So to be clear: you didn’t laugh?

.gitattributes can invoke Word on windows to diff versions, and there are plenty of open source scripts that can do it if you don’t have a copy of Word (or Windows) lying around.

But Word is like shit for papers. Use LaTeX instead.

Older C compilers would truncate a variable name if it was too long, so VeryLongGlobalConstantInsideALibraryInSeconds might accidentally collide with VeryLongGlobalConstantInsideALibraryInMinutes.

Legend says that they used to do it after a single letter with Dennis declaring “26 variables ought to be enough for anyone”.

Red circles are deprecated in favor of teal because of accessibility requirement WIP.DOnotUSE.14.g.2025.v0.

XML is the second worst programming language ever created by humans

Centrifuges spin really fast, so you need to balance out the things they’re spinning, otherwise it can fall catastrophically.

Stick everything on one side and it will effectively explode.

Got it. From this list: http://bbslist.textfiles.com/408/oldschool.html

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I can see why you called it pretzel

Plover-net perhaps?

Do you remember the area code?

Don’t make the mistake of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison

And here I was thinking that adding timezones for mars was going to be the biggest timezone headache in the next 5 years.

Dwarf Fortress almost made me fail a few courses in undergrad.

That is a game that redefines the concept of fun.

Good idea but sadly not feasible

Relevant part (credit to [deleted] and u/chiagod):

Assuming D-T fusion, a single fusion event releases a 14.1MeV neutron and a 3.5MeV helium nucleus. Assuming you can absorb all this energy and you’ve got an efficient heat engine setup at around 50%, you’ll get about 1.5x10^-12 J per fusion, so for a 1GW output you’ll need 6.67x10^20 fusions per second. Say you have 1TWe (electric output) worth of fusion reactors worldwide (about half of current electricity generation), then you’re producing 1000 times as much helium, or 6.67x10^23 atoms per second. About a mole each second, or 4 grams. This works out to 126 tons of helium a year, or about 1000m^3 per year of liquid helium. The US strategic helium reserve had a peak volume of about a billion m^3 . World consumption of helium is measured in tens of millions of m^3 per year so you’d be short by several orders of magnitude in the best case.

TCP Selective Ack is very much a thing, but it does take extra memory so lots of TCP stacks exclude it or disable it by default.

TCP was never designed with wifi in mind. TCP retransmission was only ever meant to handle drops due to congestion, not lossy links.

Tmux is a wonderful complement to mosh. Together you get persistence even when your local client loses power (speaking from experience)

I worked with mosh for years to connect to servers on other continents. It was impossible to work otherwise. It only has two small warts: forwarding, and jump hosts.

The second is fixable/ish with an overlay network, but that isn’t always an option if you don’t control the network. I tried to solve this with socat but wasn’t able to configure it correctly - something about the socket reuse flag was very unhappy.

First turned on in 2010.

Git-svn was always the blessed path for converting. GitHub supporting svn was more about getting heterogeneous orgs to buy enterprise subscriptions.

• MSF provide health services and are around 80% efficient (20% of your donation goes to overhead). I’m not sure if they make it easy to earmark a donation to Gaza.
• UNICEF does more infrastructure projects, but have around 30% overhead.

If you really want to maximize your impact, check if your employer or professional association have donation matching for various large charities.

There are obviously many more charities - these are two that I believe have the highest chances of actually reaching civilians in Gaza and not being diverted.

Also that in order to exploit this it requires an active man in the middle. Which requires any of the following:

• Reverse proxy hijack/NAT hijack - from a compromised machine near the server
• BGP hijack - stealing traffic to the real IP
• DNS hijack - stealing traffic to send to a different IP
• Malicious/compromised network transit
• Local network gateway control
• WAP poisoning - wifi roaming is designed really well so this is actually easier than it sounds.

Almost all of those have decent mitigations like 801.x and BGP monitoring. The best mitigation is that you can just change your client config to disable those ciphersuites though.

Can you explain what you mean by “Didn’t happen in a vacuum”?

Best I can figure is that you disagree with the act itself, but agree with their motives or desires. But I really don’t want to assume, and would prefer to understand from you.

Yes.

Hamas attacked on October 7th. Not the other way around.