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New comment by rickbradley in "India’s pickle people: Decades-old culinary heirlooms, nostalgia"

rickbradley — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 19:38:53 +0000

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...

New comment by rickbradley in "Fi now opts you into the use of your CPNI by Alphabet affiliates"

rickbradley — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 03:27:51 +0000

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

New comment by rickbradley in "The Spy Who Called Me"

rickbradley — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 16:10:06 +0000

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.

New comment by rickbradley in "The New Madrid Seismic Zone"

rickbradley — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 04:09:55 +0000

She's the one I think I love.

New comment by rickbradley in "Thank you, GitHub"

rickbradley — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 17:22:02 +0000

[Citation needed]

New comment by rickbradley in "A Solution of the P versus NP Problem?"

rickbradley — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 04:30:05 +0000

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.

New comment by rickbradley in "Compressing Scrabble Dictionaries"

rickbradley — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 13:43:25 +0000

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.