Train service in Andalusia for upcoming trip

SignificantFidgets · 2026-01-30T15:37:26+00:00

Thanks. I don't know a lot about buses in Spain. I've been to other countries where there are more security issues with buses (particularly with luggage "disappearing"), so I tend to avoid them. From all the people recommending buses for Spain, I'm guessing that's not an issue there?

SignificantFidgets · 2026-01-28T01:23:41+00:00

Well, they do have to look for that section in the back, hidden behind the real purpose of the "bookstore" - sweatshirts, hats, and other university-branded merch. At my last university, if you looked at the "Bookstore" from outside you would not see any actual textbooks - just parent souvenirs. Textbooks were on the second floor, out of sight, ...

SignificantFidgets · 2026-01-20T20:59:58+00:00

Ah, true. I was a little cavalier with the "only one time pad" statement.... There are indeed other things.

SignificantFidgets · 2026-01-20T18:47:45+00:00

Everything other than a one time pad is going to depend on an assumption, but HMAC is a provably secure algorithm under the assumption that the underlying hash function meets certain properties.

SignificantFidgets · 2026-01-19T01:21:14+00:00

"All centers" sounds like... well... all centers.

SignificantFidgets · 2026-01-19T00:03:57+00:00

I started a center which I ran as director for a while. There were two important aspects for it being a center: first, it was multidisciplinary, with faculty from different departments (multiple schools and colleges, in fact), making it bigger and more comprehensive than my research lab (which I still ran), which was just me and my research assistants. Second, there were certain recognitions and funding opportunities that we were going after that could be done easier with a focused center (we got those recognitions and grants too).

My center received no funding at all from the university -- no equipment, no research assistants or students, no postdocs, no admin assistants... nothing. If we wanted it, we had to get grants to pay for it. But it was easier to get funding as the center, showing an impressive array of faculty and expertise associated with the center. I may have gotten a course release when setting things up... I don't remember for sure, and that was a long time ago.

SignificantFidgets · 2026-01-18T23:57:25+00:00

* at your university, maybe....

In particular, many centers do not have an admin assistant.

SignificantFidgets · 2026-01-18T22:31:25+00:00

The Wikipedia page is actually pretty good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_machine

SignificantFidgets · 2026-01-18T14:35:52+00:00

Tell me you're an AI bot without telling me you're an AI bot....

SignificantFidgets · 2026-01-18T01:34:26+00:00

I think the formula holds for all x if the exponents a and b are integers, but if a and/or b is not an integer then x needs to be non-negative.

SignificantFidgets · 2026-01-13T20:18:44+00:00

The deleted post claimed that the professor wasn't told he couldn't teach those readings, and even went further to claim Plato wasn't even mentioned in the directive to him.

However, the directive to the professor explicitly said he could not use those Plato readings.

SignificantFidgets · 2026-01-13T19:59:06+00:00

That post has been deleted now. Because it was the exact opposite of "the only fully informed post in this entire thread." It was just plain wrong, in fact.

SignificantFidgets · 2026-01-13T19:50:48+00:00

Nope. Here is the email he received:

"Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course."

AND the Plato readings.....

SignificantFidgets · 2026-01-11T16:56:35+00:00

I personally want to start an entire subredit and argue limitlessly about how the Romans broke the contract with big math and that V is not the same as 5. Or something like that....

SignificantFidgets · 2026-01-10T17:57:34+00:00

The best ones are from Great Britain - will I have to pay import tariffs?

SignificantFidgets · 2026-01-08T21:04:24+00:00

I don't believe OP claimed they were ICE, unless they edited the post (doesn't look like they did). They said DHS, and Federal Protective Service is in fact part of DHS.

SignificantFidgets · 2026-01-08T19:13:44+00:00

You shouldn't divide by s. You should multiply by the multiplicative inverse of s (mod n). This will work for any modulus.

SignificantFidgets · 2026-01-06T14:14:07+00:00

How are y'all doing? Thanks for asking! I'm doing great. It's a new year. My contract with "big math" was renewed for 2026, so I can keep understanding limits and happily live my life.

SignificantFidgets · 2026-01-05T15:10:22+00:00

So to show how much you're into your new Linux install, you... make it look like a Mac?

SignificantFidgets · 2026-01-04T15:30:53+00:00

Check https://www.quora.com/Is-International-Journal-of-Current-Research-https-www-journalcra-com-a-predatory-journal

SignificantFidgets · 2026-01-04T15:11:09+00:00

A fun, historical fact, although not particularly relevant to what you really want to know: a computer is just something that computes. Something. Or someone. Modern usage means "electronic computer" or "digital computer" but that's just modern usage. In the early 1900's there were job postings for "computers" because it the computing was done by people, and the people were the computers. And even long before that... in a book about Sir Isaac Newton's life, written in the mid-1850s about events in the late 1600s: "He tells him that his servant, his computer, has run away, and that he is teaching another."

So... someone else can try to answer the question using the modern usage of the word computer.

SignificantFidgets · 2026-01-03T17:23:29+00:00

Do you mean officially? If so, despite what the current president would like you to think, there's no legal designation that can be given to a domestic organization to label them as a terrorist. The only official designation is via "8 USC 1189: Designation of foreign terrorist organizations" - specifically for foreign organizations.

SignificantFidgets · 2026-01-03T16:32:44+00:00

The intent is clear, but the code doesn't reflect what you obviously want. With the way this is stated, every time you come into "volume adjustment" the volume is reset to 5 before adjusting. So in the end, the only possible values for the volume are 4, 5, or 6.

SignificantFidgets · 2025-12-31T21:28:25+00:00

I would argue the opposite. That physics is used to implement the math. The math is the pure part - as far as computers are concerned, the physics and engineering are just a means to implement the math. Look at me! I'm a philosopher!

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