YawningAngel

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by YawningAngel 2y ago
I'm not sure I agree with your second footnote. Beowulf is written in Old English, which is quite hard for modern English speakers to read on account of being German. Middle English, however, I think you'd find fairly palatable. F
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by YawningAngel 2y ago
Basically all AV either runs as root or uses a kernel driver. I guess the former is preferable
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by YawningAngel 2y ago
That's exactly how this works in regulated industries. At UK banks there is criminal liability for senior management for institutional failures. Concretely in this case, if you are bringing a prosecution and you fail to uphold the righ
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by YawningAngel 2y ago
I have had this exact thought and am deeply irritated by it
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by YawningAngel 2y ago
I like Kotlin but I find the fact that it lacks a good way to detect and handle possible errors very frustrating. If some function can fail on sane-looking input I'd like to know about it
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by YawningAngel 2y ago
It's secure as long as you are using a private client (one that can safeguard a client secret), but PKCE costs you nothing to it's strictly better to do it.
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by YawningAngel 3y ago
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy
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by YawningAngel 3y ago
In the US, this is constitutionally forbidden.
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by YawningAngel 3y ago
You can convert YAML to JSON programmatically, and JSON is valid jsonnet, so you can pretty much copy paste examples from the web into your jsonnet if you find yourself wanting to do that
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by YawningAngel 3y ago
Ex post facto laws are not possible in the United States
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by YawningAngel 3y ago
Why is it reasonable? It seems to me that there is a cost (disenfranchising some people) and no clear benefit.
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by YawningAngel 3y ago
My understanding is that stockfish retains and uses its classical evaluation model in addition to the NNUE model
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by YawningAngel 3y ago
From my perspective as a passenger, trains constantly being delayed or cancelled due to problems with the track suggests the track is not being adequately maintained. It could be the case that there is sufficient money available and it is b
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by YawningAngel 3y ago
I'm not sure what you think the BBC does, but it isn't that.
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by YawningAngel 3y ago
I was in a similar situation on a London train (different line) this month. The problem is that the operators genuinely do not know how long things are going to take. I agree that the TTR is obviously unacceptable, but the whole service is
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by YawningAngel 3y ago
MTG: Arena doesn't allow three player games, so what the bot is doing is joining _in_ the opponent's seat. Presumably this is why it can concede on their behalf. I guess the game doesn't check for this because its developers
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by YawningAngel 3y ago
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/api-security-in/9781617...
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by YawningAngel 3y ago
They see lots of potential disasters all the time and have a hard time knowing which ones will materialise
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by YawningAngel 3y ago
That probably would be acceptable but it's not clear it is worth the bank's while to do that
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by YawningAngel 3y ago
I get that it happens, but it's pretty shocking to me that people can get away with angle grinding a lock off in broad daylight.
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by YawningAngel 3y ago
I stopped paying for YT premium and figured out how to work ReVanced becuase YT premium doesn't actually block the minute-plus ads that creators put in their videos to ensure they actually get paid when YT stiffs them and ReVanced&#x2F
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by YawningAngel 3y ago
I had a lot of fun with Inquisition, but the MMOish world design and the fact that so much core plot was hived off into Trespasser makes it hard to call the game truly excellent.
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by YawningAngel 3y ago
Is cowardice a crime?
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by YawningAngel 3y ago
I'm not even sure he's above average, it seems to me like he could have closed down Alameda, hired some compliance professionals to bring FTX into compliance with the law, and been a) a billionaire and b) not in jail for his troub
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by YawningAngel 3y ago
> As a side note, screaming "It's too late: hurry up!" is really an idiot way to advocate your cause, whatever your cause may be. Is it? It can simultaneously be true that we have been too slow to avoid very concerning out
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by YawningAngel 3y ago
The price reddit is charging for API access seems much higher than the value to Reddit of the ads that are being blocked by the client using that API.
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by YawningAngel 3y ago
Humans can synthesise creatine, but we synthesise less than is ideal for elite strength athletes, so supplementation is still effective
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by YawningAngel 3y ago
Intel adding things like AVX is only valuable to anyone if compilers actually smit AVX instructions
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by YawningAngel 3y ago
Would you? It seems like you're leaning heavily on the idea that the python packages don't have the same moral weight as the single parent, which is an odd thing to believe if the python packages can actually have experiences. The
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by YawningAngel 3y ago
That's possible I guess but is there positive evidence for that being the case?

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