abdullahkhalids

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by abdullahkhalids 5mo ago
That still works. There are three entities: customer, bank and merchant. The merchant should never be able to pull from your bank account. However, the merchant can send an invoice for a payment. Either the customer manually pushes the paym
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by abdullahkhalids 5mo ago
Banks and Visa/Mastercard probably love that you fill out your CC details on an online store, and next time you can just 1-click pay. Probably causes a big jump in revenue/profit. That's why they never innovated much. Of cour
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by abdullahkhalids 5mo ago
I wonder if it makes more sense to just add a tax on tires. Tire wear for most vehicles should be proportional to actual weight [1] and mileage, modulo tire quality. So just slap a tax on each tire quality type and there is no need for a sy
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by abdullahkhalids 5mo ago
Someone who "speaks the truth" without caring about how other people might feel, is rightfully termed an asshole, and generally not considered a good person. Similarly, when politicians pass laws that maximize a single value while
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by abdullahkhalids 5mo ago
Have been using Mail-in-a-box [1] for about 5 years [1]. I haven't done any maintenance for at least 3 years, besides occasionally clicking restart in the admin webpanel every time it does serious security updates. I don't send a
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by abdullahkhalids 5mo ago
China's UnionPay and AliPay are to various extents are integrated with the systems in Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia [1]. Each country has its own system, but integrates with others. [1] https://www.ms
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by abdullahkhalids 5mo ago
Someone willing to use AI to convert the thesis to Latex so we can compare?
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by abdullahkhalids 5mo ago
Latex is used because writing math in latex is very good, and despite how everything else (like tables and figures) is so bad. That's why people take the math subset of latex and use it in other contexts - exactly like this product.
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by abdullahkhalids 5mo ago
This also applies qualitatively to physical devices. It takes some effort to determine if a vehicular accident was caused by a fault in the vehicle or a driver error or environmental causes. Some key inherent differences with older engineer
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by abdullahkhalids 5mo ago
There is a difference between - software company decides to release a new version and auto installs it for everyone who has the old version (like Google Chrome) - software company decides to release a new version. The Debian packaage mainta
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by abdullahkhalids 5mo ago
What's your opinion on FreeCAD's scripting abilities [1]? The link [1] claims > FreeCAD has been designed so that it can also be used without its user interface, as a command-line application. Almost every object in FreeCAD the
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by abdullahkhalids 5mo ago
No. It's a legitimately difficult problem because there not all naked pictures of kids are illegal. The false positive problem is bad for business, but also generally bad even if the big social media was benevolent. Moderators need to
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by abdullahkhalids 5mo ago
You are just saying that physical life doesn't function. People get banned or removed from all sorts of informal and formal groups all the time because of completely illegitimate reasons. That's just human politics embedded so dee
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by abdullahkhalids 5mo ago
CSAM exists on social media because they are so large that it's not possible to moderate them effectively. To me this is a a no-go. If a business is so large that it cannot respect laws, it needs to be shut down. The correct way to org
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by abdullahkhalids 5mo ago
I feel like for Project 1 at least, the old dashboard is better than the new one. The problem with a set of mutually conflicting laws like this is that good designers are able to intuitively understand which ones to ignore and which ones to
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by abdullahkhalids 5mo ago
What's the price per use compared to a standard industrial metal one?
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There is in fact just such a repo maintained by Terence Tao and other mathematicians [1] who are actively using LLMs to try to find solutions to them. [1] https://github.com/teorth/erdosproblems
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by abdullahkhalids 6mo ago
The Greasemonkey Firefox addon that allows you to run site specific JS has been around for two decades [1]. [1] https://www.greasespot.net/2005/03/
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by abdullahkhalids 6mo ago
That's where your supervisor comes in. In most cases, they should be an expert in the field, and guide you towards a useful and novel problem. Moreover, I am not suggesting you don't look at other papers at all. But google scholar
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by abdullahkhalids 6mo ago
Yes. But it consumes at least 10x-100x more resources to run a web app than to run a comparable desktop app (written in a sufficiently low level language). The impact on people's time, money and on the environment are proportional.
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> You have to take a topic you find interesting and read all possible related work in it This is definitely the wrong way of going about a research project, and I have rarely seen anyone approach research projects this way. You should re
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by abdullahkhalids 6mo ago
Wage theft is the largest form of theft by a wide margin. Everything from not paying people at all for contracted work, forcing people to work overtime without additional pay, structuring contracts/agreements in terms of bonuses that c
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by abdullahkhalids 6mo ago
Any technology from before the time of your grandparents, and often parents, is usually perceived to be "not fancy". Because then those elders can't tell you in your childhood what life was like before that technology. So in
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I have seen global estimates for number of people with access to a car to be about 20%. But can't find a link. Some related stats [1, 2] from which one can infer that the above number is roughly correct. [1] https://www.moto
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by abdullahkhalids 6mo ago
You can go to their Patreon and see that they are making CAD545/month [1] [1] https://www.patreon.com/cw/DrSemiconductor
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Lots of places in the world have legally mandated percentage by which rent can increase for a unit per year. It might be 2% or 3%, but it is a fixed number that is fought over politically before being decided. That is the function that you
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The quantitative model will tell you whether building housing of type A of quantity B results in more of a decrease in rent than building housing of type C of quantity D. Then you choose the policy that results in the desired decrease in re
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Housing is a unique market, because every single product in it is unique, and prices and rents can vary quite a bit. In a city I used to live, the city decided to revitalize a section of downtown by bringing down some old small buildings an
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by abdullahkhalids 6mo ago
My guess. Total energy consumption in 2024 was x. Total energy consumption in 2025 was x + y. For example, solar PV was installed and led to increased electricity consumption. Or more oil was extracted and used to drive cars around more. Th
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by abdullahkhalids 6mo ago
Lots of people quoting basic supply and demand. People in the year 1500 could pretty reliably tell you that a rock would fall down if you released it from a height. People would also tell you that if you threw it up and away, it would go up

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