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by Symbiote 1y ago
At a very rough estimate with Hetzner's calculator, which doesn't have exactly the systems I most recently bought, our servers cost about 18 months of renting the closest Hetzner dedicated server. Add to that rackspace costs, staf
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by Symbiote 1y ago
He actually lives in Clarence House (when in London), Buckingham Palace is currently only used for official business, parties etc. Arguably, Buckingham Palace should be turned into a museum (like several other former royal residences, e.g.
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by Symbiote 1y ago
For what it's worth, I have an on-prem Nexus server with a Docker repository. It has 8 cores and 16GB RAM. It has 82000 hits/day in the webserver log, though 99.9% of them transfer only a few kB, so I assume it's a metadata
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by Symbiote 1y ago
I don't know which companies, of course. They hide their identity by using a botnet. This traffic is new, and started around when many AI startups started. I see traffic from new search engines and other crawlers, but it generally res
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by Symbiote 1y ago
HN people working in these AI companies have commented to say they do this, and the timing correlates with the rise of AI companies/funding. I haven't tried to find it in my own logs, but others have said blocking an identifiable
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by Symbiote 1y ago
Drawing the line at "OK-ish for American English" is far too restrictive. You can't write CO₂ or m², use a fraction like ½, claim © or mention a price in Euros or Pounds Sterling. You can't even write major American plac
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by Symbiote 1y ago
Changing the filter to text LIKE '%—%' AND text NOT LIKE '% —%' AND text NOT LIKE '%— %' puts westoncb in the lead, followed by mucholove, trebbble, _zzaw and lexcorvus.
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by Symbiote 1y ago
Using the HN public dataset in Google BigQuery [0], which I think fits easily in the amount of free queries allowed: SELECT EXTRACT(YEAR FROM timestamp) AS year, SUM(CASE WHEN text LIKE '%—%' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS wi
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by Symbiote 1y ago
From the discussion with our head of communications (whose pedantry I approve of) US usage avoids spaces—like this—and should use an em-dash. But British usage – instead – uses spaces, so an en-dash or an em-dash is acceptable.
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by Symbiote 1y ago
Enable the Compose key and you'll get even more easy symbols, and they're reasonably guessable. Compose ` e produces è " a produces ä v s produces š v S produces Š a e produces æ
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by Symbiote 1y ago
Google (and the others) crawl from a published IP range, with "Google" in the user agent. They read robots.txt. They are very easy to block The AI scum companies crawl from infected botnet IPs, with the user agent the same as the
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by Symbiote 1y ago
Such entitlement. How much additional tax money should I spend at work so the AI scum can make 200 searches per second? Human and 'nice' bots make about 5 per second.
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by Symbiote 1y ago
At present, problem one is almost entirely AI companies.
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by Symbiote 1y ago
If it were this easy, we wouldn't have had about 10 HN posts on the topic in the last few months.
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by Symbiote 1y ago
> I see zero reasons to oppose robots visiting any website I would build. > preventing search engines from indexing incomplete versions or going the paths which really make no sense for them to go. What will you do when the bots ignor
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by Symbiote 1y ago
You claimed Swiss post will continue to accept gift packages over $100, contrary to their press release. Several people have explained that you are incorrect — Swiss and others are not accepting gift parcels over $100. You then changed tack
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by Symbiote 1y ago
You were writing about Japan's $100 limit yesterday. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45017265 > I'd suggest something like: "Japan Post stops accepting US shipments over $100."
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by Symbiote 1y ago
https://www.postnord.dk/nye-toldregler-i-usa/ > Som privatperson kan du fortsat toldfrit sende gaver med en maksimal værdi á $100 You can see the number and read the obvious words, it's not even necessary to tr
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by Symbiote 1y ago
That's six years obsolete, without security patches. What sector has 20% of users with that hardware?
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by Symbiote 1y ago
The European post services are complaining that there's not yet an electronic system set up for them to pay these tariffs on the recipient's behalf.
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by Symbiote 1y ago
Exports have a country of origin declared. If I post something from Denmark to Canada, they want to know the origin of the goods. If it's China, the China tariffs (if any) apply rather than the Denmark/EU ones. If the declaration
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by Symbiote 1y ago
The UK sugary drink tax caused a reduction in sugar consumption, and reduced obesity and dental problems in children. https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/jul/09/uk-...
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by Symbiote 1y ago
The Lib Dems made a referendum on a fairer voting method a condition of the coalition, and they got their referendum. I see no reason to doubt they'd implement electoral reform if elected.
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by Symbiote 1y ago
Everyone also had the choice to vote Green or Liberal Democrat. I believe both promise electoral reform.
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by Symbiote 1y ago
I don't think the gauges were much of an issue for passenger trains, after all there were many running across Europe (Orient Express etc). It's probably more that distances were shorter, the crazy rich could afford an entire train
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by Symbiote 1y ago
Football supporters in England sometimes charter whole trains to see particular matches. I've only seen one of these trains once, and it was an ordinary train. I've no idea what the cost would be.
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by Symbiote 1y ago
Using the EU and UK systems is optional, but without using it the small business's customers might be annoyed by the handling fees applied by the recipient's mail carrier, and the delay it causes. I have seen some foreign merchant
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by Symbiote 1y ago
Foreign businesses aren't required to register and collect UK VAT on items they send there, but by doing so they avoid their customers paying the £8 handling fee charged by Royal Mail. An £8 fee makes a cheap product bought from Chin
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by Symbiote 1y ago
Royal Mail have a decent explanation: https://www.royalmail.com/business/international/guide/deliv... Searching "EU IOSS UK" also shows some sort of support from Shopify and similar.
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by Symbiote 1y ago
If you buy a cheap charger from AliExpress, it's not going to be Anker.

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