posix_me_less

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by posix_me_less 4y ago
> must respect Mathematica. Respect a closed-source software which you can't easily check and improve, for academic work? No. It's a tool, not an academic achievement.
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by posix_me_less 4y ago
Feynman wrote something in the sense Wolfram did invent an interesting way to implement quantum chromodynamics on a computer, so he did something contributory to science.
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by posix_me_less 4y ago
It's an old reference, see e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2005/sep/19/ideas.g2
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by posix_me_less 4y ago
> makes some predictions and is relativistically correct. Many of which are obviously wrong. We do not observe 11-dimensional world.
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by posix_me_less 4y ago
> is this any kind of science? It's the "new kind of science". /s
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by posix_me_less 4y ago
> computation systems seem to have hit a fevered pitch in the 2010s What do you mean?
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by posix_me_less 4y ago
You're describing generally positive traits, not specific to science. Science was pushed forward by many kinds of people, many of them obnoxious, arrogant, racists, etc. You can't disqualify Wolfram as scientist by pointing to his
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by posix_me_less 5y ago
From the article: > "users are more likely from a cost perspective to build a system with one of the more affordable B660, H670, and H610 chipsets and pair that with DDR4 memory"
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by posix_me_less 5y ago
Yes, that is the logical extension of this agenda. Let's make sure it won't be implemented.
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by posix_me_less 5y ago
What does resistance to liberalism manifest about being more communal or communist? Is resistance to privatisation a "resistance to liberalism" or "communist"? I don't think so. It is nationalistic, conservative and
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by posix_me_less 5y ago
In theory, https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Stand%20alon... In practice, it may be some controlled operation.
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by posix_me_less 5y ago
Putin's feelings maybe connected to russian nukes' status, so hold your horses and maybe let's not push democracy down his throat and be badly surprised later.
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by posix_me_less 5y ago
> rule of law based justice What other kinds of justice are there? In Russia they do not have law based justice?
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by posix_me_less 5y ago
Yeah. Russians aren't stupid to send most of their punch in the beginning. Russian actions are perhaps of lower success than expected, but strategically they are correct. First there has to be the phase of measurement and taking out th
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by posix_me_less 5y ago
It all depends on the situation. Why did they obliterate Katowice in the first place? Was is it an error, was is a retaliation, was it nonsensical move of a madman? Hopefully at some point both sides will realize that neither the other side
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by posix_me_less 5y ago
> Any nuclear attack by Russia on a NATO state guarantees the utter destruction of Russia. I hope this is not how nuclear strategy and tactics is prepared. If sane people are in charge, retaliations will be proportional and exchange will
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by posix_me_less 5y ago
This seemed far fetched to me, but I am starting to think this is the only rational strategy behind Western actions... poor Ukrainians, they did not deserve this.
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by posix_me_less 5y ago
Why would they get out and let Ukrainians to recover and then continue active military opposition? It takes so much effort and money to even get in. Invasion shows commitment, Russians are going to stay just like Warsaw pact did in Czechosl
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by posix_me_less 5y ago
True they have lots of nukes but simulations seem to favor US slightly in nuclear exchange. And definitely US by a large margin in a non-nuclear one.
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by posix_me_less 5y ago
Maybe there was a chance for a solution without invasion. But it seems West did not believe/want this. Either this was because West not wanting to look weak or they have a secret plan and wanted Russia to invade... Either way, Western
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by posix_me_less 5y ago
Yeah but it's symbolic. It won't stop Russians, just prolong the suffering of people.
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by posix_me_less 5y ago
I have trouble understanding your point of view. What are you suggesting? I hope not that US starts nuclear war with Russia over disagreement about Ukraine?
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by posix_me_less 5y ago
> I don't understand the reasons for the invasion of Ukraine. I think I do. It seems to be the same as the reason for invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Ukraine also started a transformation, slipping away from Russia's influe
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by posix_me_less 5y ago
Are you sure? Now Iran suddenly seems more likeable partner for oil trade than Russia. And Europe always wanted the JCPOA deal.
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by posix_me_less 5y ago
Since when people and governments are guaranteed to behave rationally? We should account for every possibility.
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by posix_me_less 5y ago
Mortgage means somebody is going to pay somebody else regularly for 30 years, or bank gets a valuable property. That is more reliable wealth guarrantee than NFTs are.
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by posix_me_less 5y ago
File formats have compression for a very good reason - network transfer of these files. If compression was done only on the FS level, web servers would uncompress files when reading them and then immediately after that compressing them agai
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by posix_me_less 5y ago
Why would one need thousands of snapshots, in practice?
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by posix_me_less 5y ago
The licensing scare is overblown. You only need to worry if you want to distribute software that includes both ZFS and Linux, like Canonical does (and they decided it's worth the small risk). If you just use ZFS and Linux on your machi
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by posix_me_less 5y ago
Spot on on the layering. It is the easiest thing to criticize on ZFS, but it is an ideological point, not a very substantive one. Creating a reliable and performant storage system is possible both with well distinguished layering (LVM2+XFS)

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