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by bo1024 6y ago
Yeah, it's a bit tricky ... like saying "Turing Machines are going to be able to do everything, but we'll need quite a few conceptual breakthroughs." Hard to say what percent of progress we've made since 1936 toward
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by bo1024 6y ago
Your example is a reactive event. Something happened in your environment. This idea is more useful for situations that you are initiating, and where feedback is not immediately obvious. An example could be turning your car’s lights on at ni
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by bo1024 6y ago
That's a good question and it's not clear. As someone mentioned, here "chance" includes both uncertainty (facts that we don't know), and randomness of nature (things that will happen in the future that cannot be det
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by bo1024 6y ago
> Downloading a Youtube video with youtube-dl IS NOT violating copyright in the USA. Are you a lawyer? Ethically I agree with you: copyright law regulates distributing copies to other people, and YouTube is the only one doing that in thi
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by bo1024 6y ago
weev? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev#AT&T_data_breach
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by bo1024 6y ago
It sounds like your homeschool environment prepared you very well for that style of learning in college. > I'm no genius, and I really think anyone with a normal brain can do what I did I'm a big believer that almost anyone i
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by bo1024 6y ago
Just chiming in that your post matches 100% with what I've heard, seen, and read. I'll add that it's one thing if some of the best self-motivated students are able to learn just by watching videos, submitting assignments, and
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by bo1024 6y ago
Thanks, this explanation and discussion is very helpful. It does confirm how I suspected things to work. I have trouble understanding the need for the "signing" part of client-side certificates. Currently if I create an account at
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by bo1024 6y ago
Not sure what the best solution is, but some thoughts. First, you definitely want a different keypair per device. One approach is to just supplement passwords. You could use a password (2FA, etc) to log in, then the site gives you the optio
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by bo1024 6y ago
Thanks. I’m still not clear what the authentication method is, but I don't see why we can’t have a one click browser button “give this site my public key” and another “authenticate to this site with my private key”.
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by bo1024 6y ago
Depends on your email client and whether people start a new thread for each topic, I think. Email has more than enough metadata to be displayed like reddit threads, or slack/zulip messages, etc. if you so choose.
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by bo1024 6y ago
I"m not sure exactly what client-side certificates means here, but I have long wondered why we can't just use public key/private key authentication for most logins. Is it the same?
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by bo1024 6y ago
> our perception of value itself can be subjective and influenced by many things including FOMO, safety in numbers perceptions, risk aversion (usually), etc etc. The intuition behind the efficient market hypothesis is that each of these
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by bo1024 6y ago
There are many reasons. They discuss poverty in the article. I would agree with cultural distrust of government officials. And very importantly, everything around the citizenship question/issue. > The notion of these counts ever be
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by bo1024 6y ago
For me, your site gives > This website requires JavaScript to function properly. If you disabled JavaScript, please enable it and refresh this page. Please consider making your site accessible to people not using it? Javascript is a co
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by bo1024 6y ago
You can also look at 1080p projectors, although they are expensive.
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by bo1024 6y ago
Note there is a difference between saying one thinks TikTok is a national security threat to the USA, and saying one thinks the U.S. government should ban it (or so on). It's tempting to base your opinion of whether TikTok is a threat
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by bo1024 6y ago
This kills me about python. So many times I cannot figure out what exactly a functions expects and what it returns, sometimes even from reading the documentation! Matplotlib is especially bad.
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by bo1024 6y ago
A torrent would be easiest on their servers.
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by bo1024 6y ago
I found this very interesting and valuable (if imperfect). The point about lectures is where I disagreed most, and I don’t see it discussed in this thread. The two points that people read much faster than a lecture pace, and people don’t le
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by bo1024 6y ago
I don't think the coastline paradox has to apply, because we don't have to define the boundaries by existing geographical features like rivers or so on. Instead, you can simply put down a finite number of points on a map and defin
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by bo1024 6y ago
You might find these funny and/or thought provoking: https://xkcd.com/743/ https://xkcd.com/488/ https://xkcd.com/129/ https://xkcd.com/511/
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by bo1024 6y ago
I think single-sign-on stuff and "Sign In with X" are a cancer. They encourage you to type in your sensitive credentials all over the place and hope it's safe.
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by bo1024 6y ago
That you paid for a copy of, or that you paid for being developed in the first place?
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by bo1024 6y ago
libre hardware isn't really a term, unless you are referring to firmware maybe. What do you mean by it? (added) For example, Stallman: > In the meantime, there is no need to reject hardware with nonfree designs on principle. Last l
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by bo1024 6y ago
One big advantage of screensharing (e.g. with Wacom) is much lower bandwidth requirement. If kids' internet connections aren't great, it could be an important improvement.
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by bo1024 6y ago
Good point - Hacker News works with barely any javascript (and it's optional); hard to argue that a forum is "static"!
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by bo1024 6y ago
Same here. I was looking all over the site for "the idea" or the differentiator ... couldn't find it. I think most of the approaches you mentioned wouldn't hold up for a large stock exchange because some off-platform tra
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by bo1024 6y ago
In a nutshell, while they have much in common, the obvious differences correspond to different skills/abilities which don't all translate perfectly. For mountain and trail racing, you have rough terrain rather than smooth roads; l
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by bo1024 6y ago
The terrible sin was putting SMR (shingled magnetic recording) disks in drives sold as conventional magnetic recording. This may not be nearly at that level, but it's concerning that the habit of mis-labeling drives continues. e.g. ht

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