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by 8372049 2y ago
Fruit-bearing plants aren't edible for the sake of whoever is eating them, but for the sake of the plant itself. The animals consuming the fruit are used as a vessel for spreading the seeds. By being edible, tasty and nutritious, the l
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by 8372049 2y ago
Indeed: https://frich.no/wood-hotel-by-frich-s
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by 8372049 2y ago
No, the spherical shape of the Earth has been apparent and acknowledged for at least two thousand years. It's the heliocentric view that has been challenged until fairly recently.
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by 8372049 2y ago
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.
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by 8372049 2y ago
"Svalbard Island" isn't an island, it's a Norwegian archipelago. None of the islands are called Svalbard, and the vault is located on Spitsbergen.
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by 8372049 2y ago
The big downsides with horrible prison are that criminals will have a huge incentive to do anything to not get caught and convicted, including violently resisting arrest, shootouts, targeting witnesses and so on. It is mostly effective as a
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by 8372049 2y ago
He probably meant sysadmin as in the account with sudo access.
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by 8372049 2y ago
TIMTOWTDI (There Is More Than One Way To Do It)
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by 8372049 2y ago
Malware writers love code that is inconspicuous, generic, hard to attribute and hard to reverse. As far as I can tell, this doesn't check any of those boxes.
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by 8372049 2y ago
By all means tell me why you think they matter. It's still a matter of funding-per-capita. Stopping someone with a knife is the same regardless of their ethnicity. (We do have a lot of immigration, but I don't see the relevance.
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by 8372049 2y ago
We do have large immigrant populations, but have a fairly active integration policy. It's not a major success, but at least free language education seems to have helped a lot. There's foreign languages on "call family in your
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by 8372049 2y ago
There's plenty of obvious solutions and many countries apart from the US have solved them. One of the solutions is properly educated and trained police. This includes operating in coordinated teams using riot shields and less lethal, d
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by 8372049 2y ago
As a citizen of a civilized country with properly funded and educated emergency services, it's baffling to me that the US faces these relatively simple problems. In my country, a police patrol would respond along with the ambulance. Th
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by 8372049 2y ago
It's as informative as saying something "kills cancer cells in a petri dish".
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by 8372049 2y ago
I was wondering about the same thing as GP. I live in a European capital (one of the smaller ones), and I basically don't ever see anything like this. If there's any signs in other languages then they're almost always in Engl
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by 8372049 2y ago
Did you read the last 2/3 of the article?
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by 8372049 2y ago
I think you are misunderstanding his rationale and message. The message, the way I read it, isn't just that you don't know the random project, but you don't really care about it. He says to not just bring a brick, but to buil
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by 8372049 3y ago
Not exactly what you're asking, but reading and manipulating asm is critical in several parts of infosec: reversing, vuln analysis, sploiting and manipulating, etc. The same goes for somewhat related fields suchs as game hacks, crackin
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by 8372049 3y ago
Why not GPL the building blocks if you want the end product to be GPL'd as well?
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by 8372049 3y ago
Depends on your level of abstraction, I guess. GP stated "We all speak English because at one point the English practically owned the entire planet." Which in our case is false. We stopped learning German as a second language beca
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by 8372049 3y ago
Yeah, we would all be speaking German now if they had won. But to put it another way, German remained the second language after they lost WW1.
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by 8372049 3y ago
Norway. Just overall friendlier standing with Germany than the UK pre-WW2 I think. No significant minority of ethnic Germans, and I think trade with Germany and the UK was roughly comparable.
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by 8372049 3y ago
The reason German(y) was widely unpopular after WW2 wasn't primarily because they lost. ETA: They lost WW1 too, but German remained our #1 foreign language.
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by 8372049 3y ago
That's not universally true. In my country, German was the widely accepted and taught second language until WW2. Since then it's been English.
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by 8372049 3y ago
> They were legally forbidden to pay the £600,000 ransom. That should have been the case for all ransoms everywhere.
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by 8372049 3y ago
If we are liberal with the meaning of "Microsoft created", there's Age of Empires II.
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by 8372049 3y ago
I didn't really enjoy D&D, but I loved Call of Cthulhu. It felt more free-form, i.e. more like an adventure and less like trying to game the mechanics. There is no board with CoC (at least we didn't use one). If the tabletop&#
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by 8372049 3y ago
I think in this context, "pointer-free" is meant to imply (spatial) locality of reference, no additional memory allocations, address-independent and presumably memory safety (but I didn't read the code and may be wrong about
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by 8372049 3y ago
Friendly heads up, "pseudo" is frequently misspelled "psuedo" in the readme.
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by 8372049 3y ago
> That's how unions work by default everywhere else too. Not true for Norway, at least.

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