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by banana_giraffe 3y ago
For what it's worth, git also can fail in some pretty bizarre ways in Dropbox for much the same reasons. I've used git-remote-dropbox [1] in the past to use Dropbox as a git server. [1] https://github.com/anishath
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by banana_giraffe 3y ago
The books in the books3 collection aren't categorized. The source, however, currently is at a ratio of 2:1 nonfiction to fiction, and from what I've seen, whoever created the books3 archive simply attempted to gather all the EPub
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by banana_giraffe 3y ago
Cute, it managed to find 121486 subdomains for amazonaws.com [1], and somehow I suspect that's a tiny fraction of what's in use. https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Q726kbXuN/bf8a9a22b81fe65...
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by banana_giraffe 3y ago
As accurate as MaxMind[1], since that's what they use [2]. In my experience, it's reasonably accurate for the US, less so for other countries. MaxMind publishes some accuracy data which might be an interesting starting point [3]
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by banana_giraffe 3y ago
There's some metadata on the page of "creationTime": 1460051640789448, or Thursday, April 7, 2016 5:54:00.789 PM
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by banana_giraffe 3y ago
Can you do this in VS Code? You can set the window Zoom Level to change all of the font sizes, including the menu, but afaik, there's no option for just the menu font size.
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by banana_giraffe 3y ago
books3.tar.gz itself is ~37gb compressed. Often really the entire "The Pile" dataset (composed of both the mostly compressed archives, along with a ~450gb compressed jsonl compilation of the data) is being discussed. That'
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by banana_giraffe 3y ago
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/21/technology/waymo-driverle...
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by banana_giraffe 3y ago
It won't help the clunky mobile site much, but if you're on iOS there's a Safari plug in called "Sink It for Reddit" that hides the attempts to funnel you into their app.
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by banana_giraffe 3y ago
Was your dream inspired by the Free-PC? http://edition.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9902/10/freepc.idg/
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by banana_giraffe 3y ago
> But if Silverman's book is in there It is: $ grep -i "Sarah Silverman" books3.list.txt 325196 books3/the-eye.eu/public/Books/Bibliotik/T/The Bedwetter - Sarah Silverman.epub.t
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by banana_giraffe 3y ago
There's a company called Yoshi that does this, only they come out to you with a pump on a van. One of my neighbors uses them. I guess it works, though I never go the appeal, not to mention I'm not 100% sure how it'd work wi
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by banana_giraffe 3y ago
There's some level of power user that will try to fix things, not understand what's going on, and yell at the world when they break things further. I used to have a popular freely available 3rd party DLL that was included in lots
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by banana_giraffe 3y ago
This brings back memory of one of the first BBSs I ever joined. It was a tech support/news/sales channel for a local computer store. It was fairly heavily moderated, but still, it had a small community. At some point, the moder
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by banana_giraffe 3y ago
It wasn't even just for MS applications. You could embed the Agents in your own application via ActiveX. There were some samples from MS of how to embed it in websites via VBScript. There was also an Agent Editor so you could create
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by banana_giraffe 3y ago
You'd think, but yet one still sees one or two posts a week to SO or whatever forum asking how to enable password-based login to AWS EC2 instances. Often with screenshots showing '0.0.0.0/0' as the allowed incoming rang
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by banana_giraffe 3y ago
In the US, the seem to no longer require logging in. If they geo-locate your IP to anywhere else, they show "Log In" and "I'm not over 18" buttons.
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by banana_giraffe 3y ago
> In Shaboon v. Egyptair, 2013 IL App (1st) 111279-U. I'm sure a case involving Egyptair is complicated, still .. I'd love to see the 111,279 page volume this citation claims to come from.
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by banana_giraffe 3y ago
It's showing 50 of the top 50 posts to /r/all in each 12 hour window have been removed. It's the results of the bot that generates posts to /r/RedditMinusMods/ tracking such deletes that looks like https:
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by banana_giraffe 3y ago
For anyone that wants a physical version, SwissMicros makes a calculator based off of Free42: https://www.swissmicros.com/product/dm42
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by banana_giraffe 3y ago
Random trivia: Excel still uses "/" to bring up menu. At some point the shortcuts for "Alt" and "/" converged to Excel specific shortcuts, but my fingers still use "/" for whatever re
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by banana_giraffe 3y ago
I still have burned into my head the dangers of ATM ATS11=50 And a script to keep doing ATDT##### in a loop till it got through a busy signal, only to find out that short DTMF tones aren't always recognized, and seemingly
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by banana_giraffe 3y ago
Along the same lines, you can download a dump of the different Stack Exchange sites: https://archive.org/details/stackexchange The dump of Stack Overflow's Posts is about 20gb. The Android Enthusiasts Stack Excha
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by banana_giraffe 3y ago
It's a call out in the law that allows access to such material if authenticated with a Mobile driver's license, aka mDL ( https://dld.utah.gov/utahmdl/ ), aka ISO 18013-5.
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by banana_giraffe 3y ago
I'd assume they were afraid of being pulled from the App Store, either for vague reasons, or because Apple straight out warned them. And they decided a Android-only, or Website-only version of their product wouldn't perform as wel
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by banana_giraffe 3y ago
https://twitter.com/NYTGames/status/1620791597788008457 On March 1st, they removed the digital versions of the acrostic and cryptic puzzles. They've taken down the entire archive, including something like 15
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by banana_giraffe 3y ago
And they recently removed cryptic and acrostic crosswords due to "complex nature of these puzzles".
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by banana_giraffe 3y ago
The bit about "UNC Paths" is a bit simplified. The "$" shares are administrative shares. They're created by default, you can delete or disable them (though, if you delete them, they'll be recreated on a reboo
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by banana_giraffe 4y ago
I had a coworker write a little app to vibrate with Morse code at incoming messages, and turn the entire screen into a single button that he could tap out replies. It worked well enough.
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by banana_giraffe 4y ago
It's gated by the default IOPS limits, you'll note the larger block sizes have a considerably better throughput. You can increase the IOPS, and thus the throughput for 4k operations, but at a cost, of course: https://gi

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