vgivanovic

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by vgivanovic 2mo ago
What I love most is that Hannah Fry didn't get into the Cambridge undergraduate(?) math program (maths programme for you Brits) but became a math professor at Cambridge. Go Hannah!
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by vgivanovic 6mo ago
It depends. My indoor-outdoor cat only catches small animals if they run between her paws. But she did chase a rather large raccoon around the house once, as I did. In my suburban neighborhood, we occasionally have coyotes. They are known t
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by vgivanovic 6mo ago
Huh? I'm a native English speaker and the sentence looks OK. Advances have demonstrated... The NLLB part is an adjectival(sic) phrase that modifies the noun "Advances". Hopefully I'm not wrong...
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by vgivanovic 8mo ago
>Actually faking the existence of billions of people would require a global conspiracy orders of magnitude more complex than anything in human history. No true. All that is required is for incentives to be roughly aligned for people to t
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by vgivanovic 8mo ago
I've used Nova Launcher for years (don't know if I'm paid), but I'll be happy to pay for an ad free version. I know there is a long history of companies buying another company for a product and then killing it after a pe
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by vgivanovic 1y ago
I am very happy with the software that powers my Hyundai Tuscon hybrid. (It's a massive system that runs the gas and electric engines, recharging, shifting gears, braking, object detection, and a host of information and entertainment
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by vgivanovic 1y ago
Why was this post flagged?
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by vgivanovic 2y ago
You get what you pay for, one way or another. I prefer to pay in cash rather than in eyeballs, so I use Kagi. No regrets.
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by vgivanovic 2y ago
Hmmm. What about the pencil shavings? Makes me wonder if the story is true.
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by vgivanovic 3y ago
Requires login.
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by vgivanovic 3y ago
The demofox.org page I see has blue text against a black background - unreadable. No other web page I can recall has this color combination.
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by vgivanovic 3y ago
I bought a Hyundai Tucson plugin hybrid after a Toyota dealer wanted $8000 over list for an equivalent RAV4.
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by vgivanovic 3y ago
Massachusetts is #20 in total tax burden by state in 2023.
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by vgivanovic 3y ago
Funny how people are willing to deny benefits to others while claiming different benefits for themselves. Me thinks you'd feel differently if, say, a fund were created to compensate people for consuming PFASs (which you undoubtedly hav
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by vgivanovic 3y ago
California is #12 in total tax burden in 2023. ( https://wallethub.com/edu/states-with-highest-lowest-tax-bur... ) Maine, Vermont, Iowa all havae higher total tax burdens than California. New York, however is #1. On the
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by vgivanovic 3y ago
This bill is a gift to the Russians and the Chinese! Now they will be able to read anyone's communications, and do you think they are going to stop encrypting their communications?
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by vgivanovic 3y ago
I love this advice! I know it works. Just as George Santos.
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by vgivanovic 3y ago
\begin{rant} Immanuel Kant (I paraphrase liberally) said the Golden Rule was not enough to decide if an action was ethical or not. One also had to answer in a positive way the question, "What would happen if everyone behaved this way?&
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by vgivanovic 3y ago
Thank you.
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by vgivanovic 3y ago
What is pfsync and why do I care?
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by vgivanovic 3y ago
Examples, examples, examples! Just today I failed to find an example of mounting multiple drives as one Btrfs filesystem. Plenty of how to create Btrfs filesystem examples. But how to mount them? Crickets. I eventually figured it out, but a
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by vgivanovic 3y ago
If gravitational waves come from several sources, then are there rogue gravitational waves like in the ocean? Another source described the ordinary gravitational waves as "deafening", so the rogue gravitational waves should be eve
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by vgivanovic 3y ago
"Understanding How We Learn" by two cognitive scientists. https://www.learningscientists.org/books
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by vgivanovic 4y ago
Use a Japanese-style toilet bidet. Bolt-on, cold water ones are less than $50. (You get used to the cold water, surprisingly.) Warm water ones, less than $100. Top-of-the-line (entire) toilets, $4000. WFM, YMMV
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by vgivanovic 4y ago
"Only original data are stored in the vault; no copies are allowed anywhere" means no backups. As a user, I don't want that; I want my data to be available independently of the physical medium it is stored on. Even more prob
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by vgivanovic 4y ago
I taught (ahem) data structures and algorithms from a book I really liked (T. Standish, Data Structure Techniques, 1980) which emphasized the mathematical aspects of the subject. (It's still available on Amazon for the bargain price of
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by vgivanovic 4y ago
Linux on Framework i7-1280P
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by vgivanovic 4y ago
As a senior in college, I figured out how to earn a B in almost any class: 1. Read the assigned material before class. 2. Attend the lecture and any recitations; listen and take notes. 3. Do the homework. Note that the material is read, hea
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by vgivanovic 6y ago
The NPR headline is catchy but the underlying study is dogged by questions. The cited study ( https://doi.org/10.1111/acv.12563; sci-hub.tw has a copy) has some methodological flaws: * The cat studied were were not rand
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by vgivanovic 9y ago
The GNOME project has a standalone calendar cleverly named 'Calendar' [ https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Calendar ] and mail-calendar application called Evolution [ https://help.gnome.org/users/e

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