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by praptak 5y ago
Some modern Buddhists do follow "no games during retreats" or the more general "playing games does not mix well with the practice". Games do encourage attachment and speculative thinking, so it is not about some abstract
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by praptak 5y ago
Shutting down nuclear to buy coal sounds pretty countereffective. What was the justification for this decision?
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by praptak 5y ago
I do a 25 minute meditation sit every day. The framework I practice in is "The Mind Illuminated" which is ancient Buddhist meditation texts (mostly Asanga) retold for us contemporaries. FTR, I consider myself a rationalist.
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by praptak 5y ago
Does ASN handle versioning of the messages? If I add a field to the message I expect the new binaries to read the messages serialized by the old binaries and vice versa. Obviously the old binaries are not expected to understand the added fi
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by praptak 5y ago
Obviously it is, by default. I think GP meant there is no legal way to obtain a warrant to eavesdrop on an attorney.
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by praptak 5y ago
Of course it might affect Poland's NATO status. I mean not like the formal membership. Turkey is still in NATO after all. But relying on membership alone is plain stupid. If "spilling blood to protect such a country" becomes
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by praptak 5y ago
Israel banned Poland from using NSO spyware after this: https://wyborcza.pl/7,173236,27895266,israel-bans-polish-int... "On November 25, the Times of Israel reported that the Israeli government has banned the sales of
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by praptak 5y ago
They sell the service, as evidenced by the fact that Poland got banned from using it, which would not be possible if they sold the "tech" as a reusable pack of 0-days: https://wyborcza.pl/7,173236,27895266,israel-b
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by praptak 5y ago
This case is different in that the NSO sold the tech to a government of a (supposedly) democratic country, EU & NATO member.
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by praptak 5y ago
"are we using all that computation effectively to make as much difference as our forebears did[...]?" With Bitcoin we are literally using this power to prove to each other we burned some megajoules which we could otherwise use to
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by praptak 5y ago
I remember there was a proof of concept that beat a similar warning in Flash by displaying a background filled with similar text. This worked, because Flash merely overlaid the full screen warning over what the app displayed. A huge dump of
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by praptak 5y ago
Get on antidepressants.
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Apex memmove – the fastest memcpy/memmove on x86/x64(codeproject.com)
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by praptak 5y ago
Article: "Data on parachutes found not to be conclusive" Serious media: "Serious doubts on parachutes" Tabloid portals: "Click to see the shocking truth on parachutes!" Social media: "Parachute industry co
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by praptak 5y ago
Unmovable files! I remember that DOS boot sector did not understand FAT, so some files had to be in exact locations. TBH I'm a bit uncertain on how today's GRUB goes from the boot sector, which is too small to understand filesyste
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by praptak 5y ago
Are these benefits generous enough to make one feel safe with the crappy job market and the raising costs of living?
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by praptak 5y ago
The other direction is to use the commercial clouds but aggressively defending their status as a commodity. Have VMs at multiple providers and move your load between them as needed.
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by praptak 5y ago
For a Cat to work on mice it has to be a Mouser. I can't pretend I know the full theory of Mousers but it seems that females brought up by Mouser mothers in a mouse-rich environment are the best Mousers, since they are taught to kill f
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by praptak 5y ago
> My preference would be searching by rating with a minimum number of installs This problem has a better solution - sort/search by the lower confidence bound for the rating: https://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort
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by praptak 5y ago
> would they have recognized each other as potential mates? Any doubts about that? There are literally people having sex with farm animals, why would Neanderthals be different?
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by praptak 5y ago
So I tried Avy actions and they do look promising. I hit a nasty speed bump though. When the following conditions hold: 1. I try to use avy-goto-char-timer with an action. 2. The chosen char is the only one visible on the screen. Then Avy j
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by praptak 5y ago
Any of you noticed when they started adding menthol to WD-40? I hate the minty smell, am I the only one?
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by praptak 5y ago
Anthocyanins is what got the 7 year old me interested in chemistry. Mom showed me how red cabbage changes colour from red to blue when the pH changes. This got me to test every single colorful thing for pH-related changes.
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by praptak 5y ago
Two tips that worked for me: fill it with boiling water and use Lavazza Qualita Oro. Other combinations do indeed taste sour or burned.
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by praptak 5y ago
> I will switch to an induction stove I will have to buy a new steel pot, or switch to an electric one Or buy an induction plate adapter. I have not used one, so I cannot tell how practical they are, just saying they exist.
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by praptak 5y ago
It's better to give than to receive.
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by praptak 5y ago
The null hypothesis here is that everybody likes cats.
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by praptak 5y ago
It had a red mohawk.
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by praptak 5y ago
The ops don't seem to compose though. Cats are smart critters, so I think it would be possible to train one to do a set of operations that's actually Turing complete. Cat behaviourists and comp sci folks could work together on thi
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by praptak 5y ago
See also isUserAMonkey and isUserAGoat. I think the following always holds: isUserAGoat==!isComputerOn, in other words the user is a goat if and only if the computer is off.

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