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by goku12 7mo ago
> I'm actually planning on doing abstract algebra because I've enjoyed proof writing a ton! That's interesting! I started with abstract algebra (on my own) because I don't know the proper sequence of learning it. I gu
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by goku12 7mo ago
> The Fediverse seems to dislike global search. Or is that just a mastodon thing? Lemmy seems to do a decent enough job at global searches. It's most likely just a mastodon problem.
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by goku12 7mo ago
Word of mouth: What if it's just some random script a guy created in a weekend? I have my code used by others in such a manner. Package managers: Same problem as above. You missed the point of free software. Search engines: They do a d
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by goku12 7mo ago
Do you hang around every forum or mailing list that discusses the solutions to problems that you may potentially encounter in the future? The type of problem I'm talking about isn't one that can be foreseen years in advance.
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by goku12 7mo ago
> but yes, so many open source advocates, yet they literally depend on Microsoft, a bit too much. I have abandoned github and even gitlab for all intents and purposes. But there's another side to consider in this. It's always r
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by goku12 7mo ago
Not to contradict you, but there's another important aspect to 'community' besides the bad contributors and the entitled complainers. That's discoverability. How do you discover a project that may be hosted anywhere on t
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by goku12 7mo ago
> HEAD is "the thing we're editing now" but that's not terribly useful when rebasing since you're repeatedly editing a fake history. You got two things wrong here. Firstly, HEAD isn't 'the thing you&#x2
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by goku12 7mo ago
I was thinking about creating a TUI application that points out what each part in the conflict indicator corresponds to. This idea is primarily meant for rebases where the HEAD and the ID of the updated commits change constantly. Think of i
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by goku12 7mo ago
First of all, comparing a locked-down smartphone with a fully capable smartphone is different from comparing a smartphone with a 'landline phone'. That's like apples to apples compared to apples to oranges. Secondly as far as
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by goku12 7mo ago
Thank you for your life account and the suggestion! Smart dedicated parents play an unseen and underappreciated role in the success of their children. My parents didn't know any of those - they were not in STEM professions. I think my
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by goku12 7mo ago
Yes! Vacuum tubes seemed much more predictable than semiconductor devices. I don't remember exactly why, but perhaps it was that the tubes had more linear behavior than the SSDs. Regardless, I'm also happy that I learned about tho
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by goku12 7mo ago
> Now that I'm taking calculus, I feel like I always have a corresponding application for each topic we cover. It's very exciting! Mathematical concepts need not necessarily have any practical or real-life applications (pure ma
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by goku12 7mo ago
Interesting! That didn't turn up when I searched it. I must have typed it in wrongly. But I learned something new today. Thank you!
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by goku12 7mo ago
People do take those absolute maximum ratings quite seriously. I had friends in my undergraduate engineering class who used to connect components directly to the AC mains to observe what would happen if you exceed those ratings. I have to s
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by goku12 7mo ago
> He requested that age requirement, Who? > it makes him looking like an etatist. Pardon me, but what does that mean? Is that a typo, or am I simply ignorant? > Some kids use to solder earlier than at 10y.o. so the intended audienc
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by goku12 7mo ago
Agreed on all counts. > They shouldn't teach calculus like they taught it to me and my peers. Basically we just one day started "differentiating" equations. We learnt a completely mechanical process. I had a similar experi
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by goku12 7mo ago
There ought to be something similar for calculus too. While a detailed and formal treatment of the subject can be delayed till the age at which it's introduced now, I feel that the intuition and feel for calculus can be formed more eff
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by goku12 7mo ago
It's only a recommendation, not a strict instruction. It's the age group that the author is targeting and is assumed to have the requisite background knowledge and reasoning skills required to follow the material. It's unders
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by goku12 7mo ago
I don't get the exact point you're making. Chrome forked WebKit into Bling a long time ago. How does it fit into what I said?
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by goku12 7mo ago
Could you say the same about the Chrome browser? Google is using it to EEE the web (Embrace, Extend and Extend it till it's a monstrosity that nobody else can manage). That's pretty antagonistic. But did people change?
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by goku12 7mo ago
> If AI "clean-room" re-implementations are allow to bypass copyright/licenses, the GPL won't protect you. Isn't that the same for the obligations under BSD/MIT/Apache? The problem they're trying t
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by goku12 7mo ago
Technology is not a form of control at all. Technology is the practical application of things you know, to achieve things that don't happen naturally. Here's what the wiki says: > Technology is the application of conceptual kno
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by goku12 7mo ago
Would you trust Palantir if you're I'm the US?
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by goku12 7mo ago
> But the lack of simple cross-device sync killed the experiment for me. If you read a few articles on your phone while commuting, your desktop client has no idea when you get home. There is an open source service named gpodder.net (web
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by goku12 7mo ago
A token attempt is not enough.
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by goku12 7mo ago
> This policy is not open to discussion, any content submitted that is clearly labelled as LLM-generated (including issues, merge requests, and merge request descriptions) will be immediately closed, and any attempt to bypass this poli
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by goku12 7mo ago
> Most people are getting seriously concerned about how the internet affects children. It's as simple as that. I'm also extremely concerned about what social media is doing to children's brains and how that manifests in th
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by goku12 7mo ago
Automated access control is even worse. Kids explore technology a lot more than their parents do. They will find a work around and share it among their peers. The only real solution is to make them aware of the dangers and hope that it work
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by goku12 7mo ago
That's a disingenuous false equivalence comparison. Checking ID at a store comes with no extra burden. Not so for computing devices. You're talking about everything from fully locking down the boot loader to adding age verificatio
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by goku12 7mo ago
This comment is probably going to be unpopular. But these questions need to be asked. Why did anybody think that Americans were NOT going to be targeted? While the regime claimed that they were going to round up and deport only 'the wo

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