mikorym

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by mikorym 7y ago
What is RCS?
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by mikorym 7y ago
Why aluminum?
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by mikorym 7y ago
I was suprised to learn about the Google project [1] for endangered languages. There are languages in Southern Africa that have less than 10 speakers, some eerily distinct from each other. I don't really know how to manage a normal job
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by mikorym 7y ago
There was once a guy called Johan Coetzer who stumbled upon more funding than he could spend and ended up with a project called Zebra. [1] Their biggest success, I am told, was however single use batteries and the (unverified) rumour that I
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by mikorym 7y ago
You can just put the flags in a set and test for set equality.
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by mikorym 7y ago
For administrative purposes it makes sense to uniquely identify people, but for privacy purposes it is a feature to not be uniquely identifiable. I don't think one can get around that tradeoff. In South Africa, if you have someone&#x27
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by mikorym 7y ago
I met a guy once that told me that he never decided beforehand which song to play and that way would be less stressed. He was a pretty good pianist. More than 10 years later, I almost only perform original pieces or improvisational pieces a
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by mikorym 7y ago
When the Khoisan and their distant cousins of other names were killed by colonisers from West Africa and later Europe, the Kalahari desert turned out to be a very useful (and the last) place for them.
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by mikorym 7y ago
You can't just create forests out of deserts, that is not exactly nature conservation.
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by mikorym 7y ago
For the purposes of storing carbon, I don't think we'll get away from the fact that a large amount the carbon from fossil fuels that we have burned will likely have to be stored under ground again eventually. I find it strange to
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by mikorym 7y ago
To me the question is whether 1) the people who are leaving are the best in their field 2) they are the best for Tesla's long term plan and 3) whether this is normal / not normal for a high profile company or a disruptive tech com
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by mikorym 7y ago
I also find this confusing.
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by mikorym 7y ago
I think it's better to say that "for most people there is a better alternative" than to say that pie charts should never be used. EDIT: If you are showing who ate which parts of a pizza (to be pedantic) I'm sure a pie ch
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by mikorym 7y ago
Even a PhD does not mean that I would want to have a conversation with that person.
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by mikorym 7y ago
There is the converse argument that people who behave this way do so "naturally". And it may work well for that set of people. There are also people like Grothendieck who were notorious for insisting on individuality and were the
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by mikorym 7y ago
That's not true. In my native language it is called "pynappel". EDIT: I guess that may be why you said "almost" but that, in turn, is almost impossible.
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by mikorym 7y ago
This does not presuppose any kind of precise definition of infinity.
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by mikorym 7y ago
Why would AGI dwarf anything? There are at least 7 billion beings on the planet with AGI already. I think a bigger problem is the general well being of the aforementioned 7 billion entities.
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by mikorym 7y ago
I could be missing the plot here, but I always got the impression that Outlook limits (sets) the fonts and colours in order to make the emails look like they "were sent by MS/Outlook". But again, this may be my idiosyncratic
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by mikorym 7y ago
I think the point of the post is 1) it's new and 2) it's a recollection by an older mathematician. These are always valuable and would be lost if not told, despite any other sources or stories already available.
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by mikorym 7y ago
So maybe the article should have said, "How the Ancient Roman good stuff concrete has survived 2000 years."
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by mikorym 7y ago
What is the principle at work behind a heat pump?
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by mikorym 7y ago
Look, my point is this: If I open my text editor and type some text, save the file and sign it with GPG with my private key to prove authorship, then I don't see how you are going to break this. In that specific sense GPG is not brok
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by mikorym 7y ago
I think something similar could happen with stockpiled rhino horns, but I daresay that African countries (apart from corruption problems) are somewhat more pragmatic than the IRS. It's a contentious issue to say the least, and differs
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by mikorym 7y ago
Electric heating can be a pain when compared to gas heating. Gas heating in Europe is rather efficient and I expect it to continue for a long time even as other energy uses are switched to renewables. In the comments someone mentioned that
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by mikorym 7y ago
I think a perhaps unclear part of the recent post "The PGP Problem" is that PGP is bad for email . If you don't use it for email, I don't see it as really a problem. Unless, maybe, you are a reporter or otherwise not cl
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by mikorym 7y ago
What is the extent of the MITM attack that you can do with this certificate? Can you intercept all https traffic?
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by mikorym 7y ago
Seems people don't like this comment. Let me elaborate: In poorer countries, or in historically poorer countries, there is often a culture of group interaction: food sold in the streets, social events in the streets, greeting people an
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by mikorym 7y ago
It's in local time as an offset of UTC. So, if you pool by repo then you could have two commits at 13:00 even though they were commited at different times of the day, but in different time zones.
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by mikorym 7y ago
Or: first world problems.

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