin

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by Beldin 4y ago
> With Premium Plus, get everything in Premium plus [...] Off topic, pedantic, but still... That is horrible writing. And that's not even going into the "and more".
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by Beldin 4y ago
> Now, these prices from GH can make sense if you are a team of 10-50, but I wonder what would be the point where it wouldn't take a bean-counter to say "can't we just hire someone else do that in-house, part-time? It wou
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by Beldin 4y ago
One time $70 for standalone, no phoning home version of Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
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by Beldin 4y ago
> if the tokens have "no value", But if you can exchange tokens for prizes, clearly the tokens do have value. 1 token = piece of bubble gum, 10 tokens = keychain, 5000 tokens = fluffy unicorn. Etc. Basically, I don't se
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by Beldin 4y ago
> [the value] went away because the asset itself become less desirable and valuable to other people. That view on "value" is inherently fickly. In case they never sold their buildings, you could also argue that no value had b
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District-based elections, where each district had one winner, tend to lead to two-party systems. The counting mechanism doesn't meaningfully impact this. If you want to change this, you can expand current districts to cover multiple s
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Why would they be looking for a new job if this wasn't a breaking point or final straw for them?
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> you're specifically filtering out ... ...everyone for whom a full return to the office is a breaking point. You assume that correlates with capability of the employeeto perform their job well. That does seem reasonable, but it r
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by Beldin 4y ago
Tom Scott has a video talking about why he doesn't set up a patreon. My takeaway from that video: one sponsored video covers (for him) multiple months of good patreon income. Given that paying / being paid impacts a relationship,
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He discusses in (if memory serves) "A Brief History of Time" whether we will keep on discovering ever-more accurate physical theories, or if there's a theoretical limit. The Planck scale offers a theoretical limit, so there&#
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Yup. I would indeed take it to mean "apologies that i am butchering this language and/or its grammar". Same thing in The Netherlands: if you're excusing your command of the language, that's polite. If you want to re
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by Beldin 4y ago
It depends on the definition of "rational". A serviceable but vacuous definition is "the procedure by which a decision is reached." Note that it is vacuous in that it imposes no constraints (not even repeatability/c
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> For example, a neural net [...] is, in general irrational I'd argue the opposite. Rationality is using a reasoned approach to decision making. In a neural net, that reasoning is embedded in the net. You may disagree with its con
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Indeed, a key point is the definition of rationality. You can argue that everyone acts rational: they make choices based on some internal logic that makes sense to them at the time of decision-making. Whether that is the flip of a coin (Two
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by Beldin 4y ago
I really appreciate the interest! I'll try to find some time for a reply going into some details, but I need to suit down at a computer undisturbed for an hour or so (also to refresh some things), which is hard to fit in the next few
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by Beldin 4y ago
Despite not having read the article, I feel compelled to plug my students' port of a deblur algorithm to Gimp. https://www.open.ou.nl/hjo/stud-finished.htm#elseenton Thesis (unfortunately) in Dutch, but a writeup
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by Beldin 4y ago
I've been in academia since 2004; just not US academia. Maybe that's the main difference? There's plenty of wrongs in academia on this side of the pond as well, but some of the stories here just couldn't occur. Case in p
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by Beldin 4y ago
> It’d be pretty cool if we had a real path for later-in-life research time. We do. You can do a PhD in part-time, self-funded. Yes, your financial situation will definitely take a hit; you can control to what extent though. Expect to
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by Beldin 4y ago
> But most likely, when you come home and a loved one asks what you did today, you won't be able to have an answer My PhD - and subsequent research - is in security. I will happily explain my research to anyone who will listen. In
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These experiments / "experiments" tend to involve a significant factor that would invoke bs'ing. E.g. being interviewed on camera from a crowd - saying "uh" and "dunno" instead of answering is guarant
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by Beldin 4y ago
I had the same feeling for a different reason: I don't think this reduces friction enough compared to sharing LaTeX files (on github or overleaf), which we can already do. So I don't think this will usher in a new era. I realise t
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by Beldin 4y ago
On the other other hand, you can easily use the same reasoning in favor of mandating safety features: Not making them mandatory means they remain expensive extras, more expensive than if required on all cars. That means second hand cars wit
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by Beldin 4y ago
I sincerely applaud focusing on positivity instead of negativity. You all are not putting in your current efforts because of FreeNode. That's long in the past and completely irrelevant to current efforts. You're all doing it to en
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That's the point: if file systems that basic would NOT lose data, then it is unacceptable if another file system does. Maybe to put it differently: new file systems should offer improvements wrt reliability for stable features of the f
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For anyone else wondering what bca-chefs are: it's b-cache-fs.
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Fine, let's be more nuanced: no filesystem should lose data if FAT16/FAT32/NTFS 3.1/EXT2/EXT3 wouldn't.
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Gimp is open source. Don't get me wrong, I love users and am very grateful for feedback. But how they can continue to make noise over a feature for over a decade without learning to code and implement it themselves or, you know, just
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Because top talent has no clue what Google or MS would/should value them at? I don't think the brains of top talent stop working when they are unhappy with certain aspects of their current job. Also not with respect to their total
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If you have a stable community, there is a certain distribution of participants from recently-joined to oldtimers. The bulk will have experience with the community's unwritten rules due to experience; new folks constitute a tiny mino
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Having witnessed kids learning time: they will happily give "15:39" as an answer. But if you ask them when it'll be 4 o'clock, they literally have no idea - not even of yhe direction (forward or back). I think this is A

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