mikorym

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by mikorym 7y ago
Yes, exactly. So Bach was limited by his era and this is my suspicion about why I am not that interested in his music.
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by mikorym 7y ago
You can describe output as boring, but you can't argue about correctness. Music does not have definibility of the latter.
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by mikorym 7y ago
Maybe he was a dissident, but his music is still boring to me. Or maybe his predecessors were just so boring that he was the first step away? I usually don't understand from his music why he is celebrated. Is it that he is just histo
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by mikorym 7y ago
So A = 440 Hz rather than 432 Hz is not a Nazi conspiracy; it was just Mozart hitting his 30th birthday vs. when he was young? We can finally be at peace that Justin Bieber's pop song is tuned to 440 Hz... /s
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by mikorym 7y ago
What I mean is if the other person is oppressive, then you shouldn't give them control over you.
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by mikorym 7y ago
I missed that part, and I think that is a rather necessary assumption.
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by mikorym 7y ago
What was the reason?
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by mikorym 7y ago
What if you don't want nonviolent communication? I can think of many examples; an oppressive government, a physically oppressive/abusive relationship or rape, a religously delusional cult, etc. Maybe the assumption is that you are
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by mikorym 7y ago
I think optimism is a kind of personal thing—you can't always tell its level by observing someone. I think optimistic cynicism is a thing. PS in psychology they have a concept called appropriate affect . Its kind of the opposite of co
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by mikorym 7y ago
Is this assuming A = 440 Hz?
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by mikorym 7y ago
To be fair, I work in finance and the people who are successful are often pretty "stupid". (CAs, I am looking at you.) Whatever it is that an IQ test scores, it doesn't score for success in business or in "life". In
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by mikorym 7y ago
With a few exceptions; 80% of the market is Hass. One of the exceptions is South Africa, where other varieties are common, but Hass is still a majority. Also note that there are new "Hass" varieties that are essentially mutations
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by mikorym 7y ago
Cool comic. My personal view on the matter is that the advent of globalisation and the internet (and perhaps printed matter before that to a lesser extent) naturally leads to a handful of superstars rather than a basket full of mentors. You
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by mikorym 7y ago
Yeah, I don't see how this is a boring lunch at all, that sandwich looks great to me. Does it mean though that your supper is usually "heavier"?
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by mikorym 7y ago
I am South African so yes, I don't have any imperial ambitions in that regard. But having said that, Lesotho is rather dependant on South Africa (as OP hints). My question was really whether he was an outlier or whether his friends or
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by mikorym 7y ago
Was there a "computing hotspot" where you were at the time? I think with all the school issues (and university issues) in South Africa it would be cool to have sort of (physical) computing libraries with Raspberry Pis or something
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by mikorym 7y ago
Did you see the post recently about System 76's laptops that will soon have open source hardware drivers? Talking about fake items, fake items surely could have fake drivers, but even legitimate items could introduce fake (as in "
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by mikorym 7y ago
Chrome has other behaviour that I think violates a sort of trust relationship. One of which is that Youtube would ask you "do you want to install Chrome"? Almost as if your current browser is not "what you need to access Yout
619.
by mikorym 7y ago
So, hopefully a country is more than their president?
620.
by mikorym 7y ago
Yes, so I agree with you on the human right topic but I think for the Rwanda argument to make sense you should restrict to the last five years or so. I feel pretty wary of Kigama, but maybe they will have a smooth transition to the next guy
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by mikorym 7y ago
Not to be insensitive, but for a South African this is a kind of LOL moment. We have had power outages mess with experiments and universities since at least the early 2000's. That of course and the arson that burned down auditoriums. B
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by mikorym 7y ago
The one where you have the means of living together with self-determination.
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by mikorym 7y ago
Rwanda is known to be up-and-coming and is doing better at solving their problems than South Africa. At least, their derivative at this point in time looks much better. Cape Town already has a good tech scene and is a great place to move to
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by mikorym 7y ago
This is also true of QM (not just because of QM computational sciences). My MSc thesis has application to quantum mechanics. I wrote a short summary of the generalisation that I made here [1], which generalises what the Nijmegen group calls
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by mikorym 7y ago
A small caveat. /s
626.
by mikorym 7y ago
Surely this was a perhaps modified dictionary attack that solved it in the end? I don't understand the comments that describe (presumably random) 10+ char passwords as "crackable".
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by mikorym 7y ago
Wait, what, there are people with "fusion startups"? I was under the impression that nuclear fusion is not yet feasible.
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by mikorym 7y ago
I agree that Lean or Coq or something else is the future of solving mechanistic argument, but my opinion is that this has been the expectation for maybe a hundred years already and was right up there in the time of Turing and Church (and Bo
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by mikorym 7y ago
The advantage of being a mathematician is that the unifying theories for QM and GR just that, mathematical techniques to unify QM and GR. Unfortunatly, if you are a physicist, I assume your grants at some point will have the words "pre
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by mikorym 7y ago
Can you do this even if you are not an EU resident?

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