lordmauve

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lordmauve,

Yeah, decorate it just with a tremendous amount of dark red paint, spattered away from the fan, heaviest in the fan corner

lordmauve,

No, you can’t carry it, it’s too heavy

lordmauve,

No, it doesn’t. Commands could be authenticated using a pre-shared secret. Even public cryptography existed prior to Voyager 1’s launch (by a year).

Based on the state of computer security at that time I would guess that’s unlikely, but then again it was the Cold War.

Anyway, just because it is possible it doesn’t mean anyone can do it.

lordmauve,

I can’t help but notice Janeway developed an American accent in that 32 years though 😉

Wait, what accent do you think the girl in Airplane has?

lordmauve,

I think it’s fair to colour seasons and episodes with different scales because they are measuring different things.

Due to the Central Limit Theorem, average of 20+ episodes will have a smaller standard deviation than individual episodes.

For example, an individual episode with a score of 6 you’ll probably watch. A whole season with a score of 6, maybe not.

lordmauve,

爪乇 工尺ㄥ

lordmauve,

*Whack-a-turtle

FTFY

lordmauve,

Sweet lemonade, mmm, sweet lemonade…

lordmauve,

I’ve used it, but only when I’m on some really sketchy unencrypted WiFi network, like in an airport or a hotel.

It doesn’t offer location spoofing like all other VPNs on the market, which I would have more use for.

lordmauve,

Yeah but it sounds less cool if you say thirteen point three millilitres than to say Four (4) TRIOS™!!!

lordmauve,

Would Monsieur like un peu de… potage de la nuit? It is very… how you say… risqué ?

lordmauve,

Unless that person happens to be with their dad, that would then require finding their dad. That’s a whole extra person to find. It might be easier to skip straight to finding their dad.

lordmauve,

I have always been very confused about whether the tip line on the receipt in the US works with my British cards given that I enter a PIN into a terminal that doesn’t show that tip amount.

As of last year I’m pretty sure the tip is deducted from my card, but I don’t think that has always been the case. I understand it works based on PIN-authenticated pre-authorisation for a higher amount and they later take your tip+bill from that pre-authorisation.

It doesn’t seem very secure but the US always seems behind on card security.

When I first started travelling to the US for work restaurant staff were always extremely confused about why my card needed a PIN. They often tried again and again or said my card wouldn’t go through, then worked out that it needed a PIN. Lots of places then had no way to hand you the terminal to enter it, like they would have to push aside mountains of junk to get the terminal out, or invite me round to the other side of the bar because it’s literally screwed down.

lordmauve,

Obligatory plug for STAR Voting, not Ranked Choice Voting. STAR voting better avoids situations where voting for a preferred candidate can cause a less preferred candidate to win.

lordmauve,

Triangles taste objectively worse. The acute 45° angles are not effective at retaining sandwich contents so you are just tasting plain bread.

By cutting orthogonally you create 90° corners on each segment, allowing a uniform distribution of delicious filling throughout each sandwich segment.

That’s just maths.

lordmauve,

Real scientists would say two gigacraters.

lordmauve,

Wait, what do Americans use? Only Signal and Telegram?

lordmauve,

Use after free, null pointer dereference, double free.

Solutions to these in C end up looking a lot like Rust.

lordmauve,

Rust has a lot going for it beyond just the safety thing: excellent package manager, powerful trait system and generics, helpful compiler errors.

The whole language is designed to help you avoid making the programming mistakes people tend to make, not just the borrow checker and memory safety.

lordmauve,

Protecting, say, 17 year olds from deliberate access to porn is weird when you think about it. If they want porn, they are post-pubescent and therefore sexually mature.

“You are not 18 therefore you cannot have sexual interests” is a weird take on the face of it.

Maybe lock up the weird/dangerous stuff, and make it hard for little kids to see, but otherwise, knock yourself out.

196 Stands with Palestine, but those of you in the US should still vote in the general election.

I’ve been seeing a lot of anti-voting sentiment going around. Can’t believe I have to say this, but you need to vote. Not only is there more to the election than just the president. (State policy, Senate, house), but not voting is not an act of protest. C’mon guys

lordmauve,

I don’t understand the motivation to spoil your vote. First past the post is the shittiest voting system but the rational response is to vote tactically instead, perhaps reduce the majority of your disliked incumbent. Even if you can’t overturn a majority, MPs on smaller majorities may be less arrogant, and less likely to vote for unpopular policies. But sometimes you do overturn a majority. It will happen lots in this/next year’s election.

I don’t think any politician gives a shit about the numbers of spoiled ballots, they literally don’t look even once at those numbers.

lordmauve,

Yes, Windows perfectly serves the purpose of running an SSH client to log into a Linux box. Totally adequate experience.

lordmauve, (edited )

Some infinities are bigger than others but those are both the same sized infinity, ℵ₀. Same if you multi-track drift.

Edit: I didn’t read it closely enough, it says “one person for every real number”. Which is indeed a larger infinity. However I don’t think you can diagram that, the diagram is showing a countable infinity of people on the lower track.

Killing one person for each real number, the train will be killing an uncountably infinite quantity of people in any given finite time slice.

If you're making software for actual end-users, you HAVE to give it a goddamn GUI, or else you suck, your software sucks, and nobody is going to use your damn software.

You see this shit SO much more often than you would think. And the infuriating thing is, it seems to be most common among programs that are INCREDIBLY complex and sophisticated....

lordmauve,

And fuck you.

lordmauve,

This software is not for you. It’s for the author. It’s in furtherance of their research, or their career, or their interests. It is only incidentally available to you.

That’s it, that’s the whole story. You get a GUI if the authors wanted there to be a GUI.

If you join a community around the product - which would require being nice, willing to engage, understand, not make demands - you might be able to give feedback and occasionally help steer the direction of the product.

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