Because the information necessary for that is already available from the subnet mask WITHOUT the bitwise AND, e.g., with 255.255.255.0 or 1111 1111.1111 1111.1111 1111.0000 0000, you count the amount of 1s, which in this case is 24 and corresponds to that appendix in the CIDR notation. At this point, you already know that you only need to consider those first 24 bits from the IP address, making the subsequent bitwise AND redundant.

On a technical level, the bitwise operation is all that is needed. It is one calculation of the simplest kind. A CPU can do it in 1 tick. That’s why they invented it this way.

The other way that you described is the super extra ultra lengthy complicated - and maybe redundant - thing.

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No weapons, just you and the squirrels.

My teeth are terrifying weapons, chrrrr!!

😄

In a fight to death, my only problem would be that I get tired from the fighting, sooner or later. And then they could do some real harm.

On the other hand, I assume that they are not smart enough to apply any special tactics that make use of this, or of their large number (coordinated action etc.)

So I would trust myself against maybe 50 of them.

The United States intelligence budget is around 70 billion.

Does so much spying pay off? /s

learning should be a basic human right!

Education is a basic human right (except maybe in Usa, then it should be one there)

ive never heard of holy books on airplanes!

I guess the airplane companies don’t like it.

Just imagine a passenger stands up and loudly asks: “Do you want me to read all this? Are we having a 2 hour flight or a 200 hour flight?” :)

Wait… they actually STOLE the cheese from the cows?

😆

The sad news is:

Their argument could fall on fertile ground.

The Usamerican legal system protects a running business. When such a rich and famous corporation argues (and it would be highly paid lawyers arguing) that their business could be in jeopardy, they are going to listen, no matter how ridiculous the reasoning.

In other countries, they just make a judge laughing out loud.

The ads were served, right?

No, and that’s exactly the point that makes it a fraud (not stealing)

Boring article, but the picture looks cool.

I get that, but the general understanding of fair use is relatively homogeneous.

No, not at all. Only the anglo american culture has that term. Greek/Roman influenced cultures think quite differently about copyright topics in general. African and Asian, I don’t know.

Either a defective RAM or a physically broken (bent) mainboard.

Bot posting?

running an LLM chat bot to deceive the enemy in their own language

It engages the enemy into inescapable, endless, useless chatter, which is, as we all know, the most terrible and effective weapon on earth, stronger than all social media combined.

It explains itself when you have it in your hand :)

we can have 5~10 photos which are basically duplicates

Have any of you guys handled a similar situation?

I decide which one is the best and then delete the others. Sometimes I keep 2, but that’s an exception. I do that as early as possible.

I don’t mind about storage space at all (still many TB free), but keeping (near-)duplicates costs valuable time of my life. Therefore I avoid it.

Put a cover on it like this (look for the right size, there are 2 - 3 different sizes)

https://www.bauhaus.at/schalterdosen/federdeckel-klein/p/12148379

I mean partners in a diplomatic sense.

Whatever that may be.

I mean it in every sense.

Imagine the machine that puts make-up on your face telling you that you look great… :-)

I don’t want robots to be partners.