Alternative name, Eigen Values

Because white guys.

Shopping trolleys are a rich source of materials for the aspiring welding fabricator. Road signs can also be good but they get banged around.

I hear there is a chip shortage in Russia

Curious what happens to these people when the prevailing political sentiment changes. Do they recant their beliefs or retreat to an incel bunker or what?

How big are your pockets?

Looking at the conflicts they have been explictly or covertly involved in, it does seem like they are attempting to create a hegemony. That’s not to say that some good doesn’t get done along the way but it is more of a byproduct than the intent.

It must be nice to have the billionaire’s hot air to fill your sails as you navigate these rough seas. However, woe betide those that displease the mighty donors, they will immediately find themselves in the doldrums, they no longer have a purpose and the billionaires await the next empty vessel.

‘Florida termite’ could be the start of many a great news story, followed by a mugshot of the disheveled and remorseful arthropod.

Probably not even true. That’s the great thing about rituals like marriage, you get to make up whatever rules you like but it sucks when someone calls you on your bs

I remember when my daughter was tiny she had some very cute behaviours that I was trying to capture on camera but sometimes those precious and elusive moments must remain as sweet memories.

You paint a touching picture. There is a famous picture of a Japanese woman cutting a corner off her kimono rather than disturb a sleeping cat.

Do you think the bird was dreaming? I like to watch cats and dogs paws twitching while they sleep. It seems that dreaming is something that every creature does.

The workshop build continues, year 6. Getting my lathe back into action after a six year hiatus. She’s also receiving an upgrade - variable frequency drive.

The successful candidate

Well said. Anarchism has received horrible press at the hands of Big Democracy but many of our current problems are rooted in the concentration of power, money and influence that capitalist societies seem to produce. On the other hand, can we live without the many products and technology that require large scale effort? It feels like that would be a major challenge for any fledgling anarchic society.

Make the eggs bigger

Almost all of them.

Holy crap that’s a lot of people and gear to lose generally, never mind throwing it away on such a pointless mission.

Let’s make an algorithm army, get it drunk and it will start a fight with American tech.

I’m probably in the same boat as you, I have zero formal CS education. The way I originally learned was various: by embarking on small projects, fixing broken computers so I could play games, reading books, watching videos. The key thing in learning any subject is to recognise that when you don’t understand something it’s usually because some foundational knowledge is missing. You cannot properly understand a computer file system before you grasp the concept of binary numbers, bits and bytes, for instance.

Lately I’ve been using Chatgpt. You can ask it to write code in any language. Ask it to solve a particular problem and then start dismantling the answer, step by step. When you don’t understand the answer, ask it to elaborate. For your purposes, you could ask it to script a port scanner on your home network. This is key skill for any aspiring hacker and if you can get that working on your LAN, those principles can be adapted to WAN. Get a copy of the CIA vault 7 library, ask chatgpt to explain snippets of the code. I would imagine you have to preface your questions as coming from a ‘white hat’ perspective or it may balk.