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Do you think there are kids with fake girlfriends in their profile pics telling their friends “I swear she’s real she’s just not on social media and goes to another school”?

The dystopian loser lol.

Is it public? Tell them to pound sand.

Is it private? Tell them to pound sand.

Hey buddy, those yachts aren’t gonna buy themselves. What do you expect them to do, live on less?

Ideas are nouns.

This philophical quandary, I posit, is solved in the mere definition of what a thing is.

A thing is a noun.

A noun is a person, place, object, or idea.

A crease in this paradigm is an idea. It is this a thing. There are 2 things in the room.

There’s more, though. There’s air presumably. There’s walls? What are they made of? Are they painted? How about the floor? A stale fart? Confusion over the number of things in the room?

Still, all nouns.

No matter where you go, there you are.

No success, no miracle, no achievement will fundamentally change you.

You just move the most recent tax item up and you now have room for another taxable item.

A lot of them, by the sounds of it.

oh my god

The real problem with this is inaccurate blood pressure readings.

Run a social psych experiment. Tell 100 people to show up and claim a $10 gift card. They must arrive 15 mins early. They will receive their $10 at a specific time.

Randomize the 100 people’s actual receipt time to be somewhere between 5 mins early and 45 mins late.

Come in, explain they just need to do a blood pressure reading first, and then they will receive the $10.

Came here to ask if this was some OCaml joke I didn’t get

My family is all over northern NY, and New England, Some PA and WV as well. Even the conservative pockets here are good between authority and your right to exist outdoors.

https://youtu.be/hJSigHvESRg

My current uptime has survived 2 power outages that lasted about 10 minutes each.

No, I’m rural in liberal territory.

I cannot think of a single place within 20 miles in any direction that is not indoors nor private property that any human being cannot be more or less indefinitely.

You can’t camp within like 250 ft vertical of the treeline. That’s off limits for protecting the environment reasons.

If you’re pulled over in a car I the side of the road, a state trooper may come to see if you’re ok. Our states troopers got a much better rep than our cops, and our cops don’t do too bad comparatively.

Acab, but know your enemy. It ain’t the outdoors.

That’s not correct. It has literally found thousands of zero day exploits.

https://thehackernews.com/2026/04/anthropics-claude-mythos-finds.html

The real trick is that everything doesn’t fit nicely in a nice neat little glove-fitty block irl, so mirror that.

Mixed zoning doesn’t necessarily mean you got office abutting residential abutting commercial abutting industrial.

Think of a suburb/city burb. Do you know any that have like 20 blocks of residential? None! Doesn’t exist! Maybe like 2-4 blocks max before you break up the neighborhoods with some commercial and light industry or some offices. Even residential neighborhoods have gas stations on the arterial roads connecting them.

So like, don’t look where the wind blows, where the fertile soil is, and say “okay that quadrant of the map is for all my industry.” You’ll get high resource costs due to traffic. Don’t make a mega commercial center, not even Broadway in nyc…

God dammit I havent played in like 2 months. Fine. I’ll make a new city.

Nah bro you just need more cemeteries and crematoriums, more hearses. Less dense neighborhoods with more mixed zoning.

Thanks! I hope it helped.

I’m actually literally in the process of reaching out to my old Computability and Complexity professor who is now cs chair and cyber security lead for my alma mater. Wanna pitch him some ideas for me doing an adjunct in a cyber warfare lab 🤓

If it’s a Linux box, everything over 1023 just needs root.

For Debian flavors,

/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range

At least for those I use. Idk for rhel etc.

I can check my boxes with system ctl:

sysctl net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range

And tested on a VM, this wide s your ephemeral range:

sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range=“1024 65535”

Manage persistence in /etc/sysctl.conf

I’ll be honest here, I asked Claude for the windows equiv of that. I haven’t tested. Proceed with caution:

To check:

netsh int ipv4 show dynamicport tcp

To expand ephemeral range:

netsh int ipv4 set dynamicport tcp start=10000 num=55535

Syntax makes enough sense to me, but I repeat I have not vetted this.

HOWEVER,

all moot. You have 65k ports PER CONNECTION, holmes. Sorry I’m drunk now my tones changes and typos = more :)

So you at 10.0.0.1 connect to Google at 8.8.8.8 and cloudflare at 1.1.1.1, you can use 130k connections between the two. So this isn’t as useful as you may think you need it to be (idk what you’re doing lol, load balancer?)

If you’re churning through tons of short connections, you can “run out” of ports even though you have plenty… they’re all just cooling down.

net.ipv4.tcp_tw_reuse=1

lets the kernel grab them sooner.

Claude says Windows would be

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\TcpTimedWaitDelay

That’s a registry change. Proceed with extreme caution. Use a VM or throw away machine. I have absolutely not vetted the windows version here and registry edits are inherently dangerous. I usually yell at an AI that tells me to use regedit. Probably don’t do this unless the system is backed up and those backups are tested.

Hope this helps your crazy load balancer or whatever :)