EligibleDecoy

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meet.hn/city/38.029306,-78.4766781/Charlottesville

Interests: AI/ML, Cybersecurity, Gaming, Programming, Startups

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Comment · 3 months ago
It is a political statement about the freedom of press though, no? Some libraries ban books, others do not. But that doesn’t mean it’s not political.
Comment · 1 year ago
I think a lot of English speakers use commas to emphasize a pause in speech. I don’t think a comma was needed. I think the author was slightly mixing up the relative clauses and appositives rules with commas. Source: native speaker, North America

EDIT: I like qwertox’s answer best

Comment · 1 year ago
My first thought as well!
Comment · 2 years ago
“Why do adults demand respect from children when they don’t earn it?” - the author’s teen.

This is the crux of the conflict current society has with children. Children are used as political pawns (but think of the children!) rather than being a focus of society. Even here on HN you see some posters assume a 12 year old can’t understand right or wrong (12 year olds absolutely know when to lie, thus implying they think they know when some things are wrong).

If society respected children for who they are I think we could get a lot further. Thankfully it seems we are going that direction with the addition of more “free range” laws and general acceptance that children are people, with vastly more agency than society currently assumes they have.[1]

1 - source: has kids

Comment · 2 years ago
Doesn’t adding a random salt counter rainbow tables? Then you could have fewer requirements on the users
Comment · 2 years ago
What’s interesting to me is that it loses 4% efficiency when bent. Like, I get why there’s some loss because of parasitic capacitance/inductance etc but 4% seems like… not very much?
Comment · 2 years ago
Because of a quirk of emissions controls in the US. Longer wheelbases and heavier vehicles can get by with poorer emissions. It was done, at the time, to help semi trailers and other huge trucks meet less restrictive requirements without specifically calling them out but now has led to each manufacturer making vehicles as large as possible so meeting emissions restrictions is more economical.
Comment · 2 years ago
The hypocrisy is that if safety was the overall concern, then motorcycles would have been banned a long time ago (and I say this as someone who enjoys riding my motorcycle).

I think the actual problem is that when compared to other cars in their category these kei trucks do have abysmal safety standards such as no airbags or crumple zones. Which is because there isn’t a mini truck category in the US. Basically all pick up trucks are the same category.

The point about older cars still on the road is a valid point though, cars made before 1998 didn’t require airbags so if they can still be registered then the kei trucks should too.

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
How anyone could keep x86 assembly and AT&T’s assembly straight is beyond me. Learning the industry standard assembly was hard enough. Thank goodness there are people who like this stuff, phew!
Comment · 2 years ago
I really agree. All of our team documentation is in asciidoc. Importing diagrams from other files, variables, and vastly better tables are the best features for us. I feel like asciidoc’s weakness is that there is only 1 library, and it’s in ruby. Whereas markdown has libraries in almost all languages, making it easier to support.
Comment · 2 years ago
My bet on the replays was that the attacker misconfigured their payload or something and it was meant to replay command and control requests to obfuscate where the C2 server was
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
So this lets you essentially run Lua standalone, and then compile those scripts into executables. Seems like a mix of Cython and bash. In going to give it a try, it might fill a niche of some dev tool scripts I make for the team.

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