akersten

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by akersten 5y ago
Of all the awful legal takes I've seen on this site, yours is an early contender for best of 2022. > No warranty means he isn't liable for any behavior of the software at all. Somebody should tell all those computer virus autho
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by akersten 5y ago
Where did I say that was an innovation? And if it was an innovation at some point in time, I insist it was the year stereo was invented and the concept was just as invalid as a patent as it is today. Of course you expect the volume of your
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by akersten 5y ago
Sure. Replace "independently" with "dependently" in my comment. That distinction changes nothing about the novelty of such a system. The volume knob on your stereo from 1960 controls both the left and right speaker volum
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by akersten 5y ago
Patents are horrible. Can you really look me in the face and tell me that controlling the volume of speakers independently of each other is some kind of special idea - not even a concrete product, but so innovative that the very concept d
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by akersten 5y ago
Good, imo. Rest of the world has been running 5g and planes haven't fallen out of the sky. There's something like 200MHz gap between the frequencies in question and that's wide enough to drive a truck through. FAA should prov
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by akersten 5y ago
A ZIP code is an identifier made of numerals, it is not a number in the mathematical sense. It does not make sense to multiply, add, subtract, or divide them - even though the numerals are assigned in apparently ascending order. There&#x2
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by akersten 5y ago
> the relevant one being a compare operation with a < or > In Math we call that subtraction!
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by akersten 5y ago
Most likely machine learning gone wrong where enough people report messages with the same link as spam to cause anti-spam systems to auto-block it. Makes sense that the links are all political, these are the most likely type of domains some
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by akersten 5y ago
> Everything that is linked to your email address should be purged after 3-12 months of inactivity, including That is such a horrible idea, I go on vacations longer than that. My Dropbox should be deleted if I don't log in for 4 mo
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by akersten 5y ago
We desperately need a law that says (or at least need people in power to understand that) if your server sends it (as an agent working on behalf of your interests), you decided it was ok for me to receive it! For HTTP this understanding is
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by akersten 5y ago
We will lose out on a generation of great engineers, scientists, and mathematicians because our (US) public school systems are teetering on the brink in multiple ways. From underfunded districts and underappreciated teachers, to activists w
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by akersten 5y ago
More likely the IDE just auto-indents the errant line and the programmer is still none-the-wiser.
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by akersten 5y ago
Yeah, that sort of entitlement would throw this issue at the bottom of the priority queue for me. They're lucky they even got a nice workaround kludge posted in the thread. Knowing that probably 3 layers of government contractors are b
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by akersten 5y ago
The mental gymnastics to contort labelling of posts as defamation is so laughable. There's nothing defaming about "we had X group review this post and they found it was False." It doesn't matter if X group was incorrect
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by akersten 5y ago
If this answer from a search engine was actually persuasive enough to their impressionable child that it posed a real risk to them, then it is absolutely the parent's fault for exposing said child to the literal internet before they ar
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by akersten 5y ago
Sounds like a safari problem to me (:
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by akersten 5y ago
The Exhibit A why no one will ever convince me to turn off my ad blocker or switch away from Firefox. It's a great feeling to just not have to worry about this entire class of exploits.
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by akersten 5y ago
Not until you're collecting data at the scale where you'd have a legal@yourdomain team to forward anything that vaguely smells like a legal inquiry. Which is why my tip applied for "non-business" cases.
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by akersten 5y ago
Fully agreed. I'm shocked she gave a random unsolicited emailer the time of day. Most problems are ones we create for ourselves. Responding to spam and then feeling like you've been the victim of some injustice that the spam didn&
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by akersten 5y ago
Or just put it behind a permission prompt and quit ruining all the cool features of the web for the rest of us
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by akersten 5y ago
It's unclear- do these attacks require you to have the hostile site(s) open simultaneously in both private and non-private tabs? Seems like it would, for the resources to stay allocated. If that's the case, it's kind of a &qu
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by akersten 5y ago
Damn. I remember reading about the original "hack" here and getting very concerned about the level of access ascertained by the attacker. I'm almost relieved it was a foolishly clumsy inside job and some of the initial hypoth
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by akersten 5y ago
Not only are there not provisions to prevent that, it's the implicit purpose of the law!
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by akersten 5y ago
Doesn't even work right on Firefox mobile. The sunburst just stays in the same spot for me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. What a waste of cycles.
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by akersten 5y ago
> In 10 years, Europe will be a software superpower. LOL not at €40k/year for senior devs they won't be. You'll sooner see Europe become the #1 exporter of H1Bs.
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by akersten 5y ago
I'm unfamiliar with T/SQL but of those issues seem like fundamental limitations of stored procedures, just implementation details that need updating. Why is there no way to do it?
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by akersten 5y ago
> ignores the first 5 results (to avoid caching effects). This would be the correct approach if you're interested in the "sterile laboratory" performance of these APIs. But the average webpage is going to not be doing a b
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by akersten 5y ago
After a sibling commenter very patiently pointed out that I was holding it wrong - I would encourage taking another look at this project if only to try out the Painting mode. It does produce some very cool results: https://imgur
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by akersten 5y ago
The picture you drew and had it turn into rocks is actually really cool! I think I would have been more generous to the project had I known it could do that. Maybe I X'd out of the frustrating tutorial too early? :)
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by akersten 5y ago
I have no idea what that means, but the fact that it both told me to enter a text prompt and actually let me do it while not being in whatever magical mode it should have been in in order to actually use the text prompt is another point

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