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  • There's a difference between fear and respect. A child should NEVER fear the adult providing their care.

    I would actually wager decent money that many of those little shits have been smacked around quite a lot. They learn to react how they were taught by demonstration. If mistakes are met with violence and aggression, then they learn to do the same to others.

    I know a teacher who (unofficially) specialises in kids like those. They are hell on a new teacher. However, once they realise that they are not met with aggression, the veneer cracks. The young scared child realises that there is an adult they both cares and shouldn't be feared. Very soon, just the idea that they might disappoint her is a far better motivator than any punishment could be.

  • The issue is if you are a) targeted, and b)involved in multiple breaches. If they can get the pattern, they potentially get everything.

    Is it worth it? That depends. Are you willing to risk it NOT being worth it to a random guy in Africa earning a few $ a day?

  • I tend to prefer pass phrases, they are a lot easier to type and speak, if required. Mine regularly blow past 20 characters.

    As for salting, that only defends against rainbow table attacks. The salt needs to be stored along with the hash. That is find for most accounts, but once you're in banking territory, that's a bad bet.

    You also can't assume you have no vulnerabilities. If someone gets your database, you can't defend against brute force attacks.

    Lastly, if you are doing passwords properly, you shouldn't care much about length. There are a few dos attacks to worry about, but a 512 char limit will stop those, and not limit any sane password.

  • If a gang is using children to deal drugs, then it's an unfortunate, but necessary, thing.

    A while back, gangs realised that the police and courts will go easy on teenagers. Teenagers are also notoriously easy to manipulate. This makes them the perfect cover and scape goats for a gang.

    The real question is why blacks are being targeted. Is it the police being racist, or are the gangs targeting them, and so the police follow?

  • That's also my pet peave with situations like this.

    Are they searching black people (and so racist)?

    Are they searching poor people (and so classist)?

    Are they searching based on evidence (fair)?

    All could reach the same result, but the solution is vastly different.

    Unfortunately, 1 points to a simple problem, with someone to blame. The other 2 are complex social problems that require complex solutions and don't have a simple bogeyman to blame.

  • It stops a lot of people. Unfortunately, they are also the ones who would actually follow the rules. This just leaves the rule breakers and idiots, giving everyone else a bad name.

    I would personally love a micro mobility option. An option between walking and driving my van somewhere would be extremely useful.

  • Most of the work on facturio has been on the underlying engine. Factories that would bring a high end PC to it's knees, at the start, now race along on a mediocre PC.

    The factorio devs don't play factorio in the game anymore, they play it with the engine. By the results, they are both a team of geniouses and completely addicted.

  • There are several major hurdles, and no particularly strong evolutionary drive to overcome them.

    The first is breathing. Fish "breath" water. Shifting to air takes a huge reconfiguration. It also compromises their ability to process water.

    The second is power. "Flying" fish are actually gliders. They build up momentum in the water before launching themselves into the air. They don't actually have the ability to flap and maintain their flight. Developing the muscles for this would likely compromise their swi.ing slightly. That would be a far bigger issue, compared to a bit of extra gliding.

    A flying fish's goal is to break contact with an underwater hunter, before reentering the water. A steerable glide is more than enough of this. There is simply no pressure to advance it further.

  • Exposure can cause similar effects. However, the act of heating the plastic to the temperatures needed to melt it and defirming it also damages the structure. It's particularly obvious with pla, but all plastics suffer from it, to an extent.

  • Repeating plastics tends to damage them on a chemical level. The polymer chains break and shorten. This ends with the plastic being more brittle. Since 3d printed parts have already been remelted once, they have even more degradation than injection moulded parts.

    I believe the recommended amount of recycled plastic is around 30% for PLA. Any more and the parts lose significant strength.

    I personally would prefer us to accept that plastics aren't really recyclable. It's better to move towards renewable plastics like PLA, and treat the waste as biomass (either composted or burnt for energy.

  • I've found a layered approach is the best bet. A lot of articles have little to no political subtext. These can be read in a relaxed manner. Those that appear to have some bias can then be subject to a deeper analysis.

    It's not perfect, but it limits the cognitive load to something manageable, while allowing you to catch the worst articles easily.

    The image posted makes a good 2nd or 3rd pass guide.

  • If you pay attention to the footage, the riots are tiny. I think the biggest was around 100 people.

    We finally managed to kick the right wing theives out, and some people are less than happy. They managed to rial a few idiots up, and the media have lapped it up.

  • Some do. However, a more common situation is that the parents have been dealing with a sick baby, and decided to let them sleep, when they finally went down. A phone call waking them, after a sleepless night can be met with inappropriate, but understandable, anger.

    Many nurseries err on the side of politeness.

  • I thought I understood the sleep deprivation until I became a dad. The part most people don't account for is the chronic nature of it. It's not 1 night, or even a few, it's weeks and months of it. It's also combined with having your hormones thrown for a loop (yes, men too!). It jams your brain in ways you would never expect.

    It's so easy to screw up that badly that I'm amazed at how infrequent it actually is.

  • I don't know if it's real or just nostalgia, but reddit is massively worse than I remember. I've gone back to nose a few times, and it feels like a ghost town, compared to what it used to be.

  • On the contrary, do not ignore them. People base their feeling on the group opinion almost entirely on how often they hear a particular argument. They won't remember that 90% came from 1 person.

    Secondly, unless an idea is actively disagreed with, people (subconsciously) assume you agree with it.

    Take every opportunity to disagree with the idiots. You won't convert them, but you will sow seeds in the minds of those they might be swaying.

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  • Lightburn (laser cutter software) lets you trial the full version for 1 month free. It doubles as an excellent way to get up to speed on the software without tying up the laser cutter's computer (community machine).