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How easy is it to switch back to windows?

I’m considering switching to linux but I’m not a computer savvy person, so I wanted to have the option to switch back to windows if unforeseen complications (I only have 1 pc). Is it just a download on usb and install? And what ways can I get the product key or “cleaner” debloated versions.

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recently I have encountered a problem with this, it is indeed not so straightforward to create a bootable windows 10 USB instillation media under linux.

The media created by fedora media writer is not bootable and the media created by ventoy lacks drivers. I was then able to create a media quite easily with the last windows machine in my household. I don’t know if it is a temporary bug or fundamental incompatibility.

So I would suggest you to keep a windows installation media at hand in case you need to switch back, or make sure at least one of your friend has a windows machine you can borrow.

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Hum, on retrospect, my ISO might be just corrupted. I have never tried to redownload it.

I never know gnome has a image writer tool, and would you please let me know what “dd” stands for?

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There are open access platform that is more reputable than git, like arxiv or hal.

Plus most conferences, at least in my field, support open access. But unfortunately for some of them, you do need to pay a fee in order to get the article to be open-access.

The prestige of the conference/journal is still the best way to get your article known, so that others can review and built upon your work, as of now.

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With all these “she” talk in this comment section, I was like when did LeCun change gender?

I don’t even do anything remotely related to AI, but I know LeCun is a dude.

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ladder climbing in academia is not fun, but I feel like communicating (or marketing) science is a essential part of scientific process, as we are often the only person able to describe our work in great technical detail.

A famous professor once told me “we are all entertainers”, which seems absurd from an outside prospective, but is a notion that I and many of my colleagues have now found peace with.

Scrambled and unreadable mathematics should seldom be valued in modern scientific community, IMO; not everyone is Ramanujan after all. Even among geniuses, from Poincaré to Hilbert to Godel to Grothendick and to Tao, most genius are able to communicate their research quite well, and thrive in academia.

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Although I have no doubt that, like every other field, academia is filled with politics; and publishing process probably helps enforce such politics.

However, I would argue that modern academic publishing is absolutely necessary to produce “useful” science. In order for people to build upon others’ result, they will need strong guarantee of correctness, which necessitates the review process ; and top conferences can also save researchers a lot of time to find impactful new research, especially new ideas.

That being said, I am absolutely not suggesting the publishing system is not without its problems; but I kind of agree with LeCun here, publishing is a important part of the process, and it is will probably out-last both Tesla and Elon.

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I think this is a very interesting take, but I am curious about how the career in youtube is better than the academia as she describes it.

Obviously, the discrimination against female and writing without proper acknowledgement is absolutely unacceptable, but I have never heard about anything like this in my field.

However, I feel like youtube is likely a more competitive landscape than grant writing. I think it is very likely the administrative overhead for youtuber is more than 15%, and youtuber needs to get the interest of people completely ignorant of the subject, not just experts, plus battling the unpredictbility of youtube algorithm.

Of course, I am not trying to downplay the problem she mentioned, but I am just wondering how youtube is a better alternative career, considering her goal to do “serious and innovative science”.

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巧妇难为无米之炊 – “even the cleverest house wife cannot cook without rice”.

Welcome to the Rice Fields, Motherfucker meme

en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/巧婦難為無米之炊

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Dare I ask which country speaks words that cannot be truer.

Edit: saw your instance…

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I imagine it wouldn’t hurt as much as a whip, but probably equally intimidating.

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Sorry, sir, I like shit.

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And this is the real game of monopoly, of course.

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Is blue sky “instance” just sub-domains of bsky.social ?!

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I was confused as these two person are on different sub-domains of bsky.social (url after the @ symbol). Does this mean they are on different instance? AFAIK most mastodon server I see have different domain (specifically, different combination of top level domain and second level domian).

EDIT: I see, theur user name is the subdomain, and things before @ is their display name. Not the most conventional system, but it makes sense.

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I thought the name is pretty fun.

Prism refract boring white light into its colorful component. This process is kind of like spliting a single x86 instruction into several arm instructions. In the meantime also conveys the message that arm is “cooler”, because colored light out of a prism is prettier than the input white light.

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I hope my next PC can be a risc-v one, ideally, open source OS, running on open source firmware, with a open source instruction set.

I want to see everything open source band together, just so that I can be forced to use slack for work.

Do you imagine slack will feel ashamed running on top of this many open source code?

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At this point, I just stopped citing any article paywalled by elsevier, and only their arxiv counterpart.

If anyone ask, I will argue that I cannot obtain the version published by elsevier and have only read the arxiv version; hence citing the elsevier version would be disingenuous.

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I think clear signage and message on the bill indicating “tipping is optional, service charges is included in the menu price” should suffice.

Making tipping illegal goes too far, but I am okay with implementing it for couple decades, in order to correct a bad habit.

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en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Wenliang

I don’t think he isn’t properly treated, at least according to wikipedia: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Wenliang#Illness_and_d…

There is a bench in New York central park dedicated to him: westsiderag.com/…/central-park-bench-and-gatherin… . If you are near the central park, you can stop by to pay tribute to him.

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You know who else was arrested for “spreading misinformation”? The doctor who tried to warn his friends about covid privately, before the government took any action.

Source (in chinese): www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/chinese-news-51371586

The form he filled out at police station, clearly stating his action is against the law:

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/ws/412/cpsprodpb/8A2F/production/_110757353_wuhandocletter2.jpg

couple related articles in english:

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Yeah, the final ECMO was indeed controversial in Chinese community. Other than that, I have not heard any indication of mistreatment.

Given his high social status, and he said “一个健康的社会不该只有一种声音” (a healthy society shouldn’t only have only one voice), some people suspect CCP likely wanted him dead. But so far, I am not aware of any evidence that his death is man-made.

