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1. 271.▲
   by chias 5y ago

   Yeah. When I stumbled across this I had some conversations, with the net result that URLs containing authenticator tokens are no longer shortened :)
2. 272.▲
   by chias 5y ago

   I worked with an org that ran their own link shortener... and used it for confirmation links! I'm not even kidding, you'd go to reset you password and as expected the link would be something like: ourapp.example.com/aut
3. 273.▲
   by chias 5y ago

   > I find hiding all of these articles behind a walled garden a little distasteful. Did you click the link? The second blob of text, above the fold and not easy to miss: > Nothing is changing with the existing MDN Web Docs content — th
4. 274.▲
   by chias 5y ago

   Easier proof: Assume N != 1.
5. 275.▲
   by chias 5y ago

   I was that someone else, toured right as the other family was leaving. I decided I liked the place and told the landlord that if he was willing to have an awkward conversation with that other family tomorrow, I would sign immediately. But
6. 276.▲
   by chias 5y ago

   Is the answer to question 8 simply due to the pattern of the other answers?
7. 277.▲
   by chias 5y ago

   I can give you half an answer and speculation on the other half. Given that radioisotopes decay with a halflife pattern, I would expect that you'd see a 16.6% drop in capacity every 23 years. So something like: 1977: 100% (470 W)
8. 278.▲
   by chias 5y ago

   I like to imagine that this is what cells think right before they become cancerous.
9. 279.▲
   by chias 5y ago

   Nothing very good. https://i.imgur.com/LfZI0QD.png
10. 280.▲
    by chias 5y ago

    YMMV... https://i.imgur.com/6lFYnmi.jpg
11. 281.▲
    by chias 5y ago

    What I have done to accomplish this in the past is some filename shenaniganry with the file's last-modified timestamp: <img src="/path/to/file.[last modified timestamp].png"> PHP code for this ki
12. 282.▲
    by chias 6y ago

    I really like this. Others have already commented on the utility / impressiveness of the tool itself, but on a completely different front: you also put effort into making a really nice UI. I clicked, fully expecting to fire up a term
13. 283.▲
    by chias 6y ago

    I used Dvorak for a couple years before switching back in the mid-2010s. Back then my QWERTY speed was about 120 wpm, and I never got close to that on Dvorak, but really the only time I can even think at 120 wpm is when arguing on the inter
14. 284.▲
    by chias 6y ago

    > "it's a feature request not a bug" shows Stephen did not even understand the problem he introduced. He clarifies a little bit further down the thread: > It's not a bug because it's working exactly as designe
15. 285.▲
    by chias 6y ago

    Bold words to describe something that's 12 years old.
16. 286.▲
    by chias 6y ago

    If you add a function which increments a dummy value 4000 times, your test coverage will increase!
17. 287.▲
    by chias 6y ago

    > Why the need to bring aliens into it? If the cynic in me wants to assume the copy-editor who was tasked with coming up with the title skimmed the article, saw the phrase "and found it had an extraterrestrial source", and inte
18. 288.▲
    by chias 6y ago

    serious question: why not? If you don't trust a password manager to hold a master password for another password manager, can you trust it to hold your other passwords / whatever else you store in your password manager?
19. 289.▲
    by chias 6y ago

    IIRC the email spec requires all characters to be ASCII. Technically your email address isn't bob@[mailbox].kz, it's bob@xn--h78h.kz which your browser and possibly some mail clients will render as bob@[mailbox].kz. But xn--h78h@e
20. 290.▲
    by chias 6y ago

    If you grew up with 3am being lunch time it won't feel awkward, until of course you move somewhere where 3am is sleep time and then it's awkward again.
21. 291.▲
    by chias 6y ago

    Nicely done!
22. 292.▲
    by chias 6y ago

    > I want a computer that can be completely autonomous when I want it to be, but which can also be used to communicate securely with anyone on the planet without being observed by a third party. I think this is the rub of the problem, bec
23. 293.▲
    by chias 6y ago

    I am also unable to reproduce it (Python 3.8.5)
24. 294.▲
    by chias 6y ago

    I love this intro to the update :D July 17, 2019: "Perhaps this is why I find the self-promotion surrounding the Ramanujan Machine so distasteful. (I wasn’t going to bother wasting any more time on this but here I am, last time I promi
25. 295.▲
    by chias 6y ago

    Philosophically yes, but "unemployment" and "unemployed for another month that I really can't afford while I go through this whole process yet again with another company who's just going to do the same damn thing
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    by chias 6y ago

    If you want to get your feet wet with a short writeup online, I found these two blog posts (part 1 and 2) to be extremely valuable. It does a fantastic job of making sure you're mentally framing the situation correctly, which makes an
27. 297.▲
    by chias 6y ago

    > Negotiation only works if both parties are equal. That is not true at all. It only works if both parties have something of value that the other wants. It's always a negotiation, but the only thing that ever matters in a negotiat
28. 298.▲
    by chias 6y ago

    Pretty much. What do you think "loyalty" cards are actually for?
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    by chias 6y ago

    Pi-hole is not a proxy. It is a DNS resolver that is configured to fail resolution to given domains.
30. 300.▲
    by chias 6y ago

    Those aren't third-party HTTP proxies, they're local HTTP proxies. If you want to do it locally, then you're paying the CPU / RAM cost yourself, not to mention doubling a lot of the work (the page needs to be parsed &#x2