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I disagree that bridges are a usability disaster - they're Matrix's competitive advantage. I'm using mautrix-whatsapp, mautrix-hangouts and smsmatrix without any issues. Which bridges do you have problems with?
Re:We thought it was just a respiratory virus on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @09:00AM (#23975215)
The article suggests a lack of ACE2 cell receptors in young people could contribute why the disease isn't as hard on them.
Re:Pseudorandomness on Thursday July 16, 2020 @09:57AM (#23859028)
Aren't most PRNs made deterministically? LCGs can have huge cycle times and can produce statistically sound random numbers.

I had to look it up and Wikipedia has this statement a bit differently. This one makes Neumann sound funny because his Mid-Square method is a terrible PRN generator.

Re:How and Why Computers Roll Loaded Dice on Saturday July 11, 2020 @09:46AM (#23802168)
> Pi itself is not a random number, for example, but the digits of pi are believed to be random in this way (what mathematicians describe as “normal”): Every integer from 0 to 9 appears about the same number of times.

Does this not make the digits of Pi discreetly distributed (an equal chance for each integer?)? Is the meaning of 'normal' here not referencing a normal distribution?

Re:P2P Matrix on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @05:14PM (#23396395)
I'm a Dask evangelist. It's a remarkable tool and is one of the first I reach for when this problem arises. Maybe it's not well known?