Beldin

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by Beldin 6y ago
We have a theory and observations. Observations don't match theory. So, at least one of them is incomplete. Dark matter puts the emphasis on observations(that is: assume the overall theory is roughly correct): there are things out ther
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by Beldin 6y ago
Basically, each layer of any implementation of the OSI stack will have its own peculiarities. E.g. there's a paper on re-identifying computers via TCP clock drift. How well they work depends on the amount of effort you're putting
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by Beldin 6y ago
Tangentially related: does anyone here happen to know if celebrities use 2 different signatures (one for fans, one for signing official documents)? Or do they give away their actual signature every time? If the latter, I'm really wonde
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by Beldin 6y ago
Lack of a central server does not imply end-to-end security. In just about any useful situating, when A connects to B, the following will at least be in between: A's modem, A's ISP (typically multiple routing devices), B's I
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by Beldin 6y ago
On a related note, i once came across the notion that free memory isn't doing anything for you. It's kind of obvious and does not at all explain chromium's lower bound of memory usage. But: if Chromium runs better with more
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by Beldin 6y ago
I use linkedin for having a reasonable reliable connection to people from the past. I.e., primary school friends, high school friends, colleagues, etc. I've never used it for job hunting, but for the feeling that i might be able to g
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by Beldin 6y ago
> Releasing all of these copyrighted books for free hurt authors who rely on royalties to live Do you have any data on that?
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by Beldin 6y ago
In theory, that would be convenient. In practice, you get stuff like this: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/363337/how-to-find... TL;DR: if your mac has high cpu load, try using the other side port for c
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Underwater Basket Weaving(en.wikipedia.org)
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by Beldin 6y ago
Virtually all my teaching is online, in a dedicated tool. Of course I used slides and approach to teaching that i inherited from previous teachers of the course - which includes heavy use of polling using the builtin easy polling feature of
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by Beldin 6y ago
> I have some bad news for you. None of us will ever find out ... Ever heard of Max Schrems? He did exactly this (use GDPR to obtain his records) for Facebook. Not sure why you think Netflix would never go through the same hullabaloo
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by Beldin 6y ago
> 24h time is extremely rare in everyday use in the US. Sure. > There are huge swaths of Americans who will literally not know what 17:00 translates to in AM/PM. 1. Same is true for most people in the world 2. Wait, you mean
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by Beldin 6y ago
UK'ians do use it. French, Germans, Swiss, BeNeLux, Italians, Spanish, Polish not. Don't know about the rest, but would be surprised if anyone in Europe but the UK used it.
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by Beldin 6y ago
This leads to am interesting security question: how to achieve real transparency? I mean HN could publish a ranking algorithm and claim that that is what they use. But then we still wouldn't know (1) if that is really what's runni
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by Beldin 6y ago
Well, if the restaurant reimburses the customer after, it probably would become a problem. Way around this: private owner places his own orders as customer, pockets profits as owner. That might be legitimate - but remember: if you take lega
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by Beldin 6y ago
This made me wonder: what if a restaurant puts a pain dough "pizza" for $30 on their menu? Of course, no one would order it. But in this situation, an aggregator could offer it and the restaurant owner could take advantage of that
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by Beldin 6y ago
After installing Ubuntu 18.04 I tried staying with Gnome. I installed extensions to get closer to the behavior I wanted. I realised i basically had a cheap, slow knock-off of standard Unity functionality. I installed Unity and never looked
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by Beldin 6y ago
If we're arguing semantics: isn't it an insult instead of a swear word? I.e., is there a common use of the word not directed at a person? Like hitting your thumb with a hammer?
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by Beldin 6y ago
NL: starting point is one month per year of employment. There's more detail to it, but that is the starting point. This compensation does not sound "vastly more generous", but not bad for those that were less than 5 years em
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by Beldin 6y ago
Covid-19 is a pandemic.
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by Beldin 6y ago
True enough... but you still don't know what the dependencies do. E.g., one added ads. Another added use tracking. This could even be legitimately in line with the dependency's purpose. Unless you're manually vetting all the
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by Beldin 6y ago
I understand that if you have all dependencies locally, you don't need to download more dependencies. I understood NotAPlumber's remark as: openbsd has no third party dependencies. In other words: there is one party to trust, not
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by Beldin 7y ago
> One potential wrinkle here would be exactly what legal standard would be required for the coronavirus to qualify as a true force majeure ... for the institution. Getting kicked out of your house could easily be a force majeure for th
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by Beldin 7y ago
Actually, ads are the only model of microtransactions that has worked in practice. So the good news is that there is a practical method of microtransactions! The minor downside is that is not C2B, but B2B.
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by Beldin 7y ago
> Sci-fi wants us to believe that we can teraform planets. Given or current sample size of 1, clearly we can. It's the part where the teraforming produces a more habitable planet that we haven't gotten down yet. But hey, thi
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by Beldin 7y ago
Top of my head, so I may be off, but: The Arecibo message was easily the easiest to detect by far. Its signal will become indistinguishable from background radiation at a distance of slightly over 625 light years. The converse: any life ou
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by Beldin 7y ago
Sidenote: This is about the Green-Tao theorem, not a Tao theorem which has a colour. Yes, I freely admit I read that wrong.
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by Beldin 7y ago
> There's still no universal, government-provided API that would allow you to check whether an ID is real, Colleagues of mine have created just such a system: IRMA. Short for I Reveal My Attributes. The way it works: The governmen
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by Beldin 7y ago
Dear Nature, Please don't hide authors behind "[...]" (JS link). Getting published in Nature is a big deal for many, let them have the credits.
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by Beldin 7y ago
This. Paying taxes is (at least in western countries where i know a tiny bit about academia) sufficient to support the authors. If you want to go beyond that: reach out / blog / tweet / etc about papers that peek your interes

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