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by _dain_ 4y ago
what kind of circumstance are people in where they can use posix sh but not bash? in the year 2022? I don't understand it. fucking everything has bash nowadays. and if you're on some machine that unaccountably doesn't have ba
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>Carthage most prominently They had it coming. The Romans weren't lying about the ritual child sacrifice.
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Consider each program as a node in a graph, with the edges as the possibility of interop -- output of program A working as input of program B. With UNIXy command line programs this is pretty close to a fully-connected graph. So, per Metcalf
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So just put `#!/usr/bin/env bash` at the top of the file
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An article about vending machines has no right to be this exciting!
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"Living standards" is such a weaselly term here. Yeah maybe you can afford a dishwasher and a car and nice clothes, but what about when you step outside your door? Being in a city with interesting things to do is an intangible goo
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There are new style ones that have some kind of motion detecting camera or radar or something. There's a little LED that lights up when it sees you.
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> I learned about how traffic light green times (how many seconds a signal stays green for one direction vs. the cross street) usually have a "right answer" from an engineering standpoint There's a "right answer"
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populations differ in how well they can handle booze. this has been known since Roman times; various authors wrote how the Germans were more prone to alcoholism than Latins, an ethnic difference that persists to this day. native americans h
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Yeah but it has absolutely no explanatory power for sociological phenomenon. People want it to be true, but there's just no there there. https://razib.substack.com/p/you-cant-take-it-with-you-strai...
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steam deck
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>If you're breaking the rules, authors won't get compensated and we won't see other Human Kenetics books. This should be illegal. so second-hand bookshops should be illegal too?
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Many times, when I see cool software projects are posted here, I go onto the about pages or personal blogs of the authors, to see what else they've made. And what I often see is a lot of absurd, hateful, deranged, wrong, extremist take
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I thought this was well known: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C... Wikipedia hasn't been any credible danger due to lack of funds for at least a decade. They're drowning in mo
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C...
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>Worse: for some reason HSBC recently changed theirs to 6 numeric characters. 6. Numeric only. And while forcing me to change, they repeatedly assured me that this was just as secure as before… Luckily for me all I have with them curren
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by _dain_ 4y ago
The hashing has to happen serverside, which means the server will temporarily have the plaintext in memory. While there, you can mutate the string by adding/removing/chanigng characters, to get a bunch of strings that are similar.
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Across the pond, there is also the NCSC password guidance. It's better than linking to some obscure paragraph in a standards document; it's written in plain English, aimed at the layman, and explains exactly why the old doctrines
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by _dain_ 4y ago
Maybe now I can convince my employer to move away Lastpass. I hated it on sight because of the GUI. Look at this thing, it's like Attack of the Fifty Foot Whitespace: https://files.catbox.moe/d81urx.jpg
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https://nitter.1d4.us/realchrisrufo/status/15791203845193072...
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have you been to space?
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>Flat Earth is trivially falsifiable. It's falsifiable, but not trivially. For example, due to atmospheric refraction we can see some distance around the curvature of the Earth. A common Flat Earth "demonstration" / &
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that hasn't been a relevant cultural force for at least a decade
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>Grids are the best way to lay out a city so you don't end up with ridiculous burbs like this where it's a 1.5 mile walk between adjacent lots. That's an extreme example. "Non-grid" isn't a proper category,
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>Imagine people crashed their car every day but “meh just needs a new bumper!” People do crash their cars every day, and they do a lot worse than damage the bumper. 42,000 people died on US roads last year. It's the biggest and dead
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I don't know anything about hang gliding but, has there been a culture shift since this article was published in 1998? e.g. the things he describes like breaking a downtube on landing (or crashing as he says), is that considered not-no
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> The simplest way to do this—without writing my own graphics code—is to use a 3D scatter plot. There aren’t any good plotting libraries for Common Lisp, so I used Python’s matplotlib, and used a CSV to transfer the data. > Plotting
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>We never transcended oil for fission as we did for coal. that was a political choice, not practical.
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> Side question: how do we know if humans possess qualia? I think there are some people who don't possess qualia, or maybe don't notice that they have it. There was a reddit post years ago from a guy who said he only became sel
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> The daily shower would be hard to sustain in a world without fossil fuels. > The shower doesn’t get much attention in the context of climate change. However, like airplanes, cars, and heating systems, it has become a very wasteful

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