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by college_physics 4y ago
thats a good initiative, though I had more in mind something like the different linux desktop distributions. Maybe thats not possible on android or maybe its a matter of time.
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by college_physics 4y ago
it wasn't until rather recently that I discovered that the f-droid model is actually decentralized... the various clients are still rather rudimentary (catering to the converted and knowledgeable) but the potential is obvious. one kill
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by college_physics 4y ago
Nature (biological systems) do not in general consume all available resources to die off. It may happen to bacteria in isolated Petri dishes but in open ecosystems there are in general restoring factors that keep populations within ranges.
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by college_physics 4y ago
The interesting bit is this: > But there are challenges: The greenhouse industry has flourished in part because of cheap energy, but Western Europe is facing soaring gas prices. And the country’s intensive animal agricultural practices a
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by college_physics 4y ago
> In practice, scientific computing users rely on the NumPy family of libraries e.g. NumPy, SciPy, TensorFlow, PyTorch, CuPy, JAX, etc.. this is a somewhat confusing statement. most of these libraries actually don't rely on numpy. e
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by college_physics 4y ago
the only scenario that can be ruled out is one in which the total addressable market for technology first movers is the entire planet. yet this was the thesis until quite recently :-) so we are moving from the short lived digital Pangaea (w
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by college_physics 4y ago
> How? a simple policy change by another market participant [0] shows one of those ways. Changing regulatory / political winds are some other ways [1] [0] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/02/facebook-says-
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by college_physics 4y ago
imho structurally this downturn is much more serious than the dot.com bust. that one was a classic and contained speculative bust in a nascent domain. what we have now is a very different type of challenge. a fully developed tech universe,
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by college_physics 4y ago
please note that this additional subscription fee only applies to physical models. in the, increasingly popular metaverse version acceleration tuning is part of the base subscription.
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by college_physics 4y ago
the division between the more geometrical or "physical" perception of mathematics and the "pure" or abstract and more algebraic runs very deep. I remember reading somewhere about a 19th(?) century mathematician bragging
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by college_physics 4y ago
It feels like activitypub is the true web 3.0 or at least the start of a road towards it? but is it too tied to "social" web platforms as we have come to know and dislike ? I mean its got explicitly hardwired the concepts of &quo
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by college_physics 4y ago
these folks are doing their best to combine and extrapolate mathematical principles to extremes (an approach which, nota bene, did prove spectacularly successful in explaining huge parts of the universe earlier on) but the results of this e
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by college_physics 4y ago
mastodon is ruby on rails, just sligthly more "efficient" from django according to those benchmarks
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by college_physics 4y ago
my prediction was careful to pitch osm against wikipedia (both of which I love) not against the well known elephant in the room :-) but on your real point, yes its going to be a long slog...
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by college_physics 4y ago
+1 for adopting django. with django's roots in journalism it somehow feels a natural building block of federated information exchange
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by college_physics 4y ago
osm and wikipedia are proof that an alternative, more desirable, digital universe is not utopically distant but begging to be born. imagine if the world would somehow muster to dedicate something more than token support to such projects &#x
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by college_physics 4y ago
> Big businesses have been built on top of this world, including exchanges, investment funds and lending platforms This is an important data point about the nature of the emerging digital society - whether we like it or not. It would be
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by college_physics 4y ago
> when the user is unable to use their hands this is still potentially a huge domain. one could imagine a benign scenario where voice assistants enhance people's abilities to interact with each other (and digital devices) when a m
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by college_physics 4y ago
From the iXBRL site [0]: "iXBRL is used by millions of companies around the world to prepare financial statements in a format that provides the structured data that regulators and analysts require, whilst allowing preparers to retain f