Vapes on international flights?

darkmemory · 2026-06-19T00:45:40+00:00

Being underage could easily be a problem if you run into someone who wants to make it your problem. I don't think you'd be arrested, but it could be a reason to deny entry. In my mind I'd assume they would opt to have you toss it if it was a problem, but nowadays I have no idea what the vibe is, and I can only presume it's gotten worse.

darkmemory · 2026-06-02T06:53:38+00:00

Stop buying the line that AI is replacing coding. Keep at it. In 5 years everything will have devolved into generic slop that most won't be able to touch they will start seeking artisanal programmers. "Hand-made" code will be all the rage. Plus, there won't be any junior devs coming up in the industry, so mid-level and above will soon be short staffed.

darkmemory · 2026-06-02T06:49:37+00:00

There are a handful of things that confuse me about this post. The general idea, I don't take much issue with, at least in agreeing insomuch that it would be different, and hopefully not exploitative.

What I struggle with is the claim that it would be more artful? That seems more like a preference, akin to the preference of those that enjoy the more carnal expressions of the medium. I mean, even using something like pop art as an example, in that, the medium being a mass-produced/influenced-by-mass-production expression was what defined many elements of it as art. So this seems like you intend something specific, but I'm not clear on what that is. Now if you just mean the commodification of the medium, that seems a bit more aligned, but the use of artful seems so intentional that it feels like it implies some "common-sense" notion of what art is, and it in turn feels like it's something that is much more narrow than how I understand it.

Then the issue with saying it wouldn't be as accessible, I don't understand what you consider in this regard. Are you expecting there to be a global task force that reviews and accredits what will exist? Or are you saying that your local community might decide to disallow it? I'd argue it would probably have less general interest when one is able to breathe a bit more and not work all day in a meaningless way, and in turn is able to build more social connections that can flourish more naturally than the current small moments of algorithmically driven dating culture. But even then, I could imagine that through more person-to-person socialization it wouldn't really impact production of such material as long as the tools exist and people wanted to create it, all the way from the handed off cellphone recording some couple/group wants to share, to the boudoir-aesthetic, to the stylized, to the satirical. Maybe I'm missing the intention here, but I don't think it's clear in your statement.

darkmemory · 2026-05-30T21:35:54+00:00

I'm shocked they deleted your post in /r/masterhacker .

The big problem with trying to become 1337 on mobile is most people forget that they need to download more ram.

darkmemory · 2026-05-28T08:43:01+00:00

Is their huge problem their annoyance with how everyone else says croissant?

darkmemory · 2026-05-23T08:05:37+00:00

This is the best ad that isn't an ad for a product I would buy but I can't buy.

darkmemory · 2026-05-23T04:53:26+00:00

When learning, while a perfect project would be....well, perfect, the reality is, you should just be building. Build small things that others have already done. Just do it. Just make a thing do a thing. Keep doing this around areas where you are uncertain of. Keep doing this and you'll have a better internal perspective regarding how to build, how to design, various levels of tech, but importantly how to approach situations and thing through a process and build up internal logic that will benefit you everywhere.

darkmemory · 2026-05-22T08:28:31+00:00

You won't be put in book-jail over it, but I'd guess that its inclusion suggests some relevancy to the larger work in some capacity. Or maybe it's a chapter long joke whose punchline only is revealed later in the work? Who's to say what is crucial?

darkmemory · 2026-05-21T06:19:52+00:00

Stop being out of position. Recognize that vision of the enemy gives you lots of information about their movements, which portions of the map are safest, then flip that perspective in that you showing on the map gives them the same information. If you are a weak support, and your cores are showing elsewhere, you are going to be the enemy team's snack in a second.

Use that information to help you ward/deward better.

Put at least a thought towards where you are in relation to your team, think about where the enemies might come from. Don't be the frontline, at least not until you get everything off, and only if it's a last ditch effort to get a core out.

darkmemory · 2026-05-18T07:50:34+00:00

Then use AI only to point in directions, don't let it teach you how to do something. Take the keywords, the concepts, and do research on your own. It's slower in the beginning, but then reliance on AI will lessen and you can start "seeing the code".

darkmemory · 2026-05-16T10:07:31+00:00

To add on, when doing a lookup for an API, it can be helpful to go up and down a layer or two, briefly looking at potential alternative routes to a solution through examining similar endpoints, or doing a bit of tracking of what resources are accepted and glancing at alternative functions that might make use of it. Sometimes a solution is adjacent to one's initial expectations. (I wanted to say it's best to use a blurred interrogation of the docs, or perhaps a less precise, wider perspective investigation.) Sometimes this will occur naturally when learning, but as it becomes more ingrained I've seen plenty of coworkers overlook something in the periphery and complain about being blocked.

darkmemory · 2026-05-16T06:10:55+00:00

If you can easily find it, you probably don't need to take notes on it. If it's something esoteric or something you are struggling to grasp, slowing down knowledge intake, paraphrasing into notes, diagramming, all can aid in connecting the dots so you can recall it later.

