I have this great idea for an app, we can go 70/30 on it! 70 for me because the idea is the hardest part after all. So basically it's Twitter plus Facebook plus Tinder with a built in MMO. You can get that done in a couple weeks, should be pretty easy right?

For those curious, I found this source: http://prefrontal.org/files/posters/Bennett-Salmon-2009.pdf (Bennet et al. 2009: Neural correlates of interspecies perspective taking in the post-mortem Atlantic Salmon: An argument for multiple comparisons correction)

Essentially it's using a dead salmon as a lone control to argue that fMRI studies should be more rigorous in how they control for random noise.

Giving away conquered territory in hopes of peace is called appeasement. Historically, it doesn't go well.

A favorite of mine is Ghidra. Before they realeased+open souced it a few years back, the only option for real software reverse engineering (as in, for large and non-trivial programs, where you need more than just fancy disassembly) was IDA Pro, which is absurdly expensive if you're not sponsored or willing to pirate. Now, some of us kinda take for granted the fact that there's an open source world-class RE tool. And honestly, I even prefer it to IDA Pro - that's how good it is.

Oh, we've long outdone Chernobyl. Industrial pollution, oil spills, microplastics, regular plastics, PFAS, overfishing, habitat destruction... The modern ecological disaster caused by the US alone, before you even add in the rest of the planet, is so unfathomably large in scale that honestly it doesn't even warrant a comparison to Chernobyl.

For those curious, the "off" means "off premises" (or something like that, they may use a different wording), so a license for a store that can sell alcohol that must be taken elsewhere to be consumed, i.e. a liquor store or package store. The inverse is an "On-License", a license to sell alcohol that may be consumed on premises, so things like bars, pubs, and restaurants.

This is worse than planned obsolescence. This is basically manufactured ewaste.

I'd really rather we skip over ARM and head straight for RISC V. ARM is a step in the right direction though.

The alternative is making Russia getting/keeping the territory a worse option than leaving Ukraine the hell alone. I agree that the unfortunate reality is that Putin will never - can never - give up the war willingly without concessions, but the flip side to that is they'll be back for more sooner or later. We have to make the war such a bad option for Russia that Putin is deposed, whether by his oligarchs or by the Russian people. It's a difficult fight, but it's one we've fought before on 3 fronts in WWII. The difference, this time, being nukes exist and that understandably makes a lot of people nervous - but again, expansionists never stop. The confrontation has to come at some point unless we want all-out war in Europe.

I'm far removed from the situation, so my opinion isn't worth much on this part, but I think realistically maybe there could be some concessions around Crimea for a peace deal - sort of a status quo ante or similar - but Russia would have to make some concessions in turn for Ukraine to agree (NATO peacekeeping forces in Ukraine? Still a no-go for Putin though...). Ceding Ukranian territorial losses from the current war, though, will only put off the eventual confrontation, and hurt the West in the meantime.

"yeah man it's right above [Xe] 4f^14^ 5d^10^ 6s^1^, you can't miss it"

I was skeptical of the Russian asset claims during the first Trump presidency, but after everything he's done this time around, it really seems like there's no other possibility.

For those who haven't heard of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug

There's been some planning and minor media to-do about the 250th anniversary. For example, IIRC there's a picture of Kid Rock in an incredibly gaudy suit with "250" written on it, taken in the oval office next to Trump.

Fun fact, Rust has a special error message for this:

Unicode character ';' (Greek Question Mark) looks like a semicolon, but it is not.

It also detects other potentially confusing Unicode characters, like the division slash which looks like /.

The last I heard, the issue is that the person that maintained the code left, so it's still on some super old version of PHP. So they need to upgrade the entire codebase to a modern version, which can be a very involved process. I could definitely be wrong though.

Doin magic tricks with her pussy, call her a vagician

The phrase that's been rolling around my head is "credible threat of violence".

Tell me you don't know what a programming language is without telling me you don't know what a programming language is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Government_Efficiency

formerly known as the United States Digital Service

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_DOGE_Service

There’s an argument that the First and Second Amendments should be treated differently because of how they’re worded. The First flatly says "Congress shall make no law...," which makes permits seem like an infringement. The Second, though, begins with "A well regulated Militia...," and if we take "well regulated" seriously, it can be seen to imply regulation is part of the right itself rather than contrary to it. You could even push it to a more radical reading: that being free from excessive gun violence is itself an implied right, since "well regulated" might be taken to point in that direction.

Not necessarily saying I agree with that reading (honestly I don't think I have the legal background to have a real opinion except oughts and shoulds) but it's an argument I've seen made and it seems internally consistent.