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by dalke 1y ago
To share a related river issue, a few years back the city of Gothenburg, Sweden switched how they allocate students to a school. It used to be the student would get a school in their specific section of the city ("statsdel"). The
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by dalke 1y ago
I tried loading 2PLV (by id and by PDB file) and 9PTI (by id) but nothing happened. LibreWolf on macOS, if it matters.
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by dalke 2y ago
This 1981 Nova episode starts with Nixon's radio address about the American Right of Privacy. "A system that fails to respect its citizens' right to privacy fails to respect the citizens themselves." It discusses cryptog
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Computers, Spies and Private Lives (1981)(archive.org)
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by dalke 2y ago
You think they do cache the data but don't use it? For what it's worth, mj12bot.com is even worse. They pull down every wheel every two or three days, even though something like chemfp-3.4-cp35-cp35m-manylinux1_x86_64.whl hasn&#x2
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by dalke 2y ago
I see ChatGPT's bots pull down all of my Python wheels every couple of weeks. Wheels that haven't changed in years, with a "Last-Modified" and "ETag" that haven't changed. The only thing that makes sense t
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by dalke 2y ago
I'm pretty sure: "I have to review our mitigations several times per day to keep that number from getting any higher. When I do have time to work on something else, often I have to drop it when all of our alarms go off because our
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by dalke 2y ago
I have a small static site. I haven't touched it in a couple of years. Even then, I see bot after bot, pulling down about 1/2 GB per day. Like, I distribute Python wheels from my site, with several release versions X several Pytho
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by dalke 2y ago
> such that they have restricted what a citizen can do with it My grandfather, born in Canada and later naturalized as a US citizen, got his ham ticket back in the 1960s, but, as he wrote: "This was O.K. for one year but to renew &a
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by dalke 2y ago
I found an error in a published version of TAOCP, 2nd edition I think, with improvements on Sieve of Eratosthenes. I was so excited, then found it was already listed in the errata. I later got a check for identifying a minor issue with the
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by dalke 2y ago
In January our city switched from a web portal to an app-only system. Last fall I was working on getting a username+password access to the portal, since the students and teachers don't need BankID to log in. I was using my son's l
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by dalke 2y ago
When people ask for examples, I point to a NYT report of a man in San Francisco whose young son had redness on his penis and complained about it feeling sore. The pediatrician asked for some photos to make a diagnosis online. Google flagged
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by dalke 2y ago
Here in Sweden, it took me about 5 months but I was able to get the school to send me info by email. They switched to an app-only system, and I have no smartphone. Setting aside any issues related to privacy or US corporate control over my
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by dalke 2y ago
> “It feels good,” Dettmers said when I asked him how it felt to have contributed to what some are calling a “Sputnik moment” in AI. I'll present an alternative narrative for the "Sputnik moment" trope, as described by som
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by dalke 2y ago
> At this time, Bloom filter was not even called Bloom filter. In his paper, Douglas calls it a “superimposed code scheme”. A Bloom filter is a specific type of superimposed code. Calvin Mooers developed random (1) superimposed coding in
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by dalke 2y ago
I weep a little inside every time I pass the unstaffed school library.
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by dalke 2y ago
I'm not disagreeing with you. But given silisili's lived experience of dealing with 30lb backpacks, chrisco255's statement about that being 'good for you' is simply not correct, unless perhaps that kid is a high sch
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by dalke 2y ago
If the bag is too heavy (especially if unbalanced, like carrying it on one shoulder) then the kid can cause back problems. See https://scoliosisinstitute.com/heavy-backpacks/ for more details.
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by dalke 2y ago
My eldest doesn't like the computers they have in grade 2 (in Sweden). He thinks the things installed on them are too boring and easy. He would rather read books. Thing is, the school doesn't have a staff librarian any more. As I
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by dalke 2y ago
While if you don't want to sign a contract with a foreign IT company in order to access those government services online, you have a lot of extra work ahead of you which used to be a lot easier. Like, my eldest's school stopped us
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by dalke 2y ago
The mobile payment app Swish requires Android or iOS. The electronic ID needed to access public services, etc. works best on Android or iOS, though there are macOS and MS Windows options.
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by dalke 2y ago
Thank you. I am already on their list. I don't have the technical abilities to contribute to the project.
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by dalke 2y ago
What advantage would that have over what my bank currently offers to kids? How does it address "I don't think he's yet able to keep track of a bank card, much less a smartphone from a company I don't trust."? How wi
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by dalke 2y ago
Sitka lost their fiber optic link last summer. No internet, no cell phones, no texting, no credit cards. Lasted for days. https://www.wrangellsentinel.com/story/2024/09/11/news/sitka... reports some
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by dalke 2y ago
I have a friend of mine (here in Sweden) who is very bad at keeping track of the money in her account. She prefers using cash because that way show knows exactly what she has. As for edge cases, the city I live in does provide a service to
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by dalke 2y ago
I go to history events held monthly at the downtown library, in the afternoons. That means it's mostly retirees and me (it's an advantage of being self-employed and often, like now, working while at the library). They ask for 20 k
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by dalke 2y ago
I am a Swedish citizen living in Sweden. I pay as much as I can in cash. What the article didn't mention is the payments system Swish requires an Android or Apple phone, and the electronic ID mentioned requires one of those phone OSes
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by dalke 2y ago
Just because two things cause problems, that doesn't mean they are equally problematic. Like, it took over a year to build the new storm sewer system in town. It caused problems, like having blocked off roads and sidewalks and construc
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by dalke 2y ago
If I'm not mistaken, the decades of economic liberalism and dismantling of social support systems has made a lot of people very worried about their future, and as usual the rich and powerful blame immigrants (or some other weak minorit
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by dalke 2y ago
I'm not a pharmaceutical chemist, but I've been to quite a few of their talks. I'm really bothered by the focus on an academic group which 'investigates the effect of a particular molecule on a specific biological system

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