Georgelemental

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by Georgelemental 2mo ago
100% Boche, désolé
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by Georgelemental 3mo ago
Pin applies to the point er , !Move applies to the point ee .
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by Georgelemental 3mo ago
But you have to ask it to, and by the right amount for every line/sub-block. If you accidentally get one line wrong, it could be a silent bug. In a language without significant indentation, as long as braces are preserved, once you are
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by Georgelemental 3mo ago
The Seattle municipal authorities are entirely to blame for not allowing the police to preserve order. CHOP was a violent insurrection and should have been treated as such from the beginning. Innocent people are dead because the government
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by Georgelemental 3mo ago
Indentation based is a pain when copy-pasting between contexts with different indentation levels, as you have to fix it up manually, which is error-prone. In languages without it, you can just auto-format. (And even in an editor that doesn&
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by Georgelemental 3mo ago
Bots pretending to be desktops?
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by Georgelemental 3mo ago
Homoglyph attacks and RTL work just as well in UTF-16. UTF-8 and UTF-16 are different character encodings for the same character set (Unicode). That being said, Windows permits unpaired surrogates in its "UTF-16" strings, even t
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by Georgelemental 3mo ago
> Nobody from the Fukushima accident died from radiation sickness or radiation syndrome, and so far there's been no evidence of long term elevated cancer rates either. There has actually been 1 radiation death
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by Georgelemental 3mo ago
> rooting a Pixel at my age Don't do that, that's a PITA. Put GrapheneOS on it instead—simple, no hassle, works great
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by Georgelemental 3mo ago
Maybe, but warm tint at night subjectively feels more comfortable
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by Georgelemental 3mo ago
I don't think I've ever seen someone do that
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by Georgelemental 3mo ago
> During that window, the package was downloaded and run on 15 real systems. One of these systems was a scanner belonging to a real security company (separate from the fictional company introduced in the scenario) that routinely installs
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by Georgelemental 3mo ago
A pack a year is unlikely to kill you, but as others have said lung cancer is not the only worry. I work in healthcare, I see COPD all the time. It may or may not kill you, but it's a guaranteed PITA even if well-managed
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by Georgelemental 3mo ago
Work in ER, can confirm
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> In response to this threat, the White House convened an executive branch interagency body with appropriate national security expertise, see 47 U.S.C. § 1601(c)(1), comprising agencies that included appropriate national security agencie
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by Georgelemental 3mo ago
Venezuela supposedly is a "friendly nation" now though, ever since the palace coup
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by Georgelemental 3mo ago
A duress pin is useful if the cost of the government getting mad at you because you wiped your data is less than the cost of letting the government have your data. Whether that holds depends on your situation—for example, whether your phone
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by Georgelemental 3mo ago
I use a Chromium fork (Brave) for this. No need to install the actual Google malware
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by Georgelemental 3mo ago
About my use of the word "genocide": genocide is defined not primarily by the scale of the killing, but most importantly by the intent behind it. The intent of the war on Gaza, as expressed repeatedly by the people prosecuting it,
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by Georgelemental 3mo ago
"Anesthesia" could also be a nurse anesthesist, nurses generally aren't supposed to contradict doctors in front of patients
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by Georgelemental 3mo ago
Superintelligent AI is getting very good at social engineering. See e.g. voice cloning scams
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by Georgelemental 3mo ago
I left Namecheap when they took away Databases for Palestine's domains for daring to publish evidence of the Gaza genocide. They do not deserve your business https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/01/03&
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by Georgelemental 3mo ago
Typo or HN character limit?
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by Georgelemental 3mo ago
Array of Structs and Struct of Arrays https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AoS_and_SoA
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by Georgelemental 3mo ago
"Patient Care Technician" is already a thing, it's a level under nurse
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by Georgelemental 3mo ago
You can partially protect yourself from these attacks by disabling 2G on your device. This won't prevent location tracking, but will stop the attacker from intercepting calls or texts. - Android: https://source.android.com&#
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by Georgelemental 3mo ago
You think Israeli companies (or those of any other country, for that matter) can sell spy tech abroad without their government's signoff?
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American social media platforms (Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, etc)
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by Georgelemental 3mo ago
I've always used a pseudonym. I have never felt free to speak my mind on the internet under my own name, the cancel mobs scared me away long before the state did
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by Georgelemental 3mo ago
Yeah, that Russian influence is really pernicious. Did you know that the vast majority of Members of Congress receive financial support from the pro-Russia lobby? And that leaders in both parties regularly tout their "devotion" to

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