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by ColanR 6y ago
Heh. Heartbleed is my go-to example why we should be skeptical of the security of all software.
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by ColanR 6y ago
It's what the firefighter told my parents when the bathroom ceiling fan burned our house down.
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by ColanR 6y ago
Ublock Origin would save you the ads.
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by ColanR 6y ago
I've started intentionally making my answers subtly wrong. E.g., if something might look like a fire hydrant, but isn't, I mark it positive. I usually have to do it a few times anyway, and it makes me feel better to think Google&
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by ColanR 6y ago
One of the primary causes of housefires is leaving bathroom fans running.
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by ColanR 6y ago
Yeah, too bad there's people using a communication tool to share their opinion with their friends.
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by ColanR 6y ago
Skepticism is healthy.
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by ColanR 6y ago
This was interesting to read: > Such ecosystems [Rust] come with incredible costs. For instance, rust cannot even compile itself on i386 at present time because it exhausts the address space.
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by ColanR 6y ago
> war in former Yugoslavia happened cheap arms flooded the market here and that caused an immediate rise in gun related crime As long as we're talking theories, was it the guns coming in or the people coming in that cause the rise i
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by ColanR 6y ago
> humans have used drugs for millennia That's ignoring the modern refinement of drugs into far more powerful substances than they were even 50 years ago.
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by ColanR 6y ago
Wait a bit, then you can edit the original.
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by ColanR 6y ago
> Too slow, too reliant on voluntary compliance, and most importantly, too difficult to make decisions with long term time horizons. Not sure you want an efficient, consolidated government if the wrong party is leading it.
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by ColanR 6y ago
> They are supposed to be the most powerful branch of government, but instead they have deadlocked themselves into uselessness. They were always intended to be both. Since there had to be such a powerful entity within the government (the
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Atmospheric CO2 levels rise sharply despite Covid-19 lockdowns(theguardian.com)
4 points by ColanR 6y ago|0 comments
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by ColanR 6y ago
This should be added as an appendix to the original story. The original has been a favorite of mine for years and I love the addition.
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by ColanR 6y ago
I've been putting off my next OS reinstallation, but I think I'll be moving away from Ubuntu and over to Mint this time.
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by ColanR 6y ago
iirc the UK does ban kitchen knives from being carried publicly.
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by ColanR 6y ago
> entirely filled with conspiracy videos Better than having the content be deleted, though. Choose for yourself what you want to watch, and don't choose for other people.
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by ColanR 6y ago
> more sensitive to the plight of EmberJS development I doubt they'd have started using it in the first place if the software looked like it would be abandoned. If the best 'teeth' open source has is, "we might stop d
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by ColanR 6y ago
> Any social engineer From my readings of pentesters doing social engineering, female pentesters have the vast advantage when trying to gain building access.
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by ColanR 6y ago
I was thinking of the leather coracles used in another voyage. I read this book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1088116.The_Brendan_Voya...
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by ColanR 6y ago
From what I've heard, transatlantic boats can be fairly small and rudimentary.
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by ColanR 6y ago
That sounds like the difference between saying what can be easily defended to a potentially critical audience, vs. saying what you're less sure of to a receptive audience.
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by ColanR 6y ago
This was on the HN front page yesterday.
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Treatment with Hydroxychloroquine, Azithromycin in Patients with Covid-19(ijidonline.com)
11 points by ColanR 6y ago|0 comments
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by ColanR 6y ago
It means kill one thing with extreme prejudice, which does not fit the description I gave you. The nice thing about a large vocabulary of both positive and negative words is that it's possible to use words that actually fit the context
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by ColanR 6y ago
> asked you to change the name of the script because their parents were killed in a genocide I'd change it. Why do you ask? > pre-emptive effortless empathy Because the world is filled with negativity, and our language changes to
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by ColanR 6y ago
Genocide = kill them all, which is exactly what the script would be doing.
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by ColanR 6y ago
So we're only trying to avoid negative emotions here? That seems...transient.
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by ColanR 6y ago
Eh. If I was managing a network with a ton of machines I needed to be able to turn off and on together (not that farfetched from what I'm currently doing), I'd probably label the scripts 'resurrection' and 'genocide

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