MoonMelon @ MoonMelon @lemmy.ml

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This reminds me of the Blaster Worm back in the early 2000s. Infected users had to patch their PC without the internet, because connecting is what would cause you to reboot (so many PCs were infected it was basically instant). I worked at a computer store and we burned a bunch of patch CDs and were giving them out like hotcakes. My boss decided to slap a price tag on them for a day or two but we convinced him the good will was worth the cost and he eventually made it free again. People were fucking pissed off and handing out the free CD made them very grateful.

Literally why witch hunts existed. It was just a way for authorities to expropriate the wealth of some random dowager who won't remarry (and therefore automatically cede all property to her new husband).

In Luke, when Jesus says (again) to love thy neighbor literally the next question someone poses to him is "but who is my neighbor?" Jesus responds with the tale of the Good Samaritan. In this story there is a man, a traveler from a foreign land, who was robbed and beaten and left on the roadside, suffering and ignored by passing strangers (including a priest). The Good Samaritan feeds him, fixes him up, and puts him up at an inn.

There's two laws... two. The first is to love God, the second is to "go and do likewise" as the Good Samaritan did. I'm a godless commie and I know this shit.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=luke+10%3A25-37&version=NIV

The study of this is called allometry, and if you know the bone lengths of a creature you can generalize the formula to figure out when that animal will change from any one gait to another (like trot, canter, gallop, etc). This was used on Jurassic Park to figure out when the T-Rex would run (although I believe they ended up fudging it for coolness factor).

That sounds like a "premultiplied alpha" issue. Although I'm not familiar with this specific workflow, I always suspect premultiplied alpha issues when there's a halo like that. If there's an option try toggling it.

Back when corporations were first really being invented a judge complained they had "no body to kick and no soul to damn". That was 18th c. England when 12 guys would form a corporation to build a bridge, or whatever, and that was basically it.

Plenty of choices out there…

Not for me unfortunately. There's a number of businesses with zero online presence. They maybe have a facebook page with one entry congratulating Becky's son Roger for graduating with the class of 2015, and that's how you find the phone number. It's like the 90s again, except there's no phone book now. I don't understand it. These guys must be making a living purely off the business they get at church.

The guy who dug my well asked why I decided on him specifically and I said, "Honestly? You're the only one who returned my call." I asked him why guys with a lease on a million dollar drill rig wouldn't return calls and he wasn't sure.

I really didn't want to interface with Facebook at all but, fuck me. I have to join the Ruritan Club, or some shit, just to find an electrician.

Yeah, disappointing.

I ended up making a burner account for this. I used a proton mail address and a plausible but fake name. My vpn kept getting flagged for special review where they, I shit you not, want you to send in a photo of a government ID. Eventually I found a VPN server that, for whatever reason, got passed this.

Then I spent 15 minutes hiding and locking every privacy setting I could find because I really didn't want to be shown to other people as a potential "friend".

I use the account just to monitor local emergencies and whatnot. An infuriating amount of local businesses and services only use facebook.

I think the last time I celebrated any holiday was buying some champagne when Kissinger died.

Bugs? My favs are buggy to the point some of these bugs became their own mechanics

This is pretty much half of competitive Brood War.

Also quite a few great books in the public domain. Here is a website that curates, fixes up, and publishes free copies of classic public domain literature: https://standardebooks.org/

Cops can ignore. Prosecutors can decline. Judges can "sentence" to unconditional release.

The people can nullify.

I'd like to specifically highlight the Swill Milk Scandal also.

The New York Times reported an estimate that in one year, 8,000 infants died from swill milk. The milk from swill-fed cows, produced in dense urban areas and often priced as low as 6 cents per quart, was affordable to most of New York City's poorest residents. Swill milk dairies were noted for their filthy conditions and overpowering stench both caused by the close confinement of hundreds (sometimes thousands) of cows in narrow stalls where, once farmers tied them, they would stay for the rest of their lives, often standing in their own manure, covered with flies and sores, and suffering from a range of virulent diseases.

Sound familiar?

The Tammany Hall politician Alderman Michael Tuomey, known as "Butcher Mike", defended the distillers vigorously throughout the scandal—in fact, he was put in charge of the Board of Health investigation... Tuomey assumed a central role in the ensuing investigations and ... shielded the dairies and turned the hearings into one-sided exercises designed to make dairy critics and established health authorities look ridiculous.

Sound familiar? However people were so enraged that eventually laws passed regardless, and then finally at the federal level.

Most people don't know about it, but this was basically THE incident that led to the modern FDA. It keeps coming up too. Recently we've had the raw milk fad, but also various melamine adulteration incidents (melamine is used to fool modern protein assays, but is basically the 21st century version of swill milk). There's also occasional "grass roots" efforts to loosen the regulation on milk labeling, ostensibly for plant based milks, but I am suspicious this is astroturfing by the dairy industry because it's exactly what they've been fighting for since the Pure Food and Drug Act passed.

Coming from Python I feel like it's my partner and best friend. In fact the whole damn tool chain is amazing.

Ubiquitous in the games industry unfortunately, for at least the art side but often code as well.

There was an initial consultation, where the doctor told me that quite a few childless men want to get the procedure reversed later, but you should consider it "not reversible." Not a problem for me.

On the day I entered a very small room with a reclined chair. The lights were dimmed. The only pain was a brief "pinch" during anesthesia. This was "needleless" anesthesia with some kind of aerosol device, but a needle probably would have been about the same. Needles don't bother me, so I considered this a gimmick.

It was done a lot faster than I thought. I was chatting with the urologist the entire time. The stitches were in a different part of my scrotum than I imagined they would be (higher up). Initial recovery was fine, but a couple weeks later I did have some post-op pain that was pretty bad. NSAIDS, suprisingly, helped quite a bit. This recurred a few times a year for about five years and then never again. It was not an infection. From what I understand this is a rare side effect, but possible. For a lot of people it's totally painless, but that was my experience.

School dreams are very rare now, and when I have them the "cast" is all people from various adult jobs. I never knew my actual school mates as adults, so I guess my brain just can't fill it in. If I was actually transported back to high school and saw them again it would probably feel like being surrounded by babies, so makes sense that "central casting" sends in adult stand-ins.

I'm always an adult too. What's weird is I remember being a child. I remember my body being clumsy and awkward, I remember being confused by adult concepts, I remember being small. It never comes out in childhood dreams, I'm always my present age.

That's one kind, and Rust's "ownership" concept does mean there's built-in compile time checks to prevent dangling pointers or unreachable memory. But there's also just never de-allocating stuff you allocated even though it's still reachable. Like you could just make a loop that allocates memory and never stops and that's a memory leak, or more generally a "resource leak", if you prefer.

Rust is really good at keeping you from having a reference to something that you think is valid but it turns out it got mutated way down in some class hierarchy and now it's dead, so you have a null pointer or you double free, or whatever. But it can't stop the case where your code is technically valid but the resource leak is caused by bad "logic" in your design, if that makes sense.

My dad survived colon cancer but then any further colonoscopy was denied for five years because it was no longer "preventative".