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With DNS over https Firefox has the answer against you already built in. And back then they were very keen on implementing it as soon as possible. They even sold it as helping against censorship. It's maybe just a question of time how long good old Firefox will allow you to censor ads...

I think the writing for Mozilla was on the wall for a solid decade now. The time to look for alternatives and to switch to other (pretty unknown) niche browsers was at least 5 years ago. I don't even remember the time when I downloaded and used Firefox anymore.

It seems to be an introduction, so just covering the basics is ok. We're still very close to the IT stone age and the IT industry is still quite archaic, so teaching archaic basics isn't that bad. In a lot of areas it's still best to just write your own tools from scratch...

Libre Office Calc is pretty similar to Excel for general use. For importing csv files it has always been superior to Excel. Some niche areas in Calc are also better than Excel. Inflexible users are locked into Excel, but for general purpose use Calc is all you need.

The desire to hide all traces where a proof comes from is really a problem and having more context would often be very helpful. I think some modern authors/teachers are nowadays getting good at giving more context. But mostly you have to be thankful that the people from the minimalist era (Bourbaki, ...) at least gave precise consistent definitions for basic terminology.

Mathematics is old, but a lot of basic terminology is surprisingly young. Nowadays everyone agrees what an abelian group is. But if you look into some old books from 1900 you can find authors that used the word abelian for something completely different (e.g. orthogonal groups).

Reading a book that uses "abelian" to mean "orthogonal" is confusing, at least until you finally understand what is going on.

Maybe you got some things about me wrong. I'm very much anti-fascist, but around here anything labelled antifa is quite fascist. I don't care about anything Trump. The only connection I have to Trump is that I sometimes heard old grumpy Nazis from the German military complain that he doesn't support them enough in attacking Russia. But trusting him to be a man of peace is most likely a mistake.

At the moment I'm neutral and observe the situation. I sometimes hang out with guys from peace movements, and also go to some events of the guys they protest against.

Antifa never shows up when there's a protest against real bad guys (politics, weapon industry, human rights...). And they're far more likely to harass the people of peace and human rights movements. There have been events of actual violence in the past, but most harassment nowadays is online.

For the cult:

- they label others as fascists a lot (even if it makes no sense in that context) so their brain has a short and allows violence.

- there are uniforms. They wear black with mask. Masking is still a thing today - it's a solid cargo-cult.

- they have flags - lots of flags

- no hats, but masks - like real cultists

I've seen a lot of Antifa things. They're into anti-MAGA things, have some kind of uniforms and merch and are actually quite violent. In certain places they are very visible, and aggressive. They are a good fit for a discussion about cults. I agree with the authors of the article. By being nice to them I broke some of them a little bit out of their loop.

The thinking that sinus are basic building blocks and own frequencies is part of the problem. Fourier is a breakdown into frequencies of "sinus" waves. Sinus are fundamental in physics of some idealistic conditions, but using Sinus is just a choice, mathematically you could just as good use other bases. A triangle has mathematically the same right to own a frequency as a sinus.

Reality is often different from ideal and not that linear. So basic wave-forms often aren't really sinus. But people usually only know sinus, so they'll use this hammer on every nail. Some guys into electrical engineering maybe know about rectangles, but there's, not yet, enough deeper understanding out there for playing with the mathematical tools correctly.

Good, but not yet perfect. A lot of business is driven by week numbers. A perfect date picker should also display the week number somewhere.

For sure there are some therapeutic effects when kicking someone who is stuck into totally unknown territory. But as far as I've seen most of these people want to get into a mode to understand something better (themselves, the world, spiritual things...). I think some drugs are good at creating the illusion of understanding something.

As a mathematician I can assure you that the feeling of understanding is an emotion. It's mostly disconnected from truth/false values. People can be emotionally happy, be exited and have a group feeling of understanding - but then you give them a counterexample and it turns out everything was just wrong.

A drug might be able to trigger the emotions, but the things about deeper understandings are most likely just illusions. I think I understood that when some guy who was a very simple mind (he was into sniffing glue - and bummed for alcohol) told me about his wonderful experiences of understanding the world.

A better lokalization would be "Microsoft ätsch!" or "Der Ätsch-Browser"

Documentation for Visual Studio used to translate SQL Keywords... But most confusing is that Excel sometimes really uses localised words in formulas (if/then/...). Makes some sense for Excel-Users, but is very confusing when you don't expect this.

