ans

in development

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Hello my name is ans and I love dev lemons and harbor freight

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Dollars are gift cards for restaurants with a cash discount

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I plugged my car into a rack mount UPS but it didn't work :(

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@manmanathan I made yogurt once and now I have a yogurt flavored instant pot seal

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@manmanathan Time to reverse the filters and open your mind

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@luciascarlet My car runs on these, I have to buy 50,000 of them per week

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You only have to go to the circuit breaker once if you open it while live and short it with the screwdriver to turn the power off

[cursed_connectors @cursedconnector]

Buddy do you know what a circuit breaker is, and if so, y u no use?

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@HarborFreight Look at what you made me do. This cost $450

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whenever i use a hot glue gun i always wish i bought a nicer hot glue gun the last time but then i never buy a nicer hot glue gun

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@HarborFreight can you make a hercules hot glue gun? I don't have any red flavored batteries

i can wait until next time i need to use a hot glue gun

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A computer scientist named Phil Carmody realized that computer code is just binary ones and zeros.

[Math Files @Math_files]

Why did the US ban this number in 2001? It sounds insane, but 25 years ago, the Motion Picture Association of America was genuinely trying to delete this number from the internet.

You see, back in 1999, a teenager in Norway named Jon Lech Johansen wrote a piece of code called DeCSS.

It cracked CSS, the encryption on DVDs. Suddenly, anyone could copy a movie with the click of a button. It was a nightmare for the movie studios.

They went nuclear. They sued the hacker magazine 2600: The Hacker Quarterly.

They threatened Slashdot, and their lawyers fired out cease-and-desist letters to anyone hosting the code. They called it a digital burglary tool.

But the internet found a loophole.

A computer scientist named Phil Carmody realized that computer code is just binary ones and zeros.

And you can treat that string of binary as a single number. That way, you get a really, really big integer—which is the illegal code.

But Carmody knew that just finding any number wasn’t going to be enough, because the government could still ban a random number.

So he needed a number that science would be forced to protect. He needed a prime number.

You see, the University of Tennessee maintains a prestigious academic database called the Prime Pages.

It records the 5,000 largest known prime numbers. Carmody realized that if he could turn the illegal code into a record-breaking prime number, the university would have to publish it.

His first attempt was 1,401 digits long. It was prime, but too small.

It didn’t crack the top 5,000 list. It wasn’t mathematically interesting enough to save.

So, he hacked the math.

Use this formula:
K × 256^N + B

Now, K is the illegal code part. 256^N is the mathematical equivalent of adding useless zeros at the end—like making a book longer by adding blank pages. It doesn’t change the actual content inside.

So, he kept adding “blank pages,” shifting the number, until he hit a mathematical jackpot—a 1,959-digit monster.

This wasn’t just illegal code anymore. It became the 10th largest ECP prime number ever discovered at the time.

It was checkmate.

The number was immediately added to the university database. For the MPAA to ban the code now, they would have to order a university to delete a scientific record.

You can’t censor mathematics.

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I was setting things up to deploy this to our clients' PCs and it was just impossible to google anything about it

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They’ve just gotta be fucking joking at this point

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@warmdarksea im like the opposite... i wont wear two earbuds in public because i obssess over not knowing how loud my existance is

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@manmanathan @twinkdefcon They grow up so fast 🥹

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My coworker told me the snow is fake and brought up the lighter thing... Luckily I just so happened to have a blow torch on me that doesn't make any soot

[nogps @nogps1]

It's all fake!!

Seems like we can't trust much now, especially when it comes to the "weather"

Even the snow is manufactured.. it doesn't melt when heat is applied to it and gives off a chemical smell as Sheldon Surya demonstrates here

Imagine what else they are lying about....

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How do I make a fume extractor if I don't have a fume extractor? Where did the first fume extractor come from??

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Being a little sick is nice because it means I take sudafed and sudafed is a pretty enjoyable stimulant...

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@Aella_Girl I wonder if "Advertising has an influence on my purchasing decisions" would get more strong agrees

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@liz_love_lace @abyssalblue_ it's pretty cool, here's their writeup on the different NAT methods
https://t.co/HBLx4yRCWY
(and their main overview writeup: https://t.co/TQQgeURRP9)

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@hankgreen you should make some yule log videos for zonderia

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I like modern art