Suzuran

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by Suzuran 1y ago
Knowing of the non-negative case does not necessarily mean that we refuse to acknowledge that languages evolve and terms gain new meanings and lose old ones.
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by Suzuran 1y ago
They have absolutely done a cost/benefit analysis. It works like this: "If it does not benefit me personally, directly and financially, then it costs too much."
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by Suzuran 1y ago
We can't stop it. All we can do is try to stay alive until they are satisfied they have extracted everything of value, and then rebuild from whatever is left.
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by Suzuran 2y ago
Spam is advertising for their other more profitable criminal enterprises. It's a means to an end, not an end itself. If the goal were simply to send messages, there would be no content.
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by Suzuran 2y ago
The point to sending the spam is to enable further crime. Do you really think they don't stand to profit from what they promote? Spam is a business like any other, they aren't going to magically disappear just because their advert
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by Suzuran 2y ago
You may be surprised to learn that spammers, being criminals, have no issue with stealing money from others to spend on email delivery fees. Edit: Proof-of-work "email postage" schemes are similarly doomed - The botnet that zero-d
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by Suzuran 2y ago
You are if you want to survive even a trivially baseless lawsuit.
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by Suzuran 2y ago
Nobody looks at people as robots. Robots are cheaper, do not require food or sleep, and do not have to be murdered when they attempt to unionize. Robots are far superior.
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by Suzuran 2y ago
It's a motto used by American law enforcement to justify extrajudicial punishment. Since they are the "thin blue line" that separates the public from anarchy, they are justified in acting independently to "protect"
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by Suzuran 2y ago
The problem is that I would have to remember them all; It's a metaphorical pile, not a literal one. A large majority are games where the DRM no longer works for whatever reason (Silent Hunter 3 and 4 come to mind), but games where malw
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by Suzuran 2y ago
Nowadays if I did anything like this I would get screamed at to kill myself for being unsafe and having code smells and using the wrong tools.
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by Suzuran 2y ago
No, not at all. I have several games on my "I Wasted My Money" pile where IAPs or in-game advertisements were added in patches well after release. Edit: This practice is why policies such as this one being enacted are now necessar
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by Suzuran 2y ago
It may be to your amusement that it is entirely possible to run an ITS KS10 directly on the unfiltered Internet without major issue. I did not even have to run PWORD. It seems that modern automated internet scanners are completely confused
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by Suzuran 2y ago
Yes, that's very useful, thanks for pointing that out.
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by Suzuran 2y ago
You worked at Imagen? I had to write a partial Impress emulator a little while ago so I could make waste paper from my lispm. It only supported the image format since that was the only thing the lispm sent when printing the screen, but it b
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by Suzuran 2y ago
Really? How?
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by Suzuran 2y ago
On the subject of that last item, it is to my amusement that modern internet scanners are completely confused by a 1970s operating system. They record a "hit" when they find an open telnet port, but then get stuck because there is
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by Suzuran 2y ago
Because the only way to force their use is to break things, mostly this means transferring the pain directly to the user instead of the service operators in the hope that they will bitch loudly enough for the service operator to care, and
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by Suzuran 2y ago
You are correct, we are not animals. I do not view us as animals, but it is not my view that matters. The view that matters is that of the corporations who do the hiring, and for the most part they view us as expendable resources (I mean, c
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by Suzuran 2y ago
I am not sure I would call what I am doing "okay", but I am still here. I can't say the same for many of my friends. It was full renal failure in my case. I had no insurance. My savings were gone in the first two days. My ent
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by Suzuran 2y ago
I am 46. I am more or less describing my present situation, except I haven't yet been fired. I say "yet" because my employer's products are government-facing and the incoming administration has priorities incompatible wi
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by Suzuran 2y ago
It is my understanding that if you are older than 35, have no C-suite social connections, and you lose your tech job, your tech career is over. Your only opportunities will be entry-level since none of your original education will pass auto
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by Suzuran 2y ago
I assumed they meant the military transponder and UHF radio equipment.
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by Suzuran 2y ago
I also learned C this way (with ROM 2.4 in my case), but what I really should have learned is social skills. Instead, once I got good enough at C to make the playerbase my mostly unwilling playthings, all pretense of being anything other th
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by Suzuran 2y ago
Was yours a living donor or deceased donor? In my case, they brought several recipients of different organs together in the same hospital so that the transplants could be carried out quickly. This was a deceased donor case though, so they m
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by Suzuran 2y ago
It's a match-criteria-based list, so you stay at the top until you die or receive a matching transplant. If you are at the top of the list but don't match an available organ, the organ goes down the list to the highest match that
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by Suzuran 2y ago
No, organs for transplant can't be stored that way. They can only exist outside of a functioning human body for a handful of hours; they measure the times in minutes.
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by Suzuran 2y ago
"See Figure 1".
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by Suzuran 2y ago
Don't think about it too much, just remember that only large corporations are supposed to be peers on the internet, everyone else should be behind layers of NAT to ensure they can't become a problem.
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by Suzuran 2y ago
He can run it the way he sees, but the way he sees is intentionally self-defeating; Instead of prioritizing keeping the archive as viable and complete as possible, he favors an all-or-nothing approach where either the Archive has accumulate

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