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by JackFr 1y ago
I have a strictly hobby web app that I work on. 6-7 years ago I inadvertently pushed AWS email service credentials to GitHub. Half an hour after the push I got an email and text from GitHub that I had exposed credentials. I quickly logged i
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> Don’t like porn? Don’t buy it. Ok. Don’t like porn? Don’t sell it. “CENSORSHIP! PURITAN NAZIS!”
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I spent years knowing nothing but C and I’d say it handicapped me in many ways. (I recall insisting that it would be impossible to do anything without assignment.) After getting my eyes opened a little bit, I read SICP and it was mind blowi
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My daughters went to a Catholic all girls high school. The translated Catallus 16 in Latin class. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catullus_16 I don’t think anyone considered that the Latin syllabus might be a cause for
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If people are gonna use “natural” as a justification, nothing more natural than violence.
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The concept of natural vs. non-natural is a human and largely cultural construct. It’s still a useful word, but it can’t really shoulder the burden of making one argument more rational than the other.
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That's reporting by the local affiliate, not the Fox News.
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You can volunteer for a study. Check for flyers at your hospital asking for volunteers. (Especially psychiatric institutions - they love brain MRIs for their research.)
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Multiple heart attacks.
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According to other articles I've read, multiple heart attacks.
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Now semicolons on the other hand, they’re an affectation.
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You sell them Copilot. You Sell them CursorAI. You sell them Windsurf. You sell them Devin. You sell the Claude Code. Software guys are doing much, much more than treating LLM's like an improved Stack Overflow. And a lot of them a
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They are moving to Florida because the personal income tax rate in Forida is 0% and in New York it's about 14%.
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My middle school science teacher did it, and the big caveat he gave us was not to use wax or plastic-coated cups if we wanted to try at home.
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> It turns out that no, you don't need pottery to boil things My middle school science teacher boiled water in a paper cup.
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https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref... The classic on the subject.
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A reasonable news outlet would call CBP for a comment. Something like "attempts to reach CBP for comment were unsuccessful." goes a long way. It's a tell that they don't. The story is too good not to print.
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Tell that to Jonathon Pollard.
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I recently had major surgery and got two units of blood in during the operation and two more post-op. Post-op before I got the blood, they typed my blood again, and a nurse stayed in the room while I got the blood and I wondered why. This
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1) the properties of a field is missing closure under the operation. This is kind of assumed from context, but I would include it. 2) the reduction step up multiplication of nth order polynomials (to keep them nth order) is missing (or at l
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Although it cannot understand the rhetorical why as in a frustrated “Why on earth would you possibly do it that brain dead way?” Instead of the downcast, chastened look of a junior developer, it responds with a bulleted list of the reasons
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> It implies that they are deep fundamental laws of the universe Rather they are deep fundamentals of what your brain can contain, so you perceive them as fundamental to the universe. If we admit there are all sorts of phenomena which we
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Very few entities have a 98 year horizon. People sure don't. Some insurance companies do I suppose. A more interesting graph would be to show me the 30 year return at each point along the way. My gues is that stocks would still most
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I believe what he likely meant (though not what he said), was that radical transparency shouldn’t be taken as a license to be an asshole. I say that as a manager of narcissistic assholes who are always “brutally honest” and feel that their
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Your authenticity is not everyone’s authenticity.
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Because someone has to put up the money. And the people who put up the money want a return on it, or they will put their money somewhere else.
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One of the reservations the customer likely had is "will this company be around in X years?" The inferior home-grown product will continue to be supported.
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Back in the 90’s there was an explicit “sovereign ceiling” policy at the rating agencies. I guess they’ve that rule.
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Well I can extract a square root by hand. We all had to learn it and got tested on it. No one to day learns that anymore. The vast, vast majority have no idea and I don’t think people are dumber because of it. That is to say, I think it’s n
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In commodities and certain derivative markets, hedgers need to be matched with speculators . Hedgers are offsetting risk to speculators. Thus a farmer can insulate themselves against a drop in the price of corn and an airline can insulat

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