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by byuu 10y ago
My employer/provider (Blue Cross) offered a $100 discount on insurance premiums in return for me taking a vial of my own blood and mailing it off to them for testing. Although I am in (mostly) good physical shape, I found it beyond cre
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by byuu 10y ago
Yeah, I understand a DB9 solder cup is a niche product for a local Radio Shack and they have to pay for store space and employees, but there was just no way I was going to pay $6 per connector when I could order them for $0.30 each from Dig
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by byuu 10y ago
It's amusing the way everyone who lives in tipping countries swears by how much better it is and how much they prefer it. And conversely, people who live in no-tipping countries say the same about their system. Most people simply like
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by byuu 10y ago
I once had a bank card fall out of my pocket at a movie theater. My mistake, should've put it in the wallet but was in a hurrry. Most likely someone on the cleaning crew stole it. Same pattern, tiny fast food purchases followed by lots
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by byuu 10y ago
The tarball has a doc/ folder with API documentation, and a test/ folder with examples using it. Not quite as nice as having it up on the web, though.
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by byuu 10y ago
It's not, they're two separate things. Unfortunately, nobody can agree on terminology for this stuff. I try not to ever use the word 'coroutine' anymore because of this. libco is what I call a cooperative threading libra
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by byuu 10y ago
Right, there are plenty of people who would be happy with basically Facebook and Gmail alone. And the cable companies will be more than happy to extract $40-$60 a month from granny that uses maybe 1GB of bandwidth from those two sites at be
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by byuu 10y ago
The most useful analogy I've seen is the "ala carte internet" one. "Get Facebook, Twitter, and Google for just $9.99/mo!" "Add on the video package and get Netflix and Hulu for only $24.99/mo more!&qu
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by byuu 10y ago
I'm not. I'm running byuu.org without any ads, and without selling any products. I used to spend about 60 hours a week coding, nowadays it's more like 20 hours a week, and recoup only the occasional donation or licensing agre
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by byuu 10y ago
> I'm surprised nobody here seems to care. I'm going to get skewered alive for saying this, and I do believe their intentions were noble, but I honestly think Let's Encrypt has done a lot more harm than good. It's com
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by byuu 10y ago
The problem is that I'm a developer on a team of six. And my site is used by another five or six teams. It's a little tools site that does various SQL queries and such against databases other teams don't have access to. They&
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by byuu 10y ago
I doubt most will even go that far. You can pretty much expect those that won't go HTTPS (for whatever reason, and there are many) to change their input type="password" fields to input type="text" fields. That is pr
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by byuu 10y ago
I would. That's the same price as a year of hosting an entire VPS instance with 1TB bandwidth a month, 40GB SSD storage, and 512MB of RAM. And for what? A completely automated process that loads a page on your site, verifies a META tag
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by byuu 10y ago
You mentioned community. If you have a forum or message board where people can select their own avatars or post image links, then you'll enjoy the land of mixed content warnings. Add the header "Content-Security-Policy: upgrade-in
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by byuu 10y ago
Yeah, that one terrified me as well. I was strongly considering setting up their e-mail for domains service until I read about that.
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by byuu 10y ago
Software emulators. Programs to allow you to run software for one platform on another. Something that is perfectly legal, yet was apparently enough for Paypal to kill an account over. Reference: https://yabause.org/2016&#x2F
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by byuu 10y ago
My experience with Paypal has been great as a buyer, bad as a seller. I personally know someone who had their account suspended because apparently Paypal doesn't like emulators -- something not stated in their terms of service. When th
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by byuu 10y ago
Well, you know what I mean. You need someone that will actually help when there's a problem beyond selling you more services. For major companies, this stuff is easy to find out, thanks to people sharing their experiences as in that Re
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by byuu 10y ago
I feel really bad for the guy and I hope this gets enough media attention for Amazon to actually care about helping him. But this is the world we are headed toward with people continuing to stake their entire livelihoods on services with al
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by byuu 10y ago
bluejekyll really should have said disorder. If you have a kid who is getting bad grades in school and has behavioral issues, and the underlying cause of it is ADHD, then no amount of physical discipline, even up to child abuse like closed
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by byuu 10y ago
More of the same with Ramnode. Really not a lot of competition, is there? Every plan starts around $5/mo for a KVM instance, and each tier increases all of the specs, while doubling the monthly fees each time. No ability to customize t
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by byuu 10y ago
> If all of this is inlined you will have to request it on every page load. True, it's an interesting trade-off. If you inline your CSS and Javascript like I do, then you can't afford to have 100KiB of CSS and 2.4MiB of Javascr
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by byuu 10y ago
Every time I look at the hype pages, it's always these unbelievably ridiculous edge cases. "Look at how much faster HTTP/2 is loading this page that is nothing but an array of 64 x 64 icons that are each 16x16 pixels!" -
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by byuu 10y ago
> This benefits a very small number of companies ... And everybody else pays the cost in terms of complexity, security holes, and implementation bugs. Yes, exactly !! SPDY, QUIC, et al are designed by Google for the Googles and Facebook
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You know, I think this is my real disconnect with HTTP/2. To me, I see the problems that make HTTP/1 slow, and so I say, "okay let's address those issues." So I'll inline my includes, use spriting if I have a b
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> Many of your responses should be "304 Not Modified", in which case you don't send anything back but the headers. A 304 should be able to fit into a single frame, unless you're doing things very wrong. You don&#x27
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There's a pretty big disconnect between 0.05% and 1.4%. Believing their numbers would indicate their average page sizes end up being around 7 KiB, or their headers end up being gigantic 4 KiB+ monstrosities, both of which I have troubl
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by byuu 10y ago
This really seems like overkill to me. We've made HTTP/2 that much more complex to implement (a custom compression and dictionary not used anywhere else) to compress headers. And complexity always leads to fun new vulnerabilities.
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by byuu 10y ago
Fascinating. Thank you for your detailed response as well! Indeed, this interested me so much that I just spent the last hour reading up and learning about the comorbidity of TS, OCD, and ADHD. (I have the latter two.) Funny because ADHD do
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by byuu 10y ago
> When you have tics, you often can hold them in. But it is tortuous to do so, especially for extended periods of time. So it is voluntary to tic. We do it because to not do it feels even worse than the negative attention and embarrassme

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