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by anamax 5y ago
Locking the taskbar to the bottom solves one of my most frustrating support cases. Did they also make it impossible to resize the task bar so it occupies half of the screen?
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by anamax 5y ago
Another way to put it is that 8-12 SMRs can be located at up to 8-12 sites while a 1.2GWe reactor must be at one site.
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by anamax 5y ago
I've talked with Wolfram a couple of times about New Kind of Science, in 5-10 minute chunks, at various points in its evolution, spanning 20 years. I listened as he did the same with others. With a couple of exceptions, none of these
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by anamax 5y ago
What does "influence" mean? Elton John didn't know many of his fans in any meaningful sense, but their existence certainly influenced his life.
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by anamax 5y ago
There are multiple definitions of "good at {something}". For example, the n men in the last men's 100m Olympics sprint were not the n men with the best sprint technique. (Some were on both lists, but some weren't.)
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by anamax 5y ago
> Nevada was filling up with Cali expats years before the pandemic I like Nevada but it gets a lot of CA expats because it was "close enough" for many purposes. "close enough" is starting to encompass longer distances
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by anamax 5y ago
One issue wrt malleability is whether/how one can recognize that a cyphertext or a plaintext is "valid". If you just xor with a OTP (which means that every cryptotext is valid) and every plaintext is valid, the receiver can&#
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by anamax 5y ago
Sarcasm...
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by anamax 5y ago
While all of those things sound good, the US seems to have a lot of startup success without any of them. That said, Israel may have some/all of them and it is successful startup-wise, so those things are not an obstacle either.
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by anamax 5y ago
The problem is in the original statement. There's an important difference between "The sky will be red tomorrow" and "Based on {data}, I think that the sky will be red tomorrow." even if the reasoning from {data} to
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by anamax 5y ago
Malleable or not is a function property that doesn't make sense for OTPs. The problem is that while a OTP's outputs are determined by its inputs, a OTP's inputs are always different. That said, a one time pads are non-mallea
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by anamax 5y ago
I understand "the point" - the problem is that said "point" isn't gospel/unquestionable. Forcing a challenger to reuse keys is not possible in every real-world scenario. Or rather, there are real-world scenari
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by anamax 5y ago
Yes, OTPs are vulnerable if you do the one thing that you're not supposed to do with a OTP, namely reuse the bits. The question for OTPs is whether there is an encryption or decryption oracle for a given OTP, not whether OTPs are vulne
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by anamax 5y ago
San Jose's malls are far more successful than its downtown. (San Jose has a range of malls, from high-end to strip malls with actual strippers.) I don't know whether it's the business selection (a many of the customers will
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by anamax 5y ago
> Not surprising, I see so many downtown areas still closed in the SJ area. It depends. The Mexican restaurants did really well. (They went to outside seating in tents that was much larger than what they had before and are packed.) T
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by anamax 5y ago
> The problem with bootstrapping is that eventually you'll hit an inflection point where the viability of the business model starts becoming visible. At that point you'll most likely start attracting competition. Unless it&#x27
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by anamax 5y ago
Many types discussions confuse representation with units. Representation errors can result in crashes. Unit errors, adding feet to furlongs, produce wrong answers. Yes, weak representation-type systems can produce wrong answers (for examp
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by anamax 5y ago
Incompetence doesn't have a bias. Malice does. More to the point, Hanlon's Razor is usually an excuse to do nothing, which is a mistake. It's better to assume that people intend the likely outcome of their actions. If they
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by anamax 5y ago
In many cases, an executive's behavior makes sense after you figure out what job he wants next.
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by anamax 5y ago
> And are debating who would make a better fit in startups as early employees. That seems like the wrong question. Shouldn't you be worrying about who would be the best fit in your company? Or better yet, who will help you succeed
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by anamax 5y ago
One of my Grandfathers had "We're All Gonna Die Fatigue" when he was young and I'm old. "We're all going to die" may be as old as "the young are such slackers." “Whither are the manly vigour and
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by anamax 5y ago
> 1. It has a free speech problem. The defacto public town square doesn't believe in free speech! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruneyard_Shopping_Center_v._R...
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by anamax 5y ago
> My hypothetical example is a situation where person A corrects person B's language and suggests that their phrasing is racist, or sexist, or etc. Or the very real case where person B's language and intent is not any of those
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by anamax 5y ago
> I propose that that "Nice but not Kind" caricature is actually incredibly rare to the point of non-existence. It tends to be used by the right to describe the entire left - as virtue signaling, caring-about-optics, overly pol
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by anamax 5y ago
If it's not too late, return it to where you got it. Then tell the school district that they have to pay for computers that they control. > Does anyone know how to refer these people to law enforcement for prosecution? You call the
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by anamax 5y ago
I'm confused. Let's assume that Ivermectin is completely useless, not only against Covid-19 but other things that make Covid-19 more dangerous. How do you get from there to an official campaign against it? Someone who takes Iverm
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by anamax 5y ago
> The point I'm making is that it if we are trying to find a solution to these problems, the easiest one would be to take the billions in wealth - more wealth that can be spent in hundreds of lifetimes - away from the people who hol
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by anamax 5y ago
> Why should I care? I say things during an exit interview I want them to know. If "them" is your old manager, why not just tell them directly?
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by anamax 5y ago
My point has nothing to do with what US policy makers think/say or even what the US did or didn't do. And the fact that a failed Russia is a problem for the US also misses the point. (The ex-DDR is Germany's responsibility
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by anamax 5y ago
You was unclear. I ignored any hint of US blaming. Instead, I put this all on the Euros. (BTW - West Germany doesn't get any credit for re-integrating the DDR - you're expected to take care of your own.) The fall of the Soviet U

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