EnigmaFlare

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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
That first article is just nonsense. The south pole can't support life? It's been supporting humans for half a century. Can't protect against radiation? Live underground like Hamas did. Have to wait 9 months for food? We do t
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
He can't build Rods From God for his personal use because the government won't allow it. Or are you suggesting he builds it then uses it to perform a one-man military coup on the US and disables all their defenses? That's com
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
Visual Basic in VS has aggressive autocomplete and it gets pretty annoying. You often want to write things in a different order and end up having to delete the auto-inserted endif/quotes/brackets/variable names (if it's
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
Years ago, they made Outlook the web email service and I thought they were going to deprecate Outlook the application and keep the name for the web email. But man this is confusing. Too many things are called Outlook.
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
Looking for signs in the tealeaves is risky though. For example, my doctors sometimes sends me text messages saying something like "Hello enigmaflare, your XYZ Medical Center invoice for $83.00 is due in 7 days. Please pay to 01-2345-6
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
1. is better because in general because nobody actually knows who's a all-bad troll and who's a worthwhile activist. Least of all the person being criticized. QB himself isn't hurt after he blocks them and can carry on with h
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
Authority can just be identity of anyone though. For example pretending to be a relative asking for money for an emergency. And urgency isn't always present, as in catphishing and other long-con scams.
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
Yes. That's what the statistics say. If you exclude shootings by blacks and Hispanics, America's gun killing rate is similar to high-gun-ownership western European countries.
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
It doesn't even matter what the website looks like, that's what trips people up - thinking they have any capacity to judge how legitimate something is from what it looks like. Almost all scams follow this same pattern that everybo
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
Not at all. I do think people should share their beliefs even when other people don't like them, and other people should be tolerant of that. But the reality is some of those other people will try to hurt you for expressing a belief th
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
Who are these worst people and who made you the judge? Is it holocaust deniers? Gays? Muslims? Christians? Vegans? Humans are diverse and contradictory in their deeply held beliefs about right and wrong. What about climate change deniers? T
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
If you were a really good academic, you could come up with a theory that predicts the performance of a model you haven't actually tested. Physics is full of this - theories that predict something novel followed by other people doing ex
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
Stop publicizing it to the whole world, yes. The world is chock full of homophobic people and some of them are going to see it if you share it with all of them. What if you're a holocaust denier? What are you going to do? Somehow not s
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
Yes and yes. It's called picking your battles. If you're not equipped to stand up for yourself or have anyone else do that for you, you're going to get hurt when you insult someone else's beliefs they they've linked
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
I'm not talking about bullying, where the person being offended is the only one who suffers from it, but rather things like saying "X is false" which offends believers of X and they retaliate with insults. Yes, people get ang
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
How about if you're publicly saying things that offend a whole community, take personal responsibility for that and accept whatever offensive things they say about you in response. People have this dumb idea that everyone else should r
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
Come on. Millions of people put pen caps in their mouths. Nobody's going to need a special warning when they're specifically thinking about the choking hazard.
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
During covid, people got so hyped up about trusting authorities, they threw science out the window. Well I guess they never understood science in the first place but wanted to shame anyone who disagreed with or even questioned whatever arbi
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
I'm a bit shy about the details but it's used by engineers. Actually there's a lot of opportunity in software for engineers. They pay huge prices and the quality of what they have is often poor. I'm aware of some gaps in
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
I've got reasonable financial success in my software product mainly from the merits of the tech. Pretty much all the marketing I ever did was spamming a small mailing list once, making an anonymous website that subtly mentioned my prod
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
> put blame on those actively exploiting that To some extent hackers are like the wind. They're a nebulous cloud of unidentifiable possible-people that you can't influence through shaming or laws or anything else. I think we s
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
Yes, that's what I meant too, sorry.
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
You can try breathing through one to see. But the hole may also prevent it getting sucked into/deeper into your windpipe in the first place by preventing a seal.
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
Absolutely. OEM car parts suppliers have liability not just for their own product but whatever consequences happen downstream, like the cost of recalls, etc. And that makes sense becase liability is on the companies that are in the best pos
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
Search MasterLock on Youtube and you'll see that people blame the lock maker rather than the burglars. That's because the lock maker is notorious for making insecure locks. Social engineering is also something that can be protecte
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
I agree with her about blaming developers, not hackers. Though not to the point of liability for all developers, but maybe for a few specialist professionals who take on that responsibility and are paid appropriately for it. Hackers are ess
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
One way I've heard is they don't book your ticket immediately but predict when the airline's price will go down and book in then. I imagine they have far better data to enable price prediction than the general public, and can
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
There's a gulf between how people treat workmates/strangers/friends and mate selection. Modern cultural ideas of discrimination go flying out the window for the second category. They might not appear to treat you any worse bu
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
"lack of care" - that's the part about spending time out of another human's life. It's not the poor quality that's the problem but the lack of human effort. Oil paintings are full of visible brush strokes which
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
That's awesome, but the most powerful one is 9000 lumens from a 1200x600 mm panel, which is 10000 lumen/m^2. I don't think that's good enough for a proper sun effect since sunlight is 100000 lumens/m^2 and even outd

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