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cide1··on Zildjian, a 400-year-old cymbal-making company in Massachusetts
Cymbals arent cheap per se, but relative to other instruments they are. A professional saxophone is on the order of $7000 to $20,000. A professional violin can easily be $50,000 and sought after violin's as high as $20 million. Zildjian cymbals for a few hundred dollars are one of the few places a random beginner can consider buying the same instrument used by world level talent.
cide1··on What We Learned from Red Teaming Our Top Charities
Don't re-define red teaming.
cide1··on Fortran II Hypersource
Thank you!
cide1··on Fortran II Hypersource
Its amazing to me how few instructions it took to write this. I would love to see higher level documentation of how it all fits together.
cide1··on I like the RP2040
The lack of security features really limits where this can be used in commercial designs.
cide1··on Macaroons Escalated Quickly
I studied that code and the comment for a good 10 minutes. As far as I can tell it just obfuscates, and is not actually implementing authenticated encryption. It would help to just come out and say that part out loud.
cide1··on How Lego builds a new Lego set
I agree, the instructions have improved greatly over the years. I just rebuilt some of my childhood sets from the late 80's and early 90's (mostly Town theme) and I was struggling at times. My 6 year old son does well with pretty much all the modern instructions regardless of the age (City, Batman, Speed, Technic, Jurassic Park themes).