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by eximius 7y ago
Calculus would likely not be invented without infinity. Many theorems, identities, and techniques may be approximated but ultimately rely on proofs using infinities - I doubt we would have discovered them quickly or at all without infinity.
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by eximius 7y ago
Tell all of the engineers using calculus that they don't need infinity. And you can't easily only partially include infinity.
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by eximius 7y ago
It sounds like you've had some bad interviews - that is, that your interviewer did a poor job. Small nitpicks should not disqualify you, small mistakes should not disqualify you. In fact small mistakes are expected and can be used as p
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by eximius 7y ago
First, consult a lawyer. Even if you talk to them later without one, you need to know where you stand from a legal standpoint.
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by eximius 7y ago
I didn't say it was simple. I didn't say you needed to abandon mastery of a field of your choice. It is hard. But a soccer player should know how to make pasta, cook meat so that he doesn't get sick, even if he isn't a g
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by eximius 7y ago
I think you should be able to set up database backups (it can affect your overall architecture, so someone in development ought to know). I think you should be able to configure a web server for the same reason. Security dependencies/u
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by eximius 7y ago
You're both right. The other poster's claim is that we cannot verify the code running on the server. They could support this new scheme AND just store every thing in plain text. We can only verify the interface is the same (becaus
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by eximius 7y ago
Many things are unexpected in hindsight.
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by eximius 7y ago
They might be superficial, but if they did any sort of supervised training (I'm assuming they did), then they probably won't be wrong .
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by eximius 7y ago
I've thought about this on and off for a long time. Urbit, Solid, Mastodon (anything ActivityPub), SecureScuttleButt, Matrix servers, etc. The biggest problem as I see it is cost. While I might want to have this for $60/year (or o
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by eximius 7y ago
If you have a switch that activates before the key is fully depressed (i.e., keycap on board), then in a very real sense it might be the case!
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by eximius 7y ago
Why would this ASN be classified as bots if it's meant to be for individuals? Granted, abuse can occur. But assume US-based with basic KYC or something so that most IPs might genuinely be nerds like me using it as their IP.
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by eximius 7y ago
If I didn't plan on having a physical location (i.e., AWS or Colo as opposed to trying to get Comcast or any other connection to my house), what would constitute a network connection? What are the terms of assignment via Hurricane Elec
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by eximius 7y ago
If anyone here knows enough about ASNs and the RIRs to set up a company whose sole purpose was for individuals to buy/lease IPs, I would gladly help set up and run such a company. The RIRs generally don't allow individuals to have
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by eximius 7y ago
I need to do more research on that. The people behind Emby seem to understand and are trying to minimize the blow-out by making 'as many features in stand alone open source modules as possible'.
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by eximius 7y ago
Emby is a slightly less polished, slightly more open alternative.
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by eximius 7y ago
I can see the argument that Pin should be safe if you meet the contract it claims to need. The requirements are not sufficiently tight. Fair enough.
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by eximius 7y ago
Perhaps computer scientists, but software engineering is almost entirely about trade offs, so a software engineer who can't talk in those terms won't succeed at more than basic levels.
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by eximius 7y ago
I think this is a little too dumbed down for me to see the relevance to the actual problem. Also, I believ 1&2 both require unsafe code to implement the trait that allows the unsoundness. For what &T can I safely implement DerefMut?
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by eximius 7y ago
But it does require unsafe? The implementation of DerefMut and Clone for the type being pinned require unsafe.
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by eximius 7y ago
I didn't follow all of it, but it sounds not so bad. 1 & 2 both involve unsafe code that, while possibly reasonable in a complex application, is obviously wrong in the simple case. Of course turning a reference into a mutable refer
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by eximius 7y ago
If you're buying a new truck, this is not outside of your price range.
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by eximius 7y ago
For many, it is unneeded. For some, they only want the large vehicle, stability, and power for status or offroading. For some, they want to storage capacity for rare incidents. Some actually have use of it, just more rarely (say, a woodwork
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by eximius 7y ago
> One poorly understood school of google-fu is the art of googling for the words you want to google for. That's a beautiful way to put it. You've distilled into one sentence a skill that I've been asked about many, many ti
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by eximius 7y ago
I wonder if you could add a `python --fast` mode that disables certain rarely or uncommonly used dynamic features that enabled the python runtime to JIT or do something clever. Alternatively, doesn't disable, just does unwinding like s
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by eximius 7y ago
I'm using awesome wm. What was the problem with gnome? I vaguely recall a problem with polkit or something.
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by eximius 7y ago
I've been very pleasantly surprised by how easy it was to get everything set up on NixOS: ``` programs.gnupg.agent = { enable = true; enableSSHSupport = true; }; services.udev.packages = [ pkgs.yubikey-personalization pkgs.libu2f-h
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by eximius 7y ago
I would generally reach for conda instead of this, but they seem quite comparable in aggregate. And, given that I've been trying NixOS lately and had loads of trouble and failing to get Conda to work, I will definitely give this setup
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by eximius 7y ago
Is there no equivalent to https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/86724/how-to-create-... outside postgres to join against?
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by eximius 7y ago
My WireGuard server hosts my DNS server which NXDOMAINs all social media and ads for my machines. If I really want to see what's up with some mess like this, I at least need to spend the 15 seconds it takes to turn WireGuard off.

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