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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • TCNs, or third country nationals. People from neither the US or locals.

    From my understanding the reason why is the almighty dollar. They don’t get paid nearly as much as our troops and contractors, but still a lot more than they would make at home. There is quite a bit of info about it if you do a quick search.







  • Villagers are human like mobs you trade with. Emeralds are used as a currency. Most fletchers buy sticks from you. The more you do business with a villager, the more trade options they have. High level fisherman buy a boat (5 wooden planks) for one emeralds.

    Tool smiths start selling high quality enchanted iron and diamond tools once they are mid level. Enchantments do things like increase durability (unbreaking), improve speed (efficiency), and many other upgrades. Once you have a tool smith that sells say diamond axes, anything else is pointless to keep beyond an emergency backup. Cost isn’t a factor because the aforementioned selling of sticks and boats mean emeralds are a cheap and renewable resource.







  • So much to unpack here.

    GNU is not a Linux variant. It is a set of programs and shared libraries.

    ISO 9660 has nothing to do with compression. Just calling it ISO isn’t a good idea for an intro class like that because it is a set of MANY standards. They should have put a little side blurb and called it ISO 9660 in the table.

    tar is an archive tool. It has no compression.

    Why no mention of compression algorithms algorithms vs archive tools?

    Why not have different compression algorithms and their tradeoffs?

    ETA: jar files are just zip files for Java libs/programs. You can open them with zip file tools.