In other news today...
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@DogsB Ok… but that's a different article, about different image of a different object. The article posted first was from 2019.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@DogsB Ok… but that's a different article, about different image of a different object. The article posted first was from 2019.
I dunno what to tell you. I still don't know if it's a doughnut or a pornstar's butthole.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Is it a doughnut
You get images somewhat ring-like because hot stuff is orbiting the black hole and you can't really see very much in the middle (that's where the hole is). You get to see the ring even when you are not looking at the whole thing from a pole (of the accretion disk) because of intense relativistic gravitation effects. The orbiting material is orbiting because it's damn rare for things to approach a black hole from a long way away on a trajectory to enter it first pass — gradually spiralling in is just a lot more common — and it is hot because the things going around the hole tend to hit each other very fast. Yes, it's definitely a dangerous environment.
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If anybody needs a new spirit animal:
EDIT: It's not just one guzzling beer though:
The 30 Million Friends Foundation, a French animal rescue group, said deer in Normandy have been known to over-indulge this time of year on spring buds that are loaded with sugar that ferments in the animals' stomachs, making them "drunk" in the same way as if they had consumed alcohol.
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@JBert So when you drive your car soberly along some country roads in Normandy, and some drunken deer just jaywalks and you crash into it, that's an alcohol-related accident then?
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@DogsB This wasn't in the news today, it was in the news three years ago.
That's a different star-hole. The recent one is from Sagittarius A*, the one before was the one of the Messier b-holes
e: 'd, but without as many juvenile puns
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Article @JBert posted in In other news today...:
If anybody needs a new spirit animal:
EDIT: It's not just one guzzling beer though:
The 30 Million Friends Foundation, a French animal rescue group, said deer in Normandy have been known to over-indulge this time of year on spring buds that are loaded with sugar that ferments in the animals' stomachs, making them "drunk" in the same way as if they had consumed alcohol.
keep a safe distance from any deer that appear to be acting strangely.
Opportunity?
: "Hey hunk, you look particularly delicious right about now..."
: Too easy...
Filed under: How to catfish a deer
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@Tsaukpaetra Deer are not obligate herbivores.
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@DogsB sounds like it could also be a black hole from nearly all angles, or a coffee cup, then. Coffee cups are more commonly observed. It's probably a coffee cup.
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra Deer are not obligate herbivores.
That's the hope!
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Now all we need is to grow potatoes in Martian soil...
Great, the Irish are going to be the first to mars. Didn't the English try that with Australia?
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I'll take this as a net win for society.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
not the British govt, though, they couldn't be less European if they tried.
It's safe to assume they are trying.
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@loopback0 they are very bloody trying.
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Bonobo's Day Off:
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@JBert finally. Now everyone can again enjoy viewing bonobo social dynamics.
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I'm not saying the world is run by vampires... yet!
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I'm not saying the world is run by vampires... yet!
When will you say it?
soon....
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I'm not saying the world is run by vampires... yet!
When will you say it?
soon....
Thiel is a very small fraction of GGP.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I'm not saying the world is run by vampires... yet!
I've seen that one:
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Watch a Total Lunar Eclipse (NASA Science Live):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGIaEIICIcsEdit: The live stream on YT just ended, but I think it's still live on
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Not from today, but I just saw this today:
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@JBert
don't leave out the fact they sedated him with a laced banana
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showing that 3.11 was overall 1.25 times faster than 3.10.
Getting faster doesn't mean that it's getting fast.
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Python 3.11 will be okay, but Python 98 SE is where things will really start picking up.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
showing that 3.11 was overall 1.25 times faster than 3.10.
Getting faster doesn't mean that it's getting fast.
we would like it to be competitive with fast implementations of scripting languages, like V8 for Javascript
1.25 times is still a spit in the sea indeed. According to
there are cases where the difference approaches two bloody orders of fucking magnitude.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Watch a Total Lunar Eclipse (NASA Science Live):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGIaEIICIcsEdit: The live stream on YT just ended, but I think it's still live on
Tangentially related.
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https://www.raiderreview.org/2022/03/15/the-cream-cheese-shortage-across-the-u-s/
There is a line in the sand... and whoever is responsible for this will know nothing but pain.
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TLDR: SanDisk uses a custom encryption algorithm that claims 1024-bit but is really only 128-bit because of dumb design decisions and encryption is hard.
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@Dragoon Three main things to keep in mind when rolling your own encryption:
- Don't
- Don't
- Don't
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon Three main things to keep in mind when rolling your own encryption:
- Don't
- Don't
- Don't
I'd say it needs to be reiterated at least 999997 more times
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon Three main things to keep in mind when rolling your own encryption:
- Don't
- Don't
- Don't
I'd say it needs to be reiterated at least 999997 more times
Nope, that's a common implementation mistake that can weaken the overall system back down to the strength of less than a single don't.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
https://www.raiderreview.org/2022/03/15/the-cream-cheese-shortage-across-the-u-s/
There is a line in the sand... and whoever is responsible for this will know nothing but pain.
To solve this problem, start hoarding now.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@cvi said in In other news today...:
showing that 3.11 was overall 1.25 times faster than 3.10.
Getting faster doesn't mean that it's getting fast.
we would like it to be competitive with fast implementations of scripting languages, like V8 for Javascript
1.25 times is still a spit in the sea indeed. According to
there are cases where the difference approaches two bloody orders of fucking magnitude.
Do you mean 6, 7, or is that decimal?
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This seems like something that would be of interest to many people here:
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
This seems like something that would be of interest to many people here:
And yet I suspect that the constant barrage of "not my voters" taxes & fees on airports will somehow not be one of the things they look to clamp down on...
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@izzion One of the comments was something along the lines of, what if the Port Authority didn't charge airport tenants rents that are more than 110% of the market rate?
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@HardwareGeek The obvious response being, how do you define "market rate" here? Airports are a rather unique beast and rental rates inside of one cannot be compared directly to rental rates in the city outside, for example. For something this rare and illiquid, you kind of have to fall back on Economics 101: a fair price is whatever a buyer and seller are willing to agree upon, no more, no less.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
TLDR: SanDisk uses a custom encryption algorithm that claims 1024-bit but is really only 128-bit
That's not quite the problem. AES-128 is still perfectly fine security, any attack on that would be huge. In fact, the mere claim of "AES-1024" should give immediate cause for concern:
I could choose ( if I would bought the premium version of the software) between several methods: “AES 128 bit“, “AES 256 bit“, “AES 512 bit” and “AES 1024 bit“. It was surprising to me since AES keys are defined in the standard to be either 128, 192 or 256-bit long but not 512 nor 1024 bits.
What they attacked, then, was not AES itself but the key generation function (how to turn a user password into an 128-bit key). Probably together with the user having a low-entropy password, although they didn't mention how long they needed to brute-forcce it.
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@topspin Because brute-force isn't the only feasable attack. They screwed up so badly that rainbow tables are back in fashion.
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@dkf
by a long shot