cypherpunks

Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml 6mo ago

One could wake up at 8am and watch both seasons of TAS, and still have time for a full season of LD before midnight.

Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml 6mo ago

Star Trek: Picard consisting of three seasons of 10 episodes each:

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Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml 6mo ago

Idk it works for me.

I don't think there is any possible value for the sign variable which would make that if statement do anything other than raise a TypeError.

Also "8:00:00" > "10:00:00"

but "08:00:00" < "10:00:00". comparing timestamps as strings is weird but actually works, as long as the hour is zero-padded :)

the problem with this code is that & (bitwise AND) has higher operator precedence than > and == do, so it is first trying to bitwise AND "10:00:00" with sign (which i'm assuming would also be a string) and that will always raise a TypeError.

to do what the author appears to have intended to do, they would either need use parenthesis around both comparisons to actually bitwise AND their results, or (better) to use the boolean AND operator (and) instead of &.

The boolean and operator is the right tool for the job, and since it is lower precedence it also wouldn't require that any parenthesis be added here.

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Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml 6mo ago

TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for &: 'str' and 'str'

Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml 6mo ago

thank you OP for allowing me the opportunity to read this entire image here on lemmy prior to seeing the creator's mastodon username, so that i could believe it was real for a minute :)

(for anyone unfamiliar with it, check out her other amazing work...)

also ping and thankyou to @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social (in case mentions on lemmy notify mastodon users?)

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Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml 6mo ago

now do gtkmm

Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml 6mo ago

ugh. this page has some other nice stuff, but the basic browser typesetting is glaringly wrong for this historic document. see a scan of the original here

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Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml 6mo ago

One group- memes or something is wholly controlled by Chinese state actors.

As one of the moderators of !memes@lemmy.ml i encourage OP to look at the sort of posts i make and tell me - do you really think i'm a "Chinese state actor"?

Do you think all these posts i make in, eg, !hoch@lemmy.ml and !goodnews@lemmy.ml and !badnews@lemmy.ml and !eleven@lemmy.ml... these are all part of a carefully-crafted cover, and I'm actually being paid by China to delete totally-not-racist posts depicting their president as a yellow cartoon bear?

And for this service, to maintain my cover, they also pay me to create memes like this and this and this and this and this and this (and defending that one against less informed nerds) and this and this and this (a small sample of my OC here)?

And do you think China paid for this understandable explanation of asymmetric cryptography using high-school level math, because someone asked, deep in a thread about a service which I'd also already debunked the snake-oil privacy claims of?

Really?

Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml 6mo ago

unsurprisingly this has been [flagged] and deleted from the orange site.

Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml 7mo ago

maybe this helps? (via a comment in my previous post of this meme)

Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml 7mo ago

later:

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Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml 7mo ago

it is:

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Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml 7mo ago

https://www.marathonfusion.com/alchemy.pdf

https://thebsdetector.substack.com/p/government-funded-alchemy

tldr from that blog's assessment:

First, the researchers have a high degree of credential credibility. [...] These are very much not software engineers who think they’ve solved alchemy after talking with ChatGPT for a year or something.

[...]

Optimistically, in my mind this leaves about 10% odds that fusion energy becomes commercialized or at least piloted over the next couple decades and Marathon Fusion’s approach for the alchemical production of gold becomes a meaningful consideration for these fusion plants! That’s pretty high, and implies a high value for continuing to research this technology, even if not necessarily for Marathon Fusion specifically. Manifold [a prediction market] traders are giving this proposition ("Artificially produced gold on a significant scale by 2035?") ~20% odds, which likely reflects the discount rate on a market that only resolves in 10 years, although it also leaves room for other potential methodologies for gold production (presumably also through fusion energy but who knows).

[...]

Oh ya, this Gold is Radioactive

Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml 7mo ago

that little triangle means you need to click on the the text in the comment to read the rest of it, because it's wrapped in a spoiler tag. also fyi you can search twitter without a login using xcancel.com; it takes much less than 5 minutes to do so.

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Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml 7mo ago

I’m going to need you to drop a source that will take me less than five minutes to understand

that sounds like sealioning 🤡 but i'll bite, once:

are you asking for evidence that lunduke is queerphobic, or that the rust community has a disproportionate number of queer people in it?

or, do you acknowledge both of those things, and are actually suggesting that lunduke's vehement opposition to rust could maybe conceivably be entirely coincidental and perhaps he dislikes it for purely technical reasons? 😂

in any case, i'm not going to link to lunduke but i just checked and confirmed that (as i assumed) if you simply search his twitter for the word rust you can find many tweets (and i only went back a month) where he is in fact complaining about people being queer.