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by pfortuny 5y ago
I did not believe you when I first read your comment and then I scrolled down… Do people realize that the British Empire was the thing that most opposed Hitler? Seems like people know no history…
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by pfortuny 5y ago
Mmmmh… Organ harvesting as it is called is not quite the humane thing to do, even if the subject was a convict. Unless of course he is a DONOR.
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by pfortuny 5y ago
Pain is not harm. Suffering is not necessarily bad. One can live a full life in the midst of hurting. The fact that Santa does not exist angers a lot of people each year…
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by pfortuny 5y ago
“quite beyond doubt”, and there you are. The conversation just finished. You are right, the rest are wrong. And that’s that. Or is it?
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by pfortuny 5y ago
Oh, dear. Truth being the operating word… There is no truth in a set of axioms we cannot even conceive properly (any infinite set has properties beyond what seems reasonable, even “just” the Natural numbers). From that comes arithmetic, the
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by pfortuny 5y ago
yes everyone says so but I am not keen to change now, just out of laziness: there are too many tender points…
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by pfortuny 5y ago
How can they tell? Honest question because I fear my uni will start doing this out of “security “.
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by pfortuny 5y ago
For mu4e and Exchange, I use: -offlineimap both linux and macos. and in my home laptop, davmail because it allows me to use 2FA, which has been implemented at my Uni for external use.
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by pfortuny 5y ago
the stored gas and the storage facilities, I gather.
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by pfortuny 5y ago
Storing cookies is reasonable if I am using the remote computer to something more than just “go there to see a post or just navigate”. Otherwise, what would they care about the computer I am using ? Go to any newspaper and just browse? I d
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by pfortuny 5y ago
Are finite state automata turing complete? No. But any normal person would say that programming them is indeed programming.
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by pfortuny 5y ago
Yep. I used to teach this. One of the key ideas is to get rid of 3d geometry and state, from the beginning, huge sized problems (simple models of traffic using kirchoff’s laws, image convolution, statics…). Otherwise, why define the determi
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by pfortuny 5y ago
I have just dabbled with Houdini and what you say (it is not exactly a shader but its procedural interface is probably similar to what you are saying) is spot-on. Lots of data incoming, a graph of operations, lots of data (and plots, and wh
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by pfortuny 5y ago
“ we’re required but governments across the world to be on the lookout for people doing “fraudy” things and terminate their accounts ASAP.” And that is the difference. Google is not the Govmnt and there is no legislation supporting them (ex
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by pfortuny 5y ago
IIRC Open BSD saves a seed each time the system is turned off. Of course, thebvery first boot is problematic, but this one tends to be the installation.
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by pfortuny 5y ago
Yep, but so do anxiety disorders associated to a “possible cancer”. Living hapyy is more important than living for lots of people.
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by pfortuny 5y ago
Yes but the thing is… papers are counted, not read. They are published to be counted, not read. Really.
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by pfortuny 5y ago
I do not know but apart from just vendor lock in, oracle might provide guarantees (maintenance?) that the other providers cannot.
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by pfortuny 5y ago
Just honesty and that the German government states this clearly at the same time that says “we are fully with Ukraine”. You can just say “we are with Ukraine up to the russian gas.” But that would just be true not beautiful.
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by pfortuny 5y ago
Meanwhile, in Real Life in Spain https://www.euribor.com.es/2019/05/21/el-congreso-se-gasta-5... (500.000Eu for ipad pros for the members of parliament)… How do you mix that with open source software?
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by pfortuny 5y ago
It is also a great way to make technical people do non-technical work and end up wasting a ton of time. Overall, cost-cutting in the short term. Just that.
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by pfortuny 5y ago
This is so much so... It looks silly (your comment) but it is spot on.
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by pfortuny 5y ago
There is an important but subtle difference between violence and force, and people use both terms as if they were the same. They are not. Violence is exaggerated force. You can kill a man and not be exerting violence (like in self-defence).
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by pfortuny 5y ago
Well, I am sure Caritas Internationalis is there helping. https://www.caritas.org/where-caritas-work/europe/ukraine/ (I have just made a donation).
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by pfortuny 5y ago
Do you think Putin did not take this into account? Europe has messed with herself and her dealings with Russia for so long that we are totally utterly self-screwed (renewables… tell that to the 400EU/MWh). Like with China. Look: as a p
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by pfortuny 5y ago
Also, work is not a contest, or a competition.
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by pfortuny 5y ago
Statisticians are not going to win a game. They may win more than the average but then, when everyone is a good statistician, the mean changes and money leads again.
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by pfortuny 5y ago
No wonder. It deters my colleagues in Spain (in my research area)… (Mathematics). I am sure those prices are way above anything imaginable in poorer countries.
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by pfortuny 5y ago
I guess he isnusing it in the metric sense (Euclidean metric).
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by pfortuny 5y ago
At least in Spain there is a minimum speed at which you can legally drive (half the max)…

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