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Cake day: August 15th, 2023

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  • Now after almost 3 years, Russia not only hasn’t managed to take Ukraine, but has lost territory to them too. For months now Russia has still not been able to take it back!

    That was a battle cry for a tankie to show up and produce a different statistic. FYI, it’s usually a time capped chart that limits data in Russia’s favor.

    War is a dynamic phenomenon, after all. (You can usually take a specific block of time from any point and produce a favorable result by limiting which variables are used. This is why internet charts and graphs must always be verified, actually.)




  • I have seen this done by companies that are forced to release their code because it is a derivative of another open source app itself. 3D printer companies were notorious for that, from my experience.

    If it’s some random bit of code from a single developer who probably doesn’t code for a living, I am usually happy with whatever I can get. Going in with the expectation that the code won’t be documented and the app being a cluster fuck dampens the pain a bit, for sure.

    I suppose I just have a high tolerance for any pain caused by trying to get random apps working. My latest endeavor was getting Prusa slicer built in Visual Studio and I am absolutely not a Windows developer. It was just a matter of reading any build errors that were thrown one at a time.

    I should note that I am not a developer by any means, but have enough of an understanding of code to navigate through just about any random repository. (I have been in IT security for a number of years, so digging through random shit code determining exploit plausibility is part of my day job.)

    Didn’t mean to derail your rant and I understand your point, btw. It’s annoying to dig though weirdly structured, and undocumented code, but it doesn’t seem that bad to me.

    If you have an example repository you can share, that would be cool. I am super curious what triggered this post, s’all.






  • Religion is seriously fucked up, actually.

    If you can get people to believe in magic they have never seen because of stories that never happened to explain an afterlife that nobody knows about, you can easily get them to also fork over a considerable amount of their income to avoid a fate that will never happen.

    Nevermind that you can also produce some fearless soldiers who will gladly hand over their life for no real reason.

    Eesh. Humans are weird.


  • My guess is that you are visualizing the event horizon as a gradient when it should be viewed as a hard-line barrier.

    As anything approaches the event horizon, it still has a chance to escape. Once an object crosses that line, it’s game over: All arrows point in.

    Now, I have also heard that of you wait long enough for the black hole to completely evaporate and are able to collect every bit of the black hole as it does, you should be able to reassemble the data you desire. It would probably take a supercomputer more massive than the original black hole, but it’s worth a shot. As a bonus, I believe you have to solve for an information duplication paradox that is tucked in there somewhere as well.