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   by aasasd 5y ago

   There was also a story about an elder woman living in closets or even a cupboard in a home of some family, for over a year iirc. This is it I think: https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna24889337 Turns out that one can easily
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   by aasasd 5y ago

   Also, kinda ironic that the page links to an article from 2017 called ‘Why Medium Doesn't Matter Anymore’, while here we are complaining how we still hate having to deal with it.
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   by aasasd 5y ago

   I have trouble taking advice like that from a page on which hovering over links ramps up browser's CPU usage to over 100% (of a core).
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   by aasasd 5y ago

   By the way, that's some circular reasoning right there. I asked, what would be the purpose of the DoS attack. You say, it's to hurt the reputation if the site comes down. But why? What is the purpose of taking down the site? Krebs
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   by aasasd 5y ago

   > penis-swastika Well, my curiosity quickly led to the discovery that penises and swastikas have a large overlap with furries, by the way of the Rule34 site. Which finally made me realize that furries are probably the catch-all categor
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   by aasasd 5y ago

   I occasionally meditated for a bit upon a similar map on Yandex Weather—finally understood what the deal with Siberia is. Like, in spring it's way below zero around Mongolia, while it's on the same latitude as Black Sea where it c
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   by aasasd 5y ago

   I wouldn't expect that at all, since the attack doesn't have any security implications other than ‘someone found how to send a lot of requests from routers’, and the target is just one guy with a blog—not a corporation whose job
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   by aasasd 5y ago

   Still not seeing what a DoS attack on him achieves. What, he loses some kind of sweet profits due to the site being down for a day, if Google can't shield it for some reason? And the other two obviously aren't going to keel over u
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   by aasasd 5y ago

   What's the purpose of attacks like these three? Just the advertisement that someone has a nice beefy fleet for rent?
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    by aasasd 5y ago

    Sarcasm I don't mind—gotta eat my own food, obviously. However, shifting the discussion is a different matter, while I was replying to one specific claim. On top of that, the arguments about material harm, that you've mentioned, a
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    by aasasd 5y ago

    First of all, it doesn't follow in any way from my comment that I'm ‘advocating for’ that argument. You just extrapolated somehow onto the stock set of anti-copyright arguments and decided that I'm opposed to one of them. Act
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    by aasasd 5y ago

    > If you put out a product on a medium whose design is fundamentally based on copying bits, I don't know how you can expect anything else to happen. Exactly! If you exist in the universe where things can poke other things, don&#x2
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    by aasasd 5y ago

    Perhaps we should stop badgering the site to death. WBM has a mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20210901085438/https://www.rober... I don't see images in the mirrored page, but I also have no idea
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    by aasasd 5y ago

    Thanks, but this sounds like it only says what subcategories and, perhaps, pages are in the categories—but doesn't contain any data from the pages themselves. My main target is kinda-structured data from infoboxes—e.g. genre, platform,
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    by aasasd 5y ago

    AD seem to have been able to make the pitch flow quite alright, but dropped the ball on the roll movement. Shame—the ride per se looks exciting just from the vid.
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    by aasasd 5y ago

    This is sorta related to the small principle in visual design, that you shouldn't actually make rounded corners by joining a straight line (of infinite radius) to an arc of a fixed radius—because things don't work that way in natu
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    by aasasd 5y ago

    Ah, indeed: https://github.com/nanochess/bootOS
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    by aasasd 5y ago

    Windows is one thing, but I heard that Warcraft 1 or 2 had a patch to fix a crash that occurred after the game ran for three weeks. The mystery, to me, is how the hell did someone discover the problem.
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    by aasasd 5y ago

    IIRC one of these people, perhaps Óscar Toledo, wrote a usable OS fitting in either 512 bytes or the MBR (which is a bit smaller afaik).
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    by aasasd 5y ago

    Hmmmm, indeed. Considering that I've heard of DBpedia before my attempts with Wikidata, I now wonder why I didn't use it. Gonna check what they know about subjects that interest me.
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    by aasasd 5y ago

    My personal long-standing wish is querying categories, in which the pages have the same infoboxes, by the fields in the boxes. Preferably without waiting to download dozens or hundreds of pages first. The infobox→Wikidata integration would
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    by aasasd 5y ago

    I'm all for Wikidata, it's great in some ‘high-profile’ cases like data on countries—at least by my moderate standards. I didn't have much problem with Sparql, or perhaps my queries were simple. However, once you get into the
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    by aasasd 5y ago

    Thanks!
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    by aasasd 5y ago

    > There was a post on HN a while ago which basically was about how using language (and probably, speaking out loud) is actually a `feature' or `technology' of human mind Really would like to see that post, as I've been v
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    by aasasd 5y ago

    Indeed, that was the first time I've seen someone clearly voice more-or-less the same view, when the link previously appeared here on HN.
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    by aasasd 5y ago

    On the topic of low-level tips: IMO it helps to always try to read one's writing as if speaking it out loud. If the text doesn't flow well when spoken, then it's not good. Like, long-winded parentheses in the middle of a sent
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    by aasasd 5y ago

    My long-standing annoyance with software documentation is when people don't see that tutorials and reference are different things. They may have tutorials as the only documentation available ( ahem Ansible cough ), or reference as th
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    by aasasd 5y ago

    Exactly: if implemented right and there's no gap between the menu and the top of the screen where the cursor does nothing, then you can just mostly jam the mouse in the general direction of the menu item. Notably, Microsoft managed to
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    by aasasd 5y ago

    Turns out that evil bastards also have no sense of beauty or proper data formatting.
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    by aasasd 5y ago

    Let's be real, I have trouble trusting people who use the words ‘tortured phrases’ instead of ‘bogus sentences’.