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  • They keep growing until they die. If they live long enough they get so big they either can’t get enough food or oxygen and die.

    They have urinary ducts in their eyes and when they meet other lobsters they piss on each others face. If they have fought in the last week or so the loser backs down. If not they fight.

    The biggest male lobster knows where the others live and once a week visits the other lobsters. Pisses in their face and then beats them up.

    When a female enters estrus she goes to the biggest lobster’s den. He then beats her to help her molt. When her shell is removed they mate.

    She is allowed to stay for a few days during the vulnerable period when her shell regrows and hardens. Unless another female comes by. The he kicks her out and the new girl moves in after mating.





  • Common misuse of words. Decimate means reduce by 1/10 not almost completely destroy. Exponential growth. The variable has to be in the exponent if it’s a constant exponent that is polynomial growth. Gaslighting isn’t just lying. It’s making someone belive that they can’t trust their own memories or experiences so they believe you despite evidence to the contrary.







  • I grew up near an area where a large number high net worth people. For example as a kid I thought Lamborghini was a common car because I saw them all the time.

    In my experience lots of money brings out your true self and let’s you act the way you want. So if you are inclined to be self centered and an asshole you can be a massive asshole. You can also be generous and kind.

    Most rich people are pretty normal. However the normal ones do try to not make it known that they are rich. So you often don’t notice the normal rich people.

    It’s also hard to tell the difference between a person who lives on a 200k a year income and a person with a double digit millions net worth.

    I had a friend as a teen. I invited him to go diving with me as he had never been. He showed up with a 20k wetsuite.







  • It was something around 40 TB X2 . We were doing a terrain analysis of the entire Earth. Every morning for 25 days I would install two fresh drives in the cluster doing the data crunching and migrate the filled drives to our file server rack.

    The drives were about 80% full and our primary server was mirrored to two other 50 drive servers. At the end of the month the two servers were then shipped to customer locations.




  • Years ago there was a commit to the Linux kernal that strangly had no author. This got some attention of several of the developers.

    Looking into the code that had to deal with network transmission. there was a section that if you tried to get network access in a unusual way had a check that was written something like this.

    If (usr_permission = ROOT) … Instead of If (usr_permission == ROOT) …

    The first giving the user root if invoked and the second checking to see if the user was root.

    It’s widely thought this was the NSA or some other intelligence agency trying to backdoor lin Linux.