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kavouras··on I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year
Yes I'm aware, what I'm saying is, in the time between setting up my home server again, I've realised it's not even that useful. I used to think that having my todo and calendar locally on my phone was unusable.
kavouras··on I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year
I don't like the idea of moving from google's ecosystem to proton. While they're better, ecosystems tend to get locked down or change for the worse.I'm not planning to repeat the google cycle. I got my own domain for email, bitwarden for passwords, firefox forks for browsing, and many other stuff to get off google. Also I realised that stuff like contacts, notes, calendar don't really need to be on the cloud, but I'm planning to self host some services like that, mostly for the nerd in me.
kavouras··on GotaTun – Mullvad's WireGuard Implementation in Rust
I think it has to be enabled as a module, and the android kernel has it disabled.
kavouras··on DNS Provider Quad9 Sees Piracy Blocking Orders as "Existential Threat"
Isn't this putting unsustainable load on the root servers?(on the scenario that many people do that)
kavouras··on Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio (2024)
If I understand what you're saying, you can do any modulation scheme with sdr, it doesnt depend on the model
kavouras··on ICEBlock handled my vulnerability report in the worst possible way
The title of the original article calling the app "activism theater" is also extremely rude. The author prefered being a prick than doing the best to fix the app.
kavouras··on Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness
Wouldn't you rathet talk with the people thatade them?
kavouras··on That XOR Trick (2020)
Yeah that's what I was thinking, you need both
kavouras··on New US visa rules will force foreign students to unlock social media profiles
I'm not sure what your argument is. I'm not trying to talk about the semantics of the word right. Yeah every human rule is a social construct, I'm just saying this is bad, and it's only the beginning.

I'm guessing you're a US citizen, because this isn't about the US. Many countries in the world are more or less puppies of the US government, it's not like we're living in an isolated world where the decisions of the US government don't apply to others because they're not US citizens. This is showing a general trend, which doesn't concern just visa applications.

kavouras··on New US visa rules will force foreign students to unlock social media profiles
Of course its worth making a fuss about it. My social media are private because what's getting shared in it is for close friends and family only. The US government has no right searching through it. This is a big joke and I'm afraid it's only the beginning. Personally, with how things are going, I don't think I'm pursuing a PhD in the US after graduating. What's next, sharing a backup of my private conversations?

I'm afraid we're going into a weird timeline where authoritarian figures in power(not just government) are having immense amounts of data for people, and the technology to go through it without much effort. It's a good time(if it's not to late) for everyone who cares about their privacy to start getting as much as possible outside mainstream social media and centralized accounts(google etc)

kavouras··on New US visa rules will force foreign students to unlock social media profiles
A Greek friend of mine who applied for a visa to do a PhD in US about a month ago, was required to unlock their social media profile by the US embassy, this is already happening.
kavouras··on Show HN: I’m 16 years old and working on my first startup, a study app
I don't see any signs of AI in the image, also the book in his hands is a real book, usually AI messes up those kind of things.
kavouras··on Automated Antenna Design with Evolutionary Algorithms [pdf] (2006)
In my limited understanding, there are many factors differentiating between antennas, different antennas are better at emitting/receiving at different frequencies, and also there's directionality in the mix . For example a satellite dish and an FM radio antenna are both antennas, they're certainly not the same thing.
kavouras··on A puzzle of two unreliable sensors
This doesn't work very good with the kind of sensor in the article
kavouras··on Studies correlating IQ to genius are mostly bad science
rich*
kavouras··on You are not dumb, you just lack the prerequisites
It really depends on what you're interested in, its like saying I really want to learn computers.
kavouras··on Greece, Argentina and India are the fastest improving business environments
I'm a Greek and this article saddens me.

Greece is run by a populist government, one of the two parties that had be running Greece to it's demise. Kyriakos Mitsotakis is the first Greek politician in my opinion to understand modern media and how to manipulate them, appearing as the sensible choice to people who don't put any effort into researching politics.

All that while we've had the government donating millions to friendly media,

the Greek version of Watergate, with the goverment spying on politicians, journalists and others

and two trains colliding because of state incompetence with many students dying.

All that have not been investigated properly.

Finally the average greek person has not been feeling any "fastest improving business environments" one of the reasons being that the sectors that thrive are not beneficial to the country.

kavouras··on PID Control Challenges
The best you can do is 0.42, see a subcomment I made below. max force is limited to +-50
kavouras··on PID Control Challenges
There is a mistake in my first comment, the system is described by x'' = -1.00204*x' + u , I forgot a '. Also in the second example , where there is no x' term, you can reach the origin in 0.4 using this strategy.
kavouras··on PID Control Challenges
I just spent too much time messing around with this, so here's the results. The simulation has a limit on the maximum magnitude of the force of your controller, which in this example is 50. The system is described by x'' = -1.00204*x + u (by experimenting with console.log). The theoretical solution to minimize time to the origin on a system like this is a bang-bang strategy: go full actuation and at some point slam the breaks to stop exactly at the origin. Using this strategy you can calculate that you should hit the brakes(-50) starting at x= − 0.867, with the system arriving at the origin at t=0.403. But the timestep of the simulation is dt =0.02, so the system goes from x=-0.874060101875918 to x = -0.6686069466721608 in one timestep, missing the critical switching point. If you try to switch at -0.6686069466721608 it overshoots and at -0.874060101875918 its almost there when t = 0.4 but not good enough for the simulation to decide you finished the challenge. So 0.42 has to be the best you can do. What you controller actually does, due to the actuation limits, is almost the strategy described above, staying either at 50 or -50, except for 3 time points, which make the dynamics just right to land on the origin.
kavouras··on PID Control Challenges
Yes, after doing some testing with console.log even in the first examples, thrust magnitude is limited to 50.
kavouras··on PID Control Challenges
It's actually a concern due to simulation error.
kavouras··on PID Control Challenges
The ideal solution, given that there is not input limit, depends on the simulation accuracy. Theoretically, you could achieve 0 time solutions.
kavouras··on PID Control Challenges
Shouldn't this have some thrust limits? I'm not sure if they are added later(I've only seen the first example), but it would make the problems more realistic, interesting and related to control theory.
kavouras··on Show HN: I created a game to memorize the fretboard
Hi, first of all congrats for your effort, but I think this is hitting a little bit on the HN information/app hoarder mentality for many commenters and not from people actually planning to use it. I don't think that there is an extreme amount of transfer from learning the fretboard on your website and on the guitar, as there is a different context from using your mouse to select a note on a image representation of the fretboard and on a real guitar. I don't think it wouldn't work, but it would be much better if there was an actual guitar involved, like using the microphone to identify if the user played the correct note on a real guitar.
kavouras··on Solar panels disguised as terracotta tiles in Pompeii
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/jul/11/skyscra...
kavouras··on Chinese surveillance balloon spotted over U.S., Pentagon says
The fact that they don't(as far as I know) have weekly meetings where they decide which civilians to murder with drones doesn't mean that they don't murder civilians with drones.
kavouras··on The simplest app that makes money
Maybe then you should think about your country's helathcare system, instead of ideas to make money.