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by bell-cot 2mo ago
So if you're looking for an auspicious phrase, to humblebrag about your own side project...
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
Yeah...but in context, "gullible" seem a bit pejorative. Humans are also hopelessly incapable of sensing radioactivity, methanol in their alcoholic drinks, carbon monoxide, and a great many other things that our ancestors just di
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
Context: 1 acre-foot, a usual unit of measure for agricultural water, is a bit under 1/3 of a million gallons. 17B gallons is about 52k acre-feet. Vs. just the state of Arizona's historic water allocation, from just the Colora
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
A small, traumatized little part of me is envisioning a whole new aisle of "Heart Healthy" peppermint ice cream products appearing in every store, holiday decorations going up, and speakers blaring Christmas carols a week before L
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
Geeze. Maybe my subconscious noticed that...OTOH, I was glancing fast, and have not had cataract surgery quite yet - so probably not. On a happier note - at least I wasn't reminded of Superiority ( https://en.wikipedia.
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
Ya know you're old when such things instantly remind you of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg_machine
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
The BBC article's "sales tax" reason sounds good - unless you know that several US states do not have sales tax. The actual history of tipping: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipping#History And a bit on
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
> ... without humans required to make the final target selections. Sounds very similar to artillery shells, grenade-and-wire booby traps, homing torpedoes, land mines, ship-counting naval mines, spring guns, and such - humans are closely
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
If you're getting scanned, keep logs, and have a decent way to tag log entries with the associated vuln, then you can start building statistical models of how exploit attempt probabilities fade as the target software gets older and low
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
Let's say your security budget is pretty limited, and you can say with relative certainly that there's only a 0.1% chance of any adversary bothering to check the known flaws in your FossileWare(tm) Firewall in a given month. Vs.ho
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
On the one hand, I'm sure that "A.I. killed 3 humans" really pushes peoples buttons, and maximizes the NYT's metrics. OTOH, a bit of perspective might be useful. Compared to historical large-scale European land wars s
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
MS-DOS: Over 45 years, and STILL NO remote holes in the default install!
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
Is this particular problem really SaaS behavior, or is it "market share too large to care" behavior?
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
> Therapists told me that correcting misused therapy-speak can be difficult because many people’s conception of a counselor is, essentially, that they’re a nice person whom you pay to co-sign your grievances. “I think a lot of therapists
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
I'm not seeing any mentions of NYC's (in)famous rent controls, nor of its recently-elected Democratic Socialist mayor. Seeming like both of those would be pretty relevant. Did Condé Nast stick its finger into the editing of this
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
Sun Tzu's advice is good - in 1-vs-1 hot wars with limited stakes. That is not Canada's current situation, let alone its desired situation. And diplomacy has many options between appeasement and provocation.
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
450 points and 269 comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49368886
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
Given the temperament of the current POTUS, using that word seems ill-advised.
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
Are you advocating for all children being anonymized and raised in orphanages? Or a 100% inheritance tax? Or just expressing disappointment at your own relative lack of wealthy & famous recent ancestors?
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
> ... pedophile protection rings of Republicans ... If you're just being an angry partisan here... well, okay. Vs. if you really care about how little our society and gov't care about charming, powerful, and/or wealthy se
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
The vast majority of users - weighting by the profits they generate for software companies - obviously don't care about "slow". And Munger's Law never cares if you hate its consequences.
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
> Then came David. The protein-bar company has turned its attention to “frozen dessert,” which is, of course, more commonly known as ice cream, though the company can’t legally call their product that. Instead of being made with cream an
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
Perhaps. But I suspect the world would be a far better place if ambulance chasing lawyers were actually so good at solving problems.
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
IANAL, but I recall copyright law being far too complex for any easy Protected/Not Protected test to exist.
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
Lemme know when you got some sorta probiotic skin ointment that repels all my local species of bloodsuckers - okay? Bonus points if it does the same for ticks.
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
Could you tell us about any passably-comparable situations, where high interest rates actually taught a national government to grow up and behave?
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
I don't know Amiga well, but IBM's OS/2 efforts were plagued by several Big Blue Blunders. And both the i432 and Itanium were sounded-great ideas - for which Intel could not ship even expensive and mediocre-performance hardw
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
Google Maps has 16 Dominoes locations around Colorado Springs. 4000 means each location is making about 125 pizza/hour for 2 hours. (For just the Academy.) Google's AI figures that doing pizzas assembly-line style, a pizzeria ca
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
> S301 orbits Sgr A* so tightly that the star’s trajectory should be bent by the black hole’s rotation. Simple version: They'll have to measure S301's orbit with all the precision they can, then solve a bunch of tricky equatio
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by bell-cot 2mo ago
> I would say getting clicks from non-subscribers has no value for them. So the newspaper gets no revenue when non-subscribers view (and perhaps click) ads on the newspaper's web site? TIL, I guess...

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