garyrob

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by garyrob 5y ago
Wow, that chart is quite an eye-opener. I happen to be a boomer...
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"Getting man-in-the-middle'd on airport Wi-Fi is less feasible these days than it was 10 years ago. " I think the "consensus" I'm referring to may actually have been from at least 10 years ago. I'm an old-
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by garyrob 5y ago
Interesting. I'm an ExpressVPN subscriber (maybe I won't be much longer) and haven't had any problem using it on public Wi-Fi networks.
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by garyrob 5y ago
Honest question: it's still a consensus that they do have value in situations such as airport Wi-Fi, correct? Separately from that, I still do wonder whether, if you subscribe to a VPN that has well-examined security practices and whos
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by garyrob 5y ago
I wrote a lot of COBOL "back in the day" (the 80's) and I don't think it would take me much effort to get back up to speed. So I think I can fairly count myself as a COBOL programmer! That being said, I like languages th
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by garyrob 5y ago
"It should be noted that while there is some evidence that Disulfiram has effectiveness against Lyme, it's not yet well-studied and the incidence of significant side effects, particularly neurological side effects, during treatmen
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by garyrob 5y ago
I know where you're coming from. I believe it is the appropriate attitude in discussing misinformation with, for example, covid. BUT I really did do my own research with respect to Lyme, reading deeply into the peer-reviewed literature
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by garyrob 5y ago
I probably can’t see SigmaOS becoming my main browswer without being able to use some basic extensions like Instapaper. Do you have a timeline for extensions?
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by garyrob 5y ago
Hmm... hadn't tried hitting Enter on the search. I'm used to seeing feedback from search strings as I typed. Hitting Enter, it works fine, but I'd prefer to not have to hit Enter. Sounds good re putting imported workspaces af
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by garyrob 5y ago
I’ve been using SigmaOS for the last half hour for my active work, after having gone through the tutorial. I quite like it. I can imagine that I may feel it’s worth the money, but I have to spend more time with it before I could know. I do
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by garyrob 5y ago
Thanks for the link. Will investigate further.
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by garyrob 5y ago
OK, I'll give you some feedback. I want a way to write Python-only in apps that look native on iOS, Android, and desktop , and can also be used on the web. There's React, which has React Native for iOS and Android, and there are e
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by garyrob 5y ago
I'm 65. When I was a kid I built a crystal radio, which inspired my grandfather to tell me about the early days of radio. He said he and his friends used to compete with each other to build radios that could receive stations from the f
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by garyrob 5y ago
I must admit I do kind of agree with you about Zuck. He has SO much money that he has absolutely no personal worries about his ability to live a comfortable life. I believe that he should really, really dedicate his work now toward enabling
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by garyrob 5y ago
Thanks for saying that. I think the situation is similar for Mark Zuckerberg, although on a vastly more huge scale for him personally. There is no way he understood at the beginning that his creation was going to play a role in endangering
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by garyrob 5y ago
I meditate regularly, and when I can't sleep, I meditate in bed until I do. It can take an hour, but almost always works; otherwise I can be up for much longer.
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by garyrob 5y ago
And while I'd enjoy contributing a chapter to a "Founders at Work"-type book, but I certainly wouldn't want to go to the trouble of finding people to write such chapters, trying to interest publishers, etc. As you say, &
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by garyrob 5y ago
Very reasonable suggestion, I just don't feel like spending my time writing a book! I've got things to do that would be more rewarding for me. And the NFT phenomenon is real. If someone would spend $100's of K's for the
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by garyrob 5y ago
I must have been in a big rush or highly distracted, or both, when I wrote that comment, because a couple times I used the word "ad" when I meant the word "patent"!
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Also, I want to stress that while the patent "taught" how to use browser cookies for tracking, the specification was written in such a way that claims for the cookie tracking mechanism by itself couldn't be created. The speci
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by garyrob 5y ago
Yeah, I can't say I'm defending where it's gone, at all. But I did think it was cool at the time and could result in people being shown ads they'd be interested in. And, it was inevitable; I'm sure it was thought of
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Help me figure out whether I invented tracking cookies in 1995
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by garyrob 5y ago
I love how some in the Hacker News community truly believe that their immediate, knee-jerk reaction to dismiss the work of a highly experienced professional in the relevant field, who is applying their lifetime of knowledge and experience t
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by garyrob 5y ago
I'm a practicing Zen Buddhist, and the subject being discussed here definitely relates, including the Shelley quote someone put in this subthread. From https://www.lionsroar.com/what-are-the-four-noble-truths/ : W
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by garyrob 5y ago
https://www.realityparty.net/reusable_responses/unworthy/
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by garyrob 5y ago
If you actually want to know the answer to that question, you can easily discover it by means of google, and would have done so by now. If you don't, history tells me that nothing I can tell you in a reasonable amount of my time will m
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by garyrob 5y ago
Cryptocurrency technology has utility which has not been fully exploited yet. At present, the two variants with the most market cap, Bitcoin and Ethereum, do have reasons to exist. (Which, again, involves some present utility but more futur
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by garyrob 5y ago
Actually, Numba does support dicts now.(You can't have a mix of types in the dicts unless that's changed, but that isn't an actual problem for most ML work.) I have used numba very effectively to make my machine learning rese
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by garyrob 5y ago
"Python does support parallelism, so long as you're calling into a C library to do the work" Actually, you can use Numba to get the same effect while still writing Python. Numba allows you to simply apply a decorator to criti
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by garyrob 5y ago
I experimented with OCaml and some of my Python code. I found that using Python with Numba enabled me to get much better performance than the same algorithm written in OCaml. In this case, using Numba for the performance-critical aspect was

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