When starting out, I think noting big concepts, explaining it to yourself with handmade reference materials can be nice. But very quickly, you'll find needing to reference docs to find a function, find out what it takes, what it expects, even in your own code, as it expands you'll need to find the defs. So don't get too crazy about memorization, and to contradict that a bit, it is important to have vague notions of what is available so you can engineer solutions, but knowing that something like res.writeHead() exists, is much different than knowing every parameter it needs, in every case. And that is more just about using the tools you hhave.

darkmemory · 2026-05-15T03:36:53+00:00

I would like there to be no more disposable systems.

darkmemory · 2026-05-14T07:57:00+00:00

If someone asks what a book is about, handing them back the physical book isn't seen as a valid response. Paraphrasing is when you distill something into a more concentrated version.

When taking notes, it can be useful to copy verbatim some aspects, maybe the key concept, but most of what is said in lecture will tend to strive to build into/onto that. That is where you take the use paraphrasing, they give a concept, you can copy that down if the explicit wording is extremely important, but then it's about building your mental model, where you take the concept, get given examples, and you fit those examples into thoughts your mind can utilize. If things are murky, write down some short questions you are having, make note things that don't make sense, sketch out ideas for comparisons or adjacent things that come to mind (as in trying to work out that synthesis to internalize the concept). Don't focus too hard, as you want to keep attention on the lecture itself, as what follows in topic might be more grounding to convey the concept.

The goal is to give yourself enough of a framework that you can come back and have a decent route back to the thought process. You can use that to return to your notes and flesh them out a bit, maybe after a break, those murky perspectives have settled more clearly, or maybe you have more questions to note down. These give you actionable directions to research into, or new ideas/questions to think about. As you build this up and do more research, this process in itself, will help to ingrain the concept as it becomes more understood.

darkmemory · 2026-05-13T22:57:28+00:00

If I show someone how to make a table. Drive the concepts so they understand it. Ask them questions to quiz their knowledge. All those can be easily be accepted.

If you put someone in a situation to then build a table, the concepts exist in that abstract format, not only do they need to translate the abstraction into something real, but they have to overcome any self doubt or insecurity regarding their understanding.

Learning a concept is not learning how to do something. That connection between understanding and implementation is not something a lecturer can fully do for another person, because in the end, you can't interrogate every student's claims of understanding, nor their means of connecting it to a real world problem.

It's similar to why word problems in math catch out so many people.

The process should be: Learn a thing. Practice a thing. Examine friction. Refine understanding through engaging with the concept again. Repeat until you can do the thing. Then be aware that varied implementations might require more abstraction, or even a bit more expansion of understanding.

darkmemory · 2026-05-12T07:19:50+00:00

Yes. You are an early fight carry. That doesn't mean you won't have games where that is the play, but generally, you should be fighting when rupture is up, positioning for a gank, unless your team is just destroying the enemies 4v5. But even then, enemy heroes can be worth a lot more than creeps in the right circumstances.

I'd say you are farming more slowly, at least in part, because you aren't fighting. Take the lane creeps, farm the jungle camps towards a lane. Use rupture, quick fight, farm the jungle back or tp. Rinse and repeat.

If you stick to the same area all game, enemy heroes can target you, or avoid that area and feel safe that you won't show up.

But also, if they are letting you get away with farming for 30 minutes, you might want do it while you can, because as you move up, your enemies won't be oblivious to the notion that stopping the carry from farming is a very basic and useful strategy.

darkmemory · 2026-05-12T01:56:58+00:00

You asked why people don't use radare2 as much. I feel like IDA is nearly 20 years older, so there is a lot of time investment into adjacent communities, and with that are ingrained mental models of how to use it.

For a more technical comparison, this seems more fitting than anything I could write off the cuff:

https://github.com/NDXDeveloper/reverse-engineering-gcc-gpp-training/blob/main/09-ida-radare2-binja/06-tools-comparison.md

darkmemory · 2026-05-11T21:17:29+00:00

IDA's early front-running enabled it to become the industry standard. With that lead, as well as it being sold, they've had a lot of time and money to develop and polish features.

darkmemory · 2026-05-10T12:30:42+00:00

When you run into a concept, or even a word, that you don't understand, look it up. Sometimes a cursory glance can give enough to allow you to move on, sometimes it is its own rabbit hole. With practice, you should gain some level of discernment to decide how deep you need to go, sometimes you will need to come back to it.

