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malevolent dictator for life (astrid@fedi.astrid.tech)'s status on Thursday, 09-Mar-2023 13:47:13 JST malevolent dictator for life @Paradox yep! -
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malevolent dictator for life (astrid@fedi.astrid.tech)'s status on Thursday, 09-Mar-2023 07:03:55 JST malevolent dictator for life Look at this "crypto wallet" I found on Amazon: https://a.co/d/fFwevRC
- it's a QR code to your deposit address on a stainless steel card (actually kind of a cool concept)
- it's $99... which is really overpriced for an electroplated stainless steel card
- and the worst part? The private/public key was printed on it by the factory. The factory knows your fucking private key. That should be an alarm bell right there.
They sell another one, which says "0.1 BTC" on it (https://a.co/d/6T5Kym7), it costs $599, but it's the same exact kind of thing. Now, based on the branding and the price, you'd think it means "oh, there's 0.1 BTC on here," right? No, it literally says no Bitcoin is preloaded on the card. It's just a $600 stainless steel card with a QR code printed on that the factory can possibly withdraw from you at any time. -
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malevolent dictator for life (astrid@fedi.astrid.tech)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Mar-2023 10:02:24 JST malevolent dictator for life tech CEOs are like the Kardashians for people who think they're too smart for the Kardashians -
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malevolent dictator for life (astrid@fedi.astrid.tech)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Mar-2023 07:28:44 JST malevolent dictator for life why pay $5/mo to join some company's stinky server when I can pay $5/mo to run my own with blackjack and hookers and 502 Bad Gateway -
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malevolent dictator for life (astrid@fedi.astrid.tech)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Mar-2023 20:29:36 JST malevolent dictator for life "i need to chat, lemme open another separate chrome instance"
"i need to listen to music, lemme open another separate chrome instance"
"i need to run a dd wrapper, lemme open another separate chrome instance"
"i need to fetch a password, lemme open another separate chrome instance"
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malevolent dictator for life (astrid@fedi.astrid.tech)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Mar-2023 15:27:43 JST malevolent dictator for life Oh, you're a nice guy? Name every process that gets to run before you -
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malevolent dictator for life (astrid@fedi.astrid.tech)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Feb-2023 17:55:36 JST malevolent dictator for life @yearof absolutely fucking not oh god -
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malevolent dictator for life (astrid@fedi.astrid.tech)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Feb-2023 16:44:44 JST malevolent dictator for life "i do things not because they're easy, but because i'm hard" -John Fucking Kennedy -
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malevolent dictator for life (astrid@fedi.astrid.tech)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Feb-2023 15:01:32 JST malevolent dictator for life Fedi really is just a fuckin zoo -
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malevolent dictator for life (astrid@fedi.astrid.tech)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Feb-2023 14:31:39 JST malevolent dictator for life Where's the woke mind virus? I heard it transes your gender, where do I get it -
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malevolent dictator for life (astrid@fedi.astrid.tech)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 18:18:51 JST malevolent dictator for life I'm so professional I never lewdpost -
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malevolent dictator for life (astrid@fedi.astrid.tech)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Feb-2023 16:06:06 JST malevolent dictator for life @niconiconi @puniko nya nya nya? Lemme talk to my buddy @catgpt who's an expert on nyaaing -
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malevolent dictator for life (astrid@fedi.astrid.tech)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Feb-2023 15:49:48 JST malevolent dictator for life @cpluspatch @puniko @niconiconi approximations and analogies are fun! Wait until I tell you about how fluids, pipes, wheels, and spring-mass systems all behave identical to electric circuits, and it's a common practice to redraw those systems as electric circuits, do electric circuit analysis, and translate it back into the original system -
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malevolent dictator for life (astrid@fedi.astrid.tech)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Feb-2023 15:49:47 JST malevolent dictator for life @cpluspatch @niconiconi @puniko oh yeah and the classical physics approximation of molecular dynamics isn't just theoretical, biophysicists run them all the time -
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malevolent dictator for life (astrid@fedi.astrid.tech)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Feb-2023 15:49:45 JST malevolent dictator for life @cpluspatch @niconiconi @puniko pharma companies probably have petabytes of MD simulations hoarded in their data warehouses -
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malevolent dictator for life (astrid@fedi.astrid.tech)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Feb-2023 15:49:43 JST malevolent dictator for life @cpluspatch @niconiconi @puniko anyways, this MD stuff isn't even the worst of it. All the video game physics engines in the world have a fairly simple core (Euler approximate acceleration, velocities, positions)... but what do you do when two objects collide? If you just calculate things the normal way as covered in Physics 101, contacts would be extremely unstable and things would randomly fly away (think goat simulator but worse; I know because I tried making a physics engine once...) There are just so many hacks used to approximate and apply contacts and friction, it's a wonder it all works. -
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malevolent dictator for life (astrid@fedi.astrid.tech)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Feb-2023 15:27:36 JST malevolent dictator for life @niconiconi @puniko lemme tell you about a little thing called molecular dynamics
So imagine you wanted to simulate how a protein or something moves over time. Nuclei and electrons interact with each other with a bunch of quantum fuckery, but the problem with calculating that quantum fuckery is that it's computationally expensive (gotta calculate eigenvalues for stupidly big matrices) and that's not feasible for big proteins.
On the other hand... you could just pretend every atom is a massed ball, and every bond is a spring, and have them apply forces to each other very, very cheaply. The worst part about all this is that it's surprisingly accurate, too. -
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malevolent dictator for life (astrid@fedi.astrid.tech)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Jan-2023 16:46:02 JST malevolent dictator for life nyaaaa~ -
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malevolent dictator for life (astrid@fedi.astrid.tech)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jan-2023 16:28:41 JST malevolent dictator for life oh no, my grafana server is shitting itself! i should go check the graphs to see what's causing it.
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malevolent dictator for life (astrid@fedi.astrid.tech)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jan-2023 16:28:39 JST malevolent dictator for life perhaps running a monitoring stack on a 2core 1gb free oracle node was a mistake