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> Bad Orange Men

The only people who use this phrasing are pro-Trump propagandists. It's an attempt to make criticism sound superficial rather than a reasonable objection to actions. Don't be fooled.

That makes sense for people who can't see their feet without a mirror.

If Back To The Future were remade today, Marty would be going back to the good old days of 1996.

Well I guess we all live very different lives :)

I only bother with one phone plus an emergency backup because the only work things on my phone are a chat app and some authenticator codes.

For laptops, I wouldn't take any on vacation because I'm not working. I'd take the work one for work trips.

But they're not significant. The National Insurance Fund is supposed to keep a minimum overfund of £24B (at current spending).

It's now at £79B. It's significantly overfunded.

It's a troll (based on username). Enjoy your retirement, I'll be there in a couple of years myself and hopefully doing equally useful stuff.

I like that line. The kind of cheap floozy paper that suggests something bad has been written on it, even when it's perfectly innocent.

Yes. The original small ones would fit in my jacket pockets or the back pocket of my jeans.

Nope, you don't need a naval base to do that. The measurement is not from the closest naval base.

I didn't, but then I watched SICP and the guy kept saying it to utterly dumb questions.

And then, somehow, he kept turning the dumb question into a deep and insightful one.

So I've adopted that technique but if I say "that's a great question" think for a while and come up with nothing, it's probably a moronic question. I'm not perfect.

No, the island is already within the territorial waters, it doesn't noticeably expand it.

Oh, that's what happened to you! I wondered where that came from.

There was no physics in that. It was 10 minutes of incoherent rambling.

How do people find this convincing? Is it a new fashion?

That's not an error, it's what 5 Guys advertise. It's the number of combinations for their toppings.

I've read worse. Better than Dan Brown!

And none of that is for feeding starving people who have no food.

It's all to grow profitable luxury food.

You appear to have benchmarked how quickly Python can access memory vs how quickly Python can open and close a socket. I'm not sure the DBs were required in any way.

You should really have posed that as a "I don't know anything about this so I'm confused" question.

> Gamma rays are just energetic photos

They are indeed. The average planet busting Gamma Ray Burst is just a Vogon trying to "get the whole family in".

Windows power users are the ones who have the greatest difficulty switching.

Basic users just want a web browser and need instructions for anything else anyway.

Hardcore geeks have tried everything going and have no problems with Cisco IOS.

It's the folk in the middle who struggle.

Just kidding about Cisco: it sucks.

85% of cloud servers are Linux. It's not a niche product for people who work with servers.

Well yes. For too many people, life does suck for that very reason.

That's not something to mock people for; it's a problem to apply your mind to and fix.

...but occasional delight.

No, I'm right. You can't run unix_chkpwd against a local account without root because you won't be able to access /etc/shadow to get the hash. If you think you can, explain how. Otherwise you have to use the setuid version which won't let you run it directly.

And I just removed the delay using my method. Perhaps try checking something yourself?

No, it's very simple. Do what I said in my comment. Add nodelay to the options for pam_unix.so and set pam_faildelay.so delay=0

That's it. You didn't link to any issue and the weird mistakes and justifications you're making feels like arguing with an LLM.

You obviously can't run unix_chkpwd against a local account without root.

Yes, for local password authentication.

The code you linked to isn't the code for a wrong password. It's a check to make sure you're using a TTY. That code isn't to prevent brute force. The delay there is 10 seconds.

The 2 second delay is in support.c at https://github.com/pibara/pam_unix/blob/5727103caa9404f03ef0...

It only runs if "nodelay" is not set. But you might have another pam module setting its own delay. I have pam_faildelay.so set in /etc/pam.d/login

Change both the config files and you can remove the delay if you want.

I think that's more of an attempt to get a lack of a sense of humour classified as a psychiatric disorder.

Norway has roughly the population of the average US state. So I guess no-one really lives in the USA.

> the existence of America's prescription drug markets drives the new innovative drugs that the rest of the world picks up for cheap.

That's the ludicrous propaganda that you've been fed but you really should be intelligent enough to dismiss it.

The world would get along just fine without you overpaying for your drugs. You pay for marketing costs.

You should take your own advice and widen your media sources.

Yes, you only get a continuous glucose monitor for free if you really need it on the NHS. If you want one otherwise you need to spend $100. It's not going to bankrupt you.