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by mac3n 2y ago
Perhaps the first things to consider are the expected time to complete the PhD., and the success rate. Everyone says it's about five years. That's BS. It varies widely. At a university with which I was familiar, physics was one of
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by mac3n 2y ago
enshittify it all!
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by mac3n 2y ago
Honestly, this is true for any of these corporations. Slogans aren't binding, and are essentially meaningless. Like mission statements. "We wont be evil". Until we are. You can work for them. Until you don't.
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by mac3n 2y ago
we know how this ends... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Beyond_(film)
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by mac3n 2y ago
i'm really rusty here, but shouldn't that be spelled अग्नि (Agni) in the trailer instead of अग्न (Agna)?
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by mac3n 2y ago
payment recipient is "fully verified"?
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by mac3n 2y ago
> to make decision whether insurance cover it. so, inscrutable mechanical Death Panel?
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by mac3n 2y ago
s/citizen/subject/
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by mac3n 2y ago
China isn't the bad guy anymore. NATO is.
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by mac3n 2y ago
[hacked?] site downloads some kind of spam pdf
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by mac3n 2y ago
s/Silicon Valley/grifters/ (from someone outside the social media/cryptocurrency/metaverse/AI/ hoopla)
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by mac3n 2y ago
having worked on IP geolocation in the past, I don't think this works. Though it can do a pretty good job of getting you in the right continent. * Not all traffic goes through fiber - there are microwave links operating closer to the s
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by mac3n 2y ago
See N. Gisin's take on this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEWm3yPUosg
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by mac3n 2y ago
you lose most square roots, for example
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by mac3n 2y ago
while it's unlikely you'd allocate a memory array[2^30] on a 32-bit machine, I also use binary search on mmap'd files. Specifically, text files. Binary search doesn't need the exact midpoint, just somewhere nearby, so I
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by mac3n 2y ago
At Planck scales, things aren't so much "granular" as they are "fuzzy". Positions and such can be smeared out in a wave, rather than being discrete. Measurements, however, are often discrete, and select a single [ei
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by mac3n 2y ago
Real numbers aren't based on measuring objects in space, they're an abstract construct that happens to work a lot like measuring space, at least on our scale. You're free to reject the real numbers as a valid construct (intui
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by mac3n 2y ago
Consider that lengths (and clocks) depend on your frame of reference, so a "Planck length grid" at one velocity wouldn't be one at another.
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by mac3n 2y ago
> Our goal is to maximize unregretted user-seconds. i already regret reading this
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by mac3n 2y ago
H5 bird flu
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by mac3n 2y ago
just naive
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by mac3n 2y ago
do you really think you have the chops to take on Elon Musk?
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by mac3n 2y ago
you might as well say that it proves time-travel is possible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-state_vector_formalism
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by mac3n 2y ago
I think the connection to facebook was the greatest obstacle. No one wanted them to have any kind of control or trusted them.
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by mac3n 2y ago
almost any language that allows access to `mmap, munmap(3p)` can be made unsafe. and yet these are extremely useful.
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by mac3n 2y ago
> The next candidate will doubtless have more competence and be more effective... WHy would that be? Roger Stone and Steve Bannon are available.
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by mac3n 2y ago
see also https://gitlab.com/mac3n/pipeleak
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by mac3n 2y ago
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/01/fear-... 22 bits is in the range that it could be factored by hand, with the aid of some prime number tables. According to the article, they used D-wave&
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by mac3n 2y ago
while this is indeed interesting, it has become a regular https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36015523
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by mac3n 2y ago
could be interesting, but i'm scared of that one-line installer: /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://downloads.ortussolutions.com/ortussolutions/boxlang/install-boxlang.sh)"

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