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by dandotway 5y ago
The Linux variant also proved to be quite buggy during ESET's analysis, with the encryption completely failing when the malware was executed with an explicit path. This brings to mind GNU Humor's 'Why GNU/Linux Viruses
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Hive ransomware now encrypts Linux and FreeBSD systems(bleepingcomputer.com)
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Indeed, from the other comment about Teller's "Backyard" bomb it seems Kubrick's satire was more truth than fiction. The cigar smoking Ripper in the film was based on the real life Curtis LeMay, who it was later revealed
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by dandotway 5y ago
I guess "truth is stranger than fiction." ;-) Blog comment from the link you posted: The 10GT weapon really would have been BACKYARD. At 6MT/tonne (the upper bound for thermonuclear weapons) it would have weighed 1667 tonnes
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by dandotway 5y ago
However, a study from 1963 suggested that, if detonated 28 miles (45 kilometers) above the surface of the Earth, a 10,000-megaton weapon could set fires over an area 500 miles (800 kilometers) in diameter. Which is to say, an are
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by dandotway 5y ago
Military would be too bureaucratic and disciplined for his sort, but being a mercenary might be a fit.
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by dandotway 5y ago
TL;DR summary: The actual glass the lab flasks were made of mattered. Miller's lab flasks were made of borosilicate glass and this caused more organic compounds to form than a more truly inert Teflon flask. But Earth's crust is ov
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by dandotway 5y ago
> how about we reduce the need for so much international shipping in the first place? Because China has 1.44 billion consumers and the USA only has 330 million, and companies like Apple in the long run can sell more iPhones in China beca
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by dandotway 5y ago
> so diversity officers effectively act as a political role more than serving the intended purpose Yes.
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"The radiation portals that were deployed in the aftermath of 9/11 are essentially fine, except for three problems: They won't find a nuclear bomb, they won't find highly enriched uranium, and they won't
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by dandotway 5y ago
Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy[1] states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the organization. Examples are dedicated clas
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The etiquette school for China's super-rich [video](bbc.com)
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> Most homeless people are homeless under a year in the US Source? > Many have jobs Source? > How did you meet? On the street? Yes, and a few did indeed have cars and sleep in cars.
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by dandotway 5y ago
Became friends with a number of homeless, bought them meals, gave them money, gave them clothing, heard their life stories in their own words, etc. There used to be a lot near where I used to live.
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by dandotway 5y ago
"I don't know how you got it, James, but you have 107 different venereal diseases." From the article, "We found evidence for a total of 59 liaisons (mean of 2.4 per film)."
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by dandotway 5y ago
> I’ve rarely seen a normal able-bodied able-minded non-drug-using homeless person who’s just down on their luck This right here. Nearly all homeless I've worked with were non-neuronormative and/or drug abusers. They're al
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by dandotway 5y ago
The worst thing about the NotchBook - this union of iPhone notch with MacBook - is that all the other laptop manufacturers have a way of copying Apple's decisions: non-replaceable batteries, soldered in RAM and SSD, fewer ports, near-z
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by dandotway 5y ago
> ... EDIT: You are right, double quotes around "UnsafeVarint" improve the result. Learned something new just now. : )
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by dandotway 5y ago
I just tried "UnsafeVarint" in DDG and while #1 and #2 were useless COVID hits as you said, DDG #4 was the same as Google's #1 hit which was this GitHub issue: https://github.com/tensorflow/models/is
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by dandotway 5y ago
Do you have recent real examples? 98% of the time for me both DDG and Google pull up the same Wikipedia article or Stack Overflow answer or Github repo or news story. Occasionally I still do "!g" or "!gi" in DDG to see w
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by dandotway 5y ago
> Nothing is perfect If logical thinking is, as you say, imperfect, is it possible that your own conclusion that no perfect things exist is itself an imperfect conclusion? If you use this word perfect , you at least have the Idea of
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by dandotway 5y ago
> noting Henry VIII's power stance And also noting the prominent codpiece [1] covering Henry's family jewels in said portrait[2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codpiece [2] https://en.wiki
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by dandotway 5y ago
But if Harvard declines donations how else are affluent alumni supposed to buy in entrance for their offspring that prefer showing off their exotic vacations on Instagram over studying hard? Harvard exists for children of the ruling class t
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by dandotway 5y ago
In British English, a physician's or dentist's office is called a surgery. Thus, for Britons, going to the surgery just means visiting the doc; it does not have the same connotations of going under a knife that it has for American
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by dandotway 5y ago
This article says Big Energy corps drill methane wells and then cheat the cost of plugging them by selling them to smaller companies that can't afford the plugging cost, thereby abandoning these wells to leak the potent greenhouse gas
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Android Web Audio latency is over 200-300ms on many devices and is deliberately introduced to kill WebGL browser games that could otherwise bypass the Play Store and its 30% tax. Google has plenty of engineers smart of enough to fix such a
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It's counterintuitive to logical-thinking programmers, but you almost never want to tell a grieving person any of the following: 1. "Things will get better." 2. "I understand your loss." 3. "Here's how we
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by dandotway 5y ago
Using Brave right now and no stupid popups. Make sure you turn off "Brave ads" or whatever causes popups. Always scan through every option in Settings at least once and turn all the junk off. The only mild annoyance left after doi
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Boom. "Mozilla Firefox Usage Down 85% but why are Exec’s Salary Up 400%?" https://itdm.com/mozilla-firefox-usage-down-85-but-why-are-e...
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> Governments want to tax profits rather than revenues Yes, but Hollywood Accounting[1] transforms taxable profits into untaxable expenses. (Search this discussion for 'Hollywood Accounting' for a longer post I made.) A revenue

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