qjkxbmwvz

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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 3 weeks ago

So, was it Griffiths, Purcell, or Jackson that got you?

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Born to late to explore the world.

But not the ocean!

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

If you can build up intuition around Fourier decomposition I think it gets much easier to understand.

Multiple things going on at the same frequency are indistinguishable (up to a phase). Lots of stuff going on at different frequency can be separated. Light also has frequency (color) and volume (intensity)---it may be more intuitive to conceptualize in this way.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website -3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

A professional degree is historically different from an academic degree though. Math, chemistry, physics, biology, computer science---these typically produce (well compensated!) professionals, but they are not professional schools.

I am professional; I get paid to do the kinds of things that I did in grad school. But afaik no one would say I hold a professional degree.

All of this is besides the point of course---our student loan system shouldn't disqualify people based on these sorts of semantics.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website -3 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

I was interpreting the quoted text as encompassing all engineering fields, e.g., EE, mechanical, computer, etc.

If that's not the case and this is for specific professional engineering degrees then yep, I certainly agree with you.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 0 points 4 weeks ago

I was interpreting the quoted text as encompassing all engineering fields, e.g., EE, mechanical, computer, etc.

If that's not the case and this is for specific professional engineering degrees then yep, I certainly agree with you.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 84 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Daniel Radcliffe used this to his advantage---same outfit, and the paparazzi stopped bothering him:

It was three or four months. Because I was doing a play in London and every night there was paparazzi outside. And I suddenly realized after like after I just had just been lazy and not changed my clothes for a few days, that they were not there. And I realized it’s probably because I’m wearing the same thing so it all looks like photos from the same day. So I was like ‘I’ll just continue wearing this.’ And they never came back because it all looks like the same picture in front of the same door.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago

If you search around you might find free ones. Oracle has/had a free tier (though it's Oracle, so...).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yes, but you can run multiple VPS, from different providers, simultaneously.

What I like is that while it does depend on an external provider, it doesn't depend on a specific external provider. Any VPS with a public IPv4 would work.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 points 1 month ago (4 children)

VPS+VPN, this is what I do.

VPS has public IP and runs WireGuard "server"* and a reverse proxy (and fail2ban...). Reverse proxy points to my home computer over the WireGuard link. No open ports on my home router.

For private facing/LAN-only services I just don't have an entry in the VPS reverse proxy. DNS on the router points everything to my local server, so if at home I access everything directly. To access internal services remotely requires VPN (i.e., WireGuard to the VPS).

Works well; I have a tiny free tier VPS but even so, no complaints.

*Yes I know there are no wg clients or servers, only peers, but it plays a server-likr role.

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