meow_catrix

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by meow_catrix 2y ago
Many plants and trees spread rotating ”helicopter seeds”. Many vines roto-grow themselves around vertical supports. Day flowers rotate to follow the sun. Apples and oranges fall on the ground and can roll far and wide. Walnuts too. Partial
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by meow_catrix 2y ago
Those rotating things still produce their thrust by pushing a wing-shaped structure through air, producing a high-pressure zone on one side, and a low-pressure zone on another. That is what I was getting at. It is the same principle.
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by meow_catrix 2y ago
The modern way is to sidestep the issue altogether and use Kubernetes with a database designed to run on Kubernetes. You can get sharding, replication and leader election essentially for free - you can concentrate on using the database inst
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by meow_catrix 2y ago
Planes do ”flap their wings”, just not the ones protruding from the fuselage.
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by meow_catrix 2y ago
Rust frontend dev is not going to become mainstream, no matter what.
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by meow_catrix 2y ago
Bet it’s just a stored XSS alert from a poisoned cache.
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by meow_catrix 2y ago
”Analysts noticed that CCTV cameras in Taiwan and South Korea were digitally talking to crucial parts of the Indian power grid – for no apparent reason. On closer investigation, the strange conversation was the deliberately indirect route b
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by meow_catrix 2y ago
Maybe don’t buy surveillance hardware from those brands
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by meow_catrix 2y ago
The Amiga manual suggests normalizing to a conjunctive normal form.
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by meow_catrix 2y ago
Watching YouTube is essentially running a proof-of-work algorithm for someone else
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by meow_catrix 2y ago
That’s React without the JSX sugar.
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by meow_catrix 2y ago
Not if you want to map or reduce it.
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by meow_catrix 2y ago
Poor on-call guys
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by meow_catrix 2y ago
It is, if you’re in the visual advertising industry.
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by meow_catrix 2y ago
It would be a lot cheaper to do as the slavic shamans do: collect amanita muscaria caps, dry them by your campfire to denature the poisons, and … well, you can figure out the rest.
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by meow_catrix 2y ago
Yada yada dump at ath
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by meow_catrix 2y ago
Cheap alibi
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by meow_catrix 2y ago
Shows it’s been a while… :)
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by meow_catrix 2y ago
Make a connectedness matrix of airports x airports with 1 marking a connection and 0 marking no connection. You can now iterate over legs by multiplying the matrix with itself. Do this until all values in the matrix are zero. The previous i