I think one of my biggest surprises in going to Estonia was discovering that European wasps are just called wasps there.

Since the tag nonce and uid are sent as plaintext, we also recover the LFSR state before feeding in n_T ⊕ uid (step 4). Note that this LFSR state is the secret key!

Dismantling MIFARE Classic

// This is a weird looking number! We really want our first request size to be 1MiB,
// which is a common IO size. But Linux's readahead will try to read an extra 128k on on
// top of a 1MiB read, which we'd have to wait for a second request to service. Because
// FUSE doesn't know the difference between regular reads and readahead reads, it will
// send us a READ request for that 128k, so we'll have to block waiting for it even if
// the application doesn't want it. This is all in the noise for sequential IO, but
// waiting for the readahead hurts random IO. So we add 128k to the first request size
// to avoid the latency hit of the second request.
//
// Note the CRT does not respect this value right now, they always return chunks of part size
// but this is the first window size we prefer.
const INITIAL_READ_WINDOW_SIZE: usize = 1024 * 1024 + 128 * 1024;

github.com/awslabs/mountpoint-s3/mountpoint-s3-fs/src/s3/config.rs:243-254

by (what feels to me) some huge coincidence, i find myself increasingly actually believing myself to be more “awake” or aware or something than nearly everyone around me — and not in a way that feels obviously generically megalomaniacal or whatever, but in specific, measurable ways. i’m 100% clear that i’m not delusional in the ways i’m finding myself having a by-the-numbers relatively extraordinary belief.

and that would be just the expected ~phenomenology~ of such a delusion, and this too has never failed to occur to me. it just is what it is, and ngl that’s kinda weird.

this post brought to you from subconscious-overthinking while thoroughly learning k8s in my own time, becoming accustomed to feeling mostly disappointment in work time, and a fair bit of meditation in between

Estonians are renowned for their social charm, and for good reason are considered second to none in business. Here follows an exemplar of such, when an order from a motorcycle gear and accessory store was unable to be realised in full.

Hello! Thank you for your order. Oxford Aqua T-50 Roll Bag - Grey/White is unfortunately not available. Best regards

I was a little unsure of how to proceed, but figured I could try asking for a different similar item. They all appeared to be in stock on the website.

Hello! Thank you for your email. Do you have this one instead? All the best

They did not refund the difference between the original item and the one I requested, but given the level and speed of service I received in lieu, I didn’t even feel like asking for it!