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1. 2581.▲
   by graycat 11y ago

   Oops, sorry, guys: Apparently that "quiz" doesn't apply to everyone who does serious programming. E.g.,I decided to base the software for my startup on Windows instead of Linux. Why Windows? One source for nearly everythin
2. 2582.▲
   by graycat 11y ago

   Easier solution: Turn the TV to face the wall and unplug it from the cable company. Net, the OP is about a big battle over something next to worthless. My ISP in effect pays me to accept their "basic* TV service -- I get Internet
3. 2583.▲
   by graycat 11y ago

   I'm not a lawyer but I am a US citizen. To me, the police, prosecutors, and judges in the OP are, really, just out to attack the poor people, just attack them like wild, mad, rabid dogs, attack them for no good reason, just declare war
4. 2584.▲
   by graycat 11y ago

   Not sure the domain name really matters much now. Reasons: (1) Do users really pay attention to the extension, COM or anything else? (2) IMHO, now users mostly just click on links while paying little or no attention to the actual URL o
5. 2585.▲
   by graycat 11y ago

   IMHO and from my experience, the main keys to addressing complexity of software are just to (A) define the data, input, inside the software, data base, key-value store, etc., and output, (B) organize the work for any real time parts, (C)
6. 2586.▲
   by graycat 11y ago

   A bit vague and speculative. My suspicion has been that maybe quantum entanglement and the "spooky action at a distance" of the Einstein, Podolsky, Rosen (EPR) paradox might be a clue to better understanding of space . But n
7. 2587.▲
   by graycat 11y ago

   > Have you worked on software projects before? Yup. From Microsoft, by now for too long I've seen too much poor quality work, apparently bottom to top in the stack and left to right for the applications. I hate to say this and a
8. 2588.▲
   by graycat 11y ago

   What connection? Just in what people do: If they can't do the simple work on the easy to see label on the bottle right, then can't have confidence in the more difficult work less easy to see for the contents of the bottle.
9. 2589.▲
   by graycat 11y ago

   Wow. Windows 10 is too hard for Microsoft. What a mess. Right, I'll say with Windows XP or Windows 7. Time for Windows 11. What a disaster. And for what I'm really interested in, security, and compatibility, if they can't
10. 2590.▲
    by graycat 11y ago

    Thanks for the help. Thanks for a definition of "drive by". The link was for a lot of versions of IE, some of which don't run on XP. I try not to use IE. Sometimes I had to use it at some Microsoft Web sites. Okay. Mozilla
11. 2591.▲
    by graycat 11y ago

    I read the link and got nothing out of it. I don't even know what the acronyms mean. I don't understand "drive by attacks": My XP computer has nothing wireless, not even the keyboard or the mouse. Wireless, essentially
12. 2592.▲
    by graycat 11y ago

    Depends on how old . What I'm running and like would not have run on Windows 3.1 or PC/DOS but did run on Windows NT SP3 and Windows 2000. But maybe some of that software would have run into problems on Vista. Maybe Microsoft wa
13. 2593.▲
    by graycat 11y ago

    It looks like Windows users are not welcome on HN.
14. 2594.▲
    by graycat 11y ago

    Have anything specific except for Flash or macros for Word? There is the recent 15 or so year old problem, so far never seen in practice, having to do with fonts or some such. Otherwise, what's insecure about XP? Or more secure about
15. 2595.▲
    by graycat 11y ago

    Okay. Good to know. So, when I decide to upgrade from Windows XP, I will install the legal DVD I have of Windows 7 and stay with that for years! No Windows 8, 10, etc. for me until Microsoft makes some fantastically strong and solid state
16. 2596.▲
    by graycat 11y ago

    Thanks
17. 2597.▲
    by graycat 11y ago

    The OP seems to argue that autonomous weapons would be dangerous heavily because they are intelligent in the sense of AI. IMHO, the weapons would be still more dangerous because they were not very intelligent and, instead, in essentiall
18. 2598.▲
    by graycat 11y ago

    The solution in the US is supposed to be US democracy. A first step is freedom of the press so that citizens can become informed. A second step is for problems to be exposed in the press as in the OP. A third step is for citizens in the ar
19. 2599.▲
    by graycat 11y ago

    For Problem 6 given in the OP, the claim is false: Notation: We borrow subscript and superscript notation from D. Knuth's TeX. So, a with a subscript j is written a_j. Consider the simple graph, based just on typing, below. The graph
20. 2600.▲
    by graycat 11y ago

    Simple: I like music, was interested in the OP, had never heard of AudioKit, and have never used Unix, Linux, or any Apple products. I understand computing, violin, tuning in music, Fourier series, Nyquist sampling in digital signal proces
21. 2601.▲
    by graycat 11y ago

    For the audio, here is what I hear from the first of the video clip: ??? one. My name is Art ??? I am the creator of Audio???. Today I'm excited to show you another example of ??? AudioKit live coding
22. 2602.▲
    by graycat 11y ago

    > Xcode is the standard IDE used for all Apple software development - 99% of people viewing a video like this would know that, as its so elementary. Not for people on Windows. So, your claim is that 99% of the people on HN have signific
23. 2603.▲
    by graycat 11y ago

    > The text was completely readable for me, viewing on an iPad (not even fullscreen). For me, full screen, 1024 x 768 pixels on a razor sharp monitor, without a magnifying glass, essentially just blurs. Just checked: If I capture the
24. 2604.▲
    by graycat 11y ago

    Microsoft is an important computer company. I use Microsoft products. To save my time getting background information, I just stay with Microsoft's products. Why just Microsoft? Because for what I'm doing, it's enough, and I
25. 2605.▲
    by graycat 11y ago

    > 1) Perhaps you were watching it at low resolution? It's at a bigger font than Xcode's standard. My screen is a razor sharp 14" monitor with 1024 x 768 pixels. Resolution is not the issue, just size. All the text on t
26. 2606.▲
    by graycat 11y ago

    > Real & complex analysis and algebra, I've mentioned books I've spent at least some significant time with. There are lots more books on my shelves that look good, have good recommendations, etc. but I haven't paid muc
27. 2607.▲
    by graycat 11y ago

    Interesting. While I made some progress with violin, that's 400 year old technology, and I want to continue with music but with more productive technology, likely based on using a computer to help compose and perform music. So, I&#x2
28. 2608.▲
    by graycat 11y ago

    Most of those topics I listed are supposed to be good at taking data and saying how to "make more money"!
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    by graycat 11y ago

    Halmos Measure Theory is a good prerequisite to Neveu. Rudin, Principles is a bit too little. Instead, the first half, the real half of Rudin's Real and Complex Analysis is a good prerequisite. So, is Royden's Real Analysi
30. 2610.▲
    by graycat 11y ago

    Here are some topics. Are they considered relevant to data science ? Matrix row rank and column rank are equal. In matrix theory, the polar decomposition. Each Hermitian matrix has an orthogonal basis of eigenvectors. Weak law of large nu