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   David Young (roboguy@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jun-2026 01:39:30 JST David Young

   @mattly I'm not familiar with that book, so I can't really speak to that.

   In my opinion, a very important and common trap is to think that all mathematical expressions/equations directly give you an algorithm. This is true *some* of the time, but it is very often not true. If math were truly "programming but with different syntax," then that would always be true.

   Much of math is closer to a specification than an algorithm. But not all specifications are executable (and that's ok)!

   In my view, that spec vs implementation perspective is much closer to what's actually happening, and as a result is less misleading. There is still nuance beyond that, but I think it's helpful and will take you a lot further.

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   Partisan Night Slut :pns: (pns@noauthority.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-May-2026 23:38:24 JST Partisan Night Slut :pns:

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   @ILoveAmericaNews

   Things have not materially changed for the average American.

   You have to rah-rah the expense of foreign policy and bear it with a stalwart grimace.

   Rent's up. Housing's more expensive. Cars are stupidly expensive.

   The biggest culprit is inflation.

   Spending on the war does nothing to alleviate that.

   In effect any of the gains from cutting off EBT and deportations is offset by war-spending.

   Some Heeb rubbing his palms, "You have so much headroom now."

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   Ghost Letters (ghost_letters@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 19-Apr-2026 21:25:47 JST Ghost Letters

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   @dalias @Iwillyeah @fosstodon

   I second that.

   In the end it is very hard to judge the "correct" time frame. Especially, because there is no official reason given beyond "neglected server".

   The reasons listed in this thread revolve around: 'The server is un-moderated for several month or even years'. Okay that is bad - but why such a 72h hurry? If this problem is going on for such a long time - some more weeks won't kill us.

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   silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Apr-2026 00:30:41 JST silverpill

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   @benpate I wouldn't count on that.

   In the announcement Mastodon team credits SWF for work on E2EE, not the people doing actual research. That's part of the deal.

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   Mark T. Tomczak (mark@mastodon.fixermark.com)'s status on Friday, 20-Mar-2026 10:36:56 JST Mark T. Tomczak

   One of the more interesting aspects of the Ukraine war was the revelation of how badly compromised Russia's defense assets were. It was, honestly, a little startling to the public to learn that the feared Former Soviet State still had size on its side, but not a modern military; their tech was either out-dated or had been pillaged by corruption so badly that it couldn't be deployed as intelligence analysts had assumed it could be.

   It is extremely fair to argue that Russia's greatest state-defense asset was perception and that the war in Ukraine damaged that and, in so doing, materially threatened the country's safety---that if they had simply never started a war, everyone would still perceive them as unassailable and incredibly dangerous to engage in combat and nobody would even think to try stochastic attacks, asymmetric drone warfare, or any other modern tactics under the assumption that such a grand superpower had a solution for all of that.

   In short, all they had to do to keep everyone's perception of their strength was literally not start a war to test it.
   Just a thing I'm thinking of right now for some reason.

   https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/18/politics/us-ford-carrier-fire-iran-war

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   Wolf480pl (wolf480pl@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 20-Mar-2026 07:30:21 JST Wolf480pl

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   @jmaris
   > the moment Russia wins or achieves an unjust peace, their next consideration will be [...] breaking that peace to conquer more of Ukraine

   Ukraine will do its best to not agree on a peace deal that would allow Russia to do that.

   In order to pull that off, Russia would need a exceptional information asymmetry, or pressure on Ukraine from the West greater than Trump's last attempt.

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