metallic_z3r0 @ metallic_z3r0 @infosec.pub

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A certain librarian would be very upset.

Hey man, trying to avoid STDs in the eighties was his own personal Vietnam.

Could be stroking it. Might be a jurisprudence fetishist and get off on technicalities.

The term was around before this war, and doesn't even refer to peace as much as it refers to protected trade routes, with America doing the protecting. The idea is that America enables global trade by ensuring that trade isn't plundered or threatened by neighboring countries, unstable regimes, or pirates by patrolling those trade routes with massive aircraft carriers to make sure everyone's following international rules. It also sometimes refers to trade effectively being brokered globally through American channels (effectively the case regardless of agreement so long as the American dollar is also the exchange currency, as it used to be the near-exclusive reserve currency for the IMF), which massively, disproportionately benefits America, but also benefits global trade. Before the Pax Americana was the Pax Brittanica, largely in the same way and for the same reasons. The original term (what the Pax Brittanica referred to, before the sun started setting on the British Empire) was the Pax Romana.

This is why you further develop your internal dialogue to include representation from law (disciplined) vs chaos (impulsive) as well as good and evil. You can go even further with a third axis on a scale of blue to orange if you wish, but that's a bit ill-defined and I don't always recommend it (if you must define it, I go with blue being the impassive, uncaring, alien universe/nature perspective, and orange being implicitly meaningful from a human perspective).

Yep, that's emergence, where the models of simple systems, interacting en masse, generate complexity/'chaos' more easily predicted by different models within that set of parameters/scale. Basically, it's like modeling the behavior of fractals from their appearance instead of the underlying ruleset, because what the rules generate is unexpected to our human brains, so we need to make new rules that allow us to more easily predict things, even if those rules aren't as perfect as the ruleset itself.

Yeah it turns out a whole bunch of English words are spelled more like a linguistic history lesson than anything approaching a useful system of phonetics. It might as well be pictographic with letters being helpful hints at this point. I wish there could be spelling reform in the anglosphere, but it's hard enough to get people to agree within any one of the majority English-speaking countries, let alone between them.

I like the word 'umami', but it's weird to me that they don't just use 'savory' which is the same thing. Cool that it's been figured out receptor-wise.

Adjacent to this is either A) info dumping and feeling the other person start zoning out, or (possibly worse) B) info dumping and feeling yourself start zoning out mid-sentence.

One must imagine Sisyphus annoyed.

I hope we get there soon with RISC-V.

"What do you get if you multiply six by nine?"

Aviary?

We all are, a non-zero amount anyway.

I prefer defying whatever gods exist by living in darkness and cold. Sunlight causes skin damage, I'd prefer getting by with vitamin D supplements.

Yes, I tested through 23andMe and then downloaded my genes. Occasionally I compare them to recent studies with https://codegene.eu, which is how I learned a bit about a cholesterol metabolism gene mutation increasing the probability of Alzheimer's.

My attitude to privacy is probably more complacent than it should be.

I mean, you only need a stub to count to one.

I have one allele of the soapy gene variant at rs2741762, and I really like cilantro and coriander. But I also like any weird or different smells, it appears as if I smell everything a little more strongly, and nothing is truly disgusting for me taste-wise (texture though: can't stand anything that has a vein-like quality). I have ADHD though, and one emergent behavior from that is pursuing the interesting/novel over the good, smells included.

My wife is my ex-girlfriend, but we're still dating. She gets mildly amused when I point this out, but she might just be humoring me.

But some drugs can affect your intelligence, and if he was intelligent enough to at least lay low and take credit for others' work before, it appears he no longer has at least that baseline.