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by chias 8y ago
Interestingly, the method in which you determine your "random point" can greatly affect the end result, so swapping out the methods (e.g. "generate three coordinates and discard" method for the "generate a direction
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by chias 8y ago
FWIW, Firefox's "Reader" mode is an absolute godsend for Medium articles. Works great on mobile too. (not disagreeing with your statement at all, just pointing out something that may increase your QoL in the interim if you ha
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by chias 8y ago
I'm in an almost identical situation with an online community that I've built and have continued to work on. Back in the day I could hang out there to relax -- these days it's incredibly draining for me to be around.
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by chias 8y ago
AUR is not an "official" repository at all -- indeed the acronym stands for "Arch User Repository". Kinda like github, you can go put whatever you want in there, and people can download and install it on their machines i
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by chias 8y ago
I disagree. It's more similar to how you can "inject" your scripts into fiddle.jshell.net (via JSFiddle), googleusercontent.com (via Google Translate), etc. Have a look at https://fiddle.jshell.net/pvcL4mjh&#
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by chias 8y ago
What would such a cross-site scripting vuln do? There isn't anything to steal. Moreover you wouldn't use this for anything where you aren't in control of where people get the links from, because as soon as someone else starts
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by chias 8y ago
This is neat! My second reaction (after "awesome!") was that I'd love for this to support some kind of optional identifier+hmac functionality. That's not necessary for when you are fully in control of where people get th
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by chias 8y ago
It's pretty useful when making phishing pages. Rather than having to host all the tiny files and images yourself or going through what is likely an enormous HTML file and editing all the srces and hrefs, you can just throw a <base&g
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by chias 8y ago
Sadly I know very little more about it, other than being able to confirm that it really is dehumanizing. You're essentially being paid for your capability of performing simple natural language processing. The amount of courtesy that ca
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by chias 8y ago
I think it's less about having to pay them less and more about less "customer interface" training, less concern about liability with regards to what the person might say, not having to worry about the potential stigma associa
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by chias 8y ago
That's actually a good question -- I don't know. My only window into this world was through him, and from his point of view it seemed widespread. I'll update my comment accordingly. Edit: ahh I can no longer edit it :|
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by chias 8y ago
For many of these systems, you actually are talking to a human. The person listens to what you say then directs your call as (hopefully) appropriate. They don't have a mic, so clarifying questions are limited to buttons they can push
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by chias 8y ago
I like this a lot! It seems to work reliably for me, and is a lot easier to say than "ok google". Thanks :)
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by chias 8y ago
Mine will sometimes / often go off when I say "ok, cool". It's simultaneously amusing and annoying.
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by chias 8y ago
> They're going to try to unify lots of different benefits under a single, high-value subscription This makes me sad, as it's my primary gripe with Amazon Prime. The only Prime service I actually use is free 2-day shipping. But
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by chias 8y ago
Ah, thank you for clearing up my misconception! That makes a lot more sense.
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by chias 8y ago
My mother dough is finally ready, so this came just in time! A few comments: - The wrong image is included immediately above the "Autolyze" section - It never says when to return the 100 grams back to your mother dough supply -- i
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by chias 8y ago
I found the "trick" solution to Unwanted Expansion to be unsatisfying: unless I am mistaken, it assumes that all of the values must be positive integers, which was not stated as being the case.
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by chias 8y ago
Thank you. I've struggled to explain this concept to my friends and acquaintances -- your wording makes the point very clear.
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by chias 9y ago
An excellent companion-read to the linked article is: http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23 It builds up a concept of "Colour" as describing information about a thing (distinct from metadata / tagging) whi
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by chias 9y ago
That's a fair point, but keep in mind that the author isn't suggesting these are the "correct" ways to write SQL. They're just his ways. I don't think one standard is necessarily better than another, but the im
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by chias 9y ago
For those who didn't actually get to the end of the article, he hasn't given up yet -- he made the decision to, and then the overwhelming support he received changed his mind. He's still "fighting the good fight" fo
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by chias 9y ago
Interesting! What's SMW? I'm not familiar with the term and searching for it isn't being particularly helpful.
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by chias 9y ago
"[In 2015,] 7% of the 62,763 emergency calls [in Milwaukee] came from the same 100 people"
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by chias 9y ago
The Gentoo website / handbook does this. Or rather, did this a few years ago when I was last messing around with Gentoo. It seems to be HTML now.
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by chias 9y ago
My old guild leader on The Purple Dragon MUD did the same :) My own story is similar, though it wasn't a MUD. I think it's pretty beautiful to fall in love with someone via a text-based view of their personality. In the world of M
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by chias 9y ago
If we're talking $1000 per impacted user as suggested by GP, then I'm wondering just how small a fraction of the 37 billion dollar fine it would take for me to swallow my morals and "accidentally" cause or approve change
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by chias 9y ago
You're not wrong. I do, however, strongly believe that his use of the phrase did not do him any favors.
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by chias 9y ago
I assume what alexnewman meant was "can I trust that certificates issued by this entity will not be revoked in the near future due to incompetence of the CA", and not "can I trust websites which serve certificates signed by t
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by chias 9y ago
Reading through this article, I was somewhat jarred by this sentence: "It seems likely that Manjoo isn’t lying, and that he really believes he had unplugged, and really believes that his weak-sauce explanations don’t belie the point of

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