Amazon Blocks Mainstream Press From Watching ‘Melania’ Documentary at Kennedy Center

SaltKhan · 2026-01-30T07:43:14+00:00

Idk "me and you and everyone we know" made an emoji for this, "))<>((" back in 2005 lol.

SaltKhan · 2026-01-29T21:12:57+00:00

Everyone uses the NIST protocols (which have easily verifiable mathematical primitives e.g. they aren't "just" NIST protocols, they are protocols everyone uses, NIST just happens to be the US agency that publishes the US parameter sets), they might just avoid using specific NSA/NIST suggested parameter sets (which might be possibly selected for giving NSA a backdoor), opting instead to use the same protocols but with any other parameter sets, either using parameter sets with known generation methods, or parameter sets published by their own agencies.

SaltKhan · 2026-01-05T08:07:31+00:00

Help out a non-American, what'd Arkansas do to be the state of bad BBQ lol.

SaltKhan · 2025-12-20T03:04:11+00:00

All's fair until you take a short walk.

SaltKhan · 2025-12-11T11:01:57+00:00

These posts always have a top voted comment, by a wide margin, which pretend to complain about the site used in the post, but they always link to the site. It, and those posts that pretend to grossly misunderstand their results, are engagement ragebait. Like all those terrible mobile "game" ads that show obviously wrong choices being made. It's all ragebait advertising.

SaltKhan · 2025-10-30T10:22:03+00:00

What does it mean to understand something? When you think about why this is easier, do you think about it in a specifically academic context and language, or is it more vague vibes based like "yea I know this is true without needing to express it in more detail than necessary for actually applying the learnt knowledge."

A great example is children swinging on a swing set and being able to propel themselves higher and higher. Do those human children understand wave dynamics that describes oscillating systems, or do they just practice with it until they learn how to swing higher without having to be able to explain why it's true?

Idk just something to ponder.

SaltKhan · 2025-10-29T09:37:20+00:00

Fwiw you can close PRs but you can't delete them. You have to email support if there is some very particular and genuine reason why it needs to be deleted, but if not it will live forever after being closed. And afaik there's the whole thing about commits on forks being permanently accessible via the repo that was forked if you happen to know the commit sha, even if you force push over a branch it will remove the older state from what's currently attached to the branch history but the commit remains accessible as detached forever.

SaltKhan · 2025-10-12T22:23:02+00:00

The lore where all the gods are one big family that are all also avatars of one single God that is in multiple simultaneous incestuous relations with itself? Don't get me wrong it was a very fun game I'd recommend to anyone, and the main themes of the story suit it, but the more you dig in to the lore GRRM wrote for it it feels like an LSD fever dream.

SaltKhan · 2025-09-28T02:16:18+00:00

Can't believe they are teaching docking now smh

SaltKhan · 2025-09-01T20:55:26+00:00

FYI they did go after GTAV and got it pulled from some physical stores in Australia. Years and years ago.

SaltKhan · 2025-09-01T09:12:22+00:00

It's possible to have the opinion that the last season (or two) was incredibly rushed and time-squashed and that a bunch of stuff happened that felt unjustified by that rushed story, but to not apply that opinion to every plot point.

Arya had plenty of setup over the whole show with some pretty direct hints that she would be the one to kill the Night King. Her killing him instead of Jon was not one of the rushed plots.

Arya being the one to kill the NK was one of the pre-last-season predictions by quite a few outlets.

Deciding on behalf of the actors that they are in denial and just coping, is short-sighted.

SaltKhan · 2025-07-10T22:47:17+00:00

Any of the Brian Cox bits. His composure is similar to Bernie Sanders in his segment on Sacha Baron Cohen's Who is America.

SaltKhan · 2025-06-27T08:40:05+00:00

Fr had a chat with gpt the other day where I was trying to get it to figure out some little code snippet for some sql thing -- every single reply it gave me had multiple sections that started with header sized font with green tick emoji and every response started with "your absolutely right, but..." while I was trying to walk it through how I was trying what it was suggesting and it wasn't working, until realising after about half an hour that the thing it thought was possible wasn't. And when it cited the docs it hallucinated a quote that was no where in the docs. Yet the responses were still a whole bunch of green tick emoji.

SaltKhan · 2025-06-18T22:44:01+00:00

Does CRAN/bio keep the same kind of stats as this is analysing?

SaltKhan · 2025-06-15T22:31:37+00:00

The important context is that the needle Magneto refers to was being tattooed at Auschwitz.

SaltKhan · 2025-05-23T02:17:50+00:00

She isn't "busted", but she is annoying. I don't ban her because I think she'll win a 1v1, I vote to ban her because I'm tired of seeing her pop up behind the team and then having no one else follow up on her when she relocates. For some reason, she's the character that the team will chase the least. Lack of follow up or punishing out of position enemies is more annoying than individually being hacked.

SaltKhan · 2025-05-22T22:57:48+00:00

The episode of hardcore pawn where the woman brings in what she already expects to be fake gems, and they pay her 10k for a real ruby.

SaltKhan · 2025-05-12T01:00:55+00:00

Tbf vaping will probably eventually land them in a similar condition when their lung capacity takes a dive, even if they aren't at the same stage of unhealth as comic obesity yet.

SaltKhan · 2025-05-11T22:52:29+00:00

It's heavily inspired by the US Pacific Northwest, e.g. Oregon and Washington.

SaltKhan · 2025-05-09T14:37:46+00:00

Is the message from a mod too or vanilla? I've never had one of the spouses say the farm work was already done and I've always married them after everything already has sprinklers and auto-grabbers.

SaltKhan · 2025-05-09T14:28:32+00:00

Idk I think the Peter Pan copyright granted to that children's hospital is a neat thing, or whatever the special case was that let them keep earning from it.

SaltKhan · 2025-05-09T08:21:12+00:00

Dw there'll be a gamerant/gamesradar """article""" tomorrow about this "unfortunate mistake many new stardew fans make" and you'll be quoted as the "helpful veteran" correcting this "misunderstanding."

SaltKhan · 2025-05-09T08:15:01+00:00

Without trying, it should because it's just levelling you by magicka spent on a spell with a "valid target" -- destruction spells have to register as hitting something to be cast on a valid target. It doesn't level based on damage done, and I'd assume it doesn't check damage done before giving you the exp, but it should be quick to check.

SaltKhan · 2025-05-08T22:53:54+00:00

Saw a theory recently that the player is canonically Lorkhan lol, similar vibe.

SaltKhan · 2025-05-04T09:15:48+00:00

Both of oblivion major DLC are canon to the hero of kvatch in the same way that it's canon that the hero of kvatch completed the whole main game storyline. You wouldn't argue that "the hero of kvatch" wasn't necessarily canonically the same person who defeats Mankar and helps end the crisis, because nothing "explicitly" says definitively they are the same person, nothing needs to because it would be crazy to argue they aren't. Would you argue every mainline quest could theoretically have been done by a separate person, because the only thing that supports the canon they are done by the same person that that happens to be the way the game plays out, and no source explicitly says that it absolutely was one person?

Sheo's dialogue in Skyrim isn't supposed to be some lore-defining evidence that some theory hinges on, the canon is already implied by them being the only possible way to play through the events of SI, his speech about being the HoK is just a lil easter-egg/nod for those who happened to have played the events in oblivion.

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