Maybe Robin Hood... and rare cases when a competent leader invests tax payer money into something really good. Maybe this was a thing back in ancient history.. Having a solid reserve of overproduction is a good thing for society. Seizing overproduction could also be B1.

This article is a good starting point for researching stupidity. Nowadays stupidity is big on the rise to power, so I appreciate anything going into researching it. The article calls the stupid unpredictable, but I think most of them are very rational emotion maximisers.

Motivation for stupid people is often an imaginary gain. They think they do something for society or themselves, but the payment is only in emotions. From the outside this looks stupid, but for the stupid the gains are often very measurable feelings.

In the end the psychology of stupidity isn't that different from normal rational psychology. Adding emotions to capitalistic thinking can also be used to explain "Stupidity in large groups". The stupid get good vibes from others around while just causing a total loss for everyone. Maybe this is a starting point for counter measures...

I think the most dangerous people out there are the good helping stupids that just want to help - and just make everything worse. They get a lot of gain from the emotions that they did something good.

Yeah, but not only the frequency is important - the wave-form is very relevant. For example if your wave-form is a triangle, listerners will tell you that it is very noisy compared to a simple sinus. If you use sinus as a base of your vector space triangles really look like a noisy mix. My question is, if the basic elements are really sinus, or if the basic Eigen-Waves of the cochlea are other Wave-Forms (e.g. slightly wider or narrower than sinus, ...). If physics in the ear isn't linear, maybe sinus isn't the purest wave-form for a listener.

Most people in Physics only know sinus and maybe sometimes rectangles as a base for transformations, but mathematically you could use a lot of other things - maybe very similar to sinus, but different.

This subject has bothered me for a long time. My question to guys into acoustics was always: If the cochlea performs some kind of Fourier transform, what are the chances, that it uses sinus waves as a base for the vector-space? - if it did anything like that it could just as good use any slightly different wave-forms as a base for transformation. Stiffness and non-linearity will for sure take care that any ideal rubber model in physics will in reality be different from the perfect sinus.

If you look at the absorption spectrum of CO2 and historical data, I think it would be more correct to say, that CO2 has caused a noticeable increase in temperature in the past, but now absorption has reached a saturation level. The last 100 years temperature effects might have been dominant, but in the future direct effects of CO2 are absolutely going to dominate.

Problem is that this is a full time job... You can tell them anything, but they'll forget...

MDF was also my choice for my largest gluing project. I needed about 7m² for the 24.000 Educa. MDF is cheap and easily available in big sizes. I'd use Plywood for things <1m², it looks nice.

For the 9.000s I always used paper for the backside (old calendars are a good source for big sheets with excellent quality). Using one wooden lath at the top was enough to ensure stability for a 18.000. The 9.000s didn't need that - just paper and a bit of duct-tape on the backside were enough.

For some time there has been a race going on between Educa and Ravensburger for the worlds biggest puzzle. Some years ago Ravensburger hired a new designer and I somehow can't stand their style any-more. But Educa is still going strong. Sadly I'm now out of wall space...

Another topic would be how to safely attach a puzzle onto a ceiling... This would add more options.. Putting it on the floor could also work, but adds entirely new requirements for protection... Maybe that path would end up in building a glass floor...

Plywood is really good. MDF is also an option. But for the size of 9.000 pieces even some sturdy paper (old posters or calendar sheets) can be good enough as a base. With good glue (e.g. some latex binder) the jigsaw puzzle will already be quite stable on its own.

Having a soft base helps when transporting. I once had to move a 9.000 piece puzzle - and without some bending it would have been difficult getting it into the car.

For the biggest jigsaws out there it gets difficult to find a good wall for it. Weight and bending of wood or MDF can become an issue. And even some walls are not as flat as they look like...

People in jigsaw forums usually recommend using transparent latex binder for glue. This is easy to use on top (use transparent binder!) and works great. I glued Educas Borras Life with it (24.000 pieces). Applying the glue on top is best. Anything on the backside is too much work.

As a warning I'd recommend to stay away from most commercial puzzle glues. Some of them are water based - and this doesn't go well with cardboard. Anything bigger than 1000 pieces will start to warp a lot.

