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841.
by effie 6y ago
> *"and means that classical physics cannot account for diamagnetism" [assuming classical statistical physics assumptions, such as nothing special happens at the boundary]. The whole result is due to unrealistic boundary condit
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by effie 6y ago
Maildir, as opposed to emails stored in one big file, does cause some disk space to get wasted, but in past 10 years, it is immaterial. Even million empty emails, each taking 4kB of disk space, would take only 4GB in total. The small files
843.
by effie 6y ago
Why would it be "wise"? If you need secure mailbox free of direct surveillance by providers, you need to host it yourself using software you yourself checked and compiled.
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by effie 6y ago
In what way?
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by effie 6y ago
Interesting, according to this presentation from 2013 there were several reasons to use BSD, but network speed is not among them. https://people.freebsd.org/~scottl/Netflix-BSDCan-20130515.p...
846.
by effie 6y ago
New wannabe collaborators maybe. But does the project want to attract only young people who don't care about corporate control creep over free software? Or does it want to attract all able young people including those who understand th
847.
by effie 6y ago
Why would Red Hat want to maintain all of kernel subsystems? They care about some of them, not all.
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by effie 6y ago
Modern does not mean better. Email-based collaboration is most welcoming to new people and good enough for the regular participants. I for one do not want to create an account and learn how some slow web application works for each project w
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by effie 6y ago
I don't see how the two compare. As a programmer, you need pointers for dynamic allocation. You don't need to use whitespace in paths, ever. It is a convenience for the user.
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by effie 6y ago
Somehow that is not a real problem in practice. Maybe whitespace is not needed in paths that much. If a need to store a random byte string in a file name appears once in a year, one can encode it into hexadecimal or base64 with % replacing
851.
by effie 6y ago
The problem is that this way, you're giving total control of your machine to a script that curl will download from a website, before you check the script. A better way to try a new software is to download the sources, check them, build
852.
by effie 6y ago
Could you explain why? Isn't the problem rather in the fact the filesystem does not know it is SMR and does not have a capability to work with such device optimally?
853.
by effie 6y ago
Do you know about OS-level I/O caching/buffering? They make the sequential speed more important. And in case one wants to get faster, there is no need to go all SSD. There is often a lot of data but I/O touches only small par
854.
by effie 6y ago
It is really strange to you that oil company is not advertising a product that they don't have, a product which would compete with their regular product, a product which is hard to sell (more expensive and dubious value)? From the stan
855.
by effie 6y ago
I provided an answer to your question. I did not claim those are examples of minority race being racist. Such examples can be found as well, if we change the target group to be a different race. Nazi Germany (whose population became oppress
856.
by effie 6y ago
> what are some examples of an oppressed minority race becoming racial oppressors while still being subordinate in the power structure? If minority is a requirement, then some examples are: 1) Jewish Nazi collaborators killing Jews, 2)
857.
by effie 6y ago
The quote says there are different existing definitions of racism. I agree with that statement. I don't agree that your definition of racism is useful to discussion. It is a redefinition that confuses people into false and harmful beli
858.
by effie 6y ago
It is a view from the colonial era at least and probably much older.
859.
by effie 6y ago
Yeah more university/grant administration of the current sort is not the right way to go. They have too much power already. Established elder scientists with little bias and little incentive to corrupt the country education/scienc
860.
by effie 6y ago
Yes, the public should be the main stakeholder if public is funding the project. The problem is, it takes an expert to judge the work of another expert. Wise people outside the local academia should represent the public in such things. Mayb
861.
by effie 6y ago
> I was never happy with the terminology > If you have a problem with it you need to look deep inside yourself and reexamine your own biases. That's where the real problem lies. So if you are not happy with established terminolog
862.
by effie 6y ago
> But if you want to also call that "racist" then what term do you use for something like Jim Crow laws in the US or apartheid South Africa where racism was truly and without doubt systemic? Being racist has nothing to do with
863.
by effie 6y ago
Very well said! I might add, some people seem to look for things to get offended by just to bamboozle others into thinking they deserve special treatment and as a result, gain some political power.
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by effie 6y ago
> It does. Then public knows that their elected leaders may send themselves and/or their family/relatives/friends. Warmongering suddenly is much more touchy-feely when you got skin in the game. Again, it didn't work t
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OpenSSL Security Policy Update on Prenotifications(openssl.org)
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by effie 6y ago
Maybe the absolutely worst are the 0.01% (or more likely, 1%). But the problem is more broad. There are different ways of corruption, making up word salads and fake results on one hand, or engaging in low effort repetitions with little to n
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by effie 6y ago
Current U.S./Europe academia seems unable to change from within. It lives on government money which it itself controls and distributes to those who "play ball" - the others are pushed away. The only way a change can happen he
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by effie 6y ago
I wanted to do theoretical science, after few years at the university, seeing how corrupt the system and the people are, and tired of living in such an environment, I wrapped up after master degree. Best decision of my life. I recommend get
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by effie 6y ago
> Drafting allows for a more representative selection of the population, giving more conscientious and better troops. Maybe that is correct, but it does nothing to get more conscientious government and military leadership. There are bad
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by effie 6y ago
Indeed. And not only common language, but ease of doing business with companies across the continent in general. Here in Europe, due to legal/language/cultural differences, and due to laziness, the default mode of operation for sm

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