I confirm this as a physics PhD. I also understand exactly this thinking of assuming a system is in thermal equilibrium where it is far from it (like a chicken in am oven).

205°C 😂😂😂

Full disk encryption with LUKS. Don’t really see much point in a TPM for booting my personal device, although it definitely has use cases and I don’t know what’s backdoorsy about it.

How about raising parking fees and lowering transit fares in general, not just during certain times?

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Interesting, I’ll keep it in mind next time I have to deal with this problem (hopefully never but who knows).

A few years ago I was in contact with researchers that were developing an AI tool to parse PDFs (I think they didn’t care about converting to editable formats, but extracting data), from their material I got the impression that it’s extremely difficult to do right using traditional algorithms.

It’s a curse because it’s used for things other than what it’s intended to. It’s doing a good job representing printed material, but unfortunately people very commonly expect it to be something more akin to a word processor file.

I know the pain. While there are definitely solutions that work sometimes, there’s just no “one size fits all” that I’m aware of. PDFs can represent text very differently internally.

What I did for one project where extracting the text produced a complete mess was to convert the PDF pages to images and then OCR them…

Hate? Digital decluttering feels really good, for me anyway.

No. But funny how people interpret posts in their own cultural context. When reading the post just literally, it’s clearly about polygamy.

Very typical projection (“I’m not political, you are”), but the reactions are unnecessary in my opinion (feeding the trolls as some would say). If you don’t like the attitude of the maintainer, fork it if you like, ignore it if you don’t.

It’s actually really easy to remember when considering the Proto-West Germanic etymology, one comes from *hwār, the othe from *hwaʀ. Just apply regular sound changes to find the modern form!

Ah, reminds me of high school physics and always trying to remember whether I needed to multiply or divide by 3.6.

That’s downtown, indoors with all windows closed.

I recently bought a home, and even though I get screwed in a sense if prices plummet, I completely agree they should. Homes should be primarily to live in, not an investment mechanism. There’s nothing wrong with owning an appreciating asset, be it a home or anything else, but it’s not the government’s place to guarantee that (other than bonds they issue, obviously).

The Prime Minister represents the people of Nepean in Parliament, whether they voted for him or not, and he heads the Canadian Government on behalf of the citizens of Canada. A more correct title to your post would be “I disagree with the Prime Minister”. It’s absolutely right that this cabinet is trying to have their cake and eat it on housing: increasing supply and magically preventing prices for existing units from depreciating. That being said, and even though it’s besides the point: the Cons would done worse.

I won’t watch because I’m utterly uninterested in this, but if I wanted to, I’d find a way to pirate the stream 🏴‍☠️

I actually prefer penut butter in savoury foods, so not at all offended by this sandwich (properly seasoned).

People who create LMOD modules

It’s amazing how different the YouTube experience can get depending on your preference. When I’m logged in, I never see anything remotely similar to this garbage, I guess YouTube knows me and that when I am served low quality content I downvote and block. But when I open the front page from a different browser, it’s just a cesspool.

This was a great interview. The problem though is that I’m not sure how these really good ideas from his book can be brought closer to reality.