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  • I think you’re going to struggle to find something that can carry 200lb and be collapsible. Most carts seem to either be for much less than that, or much more. I found several that looked a bit like what you may want by searching for ‘vendor cart’.

    You may well be better off building/comissioning something to your spec though as a lot of the bigger carts are designed to be food stalls when stationary, so they’re probably unnecesarily heavy. I think you’d be able to make something along the lines of what you wanted with parts from your local DIY store.


  • find can be a bit slow because it enumerates every directory recursively from the root you specified, but it let’s you do a lot more than just search by name. locate is available on most distros and give fast results, albiet from when the index was last rebuilt (usually nightly). They both have the vital property that they output a list of files to stdout for further processing.



  • notabot@lemm.eetoScience Memes@mander.xyzLightning bugs!!
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    Sometimes I stop to think about the fact that a tiny electrical impulse in my brain can cause my fingers to move and press buttons on my keyboard, which in turn causes larger, but still small electrical impulses to trigger a shiny rock we trapped lightning in to do an immense number of calculations, to send a stream of further impulses to my network router, which sends them on to another router, and another, and on and on, each step might go via a wire, or radio, or the flashing of a tiny light, or even bounce off of a satellite in space and back to another router, until it eventually finds it’s way to a server, which does huge numbers of further calculations, then sends impulses back to me, and also to other servers, via just as remarkable a route, which in turn send impulses down wires and optical fibres and bouncing off of satellites until one of those streams of impulses gets to your router, where it gets sent on to your shiny lightning rock, which performs many calculations and causes a pattern of light and dark dots to appear in front of you, which cause a series of tiny electrical impulses in your brain, that you perceive have meaning.

    The natural world is filled with magic and wonder, but this is a magic we designed and built ourselves.



  • notabot@lemm.eeto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneNew favorite base
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    Alternatively, you can count to 6 on each digit be counting joints and segments, sostart with the joint with the palm (knuckle), then the first segment, next joint, and so on. The thumb is a little odd because the knuckle joint is near the wrist, but you can still count it.

    Using binary (finger up vs. finger down) lets you count from 0 to 1023 though.




  • notabot@lemm.eetome_irl@lemmy.worldme_irl
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    how shitty and cruel this world can be and once you see it you see it everywhere and it becomes a downward spiral if you don’t find a way to catch yourself.

    I think you’ve touched on the crux of the matter here. The world can be utterly overwhealming, but the healthy response is, in fact, “to catch yourself” before you start spiraling, or to pull yourself out before it gets too hard to do. That is nothing to do with “denial of the state of the world”, but having the mental facility to acknowledge the state of the world and realising that the most effective thing you can do to improve it is to not let it crush you. When the world, and all its multitudinous troubles have already ground you down, it’s going to be difficult to separate your thoughts from it and build that mental structure, but I think that having it is probably the hallmark of being mentally ‘healthy’.



  • Getting an IP address or the HTTP payload is valuable to the user, not to Mozilla, so there’s no sale there. Likewise with translation data, but if the translation company then send Mozilla a kickback for sending users their way, it would become a sale. Adverts on the ‘new page’ tab would definately be a sale.

    I think they’ve removed the clauses about not selling your data from the ToS for the reasons they’ve stated, but it leaves a wide open hole in their promises and a huge temptation to add more advertising/data-mining in the future. I would have prefered them to instead leave the browser ToS as it was and move the questionable aspects into optional extensions that were licenced separately.



  • What you care about is the amount of “entropy” in the password/phrase you’re using, and secondarily how easy it is to communicate or remember it.

    If we assume the valid characters for a password are the upper and lower letters and the digits we have 26+26+10=62 valid characters. Lets add a couple of symbols to bring that to 64, or 2^6 bits. That means eaxh character gives you 6 bits of entropy.

    The standard BIP-0039 word list used for generating passphrases has 2048 (2^11) entires, or 2^11 bits of entropy per choice.

    Therefore a standard 24 word passphrase has 24*11=262 bits of entropy, which would be equivalent to a 44 character random password, whilst also being much easier to record and check. If you misrecord one character of a random password it is useless to you, but you can easily see if you mistyped a word from the word list.

    As to why they can’t be brute-forced by trying different combinations, you still have to deal with the 2^262 different possible combinations. As you’re trying to guess wallet addresses, lets assume everyone in the world has 10, for a total of roughly 80billion valid addresses, or 2^36.2. Lets round that up to 2^37. That gives each guess a 1 in 2^(262-37), or 1 in 2^225 chance of hitting a valid address. The universe is only about 2^59 seconds old, so even checking a billion (2^30) passphrases per second would mean you’d only be able to check a tiny fraction of that number.

    Combinations like this can be deceptive, a 24 word phrase doesn’t seem like much, but it’s functionally uncrackable with anything resembling our modern understanding of mathematics and computation.