I don't think there's much secret evil out there. I've taken a look at some people that were officially in power for something - they were nice handsome people - sometimes a bit stupid. I think the biggest problem is stupidity. Stupid people in power will do powerful stupid things - while they think that they're doing something great. The more intelligent ones can change their minds quickly if you feed them with good arguments - but that's not easy, because they often live in a bubble and are out of reach.

I don't think it's that accurate. Evil people are rare - and lazy people usually don't cause problems. The most real damage comes from human stupidity - from the mass of people that just want to help and do something good. Stupid People blindly believe anything they're told. And they do a lot of really bad things not because they're evil and lazy, but because they want to help achieve even the most stupid goal. Usually even nasty propagandists leaders aren't that evil - often they're just an intellectual failure - or have some mental issues. Themselves they don't do much practical evil - the mob of nice stupid people does the dirty work, because they just want to help.

Nice line, but it isn't fully complete. After the Mathematicians there's Logic - and Philosophy - And in the end you complete the circle and go all back to Sociology again.

One issue I sometimes witnessed myself was that Mathematicians sometimes form Groups that behave like pathological examples from Sociology. E.g. there was the Monty-Hall problem, where societies of mathematicians had a meltdown. Sadly I've seen this a few times when Sociology/Mass psychology simply trumped Math in Power.

Calling cargo cultists to get back to data and science is absolutely something for Hackers.. This is the only thing that might help them. - and they need help - If nobody can find keywords about those subjects to get started researching, they'll end up like the women in Iran. In Iran it was more difficult to argue against some vague will of god. But the modern western cargo cults go openly against hard data. So it's a lot easier - at least for people with a bit of skill in math in physics.

The shape is relevant if you want to evaluate measures.

If you can get your hands on some good data you'll find perfect mathematical seasonal functions. This is a serious criterion to exclude any measures from having any influence on the curve. It was just the seasonal thing happening. The data proves that measures were all useless - you could have worn any fancy hat for government measures instead. There are no trend changes in seasonal data you can corrolate to measures. The only trend changes you can find are in the reporting data. There's a decrease in reporting delay before a measure and there's a lot of reporting delay after the measure. Accidentally or intentionally reporting delay tried to make government measure look good.

For vaccines I know 3 cases where people died and 2 who have serious health problems after vaccines. There is a reason, why there's no good official data on vaccine efficency - and why all placebo groups were killed as soon as possible.

Why did vaccines exists? The answer is simpler: Because of Money!

Well, the shapes look very seasonal... Do you know something about epidemiological curves?!

The wave 2020 in Europe was often smaller than 2018. And the data was perfectly seasonal. If you know people working in nursing homes and hospitals, you can ask them what happened later in 2021...

I heard a lot of stories - from first hand... They parked old ladies in the cold in front of open windows for fresh air - until they were blue... They vaccinated old people right into an ongoing wave and of course they had more problems caused from a wrongly trained vulnerable immune system - sane doctors don't vaccinate into an ongoing wave. What was going on in hospitals and nursing homes was a crime for money. Just ask the people that were there. A combat medic I know that now works in a hospital called 2021 a crime.

And still - solid Epidemiological data - wherever you could find it - was still perfectly seasonal. You could see some perfect mathematical curves. Just very high because they actively killed people. Even pupils in school spent all day in front of open windows in the cold... To remain healthy... How stupid is that...

Not all places are equal, but I've taken a look at German all cause mortality. 2020 was not special. In 2021 it started rising synchronous with vaccinations.

To those interested in numbers it was explained early - even on TV. Anyone interested saw that it was going like a seasonal flue wave. Numbers were following strict mathematics. My area was early - the numbers peaked right before people started to go crazy - the rest was censorship - There was a lot of fakery going on by using very soft numbers. Very often they used reporting date instead of infection date.. and some numbers were delayed 9 months... So most curves out there were seriously flawed. But if you were really interested you could see real epidemiological curves - but you had to do real work to find the numbers. Strict mathematics of a seasonal virus was something people didn't want to see - and this is still the consensus...

Historically I'd like to add that FileNames are just sequences of bytes that come with a few restrictions.

They don't even have an encoding you can use to sort something. Windows FileNames look like UTF-16, but they can be truncated. You can't convert them to UTF-8 and back without loss. (For that you need WTF-8)

Once you use random FileNames you'll start to notice...