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by bazzargh 3y ago
This is 2 1/2 tons, not all of it nickel. Approximately 48.5 tons of meteorites hit the earth every day https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/meteors-meteorites/ and those are around 1-1.8% nickel https:&#x2
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by bazzargh 3y ago
is it blocking anything? It was one of a shopping list of requirements that it be capable of complying with court orders. I expect they don't want to repeat the Quad9 situation, where it just blocked requests from all of Germany. And a
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by bazzargh 3y ago
The stated purpose of the thing isn't to block torrents. It's to avoid the EU being critically dependent on US infrastructure (and a lot more words), particularly government departments - also the stated reason for the UK version,
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by bazzargh 3y ago
(2022). That contract was awarded to Whalebone https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/european-commission-entrusted... and the project has a website https://www.joindns4.eu/ This background article covers a lo
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by bazzargh 3y ago
I think further back, part of the idea may have been mine. https://hachyderm.io/deck/@bazzargh/111829275276749971 Originally I saw https://twitter.com/CasualEffects/status/139029030620621
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by bazzargh 3y ago
we had one a while back where a small number of requests were failing for a particular set of pages. We first spotted that all the urls contained 'select' (generally as part of a parameter name, like itemselect), so I went digging
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by bazzargh 3y ago
It's mentioned on the Gordie Howe bridge page: "In July 2020, Matty Moroun died aged 93, with his family maintaining their ownership of the Ambassador Bridge. In 2022, the Detroit Free Press reported that Moroun's family were
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by bazzargh 3y ago
He does have a new article today about this scandal in Prospect magazine. https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/64464/post-offi...
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by bazzargh 3y ago
inevitably, because evolution acts on the regular expression of genes.
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by bazzargh 3y ago
I don't have Knuth to hand...but yeah it is possible you can accidentally pick a number that is too close to a rational, so you get short repeats of tracks instead of long ones. What you're after is a number with a high approximat
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by bazzargh 3y ago
The fibonacci hashing mentioned here looks to be just Kronecker low-discrepancy sequences https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-discrepancy_sequence#Addit... which is used for dithering too (see eg https://extre
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by bazzargh 3y ago
I remember electronica noise band Add N to (X) using one in their live shows (along with whatever electronic junk they could scavenge, it looked like they had patch panels on guitar straps). TBH I'm not sure if they had an actual tour
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by bazzargh 3y ago
I wrote and open sourced a program to print guitar tablature in postscript (so it ran on our apple laserwriter instead of on a pc; as a phd student in the early 90s our computers were severely underpowered, but also I wanted to make it port
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by bazzargh 3y ago
We had this - 10 years ago. In our case there was a QA environment which was supposed to be used by pushing code up with production configs, then an automated process copied the code to where it actually ran _doing substitutions on the conf
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by bazzargh 3y ago
Fun/edifying: https://xr.bbcmic.ro/ Dominic Pajak's VR BBC Micro??? Blog: https://blog.mousefingers.com/ Paul Malin posted a bunch of hints on how to do the demoscene-ish things we do with the bbc
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by bazzargh 3y ago
Since there's some monotiles on the front page too, my contribution: https://trinket.io/python/108e28ab75 This has L-systems for filling the plane with hats and spectres. It's a little ugly and slow because i
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by bazzargh 3y ago
The original monotile paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.10798 mentions that (at the time that was written) the minimum number of sides had to be 5 <= n <= 13, but also that a smaller tile can't be a polykite
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by bazzargh 3y ago
nice, but... I'd written something like this (as a program you pipe to, not autocomplete) before, but when there's an error, I try to show the error then the last-good-output. The reason for this is that when you're typing a
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by bazzargh 3y ago
I've seen this done to badly deteriorated paper with japanese tissue tape, eg https://www.preservationequipment.com/Catalogue/Conservation... and it did a pretty incredible job. There's a video on the left of
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by bazzargh 3y ago
On mastodon you can follow hashtags, so follow #generative, #procedural, #creativecoding etc, not just people; you get a lot of serendipitous finds this way. What shows up on the different tags varies a bit: #generativeart picks up a lot mo
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by bazzargh 3y ago
I bring a scarf and knot it under my chin (the normal way: fold in half, wrap around neck, put two loose ends through the loop; but tighter than normal, so the lump sits under the chin just to one side). Provides enough support that my head
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by bazzargh 3y ago
correct, and specifically with backports there is no other reasonable way to do this. Since the mitigation needs to happen outside of the openssl integration, you need to expose the flag to clients and allow them to make the choice to ignor
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by bazzargh 3y ago
Yes, the fix for the truncation attack was originally rolled into 1.1.1e (March 2020) and then withdrawn in 1.1.1f because the new errors were too disruptive; IIRC the fix was already in the 3.x prereleases by that stage. So effectively if
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by bazzargh 3y ago
For me, you want 2 more wires: - the laptop to the side is awkwardly positioned for zoom chat, so you probably want a webcam as well - audio is a problem. If you use bluetooth and swap lots of things over then you keep needing to re-pair wh
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by bazzargh 3y ago
OpenSSL 3 seems to be largely compatible (it's a much easier upgrade than previous big ones) but the part of this that breaks clients is odd. If your peer closes the connection without sending close_notify, you get an unexpected EOF; 1
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by bazzargh 3y ago
If you've got a keyboard with QMK firmware, and mousekeys were enabled for it... you can just turn it on with https://www.caniusevia.com/ . One of my machines didn't have a mouse, so my next keyboard was a Keychro
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by bazzargh 3y ago
the keys prelude pushes you towards with guru-mode are not the ones on the home row (hjkl, which is justifiable) but keys originally chosen for english words: n(ext), p(revious), f(orward), b(ack). It's mystifying, these aren't
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by bazzargh 3y ago
the hour hand is pointing at the sun, is the bit I missed from the sentence.
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by bazzargh 3y ago
timing cooking hardboiled seagull eggs as an approximate compass, if it has an hour hand (bisect the angle between the hour hand and noon, that's north or south, depending on your latitude, unless you're in the tropics where this
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by bazzargh 3y ago
in my hometown, there's a whole set of streets (<X> Avenue, Drive, Place) that got built in the 90s with <X> being the surname of the chair of the council planning committee at the time, who was about to retire (ie the pers

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