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by chias 3y ago
If you are in the US, the same is true of your social security number. But good luck with that.
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by chias 3y ago
At a previous employer we used an on-prem version of a popular software offering. It was great, but we obviously had to have people managing it. At my current employer I chose to use their cloud offering. I thought, hey, it's just me h
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by chias 3y ago
Gotta throw the babysitter into the description just in case your imagination is so limited that you ACTUALLY think this is about catching thieves taking a shower in your home during a break in.
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by chias 3y ago
Dear courts, do this one next https://www.amazon.com/Bathroom-Shower-Security-Cameras-Outd... The product description is... wild.
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by chias 3y ago
Presumably it refers to the removal of xorg from redhat's repositories.
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by chias 3y ago
> If even tech people (who could easily have multiple browsers around) prefer Chrome over Firefox very many of us don't.
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by chias 3y ago
It really isn't any better when you live here.
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by chias 3y ago
Please, please no. In the last six months I have finally found an independent search engine I actually like. Don't you dare take it away from me.
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by chias 3y ago
More and more, people are bringing their whole selves to what they do, and how they present their own work. In my personal opinion, this is a good thing. If you find that furry content in writeups bothers you, then you can just not consume
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by chias 3y ago
Workday: At Least It's Not Oracle
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by chias 3y ago
I don't think that's an accurate characterization. If you have an email with a DKIM signature, from Gmail or from a myriad of vendors, then either: a. The email is authentic. b. The service allows whoever administers the service t
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by chias 3y ago
In most cases, yes, but I don't think it implies stagnation. With the exception of the CSS ones which have been obsoleted by modern flexbox, those questions are mostly basic enough to defy change: php: check if an array has duplicates
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by chias 3y ago
The trick to getting a lot of reputation on Stack Overflow and the like is to have posted a long time ago and then just leave it alone. I was quite active on stack overflow back around 2010, asking a lot of questions, answering questions wh
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by chias 3y ago
Same here. Looked at Kagi a while back, thought about paying for it, but 1000 searches per month was way too little, especially considering what actually eats into your quota: load more results? another search. Looking for an image, so you
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by chias 3y ago
> "they asked why I was interested in human rights" presumably because he is, you know, human.
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by chias 3y ago
I didn't see the writing on the wall for them shutting it down, rather that I could not rely on it. I have (or rather had) two Google Domains accounts, one for my own projects, and one with my work email address for work purposes. My w
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by chias 3y ago
I saw the writing on the wall with Google Domains a couple years ago, and moved to Moniker. Their platform is a little bit slow, but other than that, it's excellent.
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by chias 3y ago
Not having to ask "will the product I rely on today exist tomorrow?"
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by chias 3y ago
I am, in general, strongly of the opinion that legal blocks to web scraping are ridiculous and a Bad Thing. That said, ever since I added some invisible unicode characters into my name on LinkedIn and can see the fraction of spam that I rec
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by chias 3y ago
Doing my best to summarize what I got from this article: 1. In an auction, is possible to over-bid on a thing 2. If you over-bid on a thing and you win, that's not good 3. It's better to not win the auction than it is to win it by
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by chias 3y ago
oh gosh this is amazing
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by chias 3y ago
A guy I knew in high school back then was actually working on that: turning a commercial mini-disk player into a data storage drive. He said it was really difficult because the (lossy) compression was baked into the hardware. I don't r
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by chias 3y ago
I asked myself a very related set of questions which helped me realize it was time to switch jobs: 1. fast-forward and picture myself at my own retirement, assuming reasonable progression based on my current trajectory. 2. from there, remin
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by chias 3y ago
Silver is even more conductive than copper!
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by chias 3y ago
This was an interesting bit of math I did when I joined a startup. It's pretty counter-intuitive to think about how very large numbers can increase the importance of small ones. Say the company you work for is worth $10,000,000, and th
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by chias 3y ago
No moreso than using a USB-A to USB-C cable, unless I fundamentally misunderstand something
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by chias 3y ago
Oh man, this sent me down a trip to memory lane. I had a lot of the Spyrius set as a little kid, and I loved them to bits. I just looked up how much they'd cost to buy them again, and they're like $1000 a pop :o
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by chias 3y ago
This doesn't work. Try setting up a folder as follows: touch first$'\n'file touch .hidden$'\n'file mkdir folder$'\n'. touch folder$'\n'./another$'\n'file mkdi
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by chias 3y ago
This doesn't work. Try setting up a test directory as follows: touch first$'\n'file touch .hidden$'\n'file mkdir folder$'\n'. touch folder$'\n'./another$'\n'file
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by chias 3y ago
Nice! This wins :) I had to modify it a bit to get it to work cross-platform, but the approach does appear to be sound: find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -print0 | tr -d -c '\000' | wc -c I had originally written "Hint: it

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