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According to dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/…/arrest, “arrest” means

If the police arrest someone, they take them away to ask them about a crime that they might have committed

And in www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/arrest

to take or keep in custody by authority of law

Dr. Li was taken to police station because the police has deemed his action is against the law.

He was later released because he signed a consent about “stop spreading misinformation”, which I showed in my response. We wouldn’t know how he will be treated if he refuse to sign such consent. But I might hypothesize that the police wouldn’t simply let him go.

And he has never spread any misinformation, the patient record he sent to his friend clearly indicated the patient has tested positive for SARS; and as we know later, the disease is indeed caused by SARS-cov2.

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since most western outlets are causally dismissive of the claims.

It is interesting you didn’t give any western media the benefit of the doubt, while giving CCP plenty.

After a quick google search, it seems like there are several court documents for Zhang’s case circling the internet:

There are two different versions, one judgement, one indictment (copy). Their contents seems to match, and they also match the reports of various media articles.

The indictment mentioned neither “the lie” nor “the truth”, which, in my mind, is probably why most media never reported it.

The document only mentioned:

故根据现查明的事实可以证实 张展通过微信、“twitter”(推特)、“YouTube”(油管)等网络媒介发布的相关文章、视频及接 受采访内容均与武汉市实际防控疫情的客观实际情况不符。

according to current known fact, the related article, videos, and interview by Zhang Zhan on wechat, twitter, youtube, differ from the objective truth of situations in Wuhan.

I was not able to find any court document from official source from China/CCP. Since all these articles are either photos or transcribed from photo, I don’t imagine the original documents are easy to find. It seems like the original document can be obtained from: wenshu.court.gov.cn (according to the title of the website, and Chinese government owned domain name), but they require personally identifiable information (like phone number, which is connected to ID in China) after I typed in 张展 (Zhang Zhan).

But since you clearly know more about China and CCP than I do, so you might want to give it a try.

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So this is how our money is spent, wiping the butt of some power-trip cops. No wonder why we cannot get free education.

After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year (www.billboard.com)

When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...

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bandcamp is nice. They give much more to artist, and allow you to download flac. So that you can enjoy your music without worrying about your listening habits feeding the machine.

Our share is 15% on digital items, and 10% on physical goods. Payment processor fees are separate and vary depending on the size of the transaction, but for an average size purchase, amount to an additional 4-7%. The remainder, usually 80-85%, goes directly to the artist or their label, and we pay out daily.

bandcamp.com/fair_trade_music_policy

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I think spotify is swedish. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotify

baseless_discourse ,

I think capitalism has already prevailed before America is the dominant force in it.

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What if I am allergic to cicadas? The article doesn’t seem to specify that case.

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This is a violation of GDPR, no?

EDIT: user created content is not directly protected under GDPR, only personally identifiable data is pertected under GDPR.

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User should have the right to delete their data stored by the company.

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I am not a expert or a lawyer, but I believe user actually hold the right to completely erase personal data:

The data subject shall have the right to obtain from the controller the erasure of personal data concerning him or her without undue delay and the controller shall have the obligation to erase personal data without undue delay

gdpr.eu/right-to-be-forgotten/

Note the word “erasure” as opposed to “anonymize”

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I am not a lawyer, but I believe in general, yes.

Git is not even that convoluted, as all the history is stored in the .git folder within the repo. Unless there is some convoluted structure built on top, they would only need to move the repo folder to a trash disk, waiting to be formated.

That being said, GDPR is somewhat poorly enforced at the moment, unfortunately. I don’t know if you can sue the company and expect some result within couple of years.

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I think you are right, user generated content doesn’t seem to be protected. This is surprising to me, as user should hold the right to their content, which in my mind should enjoy stronger protection than personal data.

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Jeez, imagine coding in rust, that can’t be good for you.

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Yeah, that is what “the government” tells you!

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And it is actually published by OP (in the image), finally, a meme that is not a repost.

I also hope one day bio/chem community can move away from paywalled platform like nature and science to more reasonable publishers.

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Oh no, are we calling non-negative integer “whole numbers” now? There are proposals to change bad naming in mathematics, but I hope this is not one of them.

On the other hand, changing integer to whole number makes perfect sense.

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I think if you ask any mathematician (or any academic that uses math professionally, for that matter), 0 is a natural number.

There is nothing natural about not having an additive identity in your semiring.

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countable infinite set are unique up-to bijection, you can count by rational numbers if you want. I don’t think counting is a good intuition.

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On the contrary - to be countabley infinite is generally assumed to mean there exists a 1-1 correspondence with N.

Isn’t this what I just said? If I am not mistaken, this is exactly what “unique up-to bijection” means.

Anyways, I mean either starting from 1 or 0, they can be used to count in the exactly same way.

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I don’t personally know many programming languages that provide natural number type in their prelude or standard library.

In fact, I can only think of proof assistants, like Lean, Coq, and Agda. Obviously the designer of these languages know a reasonable amount of mathematics to make the correct choice.

(I wouldn’t expect the same from IEEE or W3C, LOL

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Oh, array indexing, sure.

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BTW, 0 is typically considered a scalar. As in mathematics scalar is typically defined as a field, which would require an additive identity, namely 0.

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If the recipient doesn’t have the public key, they can’t read the content.

Sir, if your recipients don’t have a public key, you cannot even encrypt the message… That is how asymmetric-key crypto works.

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Plus there isn’t many jurisdictions with stronger privacy law than the swiss. It is unlike they made a bad choice for choosing a headquarters.

I guess they can operate on the public sea or the arctic, but I imagine the commute will be terrible.

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I think this is just 表弟 (younger male cousin). 老表 is too casual to be used as a tag in phone book.

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*姥姥

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This is why you buy laptop from companies that officially support linux.

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