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by 323 4y ago
LD_PRELOAD equivalent was used in Windows malware circa 2006. It seems all the old Windows techniques are now recycled on Linux.
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by 323 4y ago
Exactly this. I remember when I upgraded Ubuntu 14 to Ubuntu 16 and the GUI stopped working and was dumped to the command line. Luckily I had a Linux guru around to fix it, because otherwise my only alternative would have been to reinstall
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by 323 4y ago
Modern Windows is fairly robust and self-repairing, it's hard to brick it doing typical user stuff. Unlike Linux. A few wrong clicks and there goes the GUI.
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by 323 4y ago
Nobody cares. People don't care that TikTok looks different than Instagram looks different than Gmail looks different than NYTimes.com looks different than a flight reservation site.
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by 323 4y ago
> And yet Windows was successful even when unstable. Everybody had a friend who knew how to fix Windows. And it was a literally a job, there were fliers glued to lamp posts advertising "I install/fix/devirus Windows for
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by 323 4y ago
But alloys don't behave like the individual elements, so Beryllium being brittle doesn't mean that the alloy also is. Just like Carbon has multiple crystallization forms with wildly different mechanical properties (graphite vs dia
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by 323 4y ago
Then it will be that company which deletes your files because you broke their ToS :)
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by 323 4y ago
Regular apps, Windows Store apps are sandboxed. Some of them are quite popular (eg: Netflix).
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by 323 4y ago
You could consider the start point (roughly) as the reference point. Or the destination point.
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by 323 4y ago
> it is only a matter of time before someone with malicious intent figures out how to arm them You mean like in Ukraine right now, where they are dropping grenades from DJI drones?
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by 323 4y ago
It's ok, the Chinese will build them and US will order them from Aliexpress.
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by 323 4y ago
Abstract doesn't imply that it's a permanent effect. That would be quite unusual for a drug.
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by 323 4y ago
> Not enough fuel and a car stops. It's completely binary, either you enough gas to go, or you can't go. For a human there is an incredible range of failure modes for not having enough fuel. Humans can survive an absurdly long
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by 323 4y ago
They are working on it. Robot dog with gun turret: https://www.engadget.com/robot-dog-gun-ghost-robotics-sword-...
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by 323 4y ago
> Researchers teach swarm of drones to navigate forest without crashing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9ZbipO8vxM
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by 323 4y ago
They seem to work pretty well in Ukraine, grenades dropped from consumer drones.
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by 323 4y ago
Another thing which helps is to not just automatically have an opinion on everything, even if somewhat informed. It's ok to say "I don't know, this is very complex, even if I spent many hours reading about this matter".
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by 323 4y ago
You know those jokes about "how do you know someone is a vegan/PhD"? Well, how do you know someone is a rationalist? Don't worry, he will tell you soon that he's "updating".
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by 323 4y ago
Check out this video, 100 kph descent in a competition: https://youtu.be/I4aMTp6-WKU?t=23
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by 323 4y ago
But my point is that when you're healthy, the mortality risk is so low, that it doesn't take much to make it even lower. Even more impressive result, exercise reduces all cause mortality by 40%: > Using a large nationally repr
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by 323 4y ago
Note that there is a suspected link between anti-oxidants and cancer. The mechanism is pretty simple: oxidative stress is a warning system to the cell that initiates various repair mechanisms, up to apoptosis. Too much anti-oxidants suppres
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by 323 4y ago
> a more powerful effect on your risk of all-cause death than any drug for most diseases But these people were mostly healthy. I'm sure that coffee doesn't work better compared to medicine if you are diseased,
593.
by 323 4y ago
Maybe adding sugar allows you to drink more coffee. Like how children medicine is sweetened to increase compliance.
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by 323 4y ago
> It employs two-dimensional quasiparticles called anyons, whose world lines pass around one another to form braids in a three-dimensional spacetime (i.e., one temporal plus two spatial dimensions). These braids form the logic gates tha
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by 323 4y ago
That "something" can a physical factor like temperature rise or acidity change. Temperature rise is known to have killed some large corals.
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by 323 4y ago
> virtualDj is way more advanced software wise Funny quote from their homepage: "There’s a reason why everybody starts with VirtualDJ." So, they start with VirtualDJ, but what do they end with?
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by 323 4y ago
> self-checkout systems seem to have slowed down immeasureably. Even simple things like seeing a number appear on screen when you press the number on the screen take 250ms, which just feels slow. Toggling between screens will take half
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by 323 4y ago
Unless you need to stand in a queue to get to that human cashier.
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by 323 4y ago
Most musical hardware being closed is a feature. It's what gives the "it just works" quality. Computer software can be open, and why it's difficult relying on a computer during a live performance, you never know when som
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by 323 4y ago
A weird thing I saw in UK is milk being sold in both metric and imperial containers: 1 L next to 1.13 L (2 pints) 2 L next to 2.27 L (4 pints) Luckily the shelf price label always had price/liter. https://metricviews.uk&#x2F

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