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rickbradley

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rickbradley··on India’s pickle people: Decades-old culinary heirlooms, nostalgia
Usha's Pickle Digest is a great resource for pickling recipes: https://a.co/d/cOPoPni

There was a NYT writeup back in 2020: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/06/dining/indian-pickle-quee...

rickbradley··on Fi now opts you into the use of your CPNI by Alphabet affiliates
I filed a complaint with the FCC, citing Title 47 of the CFR and including their email to me as an attached PDF.

The complaints link: https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/hc/en-us

rickbradley··on The Spy Who Called Me
I have a similar situation with the archive.* sites recently as well, on multiple devices on the same network (and various browsers).

On a hunch I tried using a VPN (I'm in the US, and tried just another regional VPN endpoint) and everything works fine. I believe my ISP (AT&T) or its gateway configuration is blocking the site for "security" reasons, which is showing up as an SSL problem. Going to poke at it further, but thought I'd mention it.

rickbradley··on The New Madrid Seismic Zone
She's the one I think I love.
rickbradley··on Thank you, GitHub
[Citation needed]
rickbradley··on A Solution of the P versus NP Problem?
I see a few typos in the wording of the paper (e.g., "spezify", "touchs", etc.). While this doesn't mean much, I would expect if the paper had gotten a fine-toothed comb review that these sorts of typos would have been caught. Moving back to the "not holding my breath" stance unless there start to be indications from experts in the field that the claims are holding up.
rickbradley··on Compressing Scrabble Dictionaries
This appears to be just reinvention of known algorithms on suffix trees. I recommend (and recommended as a comment on the original article) Dan Gusfield's book "Algorithms on Strings, Trees, and Sequences" which does a pretty thorough job of covering the relevant algorithms and data structures.