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Any recommendations about the boots? Or what to check for?

Baffin make some of the best cold weather boots. We use them in Antarctica, though you probably don't want the chonky -70C rated ones. I have some lighter boots rated for about -40 and they're great. Really any good gore tex mid-ankle hiking boot is probably fine. Whether you need cold rated boots is going to depend on where you're walking.

Your main concern is to stay dry and minimize snow incursion. Either wear ski pants that act as gaiters, use gaiters or use boots and socks that are high enough that you won't get snow down the sides.

If you buy boots with insulation, try not to compress it. Otherwise be aware that if you don't keep moving, your boots will eventually cool to ambient and it's pretty hard to get that temperature back up.

Check grip? Hard to test but warm doesn't necessarily mean any good on slick ice. Spikes work well if you're going on a hike and there's a lot of packed snow mixed with ice.

Don't forget good socks. Doesn't need to be anything fancy, but wool is by far the best material (not necessarily merino as it tends to be too thin). You may need to size up because of the extra padding.

Also luxury, but fan assisted boot drying/warming stations are great. They make quite a big difference if you go out a lot because moisture build-up takes ages to dry otherwise.


The key word you’re looking for is a "pac boot" depending on where you live you can get insulated, but honestly unless your live somewhere super cold and snowy, you probably don't need insulation. if you put on warm socks, keep snow out of them, are moving around, and aren't outside for hours on end you'll probably be fine even in really cold weather.

Ryan Tilley (an AMGA-certified mountain guide) has a long and detailed guide of different sorts of boots and what to look for in each type[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFKC0BynjxY


I prefer military boots, they have no branding and are typically designed and tested for decent longevity and comfort. My current ones are Bundeswehr surplus, I believe Meindl produced them. They cost about 60 euros or so, never been used.

Pick a size larger than you would usually do, unless they're explicitly designed as winter boots. In cold weather you'll want wool socks as well as regular socks and that requires some extra space.


You can certainly get cheap Bundeswehr surplus boots, but you should know that soldiers don’t typically choose those if given a choice.

When given a choice, soldiers will tend to choose something like Salomon Toundra.


Yeah, I know, I've been in the military, but my requirements are much simpler. I'm not going to walk fifty to seventy kilometers per day in them, and I also don't want to spend as much time taking care of my boots as they do. If I happen to walk through a bog too many and the stench gets permanent it feels better to get a replacement pair if they cost like 60 euros rather than 2-300.

There are many brands making proper shoes/boots for winter hiking. I would recommend taking a look at Haix, Lowa, Salomon Quest series, Lundhags and Meindl.

And Vivaldi also supports MV2 extensions - so uBlock origin still works without any issues.


Vivaldi doesn't intend to maintain MV2, from their website:

> We will keep Manifest v2 for as long as it’s still available in Chromium. We expect to drop support in June 2025, but we may maintain it longer or be forced to drop support for it sooner, depending on the precise nature of the changes to the code.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/manifest-v3-update-vivaldi-is-futur...


Wasn't there a story on HN about a GTA San Andreas bug that was caused by this? (or something very similar)


In that case the "unused" stack was overwritten by a function called on that thread. But I'd assume that Denuvo is careful to not call any third party code while it expects the "unused" stack data to remain unmodified, so this shouldn't happen here.

So this code can only break if the data is overwritten from code outside the control of that thread. On Unix, certain signals could cause that. Or the OS could decide to zero out the unused thread while the thread isn't running. Zeroing the thread could the helpful to wipe secrets spilled there (forward secrecy related), or if whole pages can be zeroed (via something like MADV_ZERO), it could reduce the memory consumption by allowing threads to shrink.

While I would like that thread zeroing feature, I think it's unlikely that MS will implement something like it. So the code should be unlikely to break in practice.


Yes and no.

The GTA SA bug was reading of an uninitialized variable. The value it contained was correct simply by chance as it was placed there by the previous invocation of the function and never overwritten by something else intermittently. Any changes to functions that happened to be called in between these 2 could have changed the value of the stack memory.

The aforementioned check on the other hand is placing random value below the stack pointer. This means that by design it cannot call any external/os/game functions and is basically isolated/"pure" from any interactions with third party code.


I use LogSeq a lot - and having the option to scrape a website with only the text in MD seems like a great fit.


It even added an extra f-word at the end. Still veeery impressive


Oh brother imagine using this and noticing 4 months in that it randomly throws f-words for flavor at your users


I think it also said "maaan" at the end of the previous line. And speaks out lout the "dejectedly".


I'm not up to speed. Are there currently any instances where free speech was limited on x/twitter? Genuinely curious


Several. Consider ElonJet as a silly but representative example of where the limits of free speech are considered for the far right.

Hate speech and harassment is totally fine, but not critique.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ElonJet


Any of the people/journalists that were reporting on the inner workings of Twitter that Musk didn't like so he shut it down would be something that jumps to mind.


Musk very clearly actively sticks his fingers in the pie to steer narratives. Easy example, one of his children came out as trans (to Elon's apparent dismay), and now "cisgender" is flagged as a slur/hate-speech. There is other, anecdotal evidence that certain posters (ridiculously, Musk included) have their posts elevated above baseline visibility, but I don't have any statistics to back that up. Other flavorful unsolicited changes to the platform, such as changing blocking to allow blocked people to still see your posts, seem again like self-serving dictates from the top. Perhaps generally not censorship, but heavily biased moderation very clearly steered by the agenda of a single man.


Is the webarchive snapshot complete?

I saw people in the comments referencing 4-6 habits but I don't see it in the snapshot. EDIT: nvm found it in the text.


Great idea! For better retention maybe it can be done as an anki deck?


I knew about analog flash cards for learning but thanks for bringing anki to my attention!

Do they support tiny videos instead of images? Because I think this is essential especially for beginners who generally don't know the names of operations.


yes -- you can both embed them as a hosted video (YouTube / HTML) or use their built-in video player with [sound:filename.mp4]


Do you think it might be a good idea to keep or your social accounts private? Or it's mandatory to reveal it during recruiting?


Unfortunately my Twitter account uses parts of my real name. I didn't try to hide it enough. Over time, they must have discovered it. I didn't foresee that society would turn into a censorship totalitarian hellhole when I created the account years before. I'm not controversial or hateful at all. Just Rand Paul level common sense but some people see it as improper.


Got it... So it wasn't like a step in the process: Hey, by the way give us your X/FB/reddit handles?


I was just wondering how to apply anki for learning guitar tabs. Can you please share a sample of one of your piano cards?


For the "front", I give a title like "Sonata K.545 - The turn". And then the "back" is a screenshot of a few bars (usually between 2 and 5 bars). If those bars happen to be towards the end of a line, I'll also include a screen shot of the clef (left-hand side), so I know the key!

When I am using the deck, on each card, I immediately hit the "space" key to show the back (because I am not using the deck to "memorize"). I practice the few bars on the screenshot, and then when I am bored (usually after a minute or two), I grade myself, by hitting the most relevant button (Again, Hard, Good, Easy), which gives the algorithm the info it needs to know when it should show me those bars to me again.

The deck works great on a PC, iPad or phone. Piano Practice in your pocket at all times!


This is very helpful. Thank you. So in a way these are like practice cards and not only memory cards.


Exactly!


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