For another example of betrayal, one of the cronies in Katherine the Great's court always gave a dog to his girlfriends whenever he started a new relationship. Then if the dog ever greeted some other guy familiarly, he inferred he was falling out of favor. He probably learned that trick when someone did it to him, because he would let the other guy know how he was rumbled before graciously bowing out.

I worked for a company that made dedicated FPGA based hardware for high frequency trading by deep-pocketed customers. You can certainly implement trading strategies running directly on the board with crazy fast turnaround times, but if a retail trader could benefit from them we all would have quit our jobs and become independent high frequency traders. Interestingly, at that point the Linux network stack becomes a bottleneck so you'll want to go for a proprietary alternative whose name I don't remember any more (not cheap), which I imagine might also apply to a Mac, but that's neither here nor there unless you have a server in close physical proximity to the exchange. Meta-advice: If you want to learn about FPGAs as a matter of interest, more power to you. Otherwise, skip the bikeshedding and learn enough about financial markets to find a niche where you might have an edge.

FreeTube [1], and yt-dlp [2], especially in combination with a ready supply of VPNs. Switching them around to avoid being blocked by Google reminds me of adjusting the tuner for better reception on an old analog tv. Infant me might have imagined a malevolent being who inhabits the airwaves deliberately causing interference, and in the world we've created since then that's not far from the truth. Many thanks to the developers tirelessly compensating for Google's frequent deliberate breakage.

[1] https://freetubeapp.io/

[2] https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

It happened to me too, and I was unable to verify myself by any acceptable means due to being based in a country other than that of my passport. Having been redirected somewhere else for the identity verification onboarding, I think the process is outsourced by Hetzner to a firm of security specialists apparently oblivious to edge cases. Nice work if you can get it.

There's some other specific character besides spaces that's also not permitted in passwords. It's a normal printable ascii character but I can't remember what it is any more, and sometimes it's not caught. Let's hope nobody signs up with it by mistake.

If they're geo checking IP to passport, I also would fail.

That cloud of laser-cooled beryllium ions would probably be great for overclocking.

I have, and the technical support representative at Proton confirmed it, but not without implying that it was my fault for using rclone. I asked the official recommendation for Linux users to do automated or scriptable backups onto a Proton drive and the answer was that some kind of SDK was planned for the future. Proton drive stopped working completely with rclone shortly after that, which was about two months ago.

I want to be happy with proton but their poor linux support across all their products makes it difficult.

To be honest, all consumer cloud storage providers get touchy when you access them via API.

Dropbox API refuses to sync certain 'sensitive' files like game backups (ROMs or ISOs). There is no way for Dropbox to know if you own the game and thus can own a backup, they just play file police.

I know everyone says SK combinators can express any computable function, but I don't get it. How do we write this function foo in terms of SK combinators alone? Is there some obvious programming trick I'm missing that makes it trivial? (It wouldn't be the first time.)

foo(x) = if (x == K) return S else return K

That's not a computable function. Function equality (x==K) is undecidable.

And that's covered in the last chapter of To Mock a Mockingbird (this submission prompted me to pull it off the shelf this morning).

Just postulate function extensionality and move on with life. :D

Are you asking how to do a if else statement?

Former backblaze customer here, the trick is that you can't copy and paste your password as one might do with a password manager. You have to type it manually so that the web page can interactively tell you how strong the password is getting as you type it.

Backblaze lost me as a customer due to the new password and 2FA requirements, which would lock me out if I were to lose my devices, the exact scenario I'm trying to mitigate. Not affiliated, I'm now trying my luck with pixeldrain, mega, and koofr (having quit proton lately as well since it broke rclone compatibility a few weeks ago).

Crashplan used to work well, but they decided they didn't want retail customers (and now apparently do again).

I saw they attempted to pivot into corporate spyware and it hasn't done as well as they thought.

I've not had a single lick of trouble with Mega. I try to use it for all my work as it is very reliable and their online file browser is top class.

Koofr is one of the ones offering lifetime plans right? I'm always getting spammed with their offers. Wonder how they compare to pCloud?

tl;dr:

If a computer could have an intelligent conversation, then a person could manually execute the same program to the same effect, and since that person could do so without understanding the conversation, computers aren't sentient.

Analogously, some day I might be on life support. The life support machines won't understand what I'm saying. Therefore I won't mean it.

Wow. That was remarkably way off base.

I think it gets to the heart of the matter quite succinctly, but the more I see discussions on this the more I think that there's two viewpoints on this which just don't seem to overlap. (as in, I feel like people feel like the Chinese room is either obviously true or obviously false and there's not really an argument or elaboration on it that will change their minds).

I used to enjoy dancing but I don't any more because Boston Dynamics invented a robot that can dance better than I can.

I used to enjoy writing but now it's so easy for anyone to self-publish a book on Amazon that I don't see the point.

I used to enjoy running but all the fun has gone out of it now that motor vehicles exist that can move faster than I can run.

I used to like sky-diving, but then hail stones ...

I have self-published a couple of books. I do enjoy writing, but what I enjoy even more is being read. If I honestly felt my books were never going to be seen by anyone, I wouldn't have written them. Providing value to other people was the main source of meaning and joy for me with those projects.