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by spindle 4y ago
I didn't know that about Harvard. That's so sad. I've seen how devastated the rejects can be. My anecdote is that I was once recruited by one of the best departments in the world in my field, at a very junior level ... and
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by spindle 4y ago
Thank you for this. It makes sense, and IMO price descrimination is fine in principle. But in this case it's just so obviously so annoying. I bet they're losing a lot more in brand loyalty than they're gaining in cash.
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by spindle 4y ago
Yeah, exactly. They use negligible resources. I'd make them even more frequent if I were configuring them from scratch, but 15-minutely is the default for my OS (NixOS). Some pruning is also built in.
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by spindle 4y ago
ZFS snapshots every 15 minutes
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by spindle 4y ago
There are 10,625,322,952,242,003,625 launcher programs, many of which are minimalist. Personally, I like this one: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.vincent_falzon.discreetl...
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by spindle 4y ago
I realise that different people have different needs, but I suggest that for most of us it's ownership of your own email domain name(s) that matters, so that if an email provider annoys you you can easily switch to another one. And th
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by spindle 4y ago
I did this by attending a lot of research seminars until I made friends with professors. The universities I've hung out at have all been fine with anyone attending research seminars. A billion years later I was a professor myself. Y
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by spindle 4y ago
This is superb. I want to add that the author is comparing it to self-study, which is something they enjoy. Most people don't enjoy it. For those people, an undergraduate degree should be more fun than self-study ... and if it turns
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by spindle 4y ago
They won't be easy to flip, because they have a low centre of gravity.
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by spindle 4y ago
Thank you. Those links are gems. It's probably worth also noting that the government does borrow a lot (even when it doesn't have to), but often from itself, and also often from the private sector but on terms that are completel
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by spindle 4y ago
Things are much more complicated than this twitter thread suggests. Some parts of the US national debt need to be serviced with interest payments and some don't. Some parts have to be repaid and some don't. Some parts are effec
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by spindle 4y ago
Good thought. Thank you. I suspect also failure to think it through, but your answer exculpates him at least a bit.
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by spindle 4y ago
Personally, yes I do, and I get lots of spam, but Thunderbird filters it out for me extremely well. The only downside is that it narrows my choice of email system - if all the spam came to my inbox it would be a pain.
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by spindle 4y ago
I'm not an expert myself, but ifixit says that very few laptops are easily repairable.
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by spindle 4y ago
Sorry! Don't know. I thought probably his autobiography, but I've just searched a PDF of that, and his History of Western Philosophy, and it's not in either of those. I guess one of his essays - must be one of the ones col
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by spindle 4y ago
I know this is massively (pun not intended) off topic, but why was the issue landing on Europa? What about all the other ways of interfering like sending drones to hover in the atmosphere? Did Arthur C. Clarke not think it through? Th
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by spindle 4y ago
I've had a bit of success with this very recently, just by re-evaluating (downwards) the costs of doing things badly. So instead of doing something in a way that I've convinced myself is the optimum way, I'm more likely to t
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by spindle 4y ago
Looks wonderful! Have you considered a more search-engine-friendly name?
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by spindle 4y ago
If you say to a child 'I'll kill you if you do that', and he does it, you must kill him, or he will never trust you. -- Bertrand Russell (from my memory, so probably not quite verbatim)
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by spindle 4y ago
Right! I even felt slightly guilty for posting it ... but I posted it anyway because it's useful.
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by spindle 4y ago
I'm speculating that some well-funded company is going to fork NixOS (or at least copy its design) and take it mainstream and/or enterprise.
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by spindle 4y ago
I happened to need to do this in NixOS yesterday, and look how easy it is: security.acme = { acceptTerms = true; email = "mail@whatever.net"; }; services.nginx = { enable = true; recommendedGzipSettin
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by spindle 4y ago
Haver for Cuis - and Cuis is in any case my favourite Smalltalk. http://haver.klix.ch
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by spindle 4y ago
There are startling similarities with river-oriented programming: http://xeny.net/HOtMEfSPRIbNG
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by spindle 4y ago
Yes, fair. In fact my best headphones need a dedicated headphone amp too. I'd forgotten that! But it doesn't need to be posh power. Just power.
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by spindle 4y ago
Speaking as an audiophile, although I don't exactly agree with your specific choice of headphones (I have to say that or I wouldn't be an audiophile) I strongly agree with using good headphones driven by any old thing. Audio qual
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by spindle 4y ago
It varies by jurisdiction and you don't say where you are.
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by spindle 4y ago
IMO, that's a more accurate summary of Hume's problem of induction than what I've read in textbooks! Props!
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by spindle 4y ago
It's not just the region of the sky with the most radio signals, it's the region of the sky with the signal that's (arguably) most likely to be produced by intelligence, of the ones we've noticed so far - the "WOW!&
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by spindle 4y ago
NixOS (although yes it could be even more elegant than it is)

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