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by bxparks 1y ago
Nice! The 'の' (237 matches) is even better than 'は' (216 matches). The 'の' matches every Japanese spam in my Spam folder. I was not able to use comma 、 and the period 。 because I think FastMail disables searc
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by bxparks 1y ago
Wow, the first one 'は' seems really good. Out of 279 messages in my Spam folder, 216 messages matched that character, missing only 24 additional Japanese spam. (That means 240/279, or 86% of my spam is Japanese, god damn it).
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by bxparks 1y ago
Not just USPS and FedEx. UPS has dropped the last 3 of my packages to my neighbor's house. They try to be helpful though. They took pictures of the packages, sitting against various walls and doors that I didn't recognize at all.
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by bxparks 1y ago
Haha. Do you have a similar character for Japanese? Some douche bag added my GitHub email address into some Japanese spam farm a few weeks ago. I am now flooded with Japanese spam. I don't read or speak a word of Japanese.
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by bxparks 1y ago
Can you explain why you wrote '23pc' instead of using the '23%' that was used in the article? It is confusing to me. I had never seen 'pc' used as a short hand for percent (%) until recently in an article (can&
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by bxparks 1y ago
The problem is that 10x appears to be a linear scale. It could mean 9.5x to 10.5x if it's supposed to have 2 significant digits. Or it could be 5x to 15x if it meant to have 1 significant digit.
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by bxparks 1y ago
I think of "an order of magnitude" as a log scale. It means somewhere between 3.16X and 31.6X.
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by bxparks 1y ago
It's great in theory. In practice, it may not work properly even on their "supported" models. For example, sound does not work on my Dell E7270. Secondly, you must be willing use the Chrome browser. I will not because Chrome
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by bxparks 1y ago
Invisible scrollbars is probably the number one reason why I scream at the computer when I have to use Chrome instead of Firefox. At some point, Chrome removed the option to make the scrollbars visible. The UX people are completely insane
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by bxparks 2y ago
I always get the impression that people spend more time writing Forth interpreters, rather than writing Forth programs to solve actual problems.
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by bxparks 2y ago
Yeah, I remember reading something like that, but isn't the United app required to pay for the meal on the flight, so that they know which credit card to charge? To be honest, I have never been able to understand their payment process,
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by bxparks 2y ago
United Airlines used to accept credit cards to pay for meals during the flight. It worked great. At some point they dropped that and replaced it with something that involves their slow bloated buggy app that crashes on my phone. So I stoppe
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by bxparks 2y ago
I don't understand this sepia tint reference. What joke am I missing?
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by bxparks 2y ago
It's the part about attempting to train someone as a backup that I remember reading on their website. I can no longer find that blurb..
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by bxparks 2y ago
Is it still a one-man operation? They used to have a blurb about that on their website, but I cannot find it anymore. The bus-factor of one was probably the main reason I did not choose them when I de-googled myself during Google's fia
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by bxparks 2y ago
What would be the point of 2FA if a scammer can just email Uber to turn it off?
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by bxparks 2y ago
I think it is difficult to make general statements about all "open source" projects, because there seems to be at least 3 different types of open source projects: 1) Small projects, owned and maintained by a single person, with ma
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by bxparks 2y ago
Reminds me of another FBI espionage case that fell apart years ago... found it, Wen Ho Lee, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wen_Ho_Lee : "A federal grand jury indicted him on charges of stealing secrets about the U.S
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by bxparks 2y ago
Ironically HN is one of the few websites that works well on my phone, because it uses so little of modern web technologies. I use a 7-year old smartphone, it's painful or impossible to read many websites. I have to use old.reddit.com i
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by bxparks 2y ago
Sure, I should have been more tactful. (I was still groggy in bed while reading the post on my phone, and it's difficult to type lengthy diplomatic sentences with long words on a phone keyboard.) The commenter seemed to have intended f
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by bxparks 2y ago
It's unreadable on my phone. The font is microscopic, like 0.5pt. Dark mode is awful. Light grey on black makes it even worse. Firefox Reader mode is disabled. The pop up keyboard takes up half the screen and obscures most of the conte
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by bxparks 2y ago
Me too! The problem with Golang is that it has the same name as a common verb instead of a noun ("go" is used as a verb like 99.99% of the time). I remember coming across a thread maybe 10-14 years ago where the Golang creators
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by bxparks 2y ago
Maybe you already know this and your comment was in jest, but the real reason is that the Go lexer automatically inserts semicolons ( https://go.dev/doc/effective_go#semicolons ) using heuristic rules which forces the op
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by bxparks 2y ago
I counted 417 comments on that page and scrolled through a few dozen. Every one of them was spam. That's pretty much the internet these days isn't it. Other than that, the blog post was very interesting, I learned a bit of history
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by bxparks 2y ago
This assumes that the Representative is competent, and believes that they act for the good of all people in their district, not just the ones who believe in their version of God. This not true across the country, and particularly, not in
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by bxparks 2y ago
C may be the best example of "worse is better", but every time I do something non-trivial with it, I wish there was something better: * Undefined behavior, there are apparently over 100 of them. I can probably name about 5, maybe
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by bxparks 2y ago
Ha, no, it's because I don't (or rarely) eat cheese.
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by bxparks 2y ago
Good lord, I have never heard of the term "wheel of cheese", thanks! Probably because I rarely eat cheese. 20+ years of using Python on and off, and I finally understand what a "wheel" is. Addendum : Every time I tried
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by bxparks 2y ago
Can someone explain what a "wheel" has anything to do with "cheese"? Every time I come across the term "wheel" in Python, it makes no sense to me. I believe it has something to do with Monty Python. I think I h
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by bxparks 2y ago
And I guess POSIX tries to pick all three, at least most of the time. It follows UTC mostly, except during leap seconds when it changes the duration of a POSIX-second to be 2 SI-seconds (positive leap second) or 0 SI-seconds (negative leap

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