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by praptak 4y ago
"Procrastination Monkey" series from waitbutwhy is the best treatise on this that I know.
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by praptak 5y ago
This craft was quite popular in Poland back in the day and went by the name "cerowanie artystyczne". People earned like 20 USD a month. You ripped the pair of jeans your Uncle from America (archetypal figure from that time) sent y
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by praptak 5y ago
It makes sense, there are like 100 species of scorpions in the regions where house cats were first domesticated. Cats do hunt scorpions which probably scored them some extra holiness points with the ancient Egyptians.
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by praptak 5y ago
I kind of like to think code itself could use this analogy. If a piece of code combines data from three systems, then maybe first fetch it from each one (maybe in parallel), then "wash" it (check preconditions, normalize, etc.) Th
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by praptak 5y ago
It's like getting kicked in the balls to train oneself before a fight. It doesn't train for anything, it's just pure meaningless suffering. A kid doesn't have the mental toolset to deal with being bullied. Heck, even an
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by praptak 5y ago
Yes, having a shipment of Harpoons would definitely change the calculations here.
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by praptak 5y ago
I believe these missiles cost a crapload of money, are slow to make and Ukraine has a small number of these. It would be irrational for them to use not one but at least two of them (some sources say there even were 3 hits) without a decent
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by praptak 5y ago
Maybe they were. Anyway this starts to look like the Ukrainians did not overwhelm or disable the AA defenses. The more realistic explanation is that they had good intelligence and just knew the missiles have a good chance of landing (either
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by praptak 5y ago
I have seen an ex-military comment on the recent pics of the Moskva and it somewhat corroborates the hypothesis that the ship didn't engage the defenses. The person said that the AA radar was in the inactive position and the AA launche
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by praptak 5y ago
I can sense my own heart beat only when it's strong after a workout or in normal conditions but then my body has to be really still. I can obviously always feel my pulse with my fingers but that is cheating.
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by praptak 5y ago
NLAW also strikes from the top, just not exactly like the Javelin. The latter does that by having a steep trajectory. The NLAW just flies horizontally over the tank, then fires down vertically. It also has the other mode where it just hits
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by praptak 5y ago
One of the Underhanded C contestants used this trick, obviously intentionally admitting &x == &y. Hitting this edge case triggered the desired "underhanded" behavior of the program. Here: http://www.underhanded-
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by praptak 5y ago
Does a bear shit in the woods?
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by praptak 5y ago
My mom's cat did not do anything super smart but she made me feel dumb. She would walk over and start talking - almost literally. Her trills and mews vere so varied in pitch and length that it sounded like speech. And she responded w
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by praptak 5y ago
The notions of hardness for practical cryptography are a bit different than ones in complexity theory. One difference is obviously the asymptotics. Just because something is in P (generally considered "easy" in complexity theory)
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by praptak 5y ago
I believe no sane person can fully commit to "my country, right or wrong". Being Polish I admit that my country does some shitty things and I support the EU in their actions to stop that (fines, blocking of funds). Maybe you shoul
857.
by praptak 5y ago
The only reason I'm not taking it are reports from the users I know. The recurring theme is "soon you are unable to get up in the morning without your dose of speed".
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by praptak 5y ago
I came here to write that I don't know whether it is an intentional wordplay (and a tribute to idlewords?). Maybe this should be my question to the idols.
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by praptak 5y ago
Who knows, maybe we'll have a cheap (semi-)automatic rewrite from C to a memory-safe language by then.
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by praptak 5y ago
Where I live if you don't heat your home in the winter it gets mildew. If it goes on for longer then the water pipes will crack because of ice. Yes, you can go a bit colder if the house is empty.
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by praptak 5y ago
They are a bit more than missiles, as the operator can fly them around, re-target or even call off without hitting anything (I believe they aren't recoverable though). That's why they are called loitering munitions rather than mis
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by praptak 5y ago
Speaking of time-matching you should also avoid starting a publicly observable spike in Tor-related activity just before the date your new Darknet service goes online.
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by praptak 5y ago
> Keep in mind that the NSA will start scooping up all of your packets simply because you visited torproject.org. This particular one might not be true but the general spirit probably is. This is why I sometimes do things which a drug lo
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by praptak 5y ago
To complement this I recommend Five Stages of Fascism by Robert Paxton. He takes a temporal view of fascism rather than ideological, reasoning that unlike most other -isms, fascism does not have a body of works that define the ideology. On
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by praptak 5y ago
Wait, there were more times it happened to you?
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by praptak 5y ago
Just don't start buying series until the last part is out. Or maybe at least until the next part is out.
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by praptak 5y ago
Also a full body CT scan in case the device is self-contained.
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by praptak 5y ago
Agree not to join NATO or EU, load up on weaponry, train the whole population as soldiers, then join both NATO & EU. I am not saying this is what Ukraine should do, just that Putin knows this is what they can do.
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by praptak 5y ago
Free software dies but usually because of lack of interest. Case in point: Ruffle. Flash died, free software picked up the torch.
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by praptak 5y ago
Determined attacker will have your disk physically copied before attempting anything, so "delete all my files" won't work. For such scenarios plausible deniability is what you want. Ideally, you need a whole parallel system w

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