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The Melancholy of Miss Distance
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The Melancholy of Miss Distance
@softminus
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    The Melancholy of Miss Distance
    @softminus
    May 5
    i want some kinda engineering side project to work on; what should I make, anyone have ideas?
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    The Melancholy of Miss Distance
    @softminus
    Nov 5, 2021
    you know it's bad when the smoke transitions to completely laminar flow and pours out of the vents like water
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    The Melancholy of Miss Distance
    @softminus
    Mar 30, 2024
    software engineers will notice half a second of latency in something that should be ~instant and will move heaven and earth to fix it, or at least to understand why; and this seems to have blown an operation that had started to install a backdoor on every Debian/Ubuntu SSH server
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    HaxRob
    @haxrob
    Mar 30, 2024
    Replying to @haxrob
    Plans to literally "hack the planet" foiled due to 500ms of latency that Andres instinctually investigated. The latency was due how the malicious code parsed symbol tables in memory. openwall.com/lists/oss-secu…
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    The Melancholy of Miss Distance
    @softminus
    Apr 11, 2024
    i have good and bad news about how those are tested
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    Séamus Malekafzali
    @Seamus_Malek
    Apr 9, 2024
    I think it'd probably be really fun to drive into one of these full speed
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    The Melancholy of Miss Distance
    @softminus
    Feb 15, 2024
    he cooked here unfortunately
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    The Melancholy of Miss Distance
    @softminus
    Sep 21, 2025
    same
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    𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯
    @atlanticesque
    Sep 21, 2025
    Flight is truly miraculous. There’s a certain type of person who essentially seems to believe that the purpose of modernity is the aircraft. I don’t necessarily agree, but I get it.
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    The Melancholy of Miss Distance
    @softminus
    Aug 19, 2024
    the highway patrolman seething in rage as I zoom by in the Hopeless Tetrahedron which sports an industry-leading all-aspect radar cross section approximating that of a domestic cat; rendering radar speed measurements effectively impossible
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    The Melancholy of Miss Distance
    @softminus
    Nov 26, 2022
    wont the gases created by anaerobic decomposition eventually overcome the epoxy and disassemble these accursed spheres with the gentleness of your average grenade
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    i like food
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    Nov 26, 2022
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    The Melancholy of Miss Distance
    @softminus
    Sep 9, 2024
    Luhn's algorithm let me troll some scammers a few years back, i was getting a call every couple days; while i was on the phone once and the scammer was asking me for my card number i looked up a website that generates payment card numbers that pass Luhn but obviously aren't real
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    neural nets.
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    @cneuralnetwork
    Sep 6, 2024
    found out today that credit card numbers are validated by an algo called "Luhn's Algorithm"
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    The Melancholy of Miss Distance
    @softminus
    Nov 20, 2024
    profoundly evil. the r&d process of a human capital shredder.
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    Felix ❤️‍🔥
    @pilgoth
    Nov 19, 2024
    'CocoMelon' is literally designed to put babies in a trance like state. They invented something called the "Distractatron" to measure every instance when a child's full attention strays
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    The Melancholy of Miss Distance
    @softminus
    Oct 10, 2024
    This is a better way to visualize OpenAI's cost structure than a bar graph
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    morgan —
    @morqon
    Oct 9, 2024
    openai’s cost structure
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    The Melancholy of Miss Distance
    @softminus
    Nov 22, 2023
    there's air supremacy and there's "ADS-B transponder active during an airstrike" air supremacy
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    Evergreen Intel
    @vcdgf555
    Nov 21, 2023
    Very odd. 🇺🇸 AC-130J Ghostrider 18-5886 #AE6201 made many very visible flight tracks around the time it was reported that there were airstrikes occurring in Iraq. I feel like this is unprecedented: I've never seen an aircraft likely involved carry out a sortie. Publicly.
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    The Melancholy of Miss Distance
    @softminus
    Apr 19, 2024
    i didnt know there was a nuclear weapons fandom who are trying their damndest to reverse-engineer modern nuclear weapon designs based off unclassified / public-domain info
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    The Melancholy of Miss Distance
    @softminus
    Aug 11, 2024
    catapult assisted take off
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    Jack
    @Jacktheoiler
    Aug 11, 2024
    Replying to @pt0kes
    they have something like that but for birds and it launches them
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