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by abnry 2y ago
This week I have learned that murder, not justice, is wildly more popular than I thought.
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by abnry 2y ago
> I barely ever even use the -la options. Certainly I use these less than plain "ls," but digging through hidden files and folders and looking at timestamps is very important for me.
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by abnry 2y ago
How viable is Asani Linux these days? MacBook hardware looks amazing.
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by abnry 2y ago
Lost Pig. Grunk need find pig. https://pr-if.org/play/lostpig/
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by abnry 2y ago
I know a lot of people hate on the recommendations homepage on YouTube, but I discover a lot of content I like watching there. However, I can't watch all of it and what to save what I see there and otherwise find and search for in a pl
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by abnry 2y ago
I don't think there will ever be an answer to this. There's a similar problem with choosing a threshold for a decision. The common thing to do is to make a RoC curve to compare the trade-off between true positive rate and false po
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by abnry 2y ago
That's not true. rm is a known foot gun and commands like trash-cli already exist.
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by abnry 2y ago
I have great memories of competing with a college friend to solve these problems. Since I last seriously did the problems, probably 15 years ago, they have added a lot more.
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by abnry 2y ago
In this analogy, the AM and FM signals you receive aren't usually experiencing interference, they are experiencing multipath effects which includes things like path loss, attenuation, reflections, and so on. This is driven by geometry.
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by abnry 2y ago
I have always said that while professors get paid less money than in industry, they are compensated in reputation to make up for it. Status and reputation are the currency of academia.
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by abnry 2y ago
I do the same. My alias for rm just echos "use trash" so I don't replace its function, just disable it. When I really need to use rm I type /bin/rm.
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by abnry 2y ago
Re: 4), isn't forgiving loans awfully close to having power of the purse? That is explicitly congress's role. You have some really perverse incentives too if you allow loan forgiveness by the executive branch, something close to b
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by abnry 2y ago
My only guess how this could make sense is if there is some ambiguity in the definition of a TCP packet.
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by abnry 2y ago
I think man in the middle attacks are the concern. But still better than plaintext.
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by abnry 2y ago
I mean, many authors do care about their copyright. So if you disregard copyright en mass, then yeah, you are against the people writing the books who care about their copyright. You could have made a fairer point if the IA only disregarded
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by abnry 2y ago
I still haven't fully grasped the Systemd drama, or systemd for that matter, but boy do I love it. I enjoy how Linux has those turf wars nobody outside of it knows about.
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by abnry 2y ago
I appreciate this software, thanks!
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by abnry 2y ago
Aside from that, understanding counterexamples teaches you to understand the definitions and theorems better. Which matters for proving future results.
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by abnry 2y ago
I took images directly from Google Images search and it got them wrong. But it was sort of directionally right. My local city hall it said was the courthouse in the same county. The local bridge was put into a wrong state. Interestingly, it
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by abnry 3y ago
I have no clue about this paper. Only comment is that this was published April 1st.
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by abnry 3y ago
Another place this shows up is in online chess ratings. See Lichess: https://lichess.org/stat/rating/distribution/blitz Couldn't find this in Chess.com stats, but maybe they do some smoothing in their pl
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by abnry 3y ago
> The thing I don't like about these stores is IMO they take advantage of poor people who think they are getting cheaper products This only makes sense if you think poor people are dumb or naive. They don't know how to compare
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by abnry 3y ago
From what I understand, it is magical in the sense that it makes everything easy to do, even for people without much knowledge.
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by abnry 3y ago
If you know F=ma, p=mv, and by calculus that a=v', all of which is high school level, then the time derivative of momentum is clearly force.
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by abnry 3y ago
I guess my understanding is that a tty must involve a device driver for an actual piece of hardware. A pty is all software, implemented as a feature of the kernel any application can ask for.
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by abnry 3y ago
And then there are PTYs or psuedoterminals.
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by abnry 3y ago
Next thing you know, you're learning how to flash ESP firmware and how Zigbee protocols work. The cool factor is maybe 25% of it for me. It's mainly an obsessive hobby.
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by abnry 3y ago
"Chestnuts roasting on an open fire Jack Frost nipping at your nose." I was always struck how nobody roasts chestnuts anymore. Then I learned how some forests in the US had 25% chestnut trees and that blight killed almost all of t
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by abnry 3y ago
> Chesterton finds himself surrounded by fences which have no articulated justification, but which might be necessary/justifiable. This is a predicament of his own making. If he and everyone else in the town always bulldozed any fen
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by abnry 3y ago
This story is pretty good, but yeah, come on, tell us what exactly happened!

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