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by bryans 5y ago
> He's very clearly saying that if you are doing that, it's always possible to avoid it and work within the intent of the spec instead. No, he very plainly (almost literally) said that if the tool isn't used exclusively in
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> Having a good justification for misuse doesn't make it not misuse. If there is a good justification for misuse, that would logically mean the original intent isn't applicable to real world scenarios -- which doesn't make
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While I wouldn't necessarily categorize that as negotiating, I totally agree that befriending employees, managers and owners is one of the best things you can do for your bank account. Especially true for restaurants. The first thing I
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Negotiating is typically only possible in situations where the salesperson is receiving a commission (Guitar Center) or is in a position to directly benefit at the expense of the business (bartender hoping the discount will translate into a
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> That is not at all what I am saying. I'm saying that the $/month "bandwidth" charge cloud entities charges is $0, which is true, they don't pay per volume, they pay for other things in their agreements for peer
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Your insistence that access, peering and infrastructure costs equal $0 couldn't be further from the truth, and unmetered doesn't mean infinite, so your entire premise is false to begin with. Vimeo is not running on a $100/mo
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> "I was already paying $200 a year, which I think is pretty expensive," In other words, she has no idea what bandwidth or server costs are and doesn't realize Vimeo is definitely losing money on distributing her videos, b
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Extensions were a way of connecting the FrontPage editor directly to an IIS server, which provided publishing functionality (i.e. uploads) and basic server management. Ultimately, they were just a bunch of server scripts that responded to c
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There are lots of lessons in the internet's limited history that show poorly conceived defaults are the most common and dangerous mistake. Microsoft let Frontpage Extension credentials default to the domain name and a blank password th
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The Referer Control plugin is probably still the best option, even though it hasn't been updated in a long time. There are a few newer ones that supposedly deal with the issue of sites breaking, but I haven't tried them. https:&#
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by bryans 5y ago
> You're completely discounting the overhead of running a $10/mo service, not to mention the cost of acquisition. You're entirely misreading what I said. They already have the service and that is an existing cost. To have
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I got curious about this and wanted to spitball some numbers. According to a Google search, Google's average user "conducts 3-4 searches each day." Nobody goes into details, so we don't know if those include subsequent s
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> Browsers have gradually stripped it down to just the origin The big caveat is that the new browser policies will only default to origin if the website didn't specify the header, which means the website owner is still in control of
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by bryans 5y ago
I'm consistently surprised that nobody ever talks about HTTP referrers, which are the most egregious of all privacy-invading functionalities -- and are enabled by default in EVERY browser, including the privacy-centric ones. If you&#x2
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> Adele had a huge album launch last year, and sold very well on vinyl and CD. That one album may account for the entire growth. That doesn't hold up under any scrutiny. Adele's album sold around ~950,000 physical copies in 202
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> Intermitted fasting works on the principle that if you eat 1800kcal in one sitting you are going to puke. Fasting (intermittent and otherwise) causes several physiological responses that have a wide range of health benefits, including
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by bryans 5y ago
You're just being inflammatory now. Questioning whether or not I have business experience, concocting some arbitrary definition of "real" business, pretending I said social media "solves everything," and then declar
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> Hard disagree. I certainly want to keep my customers satisfied and provide them with value, and they (along with employees and partners) are absolutely necessary to the success and continuation of the business. If your customers are on
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> That's a lot of quote marks around things that don't appear in my posts. The only thing worth addressing is that you keep referring to locust bean gum instead of the xanthan gum I have been referring to the whole time. Below
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> As it turns out, trying to code something with an interviewer breathing down your neck wasn't a good experience and made them very nervous. That is the fundamental issue with technical interviews, because there is very little abou
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Except the author is not claiming that Latin's masculus and femina/femella are unrelated, but instead that English's male and female are unrelated because "one is taken from Latin and one is taken from old French."
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> I have literally not made an arguable claim in this thread other than stating what my diet is. Except that all you've done is repeatedly try to convince everyone that gums are "nasty" and "invented" and "u
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> With the current state of nutrition "science", all food standards are arbitrary. I don't eat any compound ingredients that didn't exist 2000 years ago. You were just told that gums are a simple and naturally occurri
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by bryans 5y ago
> Where male goes back to Latin masculus, female comes through French femelle from Latin femella. The eventual overlap in pronunciation was accidental. Latin was masculus and femella, old French was masle/male and femelle/femai
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> I don't really care what it is exactly; You've made that perfectly clear, but your personal standards for food safety are entirely arbitrary and not reflective of reality. If you tried applying those same standards to medicin
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That's rather disinformative. There is nothing about locust bean gum extraction that is unusual or unsafe, and it certainly wasn't "invented in a lab." It's a seed that gets milled into powder.
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> In additional to the intellectual stimulation, you get more cream cheese, because there is slightly more surface area. As someone who uses half of a brick per bagel regardless of size, I'd say surface area is a non-limiting factor
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> If you have to wear earplugs or whatever at a venue, the problem is that it's too loud. It's a little more complicated than being "too loud" though. The problem for venue sound is that everything is being projected
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Tinnitus is usually only described as a high-pitched ringing, but I think it gets far worse when it's on the lower end of the frequency spectrum. It's much more noticeable and can make discerning speech very difficult at times. Bu
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It's interesting to see the averages from different decision trees and that the optimal hard mode is only 3.51 -- and that easy/hard mode are so close. It makes me wonder how much of my stats are pure luck. I'm currently sitt

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