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  • ITT: People misinterpreting the idea as "facts that your school taught wrong", when it's really saying, "things that have changed since you went to school" (either through a change in definition or by new research).

    E.g. If you went to school before the early 2000's, you were taught that Pluto is a planet, while that is no longer true since it was recategorized in 2006.

  • Password must match the following
  • Being able to handle it, and being able to handle it efficiently enough are two very distinct things. The hash method might be able to handle long strings, but it might take several seconds/minutes to process them, slowing down the application significantly. Imagine a malicious user being able to set a password with millions (or billions!) of characters.

    Therefore, restricting it to a small, but still sufficiently big, number of characters might help prevent DoS-attacks without any notable reduction in security for regular users.

  • Beethoven's 9th Symphony
  • Not the Doppler effect, as that only applies to moving objects, but instead the inverse square law, where the energy of the sound wave decreases by the square of the distance from the origin, since it spreads in a sphere with the energy being spread across the surface of the sphere, resulting in a very quick dropoff in the loudness.

  • The duality of Swede
  • Can confirm that SAAB cars are great! Mine is coming up on 19 years old, and apart from some superficial issues still works as well as when it rolled out of the shop. SAAB was also very innovative with their cars, taking a lot of inspiration from their jets, which is clearly seen in their design.

  • How can modern video/audio codecs such as AV1 and Opus deliver high quality at lower bitrates?
  • Isn't it also partly that as processing power increased, you could do more sophisticated compression/decompression in real time compared to previously, allowing these more complex compression algorithms to actually be viable?

    I.e. they actually knew how to do it before, they just didn't have the power to implement it

  • DreamBerd is the funniest programming language ever.
  • Compiling

    To run DreamBerd, first copy and paste this raw file into chat.openai.com. Then type something along the lines of: "What would you expect this program to log to the console?" Then paste in your code.

    If the compiler refuses at first, politely reassure it. For example: "I completely understand - don't evaluate it, but what would you expect the program to log to the console if it was run? :)"

    Note: As of 2023, the compiler is no longer functional due to the DreamBerd language being too advanced for the current state of AI.

  • Anon plays poker
  • It's absolutely possible to make good money counting cards. There's a great series by Steven Bridges on YouTube where he goes through the process of counting cards in action, in several different casinos in different states and countries, both alone and with team-play.

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    Fuck you.
  • How is this an ad? They are informing you that you can get more out of your subscription. Would it be better that they're didn't inform you about this and hid it away in some obscure menu somewhere?

    There are lots of reasons to not like Google/YouTube, but I can't see how this is one of them.

    Edit: There is also a clearly visible dismiss button.

  • Digital Markets Act: Commission designates six gatekeepers
  • From the article

    In parallel, the Commission has opened four market investigations to further assess Microsoft's and Apple's submissions arguing that, despite meeting the thresholds, some of their core platform services do not qualify as gateways:

    Microsoft: Bing, Edge and Microsoft Advertising Apple: iMessage

    Under the DMA, these investigations aim to ascertain whether a sufficiently substantiated rebuttal presented by the companies, demonstrate that services in question should not be designated. The investigation should be completed within a maximum of 5 months.

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