jayrhacker

Visions and hallucination are not uncommon in meditation practice. In Zen training we’re reminded that the mind generates thoughts and visions like the eyes generate sight, the ears sound and so on… The instruction in that context is not to cling to the vision so that you can return to object-less meditation.

If you are interested in how some of the older meditation traditions view different meditative states, search for Jhana or Dhyana, sentient beings have been doing this for a long time and there is a lot of helpful guidance out there to support your practice.

if you compiled some code and then uncompiled it you would get the most efficient version of it … ?

Sorta, an optimizing compiler will always trim dead code which isn’t needed, but it will also do things that are more efficient but make the code harder to understand like unrolling loops. e.g. you might have some code that says “for numbers 1-100 call some function” the compiler can look at this and say “let’s just go ahead and insert 100 calls to that function with the specific number” so instead of a small loop you’ll see a big block of function calls almost the same.

Other optimizations will similarly obfuscate the original programmers intent, and thinks like assertions are meant to be optimized out in production code so those won’t appear in the de-compiled version of the sources.

Historically, reverse proxies were invented to manage a large number of slow connections to application servers which were relatively resource intensive. If your application requires N bytes of memory per transaction then the time between the request coming in and the response going out could pin those bytes in memory, as the web server can’t move ahead to the next request until the client confirms it got the whole page.

A reverse proxy can spool in requests from slow clients, when they are complete, then hand them off to the app servers on the backend, the response is generated and sent to the reverse proxy, which can slowly spool the response data out while the app server moves onto the next request.

You think someone would just do that? Just go on the internet and lie?

Web sites and pages come and go, but the search engine indices are forever. The Internet Archive, for example, uses data from a search engine crawler to populate their archive of the internet (until Alexa was shut down by Amazon, they do their own crawling now). Google likely has a lot of old internet data in archives as well.

True, but if all the data was encrypted, then the drive formatted it would require physically dismantling an HDD in a clean room to recover data, for SSDs the wear leveling makes it hard to fully erase anything, but again, after encrypting and formatting the cost of the tools needed to get the data back are well above the potential benefit (i.e. there are easier ways to get people’s personal info)

I worked for one of the YouTube founders once, killed me when he explained how they benchmarked all the Copyright detection software available at the time and then picked the worst one to use for their licensing system.

I’m sure the invasive Lampreys will have fun with them

Now, in this case, you’ve run into slang usage that only loosely adheres to the dictionary usage.

Honestly, I think this usage is very much the dictionary sense of “appealing in a pretty or endearing way”. “cute” covers a range of attractiveness or appeal in a way that applies across the spectrum of more specific compliments. It’s a safe complement to use, no-one is likely to be offended where “sexy” or “hot” is more loaded and explicit.

It’s also a more implied/less explicit way to say “sexy” (e.g. that’s a cute guy) and also works for non-sexualized things like babies and pets so again, it’s a safer choice.

You would have to go on a long Safari deep in the mall to find something like that… Look for the bitten fruit from the forbidden tree.

Once you’re in the top 0.1% it’s probably safe to go outside and just lord your intelligence over everyone you meet.

Learning new vocabulary is tight!

claiming that tofu or soy sauce are some how [a] big food conspiracy

Is also an anti-asian racist dogwhistle

It is relatively large

Let’s not let a few good apples ruin the reputation of the Police: ACAB

Heh, now do Software Engineers and IT guys…

Who regulates spectrum in disputed territory? As an operator you have to pick who you’re willing to piss off more, Russia has nukes and the capability to physically disrupt the Starlink network.

Relevant, and succinct.

Seven? Those are amateur numbers…

Edit: linked the wrong Japanese Serial Killing Nurse… Miyuki Ishikawa was investigated for neglecting 84 neonates, indicted for 27 and found guilting of killing 5.

It’s and old joke, but it checks out