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justshowposton Create and share images of your source code

This is because sacred "carbon" word used outside climate hoax scope. Hence the negative reaction from radical environmentalists (we've got an infestation here).

justshowposton We've spotted a planet surviving its dying star

Sorry, but it has to be rigid to be a sphere. Angular momentum is a bitch!

PS: Dyson Spheres is misnomer, Olaf Stapledon should be credited for this idea (Star Maker 1937)

justshowposton We've spotted a planet surviving its dying star

Newly discovered Click-Bayitt type stars

justshowposton We've spotted a planet surviving its dying star

Isn't that just a simple formula? I even seen planet destroyed/remains on some of stellar evolution simulators.

It all depends on orbit radius and star mass at the end of Asymptotic Red Giant Branch.

Note that white dwarves aren't stars but rather stellar remnants without energy source.

justshowposton Meat and mental health: Meat eaters suffer less depression, anxiety

The New York Times would say “experts say the exodus was fueled by QAnon conspiracy theories which have flourished as Facebook refuses to remove them.”

The Guardian is an extremely liberal paper, but they simply do not approach the level of disinformation that you see in American papers.

justshowposton LANtenna attack reveals Ethernet cable traffic contents

Tomorrow news: Mordechai Guri uses $50 camera to see thru your optical patchcords!

justshowposton Chemicals used in packaging may play role in 100k US deaths a year – study

I actually loved the suggestion for "us"[1] to eat bugs.

[1] Quite typical rhetorics for such kind of shilling.

justshowposton Chemicals used in packaging may play role in 100k US deaths a year – study

The guradian was obviously alwayst filled with assholes who were only interessted in scaring the shit out of people.[1][2]

[1] https://realclimatescience.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Ne...

[2] https://realclimatescience.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/20...

justshowposton Missouri Governor Vows to Prosecute St. Louis Post-Dispatch for Reporting

Funding openly Bolshevist legal trolls "for world peace" seems good idea.

justshowposton Missouri Governor Vows to Prosecute St. Louis Post-Dispatch for Reporting

> for reporting

Fake news. The progressive crook wanted for exploiting and disclosing the data, not for reporting.

Actually, Krebs-on-security should know where a line drawn.

justshowposton Financial Secrecy Index

Recognizing "classes" in society is so XIX century, we should move away from that.

Re: the original concern - that website's methodology is very vague and intermixes a number of very distinct criteria. That's why their overall result looks bogus and they even have a page to yell at the critics preventively [1].

[1] https://fsi.taxjustice.net/en/introduction/method-and-concep...

justshowposton Obsidian mirror used by Elizabeth I’s court astrologer has Aztec origins

> 'Aztec' sounds super old

It rather sounds super primitive and savage. With human sacrifices and stuff. And yes, that stone mirror was polished by slaves.

Oh, those columbus day inspired pages...

justshowposton Apple silently fixes iOS zero-day, asks bug reporter to keep quiet

You're also either a victim or an oppressor. No wrong can be done by anyone in the former group, and no good by the latter. Such ideas of victimization do nothing but justify the use of power and engender intergroup conflict.

justshowposton SpaceCadetPinball – Decompilation of 3D Pinball for Windows

Absolutely not. "T" prefix stands for "type" and has its roots in case-insensitive Pascal

  /* eg common C style notation involving type identifier and var identifier is illegal in Pascal */
  Rect rect;
  (* so Pascal requires some distinct identifiers eg *)
  rect: TRect;

the other common prefix is "P" which stands for pointer type

justshowposton Man’s Vintage Camera Mistaken for Bomb, Causes Emergency Landing

Holy.

Not even one person considered talking to this man first. If he really had a bomb you’d be dead either way. Why has humanity invented language? Just to not use it? Instead emergency land, evacuate, police until finally someone talks to him?

People are so scared nowadays. In a few years wearing the wrong shoes gets you imprisoned before anyone even talks to you.

Poor guy!

justshowposton China’s noisy ‘dancing grannies’ silenced by device that disables speakers

> China is home to an estimated 100 million dancing grannies.

Sounds like talking about a species of animals.

justshowposton Facebook Political Problems

Far-left Facebook “whistleblower” Frances Haugen, who has advised lawmakers to pass legislation that would empower the establishment media at the expense of independent creators, worked for a unit at Facebook tasked with preventing “misinformation” around the 2020 election — the same group that would have been involved in censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story.

justshowposton Bitcoin is a Ponzi

No, its not. Amending the definition to make Ponzi Scheme merely a slur will get ones nowhere. And also can possible bite back on eg Brazilian Rupees as well ;)

justshowposton Effective Code Browsing

Title should be:

Quick introduction to grep

justshowposton RenderingNG: An architecture that makes and keeps Chrome fast for the long term

Distinguish _to be_ and _to become_. The latter is only possible if you _are not already_.

Safari is efficient. Chrome becomes efficient. The latter is only possible if Chrome isn’t efficient currently.

justshowposton How I Failed to Change Wasmer

I find it funny how today the measure of success is first and foremost GitHub stars and everything else comes later.

> At the time of writing, Wasmer has an incredible growth. In 2.5 years only, the runtime has more than 10’500 stars on Github, and is one of the most popular WebAssembly runtime in the world!

justshowposton 2450MHz radiation induces stress and anxiety like behavior in rats (2019)

As network engineer I can reliably state what rats are showing no discrimination when chewing twisted-pair cable segments, should it connect 2.4 or 5 GHz APs, should it run Fast or Gigabit signalling, is it inline-powered or not.

I wish 802.11bg had any vermin repellent capability, but its not.

justshowposton 2450MHz radiation induces stress and anxiety like behavior in rats (2019)

Scanning for least congested freq is very common, but it only performed right before upping of AP iface and no else. So sweeping the band with AP is very impractical.

justshowposton Climate change is a big problem for farmers in Hawaii

The Counter is commie paper, they are for so called "collective farming".

justshowposton Show HN: PeerSend – Social Payments powered by crypto

Why would anyone want to use this?

The author can just advertise their preferred payment method including a BTC wallet if they like to. And the user can be sure that their money reaches the author instead of PeerSend pocketing it after 24 hours.

Brave attempted this with BAT as well and it seems it was put on ice despite better browser integration and not pocketing the money after 24 hours.

justshowposton Removing my site from Google search

I did the same, though using the HTTP header “X-Robots-Tag: none”.

justshowposton Google developing own CPUs for Chromebook laptops

68k were extremely expensive at the time, that's why they lost desktop market to their 80x86 killer. An additional factor was what XT and then AT became an open architecture.

justshowposton The human tendency to over-water plants

Well, growing seeds definitely requires more efforts and care, for instance I had 3 or 4 failed attempts with extremely vulnerable tobacco seed, which was very counter-intuitive since adult plants are quite sturdy. Pea seeds are ultra-sturdy, that's why you succeed.

BTW, seeds would like to have some assistance, like soaking them before planting, then planting them at fake soil (eg. wet cotton wool)

Also, I highly recommend peat bricks for seedlings like https://www.growbarato.net/24393-large_default/peat-foam-eco...

justshowposton Chicken and Egg Problem (2000)

That comes at the right time to help me understand why Deno puts in a Node compatibility mode [^1] all of a sudden. Truck loads of eggs, or chickens depending on your view.

[^1]: https://github.com/denoland/deno/issues/12295