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by brobinson 3y ago
Wiktionary will go into exhaustive detail (perhaps too much detail) about all the use cases of a word, including example sentences: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pronunciation Works great for Chinese and Japanese, to
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by brobinson 3y ago
The "hey everyone, I'm looking at gay porn!" one was the GNAA's "Last Measure" website which is probably one of the most abusive instances of Flash and Javascript I can recall.
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by brobinson 3y ago
Wannabe left-wing dictators would be okay, though?
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by brobinson 3y ago
>But then it's not used when/if you need it. I mean, use PTO if you need it. That's what it's there for, but you don't lose it if you don't use it (unless you hit a cap like I mentioned). The old dude you
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by brobinson 3y ago
Accrued PTO gets paid out when you leave, though. It's basically guaranteed severance if you're not using it. Just be wary of hitting a cap because then new PTO gets straight up _deleted_ with no recourse (had this happen to a re
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by brobinson 3y ago
This information is somewhat interesting, but what action does it allow you to take? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information-action_ratio
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by brobinson 3y ago
Luxury beliefs (see: NYC right now)
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by brobinson 3y ago
You misread the post you're replying to and are agreeing with it.
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by brobinson 3y ago
Time of flight sensor + laser like on Abramovich's yacht? https://newatlas.com/worlds-biggest-yacht-eclipse-roman-abra...
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by brobinson 3y ago
Strawman. I never claimed or suggested what are you asserting. The design appears to be working well looking over the 240 years since the US' Constitution was ratified. A broad consensus of the states, _not of the people in the US as
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by brobinson 3y ago
That is by design, though. Just because state A has a big population doesn't mean it gets to strongarm state B.
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by brobinson 3y ago
You just need 38 states to agree to amend the Constitution and repeal the 2nd amendment.
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by brobinson 3y ago
It's a 23 minute video that is 21mb. The video quality is (intentionally?) extremely low.
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by brobinson 3y ago
Are you using torrents or something else? If you downloaded a file over HTTPS, all they can see is the IP, domain name, and the amount of data transferred on a given connection.
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by brobinson 3y ago
With lockdown mode on, I have to explicitly tap a line of text on the popup to load the preview.
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by brobinson 3y ago
SNI isn't encrypted. They can see plaintext domain name of your https requests. Obviously, they can also see the IP you're connecting to. Maybe ECH will be rolled out at some point, and we can stop using SNI.
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by brobinson 3y ago
Really interesting information, thank you.
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by brobinson 3y ago
Thanks, this is really interesting.
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by brobinson 3y ago
Yup, see you guys in the thread next year.
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by brobinson 3y ago
What if there are branches but both paths result in the same number of cycles being required to execute the instructions? Is it correct to say: "all branchless code runs in constant time, but not all constant time code is branchless&qu
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by brobinson 3y ago
green to me = unencrypted and getting stored directly into a government database forever
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by brobinson 3y ago
What this tells me is that I really want something like Tailscale but written in Rust and not requiring a third-party, closed source server for authentication. (yes I know about headscale)
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by brobinson 3y ago
I left Ubuntu for Fedora because of how slow/awful Snaps are. I can't imagine going through the described interview process and then having to work on _Snaps_.
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by brobinson 3y ago
"that is theirs by international treaties" The PRC has never, not even for a single day, controlled Taiwan, Kinmen, Matsu, etc. The continued existence of the ROC (1912-present) truly causes tankies to lose their minds.
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by brobinson 3y ago
Here's a mirror: https://archive.is/U8YTo
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by brobinson 3y ago
It's a useful signal: these people aren't worth engaging with.
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by brobinson 3y ago
I hope you don't do banking or anything critical on your phone.
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by brobinson 3y ago
You don't need to trust when you can verify. The source code for the intermediary bank (smart contract) would be available for everyone to read.
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by brobinson 3y ago
2023...
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by brobinson 3y ago
They are based in Australia, though.

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