damccull
123 posts


@CNviolations My solution mathematical equation is:
"Engagement Farming."
Is that the correct answer?
English

@MojoFerocious @SpaceScumbag Hahaha yes they can. Hangar CCU, upgrade one of your hangars to a hangar with a garage.
English

@SpaceScumbag ISC answer: Uhhh, persistence…or server meshing, ummm, look, you don’t get how complicated game development is.
Real reason: They can’t sell it in the cash shop so it’s not a priority.
English

Still very interested in HOW ARE YOU GOING TO DISSIPATE ALL THE HEAT?
Let me guess, a small thermal exhaust port on the equator of the station that is shielded against rays and protected by turrets?
Pirat_Nation 🔴@Pirat_Nation
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says we're just a decade away from a new normal of extraterrestrial data centers. "There's no doubt to me that a decade or so away we'll be viewing it as a more normal way to build data centers."
English

@miaaowing I understand your frustration. Backspace and delete are two different functions and each one is important. It is one of the many, many reasons I refuse to use Apple hardware.
English

how the fuck do you mac nerds live without a dedicated delete key
im losing my mind here
maeve ~@miaaowing
i will be daily driving the MacBook Neo for the next two weeks, professionally. I work in IT, and need to decide whether the Neo will be a viable device long-term. I will try to document all of my thoughts about it, bar usual MacOS bullshit
English

@Truthcoin Additionally, the TOTP protocol Google uses has a grace period. Something like 10 seconds after the minute, I believe... It stores the previous code as valid until the grace period expires.
English

@Truthcoin Why do you have air gapped phones that drift? GPS is receive only. You can air gap without losing GPS time... Well, assuming you can disable the radios you want disabled but leave the GPS chip active.
English

Did you know:
Google Authenticator **requires** that your phone clock match the server clock.
Given that, you would think:
1. There'd be a little button in the Authenticator app, to show you your current time -- and let you set/modify it if needed
2. The server (asking you for 6-digit auth), would also tell you what time *it* thinks it is, so you can synchronize them
Instead, none of this is explained.
I have some air gapped phones, where the clock has drifted, all by itself
And sometimes, in the past, due to switching timezones, manually setting and resetting the clock has caused it to drift away from UTC time
English

@relizarov @0omari0 Powershell pipes memory objects, which are infinitely easier to handle from command to command, require no additional, error prone string manipulation, and allows for integration with full blown .net languages when you need it, but rarely forces it on you. I prefer nushell though
English

@0omari0 That is exactly the problem. All the shell needs to do is to let you pipe different executables, redirect i/o and do simple scripting. There are real programming language for code. There is no need for yet another half-baked language. It causes more problems than it solves.
English

@TheGingerBill I'll use neovim, thanks. The lovely, open source, free, best text editor.
English

@WhatsAppTeto It's my choice to rice it that hard, though. MS doesn't give you a choice.
English

Linux users be like yeah I use Linux because windows is bloated *rices their distro in a way it uses 3.5 gb ram just idle*
Geek Lite@QingQ77
Ubuntu 会一统江湖
English

@LundukeJournal Lol, go for it. Ignoring the fact that I can compile from scratch with a "return '1970-01-01'" in their horrid check, I'd wager that it's gonna take all of 5 seconds to devise a bypass for this after it's implemented. And what about servers and containers? Offline installs?
English

Fedora Linux (Red Hat), is discussing the specifics of how they plan to implement Age Verification into their Linux distribution.
The currently supported approach, by the Fedora Project Leader (a Red Hat employee), appears to be officially adopting Apple's API regarding Age Verification.
"So now its a matter of hopefully, just adopting a standard API, probably the Apple API, so that all Linux OSes can expose a standard parental controls that meets legislated expectations."
discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/a-practical-…

English

@ravikiran_dev7 Uninstall Ubuntu and install anything else. Zorin or Pop!_OS are also good beginner distros. Ubuntu has replaced stable gnu programs with unstable rust rewrites for no good reason.
English

@MishaalRahman No thanks @Google. Not interested in waiting 24 hours or having dev mode on just to side load. I've owned every Nexus or Pixel phone since the G1 but I'll probably switch to a dumb phone if this happens. Or install grapheneOS and stop using Google services entirely.
English

📢 Important update on sideloading on Android
It’s of course here to stay. The team’s been listening carefully to feedback from power users who want a way (apart from ADB) to install apps that don’t go through developer verification.
Today, we have more details on the advanced flow that gives you this option.
Read the post👇 for more info
goo.gle/advance-flow

English
damccull أُعيد تغريده

There's an old joke in systems biology called "How Biologists Fix a Radio."
A biologist, tasked with figuring out why a radio doesn't work, removes components one by one and catalogs the result.
Remove this transistor: the radio makes a horrible screeching sound.
Conclusion: this is the "horrible screeching transistor."
Remove another component: the radio goes silent.
Conclusion: this is the "silence transistor."
This is essentially what we do with genomics.
We see which genes are mutated in cancer and assume they must be "cancer genes."
We see which genes are differentially expressed and assume they must be "important."
But correlation is not causation, and a parts list is not a circuit diagram.
You can have a complete inventory of every resistor, capacitor, and transistor in a radio and still have no idea how it plays music.

English

@davepl1968 Wow what a rabbit hole. @davepl1968 I just learned a ton about data structures, struct reordering and bit packing thanks to your comment....so thanks, lol.
English

When multiple keys point to the same hash slot, what you've got there is an O(n) linked list in that slot.
Not to be snarky, but please tell me this stuff is still in Comp Sci 200. Or are CS graduates just loading numpy from Python these days?
spidey@lochan_twt
Interviewer: A HashMap gives O(1) lookup. But you just said "on average." What happens in the worst case, and when does it happen?
English

@techspence Unless the office has badge reader. Then you can skip locking.
English













