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TauZero

@ TauZero @mander.xyz

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  • What's your "Oh fuck, that actually worked!" Linux moment that made you feel like a wizard?

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  • Using dd to move-resize a partition by writing down the cylinder numbers and moving it piece by piece like some Tower of Hanoi. Wanted to add more space to my root after deleting the Windows partition, which happened to be first. There is apparently no built-in command to do that.

    Booted up fingers crossed and everything worked.

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  • Yes! Cancels out, leaving only a very slight edge on door 2. All that work for only... 2.77% edge over picking at random. What a troll problem, huh?

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  • Knowing that the ball was gold gives you Bayesian knowledge about the boxes behind the door, since the prior probability of the host pulling a gold ball from a 6-gold door is different than from the 3/3 door. So you have to multiply Monty Hall probabilities and Bayesian probabilities together.

    That assumes the host pulled a ball at random, of course, and not a deliberately gold ball.

  • Democratic establishment melts down over Mamdani's win in New York

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  • Always has been 🪩👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

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  • Doesn't say the trolley is a runaway. Don't even need to make deals, you can safely walk away.

  • Republicans are racing to make Zohran Mamdani the face of the Democratic Party

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  • The Pied Piper strategy from the 2016 Clinton campaign!

  • KM3-230213A

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  • KM3-230213A is an ultra-energetic (220PeV) neutrino event recorded by the Cubic Kilometre Neutrino Telescope (KM3NeT) on the bottom of the Mediterranean sea. The telescope consists of thousands of photomultiplier sensors suspended in the water, watching for Cherenkov radiation of the decay particles resulting from the rare collision of a neutrino with the inside of the Earth. There is no known cosmic mechanism how a neutrino so energetic could have come to be.

    This meme proposes the hijinks of Apu as an alternative explanation of how all those blue-sensitive photomultipliers got activated (saturated even) in a straight line going from bottom up all at once.

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  • Your family was kidnapped and is now safely eating ice cream backstage. Tied to the tracks are 5 infinite worlds Hitlers.

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  • it's not clear that he's following Monty Hall rules

    Whenever I see a badly-specified Monty Hall Problem, I always imagine the host saying something like "Oh, you want to pick door number 1? Well, guess what - the car was behind door number 3 all along! You get nothing but a goat!" And only when you initially pick a door with the car does the host ask "Are you sure you wouldn't rather switch to door number 2? Look, there is even a goat behind door number 3!" Switching doors 100% gurantees you get a goat... or 50% silver balls in this case.

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  • Yeah, problem doesn't specify whether you want your family to live. Common mistake.

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  • Doesn't say it's your family tied to the tracks either.

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  • Beautifully written!

    I think the probabilities cancel out?

    My conclusion as well. Except that since Jigsaw has taken one gold ball out, door 2 must have slightly better chance of gold ball remaining on average (75% vs 72.2%?).

  • xkcd #3106: Farads

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  • Didn't even need to translate to foot-pounds-force, since .50 BMG was already in freedom-loving units.

  • Mike Johnson Wants Trump to Have More War Powers, Says Law Requiring Congressional Approval is Unconstitutional

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  • By denying the Constitution of the United States in violation of his Oath of Office, House Speaker Mike Johnson is unironically committing treason right now.

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  • This. Full disk encryption worked on Linux long before TPM, and works perfectly fine now still. TPM to me seems only additionally effective in a narrow range of "evil maid" attack scenarios where your (unencrypted, unsigned) bootloader is modified at rest, such as to steal your disk encryption key later. However A) I cannot afford to hire a maid, let alone one also skilled in editing Linux initramfs images and B) I don't see TPM evangelists check their keyboard USB cable for in-line hardware sniffers every single time they step away from their desk.

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  • Good question to ask! I had short hair then, which is why it worked. Have long hair now and could not get away with it again - start feeling too greasy after a week, and I like my hair silky with conditioner.

  • Zohran Mamdani appears to pull ahead of Andrew Cuomo, according to new poll

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  • You implied it by answering Corngood's question "You have to rank 5 candidates?" with a link to a general RCV video. You misunderstood Corngood to not know what RCV is. However, within the context of this thread ("NYC elections"), some awareness of RCV is to be presumed. Indeed, Corngood mentions in another comment to have already used RCV before. To me it was clear Corngood was upset about the "have to rank 5", not about "WTF is RCV". By linking to a general video you are implying that this is how RCV works, that you HAVE to rank 5, otherwise it won't count, which is false. That's not what you meant, but this is how it appears to other readers who would not be aware of your original misunderstanding. Those of us who actually like RCV feel an obligation to step in and correct you, all of us at once, to pre-empt the hazard of somebody else believing in your (unintentional) implication and ending up with the wrong idea that "wow, RCV sucks! your ballot gets thrown out if you don't fill in all 5 bubbles perfectly!"

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  • 6 months, during high school over the winter. Shower was broken (water would only come out perfectly hot or cold, nothing in between) and parents/landlord would not fix it. I kinda just gave up on it. Nothing bad came out of it. Nobody at home or at school ever said anything or even noticed, as far as I could tell. No, they were not just being polite. I watched everyone closely, as much as an experiment of personal curiosity as anything else, and there were no signs of disapproval, nobody had a clue. I suffered no social consequences whatsoever. Wearing a new set of clothes every day alone was sufficient to stay clean.

    Can't decide whether I just have one of those Asian genes that make you not smell, or whether Americans as a culture are psychotically brainwashed by soap companies' propaganda to the point where even the idea of "spending more than 1 day away from shower" is worse than death for them. Never used deodorant either (other than to try it out - just makes me feel gross, sticky, and smelly). Imagine how much money those deodorant companies are missing out on me over a lifetime!