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by enasterosophes 2y ago
To create a two-stroke engine from scratch, first you must create the universe.
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by enasterosophes 2y ago
Yeah, I see. I think a lot of that more hardware-focused stuff will be found in engineering courses like electronic engineering, computer engineering, network engineering and mechatronic engineering. CS tends to be more theoretical: the sci
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by enasterosophes 2y ago
A strong computer science department would have enough different types of academics to support multiple undergraduate specializations. I think that means that a great computer science degree can't actually be pinned down to a single sy
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by enasterosophes 2y ago
As a mathematical theory, probability is well-defined. It is an application of a larger topic called measure theory, which also gives us the theoretical underpinnings for calculus. Every probability is defined in terms of three things: a se
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by enasterosophes 2y ago
I used to have the same issue, before it became my job to understand CI/CD tools. Previously, I was a research student for whom Linux, Git and programming were just hobbies; then my interests got me a foot in the door doing something t
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by enasterosophes 2y ago
You must have missed the part where I said "Any attempt at illegitimate access needs to crack both wireguard and ssh." It doesn't push the problem to wireguard. It requires wireguard to be broken as a pre-requisite for trying
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by enasterosophes 2y ago
People keep mentioning fail2ban. I claim that both this new behavior in sshd, and fail2ban, are unprincipled approaches to security. Now, I know fail2ban is a crowd favorite, so let me explain what I mean by unprincipled. This is the proble
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by enasterosophes 2y ago
I understand what you're saying, although my experience with Windows was the opposite. I would have had much less motivation to switch from Windows to Linux all those years ago if I could rely on Windows to just work. Except for some b
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by enasterosophes 2y ago
> Desktop Linux is an untapped gold mine! All a company needs to do is provide a homogenous/coherent user experience, smooth the rough edges, and not be as scummy as Google, Apple, or Microsoft and they will win. Ah, yes. Everything
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by enasterosophes 2y ago
> It is very hard doing a full time job and doing a side business, I’m wondering how some folk manage to make it work. I certainly struggle to Manage expectations. I earn a comfortable amount of money in $DAYJOB (openstack devops) and I&
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by enasterosophes 2y ago
Torrents tank when there is lack of popularity. Linux can be configured for a wide variety of purposes, from IoT driver to gaming workstation, so not all packages are equally popular with all people, and just because a package is unpopular
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by enasterosophes 2y ago
> people will have a natural propensity to one of them. I see what you did there
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by enasterosophes 2y ago
I'm reminded of the scene in Back To The Future II in which people in the 19th century scoffed that someday someone might "run for fun" despite the ubiquity of motorized transportation.
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by enasterosophes 2y ago
When I was a math student, I found the utility of lectures magnified a lot for me when I realized that the lecture isn't the best time for first exposure to material. I got a lot more benefit when I was able to gain access to the lec
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by enasterosophes 2y ago
To this, it works well to add inotifywait to detect when files are saved. You can pipe the save detections to a loop that git-commits only that one file, providing a more granular history with very little cost.
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by enasterosophes 2y ago
For a tiling wm, I'd not prefer Ubuntu. Ubuntu works best when you just accept the default way of doing things. I'm inclined to agree with another poster that maybe you should check out Debian. I only have the caveat that, in my p
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by enasterosophes 2y ago
It may depend on what you mean exactly by desktop. If you want a full-blown desktop environment like Gnome or KDE, then you may be better off going with Ubuntu, since you already have some Debian experience anyway. Debian and Ubuntu are ver
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by enasterosophes 2y ago
https://www.sansbullshitsans.com/ > The font that replaces every buzzword by a Comic Sans-styled censorship bar
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by enasterosophes 2y ago
Yes, exactly. As a free software developer and freelancer, I can release my stuff to the public under GPL, and a company who wants proprietary customizations can still negotiate with me to secure a different license just for them. This post
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by enasterosophes 2y ago
I'm not too sure. When I first encountered LLMs, I decided to try implementing one from scratch. I didn't get far, because it's difficult, and I only have finite time and energy. Still, it was the process of trying to impleme
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by enasterosophes 2y ago
LLMs works by converting your question into a list of numbers and projecting that list, like a shadow, into a high-dimensional space which was constructed through training on other lists of numbers. Where the projection lands gives a new li
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by enasterosophes 2y ago
I really like loopy. It has a very stat mech or discrete math feel. I think it could be used to introduce deeper concepts in mathematics to novices, such as proofs, and the question of whether mathematics is constructed or discovered. A lot
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by enasterosophes 2y ago
I see, that does help me see more where he might be coming from, so now I have some regret for the contentious tone of my original post :D
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by enasterosophes 2y ago
When did the soviets deny physical phenomena like the photoelectric effect? I believe they had issues with the kind of non-falsifiable metaphysical arguments put forward to try to explain or understand quantum mechanics. The analogy is that
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by enasterosophes 2y ago
Nice clickbait. I actually expected to see a description of an unexpected bug or exploit that crept in due to the default branch name change. Instead, I'm not even sure what this is trying to say. "There was a change and I went al
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by enasterosophes 2y ago
The Nazis weren't unique in dismissing categories of research on ideological grounds. The USSR label of "bourgeois pseudoscience" [1] was applied to various fields like evolutionary biology. We aren't immune to it now. I
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by enasterosophes 2y ago
I mostly like this. When I'm reviewing I want to see atomic changes with comments and verbose commit messages. I do take issue with one point, since I've been on the receiving end of a reviewer who wants this: > Explain alterna
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by enasterosophes 2y ago
It always surprises me that more people haven't heard of Aniara (2018) [1][2]. I get it's not the kind of movie that appeals to mass tastes: it's admittedly bleak and a slow burn, and requires subtitles if you don't spea
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by enasterosophes 3y ago
So much this. I notice it a lot since I only use a dumbphone, and haven't bothered setting up a new laptop since my old one died during the covid times. It means that in social situations, I'm actually on board to engage with real
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by enasterosophes 3y ago
Agree that 4 is the fulcrum. If anyone stops at 2 or 3 they are doing themselves a disservice. I never realized that the change in tone in 5 and 6 were due to a new editor. Interesting, but it makes sense. I think 5 and 6 were ... fine. But

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