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by devsda 2y ago
Allegedly, Microsoft subscribes to random spam checklists like UCEProtect. uceprotect bans entire subnets & ASNs if just one IP is suspected of sending spam.Apparently, you can pay to get your IP whitelisted for some time but it will be
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> Large companies definitely don’t try to prohibit you from telling people you worked there. They don't. But they do sometimes prohibit talking/writing about their work, the nature of it or anything remotely connected to it. My
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Hopefully, this push will stop the trend of calling countries trying to legislate data residency and privacy laws to keep their citizens data out of foreign prying eyes as authoritarian and painting them as threats balkanizing the free inte
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If we are saying "secure", we should talk about what we are securing and against whom. A smartphone may be secure against malicious individual actors but its certainly not the most secure when it comes to your private data. Mode
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Not sure what the take away is from their experience. Is it 1. Consumer grade/crappy SSDs are still reliable enough at scale and rarely fail that it is easier to manage occasional failures ? 2. The cost of engineering effort to keep th
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It's the same with touch typing too. IME, without good muscle memory (touch or hybrid typing) of keys, consciously searching for each key is going to seriously disrupt the flow and thought process behind the code being written. It may
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If anyone believes Jellyfin is worth paying for or donating, I think it's possible to donate to the Jellyfin project [1]. That's still a donation and shouldn't come attached with any expectations or obligations on either par
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If you believe not being on video is enough for going back to RTO and if you comply, they will just find another absurd reason to go back to RTO.
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So, we all have to just skip for a while ? There's a Sci-Fi Plot in there somewhere: A hero tries to and succeeds in persuading govts to organize a planet scale skipping effort to get earth closer to a passing by rock and escape an imp
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I think there's a Firefox extension for this usecase. Combining that with Multi-account container should make it easier to manage ?
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> then you open LinkedIn years later and turns out somehow they've failed up to manager, architect or executive while you're still struggling along as a code peasant That's because they come across as result oriented, go g
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The main problem is not the source of solution but not making an effort to understand the code they have put in. The "I don't know" might as well be "I don't care".
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I guess the future is 1. Friend sends an apology email drafted by LLM. 2. Email gets summarized at the receiver end in the daily AI email "summary" which might be something like You have a scheduled cake tasting this weekend. Did
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The problem with posting to YT is kids might seek validation of their content from peers or strangers and that always comes with risks.
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> NPT violations (same with India) Just a small correction. India is not a signatory to NPT. There's no violation.
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If your search engine doesn't have ads that only means the adblocker has nothing to do except use some cpu cycles. Those cycles are mostly earned back when you visit a link with ads (unless the search results are limited to ad free sit
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> fix it themselves without anyone asking - bring it up to higher management No matter what your intentions are, doing this frequent enough will give you reputation of being a lonely wolf and trouble maker.
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My spacebar(s) are very smooth and shiny on the right compared to left.
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> for all the complaining about ads, There are couple of main complaints about ads: 1. Too many of them plastered all over in least expected places. 2. All that is done to privacy in the name of accurate profiling and targeting. 3. Malic
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Not on HN or anywhere in general. The official HN policy[1] tries to maintain balance between managing content and privacy. But when it is trivial to access archived HN content [2] [3], it is not worth the risk. 1. https://news.
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> Insurers most often turn to two sets: MCG (formerly known as Milliman Care Guidelines), developed by a division of the multibillion-dollar media and information company Hearst, and InterQual, produced by a unit of UnitedHealth’s mental
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> People who are passionate about computer programming and also do it off the job will over time gain more experience and knowledge than their only on the job counterparts. Those who are passionate also have a tendency to use their perso
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The definiton is probably not $country == "China" but a lot closer to $country != "America".
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Great to know that someone else too keeps track of squares. At the ages of perfect squares is when we all cross or achieve significant milestones in our lives as children, students, (young)adults, spouses, parents, grandparents, senior citi
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If we are going down this road, let's go all in and be specific :) its అందరికీ ఆంగ్ల నూతన సంవత్సర శుభాకాంక్షలు! I'll consider the previous one as advanced wishes for 30'mar 25 ;)
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> Emigrants always have ties to the originland. China can coerce it's diaspora through their family ties and social circle back home[1]. That isn't normal and is very difficult to pull off in democratic countries. 1. https:&#x
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That's still manual and minuscule compared to the amount they can gather by scraping. If blocking really becomes a problem, they can take a page out of Google's playbook[1] and develop a browser extension to scrape page content an
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> This particular server is a "bring your own disks" storage server for people who want bulk storage that's more limited in several ways than disk space on our fileservers, but (much) cheaper than what we normally charge J
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> Most people will be fine this assumes majority of population has the means and discipline to purchase, register and maintain multiple pass keys and/or devices. There's a world outside the developed countries where a typical y
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Not everything in India is/have to be about an individual's caste at all. The most plausible and likely explanation is that it is just shortened initials of surname for convenience. Typically indian teachers have a habit of turnin

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