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by bo1024 1y ago
(Different commenter, same experience) Firefox, VPN, UBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, and UMatrix plugin to block cookies and javascript by default. (You can easily whitelist first and/or third-party cookies and/or JS on sites of yo
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by bo1024 1y ago
Same, but to access so many websites now, you have to turn on JS (i.e. turn on fingerprinting). Even for sites where this isn't on purpose, it's true because they're behind Cloudflare.
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by bo1024 1y ago
To be fair, DP generally also involves recursion in some way. You could describe it as a lookup table where, to fill in later entries of the table, you need to use the earlier entries.
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by bo1024 1y ago
Your parents, lower middle class in the 80s, could afford a washing machine that lasts 40 years. You, lower middle class in the 2020s, can afford with the same resources a washing machine that lasts 5 years and is no more effective than you
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by bo1024 1y ago
It sounds like you’re saying that good tests are enough to ensure good code even when programmers are unskilled and just rewrite until they pass the tests. I’m very skeptical.
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by bo1024 1y ago
Not sure about that but the NSF does have a requirement to spread awards out across states, places with less elite universities get a boost.
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by bo1024 1y ago
Much cheaper than using a credit card processor.
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by bo1024 1y ago
I use certbot, but I don't think it will email me if something goes wrong.
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by bo1024 1y ago
As a hobbyist without a lot of time for sysadmin, it would be nice if basic email monitoring was a standard package (apt install letsencrypt-monitors or something).
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by bo1024 1y ago
I would edit my last line to say: weird models of numbers that don't match how we think "halts in finite steps" usually works.
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by bo1024 1y ago
The point is that when it "never stops", there are models of ZFC in which the "infinity" number of steps it runs for isn't considered infinity by the model, it's a made-up "nonstandard" number that is
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by bo1024 1y ago
Because what it means to "halt in finite time" has different meanings in different models, because time is measured with different numbers.
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by bo1024 1y ago
Many replies don't seem to understand Godel and independence (and one that might is heavily downvoted). Cliff notes: * ZFC is a set of axioms. A "model" is a structure that respects the axioms. * By Godel, we know that ZFC pr
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by bo1024 1y ago
I think the more correct statement is that there are different models of ZFC in which BB(748) are different numbers. People find that weird because they don't think about non-standard models, as arguably they shouldn't.
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by bo1024 1y ago
One is labor, one is capital.
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by bo1024 1y ago
One thing is stronger guarantees for the receiver, who can verify that the smart contract will automatically transfer the funds. Another is interoperability. The receiver can write a contract to e.g. always donate half of that income to a c
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by bo1024 1y ago
I don't much disagree with what you wrote or posted; but I do think that Trump and Musk never had an honest intention of fixing or improving the education and research system, and it's hard for me to understand how anyone could be
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by bo1024 1y ago
In efficient capital markets, a good business (they claimed to already be successful) would get funded without needing to add empty hype, don’t you think?
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by bo1024 1y ago
1) I have had colleagues get grants cancelled doing basic research (e.g. computer security), no explanation, no DEI, can't get anyone at the NSF to answer questions why. 2) if you don't like the process, change the process. But ha
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by bo1024 1y ago
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by bo1024 1y ago
I would not be surprised if members of the new thought-police-style review board are very well paid.
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by bo1024 1y ago
Well, this is why I started by saying "without more shared context"
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by bo1024 1y ago
I'm not only talking about repeated events, though. If someone told me about 20 different events that they were almost certain, and one failed to happen, I would doubt their calibration.
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by bo1024 1y ago
Interesting. This terminology really makes no sense without more shared context, in my view. For example, I would not describe something that happens to me every month as a "remote possibility". Yet for a 3% chance event, repeated
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by bo1024 1y ago
Thanks, this is really helpful. I had not even realized that every DNS query for .us (for example) goes through a single root registry before going to the actual nameservers.
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by bo1024 1y ago
What does “shutting down” the domain even mean? Has to be a DNS thing, right?
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by bo1024 1y ago
It's not a very good analogy because federally-funded research is a public investment, a public good like roads. The research is supported by the public (the government) and becomes available for anyone to use, learn from, and build of
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by bo1024 1y ago
Communication and customer relations issues. My experience, and that of many others online, was that Purism was not transparent or apparently honest about things like timelines and delays. People also had problems with getting Purism to hon
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by bo1024 2y ago
Purism laptops were great when I was a customer. Very sad they couldn't fix the issues you're talking about. I wanted to support the company further, and I think they are doing sincere, good, important work, especially on the soft
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by bo1024 2y ago
No idea, honestly. Normally I'd think a few minutes at a time of barefoot jogging on a soft surface isn't likely to hurt and might help.

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