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i want some kinda engineering side project to work on; what should I make, anyone have ideas?
The Melancholy of Miss Distance
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- you know it's bad when the smoke transitions to completely laminar flow and pours out of the vents like water
- software engineers will notice half a second of latency in something that should be ~instant and will move heaven and earth to fix it, or at least to understand why; and this seems to have blown an operation that had started to install a backdoor on every Debian/Ubuntu SSH serverReplying to @haxrobPlans to literally "hack the planet" foiled due to 500ms of latency that Andres instinctually investigated. The latency was due how the malicious code parsed symbol tables in memory. openwall.com/lists/oss-secu…
- i have good and bad news about how those are testedI think it'd probably be really fun to drive into one of these full speed
Flight is truly miraculous. There’s a certain type of person who essentially seems to believe that the purpose of modernity is the aircraft. I don’t necessarily agree, but I get it.- the highway patrolman seething in rage as I zoom by in the Hopeless Tetrahedron which sports an industry-leading all-aspect radar cross section approximating that of a domestic cat; rendering radar speed measurements effectively impossible
- wont the gases created by anaerobic decomposition eventually overcome the epoxy and disassemble these accursed spheres with the gentleness of your average grenade
- Luhn's algorithm let me troll some scammers a few years back, i was getting a call every couple days; while i was on the phone once and the scammer was asking me for my card number i looked up a website that generates payment card numbers that pass Luhn but obviously aren't realfound out today that credit card numbers are validated by an algo called "Luhn's Algorithm"
- profoundly evil. the r&d process of a human capital shredder.
'CocoMelon' is literally designed to put babies in a trance like state. They invented something called the "Distractatron" to measure every instance when a child's full attention strays - This is a better way to visualize OpenAI's cost structure than a bar graph
openai’s cost structure - there's air supremacy and there's "ADS-B transponder active during an airstrike" air supremacyVery odd. 🇺🇸 AC-130J Ghostrider 18-5886 #AE6201 made many very visible flight tracks around the time it was reported that there were airstrikes occurring in Iraq. I feel like this is unprecedented: I've never seen an aircraft likely involved carry out a sortie. Publicly.
- i didnt know there was a nuclear weapons fandom who are trying their damndest to reverse-engineer modern nuclear weapon designs based off unclassified / public-domain info
- catapult assisted take offReplying to @pt0kesthey have something like that but for birds and it launches them
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