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by praptak 2y ago
The smell test here is that swans are flying birds and a human is large(-ish) land mammal. Nature just cannot make a flying bird's bones strong enough because they have to be much lighter. If we play conkers with each other's bone
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by praptak 2y ago
"Learnings" is more than annoying corpspeak though. It's a word so old that you can find usage from time it was spelled "lernynges" ("lernynges whiche Cathon gaf to his sone") https://english.st
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by praptak 2y ago
Well it kind of depends on what exactly happened. For example there are building codes, like "no deadly drops without guardrails". If you leave something like this then you are breaking the law. If somebody dies because of this th
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by praptak 2y ago
In theory nothing, in practice it's just not worth it. Mind that the bad effects would also spread broader than a voluntary contract between two parties. We'd have to fund the courts to resolve the inevitable insurance fraud accus
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by praptak 2y ago
Well this at least doesn't kill a random person who has to empty your storage for legit reasons and sets off a land mine.
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by praptak 2y ago
If they let me insure my stuff for 100x of what it's worth, I lose all the incentive to prevent damage. Even in the legit cases the insurance companies have to account for the "don't worry, it's insured" mindset. Ke
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by praptak 2y ago
Where I live the "accidental" part doesn't really get you off the hook. Negligence is better than intention but still. If it kills someone or causes grievous bodily harm, it's still on you. Yes, even if it's a burgl
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by praptak 2y ago
Some cards are not symmetrical, (e.g. any seven or a five of not-diamonds) so they can encode two bits of information.
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by praptak 2y ago
Emacs has its not super discoverable frame-background mode[0] which is effectively either 'light' or 'dark'. When you're wondering why Emacs chose poor colors for something, it's often frame-background-mode bei
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by praptak 2y ago
It seems to also send the actual sound samples though.
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by praptak 2y ago
The blast radius of trust is much larger though. If we don't have a reliable way of stopping similar attacks in the future then it's pretty bad for everyone, not only for Hezbollah.
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by praptak 2y ago
Sticking to facts ruffles less feathers than adding a charged interpretation to the facts, it's not very surprising. ("X is more likely to correct you" can obviously also have a negatively charged interpretation, which I&#x27
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by praptak 2y ago
It also works in reverse, when checking someone's story with an untrusted third party (say a suspect's friend). Ask them about the story with some facts wrong. If they don't correct you, the story is probably false and they a
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by praptak 2y ago
I heard this one about Linux in the '90s. "If you need help with doing something in Linux, don't ask for help - you'll get ignored. Just boldly state Linux can't do that and you'll have PhDs running to prove yo
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by praptak 2y ago
I have found a blog post from 2009 about this issue[1]. I think the "recent Ubuntu bug [that] has gotten slashdotted" is [2], so I think the most technical discussion about this would be [2]. I also found an interesting "scar
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by praptak 2y ago
> otherwise the file can be fsynced but the update to the directory lost It also goes the other way - the update to the directory can be fsynced but the file lost. This can break the "create temp file, write, close, rename to curren
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by praptak 2y ago
I remember when I used to play Go online. Obviously the servers, in addition to supporting playing Go and observing the games, had chat functionality. The popular saying on the chats was "Give a man a chat server and he chats for a day
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by praptak 2y ago
My relative is a chemistry professor who used to manage a mass spectrometry lab. Pharmaceutical companies sent them samples when something went wrong. They have their own spectrometers but interpreting wrong results is not always easy. Some
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by praptak 2y ago
There's an effort by Google to address this with userspace threads. I think it has stalled though. HN discussion thereof: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23964633
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by praptak 2y ago
Trans people suicide rate increases if they are left without help.
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by praptak 2y ago
Intuition is a vehicle for understanding. "Determinant says how much the matrix stretches things if treated like a function" is an intuition but doesn't give full understanding of the determinant.
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by praptak 2y ago
A related story ("WHEN IN THE HISTORY OF THIS RESTAURANT HAS ANYONE EATEN FROM THE BOTTOM OF THESE PLATES?"): https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20130313143038-5434591-best-a...
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by praptak 2y ago
Isn't this a circular explanation? You are paid for your contribution to the economy. What is your contribution to the economy? Well, it is the amount you are paid.
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by praptak 2y ago
I definitely miss hitting F5 and instantly seeing the output my program compiled with the change that I just made.
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by praptak 2y ago
Ostiary prevents replay by salting. Client's reply is only valid for the unique salt that the server has generated and only for a short time and obviously only once. A replay attack can only make the server do whatever the legit client
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by praptak 2y ago
If your use case is "remotely trigger execution of a very small set of fixed commands, securely" then there's Ostiary: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/remote_control/... Its v
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by praptak 2y ago
These were called Geek codes (it took me a while to recall the name!). I remember them being pretty popular during the Usenet era. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek_Code
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by praptak 2y ago
Maybe. I think I was in the camp of "I will share my knowledge whether you want it or not", always eager to tell people they are doing things in an uninformed way, like not using the right editor ;)
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by praptak 2y ago
Being fifty I think I can say I grew up in this culture. Looking at this test made me realize I grew up to dislike it. (This, or I got grumpy with age) The chest banging coming from knowing obscure and useless details is kinda cringe. Yeah
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by praptak 2y ago
The BBC article avoids taking sides where it shouldn't. Stockholm Syndrome is bullshit, not merely "controversial". https://www.stadafa.com/2020/12/stockholm-syndrome-discredit... "The psychiat

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