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Are you saying onion isn't practical, or Tor isn't practical? They're not the same thing.

What about for laser connections like with Starlink?

There are valid reasons to choose it, but in what sense is GPL more "open" than MIT?

I would bet it's part of the larger campaign by credit card companies to make contactless payment the only option for as many things as possible.

The more people use it, the easier it is to remove alternatives. Then everyone's movements and spending habits are tracked.

But it's meant to be returned in cases where the server is a teapot, more specifically when it's a teapot requested to brew coffee, not for cases where it's not a teapot.

I don't get it. A kettle is not a teapot.

Why are you unwilling to say the other country?

The "How PMG Works" section on Github does not actually explain how it works

> Shouldn't entirely new life develop all the time on earth?

The fact that it doesn't is a pretty simple solution to the Fermi Paradox.

I would say it's almost never appropriate unless you're directly quoting source texts.

If you are talking about a historical event from Egypt in 500 BCE, you would say "this happened in 500 BCE", not "this happened in year 26 of the 27th dynasty".

The distinction is important in the context of doing historical research, but it is no more appropriate to write dates in secondary sources using the Julian calendar than it would be to try to explain Egyptian history by spouting hieroglyphics at people.

> At least in this article the author explicitly explains the notation at the very start

They explain one particular aspect of the notation but never define the variables used. What is k? q? S?

It's obvious if you've studied machine learning before, and for some of them you can make an educated guess, but it makes the article mostly opaque if you don't already have some domain-specific background knowledge.

No it's not. There is a legal distinction in IP law between the act of observing information and the act of using that information for some kind of personal gain.

> The vast majority of processors are optimized for floats now and some operations (e.g. division) are actually faster.

This seems backwards. Hardware is optimized for floats because people use floats. If people used fixed point, hardware would become optimized for that instead.

Given an equal number of transistors, I'm pretty sure fixed point would be a lot faster on equally optimized hardware for almost all operations.

Permission to access is not the same as permission to use.

Backdoors are often (almost always?) designed to look like incompetence so that there's plausible deniability.