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by morbia 4y ago
I think options is more valid than a solid plan. I've also seen it go the other way where people have this very specific career path in mind and take a degree towards that goal, only to find that in practice they hate it. I feel like t
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by morbia 4y ago
Your comment about cooling reminded me of a fun anecdote from my time in academia. My PhD involved quite a lot of high performance computing simulations. We kept running into problems where on warm days, all our jobs would get killed pretty
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by morbia 4y ago
> It’s always going to a substandard experience for latency sensitive games. Can’t change physics. Couldn't agree more, but personally I'm old and my days of playing quake or CS1.6 are over so I don't care about latency. I
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by morbia 4y ago
Depends if you mean the product or the tech. As a product I agree Stadia was dead on arrival, there was no chance people were going to buy games again on a brand new platform at full price with the potential for a poor experience every time
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by morbia 4y ago
> And I've never seen a video streaming site that just gave you links to download the videos. They all have some degree of security, but no supermarket ever tied my hands behind my back on entry. What security measures can YouTube e
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by morbia 4y ago
I don't understand that analogy. I've never been to a supermarket without some degree of security, and laws form a deterrent. Sure, we could say that violates my freedom to take what I want (and it does) but trading some liberti
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by morbia 4y ago
When you say 'free content' do you mean free as in beer or free as in freedom? I agree that 'free as in beer' is not required for a 'foss device', but I don't see how you can have content which is not &#x2
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by morbia 4y ago
> If YouTube doesn't want to provide free content, they have all the liberty in the world to remove free content from their site and provide it only for YouTube Premium users. But they don't want to do that, they want to have t
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by morbia 4y ago
I think 'hardly any of the other way around' isn't really fair, particularly when SaaS is clearly the most popular way to distribute software these days. Your examples are almost entirely focused on the tools to build softw
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by morbia 4y ago
A lot of people see this as a technical challenge, but it is a political one. The road the business took to get to this point is crucial, and understanding whether the business want to fix it is key. In my experience once businesses get int
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by morbia 4y ago
I'm not totally convinced tracking/data mining is the key distinction here. I'm going to assume your dozen users are friends/family and 'well behaved'. Global cloud services do not have that luxury. They have t
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by morbia 4y ago
Noether's Theorem is really something I found extremely beautiful as a grad student, I always felt like Emmy Noether didn't really get the recognition she deserved. My favourite way of explaining Noether's theorem to non-phys
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by morbia 4y ago
I'm not sure I understand your analogy. My thoughts were along the lines of users unintentionally installing malware which inflicts harm onto others, or say refusing to install software updates 'because it works' which in tur
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by morbia 4y ago
Yes exactly, the point I guess I was arguing with is how you define 'a certain amount' of freedom. Freedom is clearly not absolute in the real world so why should it be absolute in the digital one? Particularly when the overwhelmi
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by morbia 4y ago
Just to play devil's advocate, what about situations where someone's freedom to use software encroaches on others? For example, what if a user uses those freedoms to install malware that adds their machine to a botnet?
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by morbia 4y ago
Exactly the same thing happened at my previous company... In particular, @GWTIncompatable made the leaking between frontend and backend an absolute nightmare. Their whole application was built on the idea that your models would be the same
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by morbia 4y ago
I'm not aware of any predictive power the standard model has over nuclear physics and atomic physics directly. In principle, yes the standard model should be able to predict things at those energy scales, in practice no one has a clu
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by morbia 4y ago
Gay guy here, who is polyamorous. I appreciate my experiences are wildly different from a straight person's, but I would be very careful in advertising 'real world dating' as just easier. Often I've seen guys (straight a
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by morbia 4y ago
(former PhD in Particle Physics in QCD here, far from an expert) > While the theory is incredibly powerful in its domain, we have been unable to unify it with gravity and other theories of matter. This is a problem because it's supp
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by morbia 4y ago
Well that's sort of my point. In the media there was a lot of excitement about detecting supersymmetry with a whole array of new particles. When talking to the general public, it's easy to drum up the excitement by saying we'
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by morbia 4y ago
> I’m pretty sure there remains a discrepancy between the predicted mass of the Higgs boson and the measured mass in experiments. Is this resolved then? Sort of. The higgs boson mass is a parameter to the Standard Model. As far as the St
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by morbia 4y ago
(Former PhD student in Particle Physics Pheno here, far from an expert) Of course it was a significant discovery, but honestly it would have been a far more interesting if we detected literally nothing. It's kind of weird because it wa
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by morbia 5y ago
I don't think the OP's point was about rights as an individual on a corporate network, more about trying to backdoor your staff's equipment and the consequences of that. To use your camera analogy, you better have a good lock
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by morbia 5y ago
Do you have the data for this? My experiences have been precisely the opposite. I have spoke to many bisexual men married to women on Grindr who were looking to cheat on their wives (or fantasised about doing it). My experiences point to a
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by morbia 5y ago
You also need to continue testing for HIV because it is easy to take prep wrong and miss tablets.
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by morbia 5y ago
Storage is cheap, but egress/ingress in and out of gcp is not. I suspect the real reason Google are doing this is a mixture of the two, to reduce network costs and because they've got enough users now.
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by morbia 5y ago
I think you misunderstood my point. I wasn't trying to say R-rated/sexual fan projects are a 'real problem' in some social/moral sense, I personally hate the 'somebody think of the children' argument more
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by morbia 5y ago
I'm not sure that that's realistic though. What about if the fan project contained inappropriate/sexual content? What if it's a buggy mess that people start to associate with your brand? This discussion reminds me of the
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by morbia 5y ago
Add to that space requirements and lots of people find them nauseating to use.
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by morbia 5y ago
The thing is there are counter examples where, in my opinion on moral grounds, a child is entitled to privacy. Some examples on off the top of my head:- * An LGBT child using LGBT safe spaces online. Being outed before a child has come to t

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