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dragon rules
May you live dragon-free
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motd: 20250308
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psy-op
Asymmetric Warfare is a doctrine. It is an effective doctrine. It is effective because the cost of offensive action is low and the cost defensive or responsive action is high. Skirmishing using Asymmetric Warfare is small – it can be indistinguishable from a Lone Wolf or an angry mob. What these small-scale actions have that…
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an actual quote from an imaginary conversation
My issue with you is not whether or not you are going to hell, rather, it is about how long you are taking to get there. I don’t care to save souls from damnation. If I’m honest I never have, and that was probably the sliver that opened the door for my departure from organized…
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private data, public data, public information
If you have a pile of data, you have three choices:
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the gravity of Truth
“I’m sick” is the lie we tell so we don’t have to deal with the gravity of, “I’m dying faster than normal”.
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motd: 20250301
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happy birthday
My birthday starts in ten minutes. I grew up in the cold war ten miles from a SAC base, so we didn’t bother with duck and cover or fallout shelters — we were dead if the nukes flew. So not knowing if we’d make it another year isn’t a new feeling. But it has been…
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send an email…
I think that seeing idiots try to use the tools you use all the time (and take for granted) is maybe more depressing than seeing them try to use tools that you don’t know about. “take 15 minutes at the end of the week to write me an email that I can read in 5…
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too abstract
Abstraction is the practice of peeling away the unnecessary, the unimportant, and the unwanted to arrive as some ideal, yet unreal representation of where you started. It happens in any discipline where we try to represent the real world in a fabricated realm of ideas or concepts. In computing, abstraction takes on a guise of…