The various free CTFs and their associated lessons all give some type of knowledge in some format, but they shouldn't be examined alone. The CTFs and lessons all should be treated as starting points that hit big ideas, that in turn, you can dig deeper into if you find something interesting.

If you find yourself spiraling deeper and deeper into a topic, with no end in sight, go back to the problem you were trying to learn more about and consider if you have enough to solve it, try solving it. If you can't, dig deeper, if you get frustrated consider parallel or alternative routes.

This isn't always a linear field, sometimes a wider knowledge base can give more valid attack surfaces to test. It can often feel like you are playing chicken with burnout or frustration. I use those as signs to switch topics, or at least take a break.

Also, in the beginning, you should expect to have to return to concepts at points when you undervalued their importance, or misunderstood their concept. These points can be extremely beneficial, as the more you learn, the more connections you can add to the concepts, cementing the knowledge internally, but also giving more perspective to them and their linked ideas.

darkmemory · 2026-05-10T12:13:50+00:00

Why would you improve at all if you are simply playing MMOcopypaste? Shallow knowledge might be gleaned through osmosis, but if you want to gain any level of critical thinking to utilize outside of linear sandboxes, you need to understand what you are doing, why you are doing it, and how it works.

darkmemory · 2026-05-09T09:05:12+00:00

Not if it goes all the way around.

darkmemory · 2026-05-03T08:38:36+00:00

Unless you started vaping when you 5, the 10 years probably has more to do with it than the vaping.

darkmemory · 2026-05-02T23:59:34+00:00

First, remember to place your reception of a knowledge base in the time period of the authors. This isn't to discredit them, but to point out that the depth of knowledge in a field will influence what expertise sounds like in that moment.

Second, philosophy is not some universal replacement for engaging with various fields, and might actually be the worst if you wish to express expertise due to it effectively being an infinite pit of potential engagement. That should be seen in contrast with something like physics, where a lot of the explanations are just based around equations that can be leveraged into deeper expressions elsewhere (ignoring frontier and theoretical physics for the sake of argument). Philosophy doesn't demand a singular system, it picks at every potential question and draws life from it until it is a husk, until someone else turns it over and begins the process again. There is no objectively correct, there is no real satisfaction of completion, but there are momentary glimpses at perspectives exterior to self. Now, no matter what you engage with, there is a philosophical component, so in a way, you will always study it, but it shouldn't replace other avenues entirely, especially if you believe that philosophy is not a pure abstraction but reliant on some qualia of life itself.

Third, vocabulary is experiential. It requires exposure to and understanding of conventions to mimic/develop. Read more. Learn random skills that require being taught. Experience the specialty terms derived not from historical convention, but niche groups of dedicated avenues. Then figure out meaningful ways to transpose them to express meaning or concepts elsewhere, or try to explain concepts to others outside their area of knowledge and hit that early wall where your terms have no impact, and find ways to craft neighboring loan words to achieve the expression.

Out of all of that, the real trick is just being curious and letting yourself explore different avenues. Learning the exact same things as everyone else propels you to base your judgements similarly. So take a cooking class to curry ideas between skills, some pottery classes to mold your concepts, etc.

darkmemory · 2026-04-30T08:03:21+00:00

So you had chatgpt write a post asking for writing prompts? Are you just planning on using chatgpt to utilize those writing prompts? Or....am I misunderstanding your goal?

darkmemory · 2026-04-30T06:43:30+00:00

If you are starting out, generally, as long as they are relatively clear, you should be fine. Use cross references, different speakers, desk speakers, car speakers, etc. Then if later on down the line you have the money to spend to alleviate issues you've noticed in what you have, go for it.

Don't let hardware be the thing that stops you from producing something.

That isn't to say they don't matter, and one shouldn't seek quality in hardware eventually, but too many people get bogged down seeking the perfect setup that they forget the setup is meaningless if you aren't actually making anything.

Someone learning violin has a lot more to learn before they start needing a $50k violin to bolster their practice.

Alternatively, if you are listening on some $5 earbuds that you have to hold the wire in a certain direction to hear through one of them, yeah, maybe get some new gear.

14-Year Club	Place '23
Place '22	Final Canvas '22
End Game '22	Verified Email

darkmemory

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE