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by aperrien 5y ago
Except that's not how the GI Bill works; it didn't work that way when I was using it.
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by aperrien 5y ago
I'd think that a robot that could neatly wire up racks with cabling (ethernet, power, & fiber) would be quite doable and useful. Does anyone here have experience with such a project?
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by aperrien 5y ago
Are there any plans to add Let/Lambda functionality to LibreOffice/OpenOffice?
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by aperrien 5y ago
What is M?
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by aperrien 6y ago
I appreciate the explanation, but it's not for me. I'm trying to find a good book to recommend to my grandkids. I've had fun teaching them how to use old retro computers (c64, Apple II, and such). It's been a fun experie
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by aperrien 6y ago
This is awesome, but as a kid back in the Pong era, I always wondered how the basic squares of pixels worked. In your travels writing this book, did you ever come across one that explained that in a way friendly to 12 year olds?
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by aperrien 6y ago
I'd go with: "Sufficient stupidity[1] is indistinguishable from malice" [1]: Where stupidity is further defined as "willful ignorance"
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by aperrien 6y ago
I think that you're both arguing a bit past each other. Fountainofage is stating that the situation as it stands is untenable and needs to change, and they've given several good reasons as to why. You are asking for examples of a
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by aperrien 6y ago
All happiness is temporary and short lived. And that's not necessarily a bad thing. I believe that any action that gave us truly permanent happiness would turn us into lotus eaters...
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by aperrien 6y ago
I'm confused. The goal of my proposal was that someone who was wrongly flagged (a false positive) could identify themselves as such by being willing to put up a (cash) bounty, or identify themselves with a financial/government ins
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by aperrien 6y ago
Then what you do is set up some sort of monetary charge, to verify that the person you are dealing with is real. Someone willing to pay for support is highly likely to be an actual customer, not a fraudster; and you can even have their loca
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by aperrien 6y ago
The Diablo Swing Orchestra made a sale from me today. Does the same music list show up for everyone?
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by aperrien 6y ago
How large are those toxic fields of coal ash again?
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by aperrien 6y ago
I don't think that seeking to be starving and on the street should be the ultimate end goal of philanthropy. I much prefer to limit my generosity via the First Rule of Rescue: be careful not give away so much that now you need charity
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by aperrien 6y ago
I've learned several new things from this conversation. Thank you for saving it.
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by aperrien 6y ago
I learned something new and valuable today. The emoji make no difference at all to me, as they do not affect the quality of what I have learned by any discernible measure.
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by aperrien 6y ago
Is there any way to export or backup Notion data to your own personal servers? I'd happily pay for a nice way to do that.
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by aperrien 6y ago
Create a nonprofit to accept the "raised" contribution, and then swap it with another candidate in the pool for "consulting fees"...
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by aperrien 6y ago
It might be helpful to think about this situation this way: What is your evidence that oxygen exists? How would you test that? What tools would you need to test that? How do you know those tools work the way that you expect?
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by aperrien 7y ago
To me, it much more closely resembles a key-value retrieval system. I wonder if we could learn anything about that by training an artificial neural net to perform key-value storage?
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by aperrien 7y ago
Instead of being fatalistic and bemoaning the problem, you'll find yourself in a better mental space if you just apply yourself to solving it. Yes, you will only start with small steps, and yes, that will be a great risk, but in the en
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by aperrien 7y ago
Not everyone wants to be pioneers, but thankfully for humanity, a small fraction of us do. And on a planet of 7.5 billion people, that fraction is pretty substantial... I'd like to help maximize the opportunities for that small fractio
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by aperrien 7y ago
I'm incredibly curious as to how much that cost will be vs. a mid-career employee's 401k. If a middle class family with a decade or so of experience could cash theirs in, would they be able to afford to go?
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by aperrien 7y ago
How much are the adapters? I don't really see prices on that site.
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by aperrien 7y ago
I'm planning to use a SCSI2SD adapter for my old IRIS stations: https://store.inertialcomputing.com/product-p/scsi2sd-v5-st3...
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by aperrien 7y ago
I'm going to paraphrase something I heard from a neuroscientist and a computer scientist in a discussion once: Spiking neural networks (of which brains are an example of) are a special case of mathematics called a petri network. We kno
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by aperrien 7y ago
Doesn't it really depend on how you define the weights? If you can't answer that question, you'll have no idea what to look for. For example, I understand that FIB-SEM microscopy can currently sample the chemical makeup of th
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by aperrien 7y ago
Yes, but then you as an author can choose to place your own performance in the public domain.
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by aperrien 7y ago
I agree with you about IT careers. Back in the late 80s when I was starting college, it was exactly the way you describe. It is really interesting how things changed in the late 90's regarding this. I remember it falling back for a whi
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by aperrien 7y ago
Would you use anything given to you from a random individual at defcon?

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