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senorcrab

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About senorcrab

somewhat of a mathematician

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    Comment #49138784

    Ultimately this comes down VCs who fund people like this. Can we really believe the established funds look for "independent thinkers" anymore?

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    Comment #48901073

    Clearly there is a fuzzy line of demarcation. I was thinking for a simple opt-out of any rec-sys

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    Comment #48899228

    Yeah I meant it would avoid the necessity of age verification to solve this problem. Age verification and how enthusiastic gov'ts are about it is concerning.

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    Comment #48897560

    It should just be universally required to give an option to disable addictive features. Should prevent age verification, and giving users optionality is always a good thing (for th…

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    Comment #48739296

    Can confirm that wasn't written by an LLM. To many spelling mistake

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    Comment #48663594

    I've been using it for about 6 months. Very, very good - especially paired with anna's archive. IT IS VERY FRAGILE! The eink screen on my first broke while in my backpack. The comp…

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    Comment #48611873

    Codeberg.org is really great. Also I recommend self-hosting Gitea for private projects and backing-up public projects

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    Comment #46481345

    True it is pretty dated. OP was requesting resources that cover *all* of physics and Landau popped into mind. Is there a modern series of textbooks that offers such a broad coverag…

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    Comment #46478325

    Road to Reality is good to get a general overview of *everything* but I dont think you can actually learn the things he talks about. For example, the jump from calculus in R^2 to R…

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    Comment #46478252

    Freshman university textbooks have what you need. Two of the most popular are: - University Physics by Young and Freedman - Fundamentals of Physics by Halliday, Resnick, Walker - M…