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by zen_1 4y ago
I don't think there's any distinction to be made between what's "true" vs what's "popular" when it comes to online discourse unfortunately. Confirmation bias is one hell of a drug, especially when com
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by zen_1 4y ago
Eh I'm sure you'll find a few American citizens fighting for various groups in Syria, Iraq, and Kurdistan, but that's besides my point.
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by zen_1 4y ago
I think discussions of "obscurity" are always relative to the audience in question, so while I highly doubt caste discussions would reasonably be considered obscure in India (or within the Indian diaspora), I (a non-Indian) had ce
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by zen_1 4y ago
Close, ha-meem-sad If it was ha-meem-sheen, it would be pronounced "Hummush"
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by zen_1 4y ago
Alternatively, just 1: حمص
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by zen_1 4y ago
I've been semi in the market for my first car, and fully touch interfaces are a hard deabreaker for me, as are subscription services. I don't want to have to look away from the road to change the volume or turn the Radio off, and
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by zen_1 4y ago
We're smarter now, but apparently not smart enough to realize that "smarts" don't make for a terribly effective countermeasure to being persecuted for disagreeing with those in power.
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by zen_1 4y ago
Yes, we're currently using ARM32, and I'm actually working on porting the course to the Raspberry Pi 4.
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by zen_1 4y ago
I'm guessing (since this is what my RTOS did) that interrupts were used to preempt the running task, and the OS would need to explicitly save and restore CPSR/SPSR (the arm32 processor flags) for the interrupted process, since odd
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by zen_1 4y ago
Was this CS452 at uWaterloo by any chance? If so, then I encountered the same bug last term
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by zen_1 5y ago
I find it quite rich when people who have only ever lived in democracies condescend to those living in dictatorships about how we should have simply "protested harder" against the status quo. I'm sorry Mr. Virtue Signaler saf
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by zen_1 5y ago
"Unless if I have a good reason not too, take people at face value." I disagree with this. Or rather, I think there are always a plethora of good reasons not to take people (that you don't already know well and trust) at face
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by zen_1 5y ago
I remember my own experience with "youtube explosives" as a kid. I'd watched NurdRage's video [1] on how to extract lithium from a certain type of battery and thought that sounded like fun, so I asked my father to help m
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by zen_1 5y ago
True, but I think we're talking about different ages of kid here :)
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by zen_1 5y ago
Stealing your parent's credit card strikes me as the more pressing issue here, rather than a youtube video that shows you how to do something dangerous.
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by zen_1 5y ago
"All they need is a credit card and ..." The idea of children having access to a credit card strikes me as dangerous and irresponsible for many more reasons than just the odd chance that they use it to buy chemicals online. If you
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by zen_1 5y ago
I believe (though my memory is foggy, so don't quote me on this) Styropyro was approached by some military/DARPA projects with an employment offer, but he reportedly turned it down.
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by zen_1 5y ago
Obligatory link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
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by zen_1 5y ago
For what it's worth, my partner and I have been using VSC for our C++ kernel/project in our course, and we've found it to work really well after some setup (mainly CMake and cross-compiler setup). Sure, you don't get the