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Same, and I was too nerdy to learn in school.

What the fuck is a trick-taking game

Truco and its infinite variants.

Stocks
Bonds
Money market

Ordered from most to least volatile.

At this moment it’s bad to be in stocks: it’s a bad deal to sell the stock to buy something else, because they are relatively cheap. The flip side is that it’s a good deal to accumulate stock because it’s relatively cheap.

So the employer contribution should go to the index fund. Keep several months of expenses in cash or money market in case you end up unemployed during a crash.

You could solve your immediate problem installing this version of firefox, it’s the last browser that supports Windows 7 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/115.20.0/releasenotes/

Pierre Dardot & Christian Laval, ‘The New Way of the World: On Neoliberal Society’

This essay demonstrates that the languages that use Chinese characters have a way to form words in common with each other that doesn’t work very well when transposed to English. It does this by exploring the very idea of using the Chinese writing system to express English sentences.

It takes the analogy to the point that it breaks, and continues as satire.

http://www.zompist.com/yingzi/yingzi.htm

Most devices actively ask around for the hidden SSIDs they know about. As in, they send a broadcast in cleartext called a “probe request” containing the list of hidden SSIDs every time they scan for access points.

Today usually the scans use randomised MAC addressess for privacy, but that doesn’t help if you have any hidden SSIDs stored because of this list. Places like shopping malls are known to use these beacons to track the movements of individual people.

Before 802.11w (that still works almost always because 802.11w tends to be deactivated for compatibility), there was a trivial way to “unmask” a hidden SSID, you have to wait for someone to talk to the target access point, send a disassociation frame to the victim, and wait for the probe request / response when the victim automatically reconnects.

Don’t do this, your phone will periodically ask for hidden SSIDs everywhere you go, making you easy to track passively.

:fidel-si::speech-side-small-l-1:Yes, I find that conforming to a stereotype makes me more approachable.:speech-side-small-l-2:

Replace 他 with TA

I think if I were the president of Argentina I’d put some effort into keeping my AI comic generator from sinking Argentina into the sea.

I’m not a medic and sorry if you’ve already tried this, but your gut and mood issues sound a lot like a food allergy. Did you try cutting for two weeks the typical allergens? Try one at a time with gluten, lactose/casein, animals, legumes (soy derivatives in particular), nuts (peanuts in particular) and see if anything improves

12,000 consoles … for an estimated value of more than 47.5 million euros.

Each console costs 40 grand?

One thing I’d really like to do is learn what the default install of Mint+Cinnamon is doing, how to go over the different components, how to pick and choose what i want this thing doing. I didn’t find the official documentation overly helpful, troubleshooting the install aside, so i wanted to ask here

It sounds like, as soon as you get half-comfortable, you should install Arch.

This is not a meme, your question is exactly what archlinux exists for.

Don’t use the installer, follow the good old https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Installation_guide

Good luck, don’t take Arch too seriously.

Barber shop at 451 W 46th St, New York

Fidel and Che meeting in Mexico, colorised.

I bought a second-hand xperia 5 III last week. Edit: Flashed lineageos and a magisk module to use the stock camera.

The naming scheme is confusing, the first number is the price range, where 1 is the most expensive, 5 the sweet spot, 10 the “budget” model, then the second number is the generation, I < II < III < IV < V < VI.

Recently I found out about sony xperias.

• Decent price second hand
• decent specs, snapdragon CPU
• Unlockable bootloader
• Very good camera, not bricked by unlocking the bootloader
• LineageOS support on some models
• Headphone jack
• Double SIM + eSIM
• micro SD card
• Large battery
• Easy to repair

For smartphones I think a significant driver of their ever-increasing sizes is that battery technology is lagging behind power demand. The worst thing of having a small phone these days is that the battery lasts less than a day. Big screens used to be too power hungry to be practical but LEDs are extremely efficient these days.

My prediction is that we’ll return to the miniaturization craze of the 1990s whenever the next breakthrough in battery technology happens.

Huh, when I set it up zsmalloc wasn’t finished and never deallocated. But it seems that today it’s the right choice! Thanks.