e-khadem

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by e-khadem 5mo ago
There's a very narrow and vanishing window of opportunity left to end-up with anything other than a total disaster, and even in that case I'm not holding my breath for the quality of life for the next 5 years. In the long-term, it
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by e-khadem 5mo ago
I do live in Iran.
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by e-khadem 5mo ago
Let's put it this way: Have you seen someone's brain on the sidewalk lately? No? Lost a loved one / a friend / a classmate? Perhaps when people see this (as I have) they find more favorable views of the aerial bombing ca
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by e-khadem 6mo ago
Because almost all of the people inside Iran have been disconnected for the past 35 days [1]. And believe it or not, they are texting these news live to all mobile phones on a daily basis as well. Some regime supporters believe it, because
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by e-khadem 6mo ago
The claim being addressed is a shootdown over Qeshm island, which is the biggest island just west of the strait of Hormuz. The current CSAR operations are happening somewhere in the Khuzestan province. Probably somewhere within the 150 km r
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by e-khadem 6mo ago
That will be the dominating term eventually. But the initial sharp temperature drop is mostly due to the coffee mug being at room temperature and having a ~significant mass.
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by e-khadem 7mo ago
I have an opinion, because I was there and saw it with my own eyes. Because my friends and family members died.
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by e-khadem 7mo ago
[citation needed]. Not really though, you're just spewing the regime's propaganda. You might as well directly quote Khamenei on this one. I'm really restraining myself by not swearing at this comment. Have you seen a dead bod
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by e-khadem 7mo ago
> The Iranian woman told me that very few people in Iran actually read the book. It's very long, and hard to grasp for untrained readers. She makes a fair point. Reading and fully understanding Shahnameh is not straightforward. The
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by e-khadem 7mo ago
People read Shahname[1] regularly in Iran, and it was written at around 1000 CE, but there isn't much before 900 CE that is comprehensible to a modern day Persian speaker. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahname
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by e-khadem 7mo ago
I think not adding new features frequently and keeping everything stable and working in the long-term is also meritorious. Vim is the same on my local machine, on my rpi, and on an Ubuntu 20.04 VM that I use for some proprietary software. A
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by e-khadem 8mo ago
Yes, I have a Casio fx-9750GIII and I love it. I still haven't found an Android app or website that can do everything that I need (basic functionality), but in general: - I need physical buttons. I often find that on touchscreens I mis
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by e-khadem 8mo ago
FOCI papers[1] are great IMO, but some of submissions are just an academic curiosity, not a practical solution that works for the average Joe at a low cost and scale. For practical methods that are heavily used, you can take a look at popul
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by e-khadem 8mo ago
Lol. That was _before_ these new restrictions. And don't assume that you could setup a simple wireguard server and be done with it. No, it had to be a proper low fingerprint method (e.g., you had to hide the tls-in-tls timing pattern a
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by e-khadem 9mo ago
> Willing to completely give up domestic control of your energy sector in exchange for this regime change? You're saying this as if they (the people) had any control before. A military intervention should always be the last resort.
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Stimulant medications affect arousal and reward, not attention networks(cell.com)
19 points by e-khadem 9mo ago|8 comments
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by e-khadem 9mo ago
Safety is a valid concern in general. But avoidance not the right way to approach it. Democratizing the access to such tools (and developing a somewhat open ecosystem around it) for researchers and the general public is the better way IMO.
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by e-khadem 9mo ago
Afghanistan [1]. Most Syrians ended up in Europe I assume. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghans_in_Iran
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by e-khadem 9mo ago
Of course. Like embezzlement. I live in Iran and if you want a more detailed picture of the situation I find data provided in [1] well-researched. The executive summary is that one of the military branches really doesn't care about the
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by e-khadem 10mo ago
Usually this is not the main problem that people run into. Most often we take basics of terminal usage and config management for granted, and these are the hardest parts for new comers to learn, because they often don't know the conven
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by e-khadem 11mo ago
If this works for you, then great, do it as long as it works. But for me this will never work. What actually has worked though, is being in an enjoyable environment (surrounded by friends and family, lab / hobby equipment, quality book
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by e-khadem 11mo ago
I agree with you, this is not an in depth look, could have been much more rigorous. But then I think in some ways it's a much more accurate depiction of my use case. I mainly write monte-carlo simulations or simple scientific calculati
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by e-khadem 1y ago
The ADCs are almost useless. But yeah otherwise for most applications they are much better in every regard.
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by e-khadem 1y ago
I first learned about FFT in highschool to solve competitive programming problems, and it was, let's say, useful for that. But then I started studying EE, and after learning more about the different types of Fourier transform, I starte
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by e-khadem 1y ago
> Otherwise I'd assume they are making it up post-hoc. You are right, in that this test might not live up to the highest of standards. But then there are variations in the details. For example one of my friends who happened to be a
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by e-khadem 1y ago
There is a simple (unofficial?) test for aphantasia, and I have tried it on many of my peers, it seems to be accurate. _Close your eyes and ask someone else to read the instructions for you. If you really want to take it stop reading here._
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by e-khadem 1y ago
I would argue even for scientific collaboration the gains will be minimal. The LLMs are more or less capable of translating content in natural sciences biderectionally, and most researchers already have a passing knowledge of English. On th
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by e-khadem 1y ago
You might say that, but the proxies weren't so keen on saving their citizens' lives either. Bashar Assad killed 600'000 of his own citizens. Hamas uses hospitals and UN schools as their command centers. Hezbollah has undergro
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by e-khadem 1y ago
Believe it or not, the 12 day war between Iran and Israel was exactly that, and the reaction of the Iranian people was not as uniform (in either way) as one might guess. You could walk on the streets and see some "Hit them Israel"
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by e-khadem 1y ago
I would argue that not every society will thrive under a democracy. The people must be somewhat educated, politically savy, considerate, and accommodating. At least this has to be true in the beginning of a democracy where the people are la

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