That was the beginning of the end for me. I think by the time I got to that part the series had already been going downhill but I remember that being a really sharp turning point.

I tried to press on a little further. The introduction of the straw man nation with the innocent child king who’s only existence was to be blown the fuck out by the brilliance of objectivism is when I finally decided I just couldn’t go on.

Ooo, I was trying to think of what to answer in this thread and you just reminded me of another Orson Scott Card book, Empire.

Absolute trash. Prior to that I had read all of the Ender and Bean series and loved them. Didn’t know much about Card personally, but picked up this book because it was supposed to be tied in with a video game I was looking forward too.

Reading this book is how I found out what a shitty person he really is. It was basically all him hitting you over the head with his shitty fascist ideology while jerking off to a bunch of military porn like a dollar store version of Tom Clancy. I never did play the game.

I saw a quote years ago about “common sense” that really changed the way I thought about it. I wish I could remember now where it came from.

“The problem with common sense is that it is common, not good.”

Lately I google for someone that should give me a direct, exact result. First five links are fucking paid ads.

For anyone that hasn’t read it, the book Surely You’re Joking Mr Feynman is a delightful read. Especially the bits about him fucking with security during the Manhattan project.

Well, considering the character is said to have been based on William Randolph Hearst, you’re probably quite right to be concerned.

Well that just solved the question of “what should I watch tonight?”

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Until you find out those were also built by a junior using an llm to help 🙃

Thanks for letting me know. I was able to pull out the proper link from the mess and edited my post. Please try it again and let me know.

(For ease of reference) https://epc2020.eaps.nl/uploads/201146

If anyone is interested in the actual study, I believe this is it. Only had time to give it a real quick skim. Sorry for the nasty Google link.

Edit to fix link. https://epc2020.eaps.nl/uploads/201146

I used to do penetration testing and only got to dabble in physical penetration testing a couple of times. Hell of a lot of fun.

For anyone reading this chain and interested in hearing more, this is a pretty fun interview with someone known for doing physical presentation testing.

https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/134/

I had a physics teacher in college who explained it like this.

Imagine we see by throwing tennis balls. You know the shape of something (and he gestured at a giant whale skeleton in the lecture hall) by Knowing where the tennis ball bounces off of the shape. If we throw a lot of them, we can “observe” the shape of an object.

Now imagine the object we want to observe is another tennis ball. With the skeleton, the tennis ball, even meant of them, hitting it and bouncing off won’t effect it. But if we want to use our tennis ball sight to observe a tennis ball, it’s going to knock the tennis ball away, thus we’ve significantly effected it.

The only way to “observe” a photon is to use something that will have a significant effect on it.

This was some 15+ years ago, so I might be misremembering the details slightly, but that was more or less the gist of it.

Maniac Mansion was the first that came to mind for me. You select a party from a number of characters at the beginning, but unless you pick the exact right party, you’ll never be able to finish the game.

Try looking to see if there are any local defcon, 2600, or BSides groups near where you’re at. That might give you a good start.

One of the best bosses I ever had once told me that people will stay for the culture but leave for money. His philosophy was to try and ensure that money was not a factor in people’s decision, then build as good a culture as he could.

And to be clear, by making money not a factor, I mean he paid well.

I was looking for this one. I went into it completely blind one night and that was a ride.