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raverbashing··on Associative learning turns DEET from aversive to appetitive in Aedes aegypti
So maybe the solution is to apply DEET to a bug zapper
raverbashing··on Leo's first encyclical attacks technological messianism
I think what we need is convince Amodei to ask the pope to train an LLM on all the secret archives of the Church
raverbashing··on AI will be used to estimate age of asylum seekers from next year
The only wishful thinking here is assuming people won't lie about their age and then you end up with "children" competing in school-level competitions

> may erupt as early as 16, as late as 25

Cool so assuming the average age to be 20.5 this means someone with wisdom teeth is more likely to be of age than not.

Put this fact together with other factors like wrist x-ray estimation and obviously looking like an adult and maybe we can have some common sense

raverbashing··on Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test
And if anyone is curious what is N1?

> It is possibly the most dramatic and powerful rocket explosion since the Soviet Union’s N1 rocket was destroyed during a launch attempt in 1969.

raverbashing··on AMD pulls a bait-and-switch on Linux users with Vivado licensing changes
I think AMD simply looked at the numbers and they get a lot of support requests for the free version, more than the Windows version

(of course that's the bean counter calculation without factoring in "karma")

And I kinda agree, the cost of supporting those tools on different platforms is not great

Honestly just run Wine

raverbashing··on The Problem with the Ferrari Luce EV Offers a Lesson for Every Leader
Given it's Ive I'm surprised he didn't try to make the car as thin as possible
raverbashing··on Bttf is a command line datetime Swiss army knife
Looking forward to the J07 04 holiday
raverbashing··on Canada to order military plane fleet from Sweden in shift from US suppliers
And literally none of this matters and it's a laundry list of loser russian propaganda

Funny how those reasons don't matter in the least when it's time for russian losers to bomb civilians in Kyiv

raverbashing··on Bttf is a command line datetime Swiss army knife
Yes I'm sure root is anxious to read all the mail in their local mailbox
raverbashing··on FBI Arrests CIA Official with $40M in Gold Bars in His Home
Gee I don't know, they look pretty solid to me, unless they're Dalí watches /s
raverbashing··on TSDuck: Open-source toolkit for MPEG-TS analysis and manipulation
Good old MPEG-TS (together with its cousing MPEG-PS)

If anyone is not familiar with it, the rabbit hole goes deep

raverbashing··on Air France and Airbus found guilty of manslaughter over 2009 plane crash
Yes yes and I know all of that

We can argue semantics but the reason AF stalled is the same reason a Cessna would stall (too high of an AoA)

And fair enough the comparison with the Cessna might be bad, but compare it with a 737-200 or even an A300 and the comparison will be much closer even though the 737 doesn't have the fancy cockpit

> things like overspeeding it will cause it to go out of control.

Well that would be the case of the Cessna as well, if it has enough power

raverbashing··on Air France and Airbus found guilty of manslaughter over 2009 plane crash
I see where you're going here but no

A Cessna an a big jet fly by the exact same principles and they stop flying due to the exact same principles as well

Sure the procedures and parameters and automations are different (as well as things like wing positioning, engine positioning, swept wings, number of engines, sure)

But you raise the nose of both of them enough they will both stall. If you lose speed they will both stall. They will behave similarly (or maybe weirdly) enough in curves.

And I think this is what was forgotten here. Having a fancy cockpit does not make it less than a dual-engine swept-wing fixed-wing aircraft. The principles are the same

raverbashing··on Air France and Airbus found guilty of manslaughter over 2009 plane crash
As much as I understand the culture of blameless post-mortems and the fact that people in that cockpit don't get the benefit of hindsight, maybe those other companies didn't have an accident because they followed procedure (which was a simple one)

Yes there were UX factors. Yes training could be better. Yes distractions happen

But if I'm going to blame the companies I'm going to blame them on putting someone inexperienced and probably who did not have the right mindset in navigating the profession. And meanwhile companies waste time in making automations on top of manual processes that make things even more complicated

raverbashing··on Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says
Funnily enough the blame always falls back on the "western countries"

It's the perfect crutch, great way to never take responsibility for nothing

Though I do wish you well on your holiday plans

raverbashing··on Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says
Cool, may I suggest you spend your next holiday there then
raverbashing··on Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says
> because it welcomes ambitious, hard-working, and skilled people from around the world

"From around the world" more like the "world tour" definition

They were welcoming mostly Europeans. First from WASP countries, then for more southern/eastern ones. And then from East Asia (I'll save the rant about the word "Asian" for another time)

Every piece of data shows some groups excel while some groups lag behind

(of course I haven't forgotten about other groups of people that came to the US but most of those didn't come willingly)

raverbashing··on The case against boolean logic
Actually "fun fact" we use something "kinda like" boolean logic, but distinct of the original "Prototypical BL" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-element_Boolean_algebra

It has 2 operators: + and x (or more commonly: dot (.) - but this is more confusing on HN)

Also both + and x operations distribute, so A+(BxC) = (A+B)x(A+C)

raverbashing··on Cleve Moler has died
Yes (and Simulink helped a lot)

I mean of course you can do them all without simulink but it was much easier

raverbashing··on GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension
Sounds like another "why even bother" extension, made to automate things that shouldn't be automated
raverbashing··on How fast is N tokens per second really?
On avg 1 token = 4 chars

So 75 tokens/s is ~ 300 chars per second which is the speed you'd get with a 2400 baud modem

raverbashing··on Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension
Amazon played AWS from day 1 as if they were the runner-up (and in a sense they were), and while it does look like it's day 2 there, they are not letting the momentum down

Microsoft might have technical warts but commercially they are strong and Azure is a lot of times bundled with other services and you know you can get someone on the phone if needed

Google has... ?

raverbashing··on Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]
If a vendor doesn't know the basics about pentesting open infra and can't be bothered to look up terms of use sounds like they know ssh-it about fsck
raverbashing··on Everything in C is undefined behavior
> (I hope casting fear is not UB)

I'm sure that's UB in C

In C++ just use <reinterpret_cast>

raverbashing··on Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud (Resolved)
Oh "reading about it"?

Try experiencing it in person

Again this is the naive view

Again if someone compromises your accounts and everything is deleted instantly you'll be the one looking like a fool

raverbashing··on India's hottest district shuts at 10 am as mercury breaches 48 C mark
Yes I mean besides the risk of arcing and getting people shocked yes it should help cooling them down (through evaporative cooling)
raverbashing··on Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud (Resolved)
Creating stuff with 1yr (implicit) expiry by default is just a delayed footgun tbh
raverbashing··on Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud (Resolved)
No, that's the naive view

Because in case of a compromise/unauthorized access that's exactly what you don't want to happen

raverbashing··on Peter Neumann has died
The mailing list style and his personal web page tells me all that I need to do

(And if you don't get it, you wouldn't get it)

raverbashing··on Click (2016)
Yes - also it's one thing to say "A user entered the site, clicked here than here" (analyzed in bulk) and another "this specific guy entered the site, clicked here than here"
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