nickersonm

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by nickersonm 2y ago
Vultr is pretty well known amongst the small technically innovative "cloud" hosting companies, and IMO has better offerings than DO. They also have a peering agreement with Backblaze and Cloudflare; no transfer costs between any o
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by nickersonm 3y ago
> This keeps getting repeated.. but when I was studying, I bought used IKEA furniture, moved it around several times to different apartments, and then sold it again when I moved from that city. > I've also renovated my house rece
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by nickersonm 3y ago
Sell all your furniture and all but irreplaceable and critical belongings, possibly including selling any cars you may have. Use a few thousand dollars of that money for airfare or gas money and move yourself and minimal belongings to a n
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by nickersonm 4y ago
I'll third this recommendation as well. I find them slightly easier to use than DO, and they have free transit to Cloudflare and Backblaze B2.
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by nickersonm 4y ago
The point is that all technology is a tool. Whether it be writing, calculators, or various narrow AI software. We can either bemoan the loss of a now-less-useful skill (memorization, long division, longform writing), or learn how to use the
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by nickersonm 4y ago
> In fact, [writing] will introduce forgetfulness into the soul of those who learn it: they will not practice using their memory because they will put their trust in writing, which is external and depends on signs that belong to others,
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by nickersonm 4y ago
Greater control of our physical environment.
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by nickersonm 4y ago
The number hasn't really changed, it's just been measured with increasing precision. It is rather unlikely to be wrong given measurements via various methods are all in agreement. Summaries about these various experiments are avai
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by nickersonm 4y ago
Thanks for your civil engagement on what is often a contentious topic. While not a perfect representation of purchases, I believe the EPA chart (Fig. ES-3) I referred to shows the average of all for-sale models for a given year, so this sho
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by nickersonm 4y ago
If oil companies have been campaigning specifically to deceive customers about the potential harms those customers may cause, then that should be what they are "held responsible" for. Trying to make them responsible for harms othe
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by nickersonm 4y ago
Yet these companies aren't the ones actually burning the oil, are they? They merely sell the product which others then burn. How can you hold only them responsible but excuse the parties further downstream?
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by nickersonm 4y ago
It's even older; there's a decent blip in the 1830s: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=institutional+...
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by nickersonm 4y ago
I highly recommend this as well, although I just use it for managing snapshots on my NAS. For backup I use hourly & daily kopia backups that are then rcloned to an external drive and Backblaze.
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by nickersonm 4y ago
That is an age-old question: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/zombies/
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by nickersonm 4y ago
You're mixing up responsibility and restitution. "It's my fault" is exactly taking responsibility.
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by nickersonm 4y ago
I've had a good experience with Kopia [0] for over a year. Linux and Windows boxes all writing to the same repository, which is synchronized to both B2 and a portable drive every night. The one thing it lacks that I'd like is erro
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by nickersonm 4y ago
Why would you want to bring it back? There are literal gigatons of useful material 'up there', perfectly usable in-place (or anywhere that's not down a well) with low effort. Even with Starship, it's easier to use resour
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by nickersonm 4y ago
I use maddy + dovecot. maddy's IMAP implementation is good for small stuff (and trivial to set up!), but still performs very slow for few-GB inboxes or larger.
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by nickersonm 4y ago
Only if you make workspace-specific settings changes.
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by nickersonm 4y ago
Yes, but the point of publishing is not to inform the public or media - the point is to communicate scientific results to others working in one's field. Expecting it to be well explained to the general public is like asking all patches
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by nickersonm 4y ago
A reference would be the video referring to another paper (or video). That's difficult to extract from the video unless the publisher is going to fully annotate it - and if that's the case, why not just publish the annotations and
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by nickersonm 4y ago
I personally preferred The Better Angels of our Nature [0] as a deeper look focusing on the assorted statistics. Enlightenment Now recycles a lot of it and summarizes. There's some minor updates as well. [0] https://stev
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by nickersonm 4y ago
Dark matter isn't adding hidden variables, it's identifying that there is a variable present which we don't know the origin of.
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by nickersonm 4y ago
Exactly - often people forget the 'dark' in 'dark matter' just means 'we have no idea what it is'! All dark matter researchers would love for it to become ' <x> matter'. It's not like dark
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by nickersonm 4y ago
Are you thinking of Timescape Cosmology [0]? I think it's a great explanation for dark energy that should be further explored. A summary is that due to the large difference in gravitational gradients between in-a-galaxy and between-g