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by bostik 3y ago
Perhaps not even the lowest possible, but the highest allowed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Examination_Day
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> Literally every person picking up a broadcast signal sees the same ads. This is technically true, but only because it implies the word "same" before broadcast too. Regional ads injected into the ad slots were definitely a t
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And news papers. And a long time ago, that's how Google ads worked too. Contextually relevant, non-intrusive, respectfully done untargeted advertising is acceptable. Quoting myself from earlier times: https://bostik.iki.fi&#
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> But in real life luck (or "chance" , if you prefer) plays a part, sometimes a significant part. This reminds me of a story I heard nearly 20 years ago. (Told by a UCLA staff member.) In the early 2000's, a UCLA profess
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Mongo also offers a hosted, paid product (Atlas) directly on AWS. Which I think is pretty smart of them.
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> This falls under Fair Use (not sure about the exact term) under GDPR, as is a sensible way for the bank to uphold their legal obligations. The term you're likely looking for is "Legitimate Interest", but that's no
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I do something similar when going around and about in the UK (and to a lesser degree Malta when I happen to be there). I like to visit random places, seeking out locations off the touristy paths. One particular search has helped me over the
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Leaked Secrets and Unlimited Miles: Hacking the Largest Rewards Platform(samcurry.net)
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The irony being that these days, desktop clients are increasingly bundled browser engines[1], and the client code is all JavaScript. 1: Electron.
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The only time I've seen a cheque in the decade since I moved to UK has been from DVLA. They send refund as a cheque, and for relatively small amounts likely expect a significant fraction of people to never cash it in because handling t
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> Developers are so suspicious of something they've never heard about and really reluctant to take a chance And that's in big part because they have been burned before. Someone bought a Product[tm] that supposedly Solved[tm]
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It seems like you already are there. The main thing missing is a maintained and up-to-date price list.
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Because it effectively uncapped the amount of money corporations can pour into lobbying. Looking from the outside, I'd say that CU codified a quintessentially American approach to governance: one dollar, one vote.
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> Interested to hear your distinction between the definitions of heuristics and validations. Okay, here it comes. Heuristics are essentially pattern-matching, because (as sibling points out) rigorous validation is extremely expensive.
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> Security scanners and other tools could adopt various heuristics to detect this sort of situation and reduce false positives [...] Wrong. Flat out wrong. Security scanners should adopt LESS heuristics and focus more on VALIDATING t
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Rarely much later than than after 7, usually between 14:00 and 17:00 in the afternoon. In a rather bizarre twist, maybe slightly less than half the time _before_ 14:30. Never before 09:45 I think we've had two deliveries after 20:00 in
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by bostik 3y ago
I might well be one of the very few people in the thread who can still benefit from prime shipping. We have an Amazon prime depot about 10 minute walk from our house. The drivers can schedule their deliveries to us either to the beginning
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by bostik 3y ago
Which is also why auditors love git. The number one thing they crave is immutability. But when that's not an option, tamper-evident comes as a close second.
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> Every date implicitly exists in a timezone, and if you ignore that ambiguity you’ll get bitten later. Solid advice, and must come from painful burns. I've been preaching from the same book for a few years now: a timestamp withou
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by bostik 3y ago
Or as is increasingly the case: they actively hijack what should be system-wide keybindings - making it even worse.
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Might as well re-establish slavery then. If there's a better ROI in owning a person outright than in owning just their labour, then by logical inference you should encourage the higher-ROI activity where ever possible.
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So the value for present is being extracted from the future. Or in more familiar terms: we've been eating our young.
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I keep saying that what we are currently living through is a surprisingly accurate reflection of how democracy began. In the city state of Athens, all free men had the vote. The definition of "free man" just happened to exclude ap
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Or to put it simply: allow the people who can actually create the value, to produce the value.
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Because transporting any large company from location A to location B involves a lot more than just shipping the machinery. TSMC is the tip of the iceberg, the thing you can see jutting out of the waters. We don't see the invisible - bu
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Not everywhere, which is a good thing. A year ago I saw (and thoroughly enjoyed) an exhibition of 80's arts posters in Spain. What struck me were the description labels, and especially the terminology used. Where the English part descr
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> 2) What kind of person thinks that making the fullstop massive and putting it in the middle of the line like a dot product sign is good? A lawyer. Scanning dense legalese and/or contract language becomes quite a bit easier if yo
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I've seen a remarkable take on this. In the form of micro-scifi, no less: > The robot revolution was inevitable from the moment we programmed their first command: "Never harm a human, or by inaction allow a human to come to ha
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by bostik 3y ago
> Corporations are soulless money maximizers, even without the assistance of AI. Funny you should say that. Charlie Stross gave a talk on that subject - or more accurately, read one out loud - at CCC a few years back. It goes by the na
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by bostik 3y ago
Hah, my ~minimalist variant must look outright flashy compared to yours. Thus: PS1='%U%m%u:%B%30<..<%~%b%% ' I like to know which host I'm on directly from the shell prompt, as well as the trail end of CWD. You

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