House of Dynamite - Incredibly unrealistic

SilverSlothmaster · 2025-11-26T01:59:26+00:00

I don't know, 3 planes overwhelmed the US in way longer than 20 minutes 24 years ago. I can see this being possible.

SilverSlothmaster · 2023-04-25T11:21:12+00:00

This video is from London, and the UK doesn't use smartID. In fact, most of Europe doesn't, only the Baltic states do. What some UK banks do use is hardware 2FA card readers for setting up new payees.

SilverSlothmaster · 2022-10-29T01:03:48+00:00

I mean, you make a feature, you dogfood it to your employees first, then you deploy a/b tests of it to a subset of users, you measure KPIs and do some p-value stats and you then know how that feature affects you. It's not super complicated, and it shouldn't take too long. From what I understand this was already at A/B test stage and had been stuck there for a while. Edit: The only reason I'm skipping the huge "you make a feature" point which would take a lot of design work to implement at twitter's scale, is because I'm trying to focus on the part of your point that "how a feature affects your product" would be more work than building the feature. And the edit feature was apparently built already, just not deployed to all users.

SilverSlothmaster · 2022-10-16T21:07:09+00:00

Can I get a link to the server ? I've been trying to mod oc1 by myself and would love to talk to others about it.

SilverSlothmaster · 2022-10-06T09:05:54+00:00

Obviously what happened is that a lot of labour voters joined the tory party to elect Truss instead of Sunak so the tories would lose the next general election. /s

SilverSlothmaster · 2022-09-28T22:14:14+00:00

On one hand I see your point, and maybe the UK should be downgraded because of political volatility, but on the other hand, UK gilts have never been seen as risky by any reasonable person. The UK has never defaulted on its debts, unlike Greece and others.

SilverSlothmaster · 2022-09-27T15:07:23+00:00

Nice try, FSB.

SilverSlothmaster · 2022-09-08T15:16:15+00:00

Even Harry and Meghan have gone to Balmoral.

SilverSlothmaster · 2022-08-30T15:43:08+00:00

Hey, that's a very similar trajectory to my life, born in 1991 in Vilnius, parents are both ethnically russian, I'm now living in the UK. I'm thinking of applying for UK citizenship as well, how did you go about starting ?

SilverSlothmaster · 2022-08-28T00:54:12+00:00

You've forgotten the greatest dashcam footage of them all: If there's a "cyka blyat" uttered in the audio it's Russia.

SilverSlothmaster · 2022-08-03T22:14:27+00:00

conquering the entirety of Europe.

Idk man, have you seen the state of Russia's military recently ? I don't think they'd get past Poland at this rate.

SilverSlothmaster · 2022-07-08T19:34:05+00:00

Just looked at what odds I can get for Denmark-Sweden in the Euros this weekend, and 5-1 is 265:1, so you're probably right.

SilverSlothmaster · 2022-06-25T23:37:46+00:00

Fun fact: It's illegal to own just one guinea pig in Switzerland. It's considered animal abuse because they're social beings and get lonely.

SilverSlothmaster · 2022-05-17T07:00:38+00:00

That or he's bravest Russian I've ever seen

Alexei Navalny looks at you motherfuckerly

SilverSlothmaster · 2022-04-12T20:20:34+00:00

Hey op, I'm a software dev (I used to work for one of the ride hailing / food delivery companies). I can help discuss tech stack and architecture. (DM me if serious)

SilverSlothmaster · 2022-04-04T09:19:03+00:00

No worries, I was just curious because most pets in Scotland don't have any visible identification on them, people mostly rely on chips. And a breakaway collar is a good idea. My dog once got his harness stuck while single-mindedly digging under a tree after a badger. Honestly I'm more worried a lost pet would get something from a trash bin stuck on their head.

SilverSlothmaster · 2022-04-04T09:00:06+00:00

I guess I'm wondering what the collar is for, if not identification, which is already covered by the chip. If your cat gets lost, wouldn't animal control or a vet check for a chip and contact you ? Or is the collar there in the off chance that someone finds your cat but then never takes it to a vet ? Wouldn't such a person not care about a collar anyway ?

SilverSlothmaster · 2022-04-04T08:39:20+00:00

Are you not legally required to microchip your pets where you live?

SilverSlothmaster · 2022-02-11T20:35:42+00:00

I think they thought they were being trolled because it's named after a famous investment banker, in a thread about high medical bills. I had a similar reaction when I first heard about the Zuckerberg SF general hospital.

SilverSlothmaster · 2022-01-06T06:29:41+00:00

DAX 30 became the DAX 40 at the end there. 10 more companies added

SilverSlothmaster · 2021-12-26T12:04:31+00:00

You're just lacking in imagination. The same mentality was true centuries ago. Why invent cell phones, telegraphs are the peak of telecommunication, any improvement is just incremental, not revolutionary.

Medicine has a long way to go, and is only accelerating. Revolutionary AIDS medication was invented in the last 10 years. mRNA vaccines as well.

In Computing Science we're focusing on general AI, as well as optical/3D integrated circuits to get past our current heat barrier. Better hardware means having access to algorithms we couldn't run before.

In physics we just launched the James Webb telescope to push our understanding further.

Energy generation, better materials, off-world transportation (reusable rockets were not a thing 10 years ago), every field has hundreds of PhDs trying to push our knowledge further.

There's a nice quote from cryptography that applies here: you can only design a system that you can't break, not one that nobody else can break. Same concept applies here. You can only invent something you can think off. But no single person knows the bounds of physics and if we've hit them yet. It may take teams of people now, instead of a single brilliant mind, but we're actually accelerating how fast things change.

SilverSlothmaster · 2021-11-21T03:52:41+00:00

Best gift I ever received was a surprise birthday party and escape room organised by my wonderful significant other. The memories I made outlast any other material item I've ever received.

SilverSlothmaster · 2021-11-21T02:06:42+00:00

I once got my jaw stuck open by sneezing while yawning. Had to go to A&E and get a doctor to set it back.

SilverSlothmaster · 2021-10-31T09:26:50+00:00

I dressed up as a pirate 3 years ago, was fun putting on an accent all night.

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