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by discardable_dan 5y ago
I can't tell if this is satire. Draws by insufficient material almost never occur in Grandmaster chess. I have not seen a single grandmaster game end this way in a year of watching top-level chess games daily. If you inspect all of the
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by discardable_dan 5y ago
> And hosting a font file entails dumping it next to your index.html file and adding some very basic CSS. Not exactly difficult. If you are a 60-year-old woodworker living in Appalachia trying to set up an online store to sell hand-carve
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by discardable_dan 5y ago
How can a CDN fail to retain an IP address, at least for the purposes of knowing where to send the response? The ruling doesn't say that Google stored the IP, causing the issue, but merely that the user's IP showed up in a packet
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by discardable_dan 5y ago
It's loading fonts. So squarespace needs to host those fonts, fine. But more to the point, it could be argued even the Squarespace CDN is "different" from the actual website, so we need CDN shims that forward local domain req
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by discardable_dan 5y ago
On its face, this appears to be death of the third-party CDN. The largest issue is this means companies will no longer be able to use third-party hosting services like Squarespace which rely on shared (technically third-party) CDNs. A secon
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by discardable_dan 5y ago
This is the essence of CDNs, though. Every offsite CDN is subject to this same ruling, meaning any developer trying to use a third-party CDN for something as simply as loading jQuery is subject to this. For example, on load, https:/&#
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by discardable_dan 5y ago
Thank you for confirming. I was a bit aghast at how few light houses the US eastern seaboard had, to the point I doubted the accuracy.
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by discardable_dan 5y ago
I tried for literal years to avoid dealing with Plaid to send money, but finally broke down this last summer when trying to pay rent electronically. There was literally no other service that would allow me to pay, and mailing a check was no
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by discardable_dan 5y ago
I'm about in your boat, except with HBO Max instead of Apple TV+ (their shows aren't as appealing to me). And as those numbers climb and I look at one to cut, Netflix is the easiest. That's the whole point, though: Netflix is
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by discardable_dan 5y ago
I'd have to look at my phone. I just know I installed some and got ads in the games, and it made me unsubscribe.
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by discardable_dan 5y ago
I'm this way _for Netflix_. HBO Max and Disney both have an awesome back-catalog of things to revisit, and I'm constantly finding myself watching an old 90s or 00s movie I had forgotten about on a whim, because it's there. Th
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by discardable_dan 5y ago
A few things: First, Netflix' games have the same issue as Apple Arcade: the majority are ad-riddled trash. And Apple Arcade has App Store tie-in. Second, the global numbers are likely to keep Netflix afloat (the same way they seem to
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by discardable_dan 5y ago
I said this again recently, but it's worth repeating: Netflix is on the very fast downward slope. Their catalog is wilting, the space is heating up with well-established competitors moving in and serving the precise content that Netfli
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by discardable_dan 5y ago
This, truly, is the thing to worry about: if it happened here, it likely happened at other companies. Turning a blind eye is a blank check to do it again.
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by discardable_dan 5y ago
I believe nobody talking about Netflix is worse than people talking negatively about Facebook. Facebook has far-reaching influence over non-US societies, and are generally capable of living off of just those societies. Netflix, on the other
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by discardable_dan 5y ago
The issue is their content is actually a very poor point in differentiation. I watch a larger amount of TV than I'd care to admit, and honestly Netflix is awful for content. - Disney has Star Wars, Marvel, Pixar, and a long tail of chi
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by discardable_dan 5y ago
This is why I cook. At the end of a day where I make no discernable progress, spending time on a tangible product that is done in a finite amount of time helps unwind a great deal.
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by discardable_dan 5y ago
While I appreciate your stance, I am constantly amazed at how many people are happy to use NFC. It's demonstrably insecure [0], and using it for payment at the moment is only secure through obscurity. If it becomes more-prevalent, we w
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by discardable_dan 5y ago
Those "idiots" are people who don't like sitting in a car with sub-40F air in it while the heater works.
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by discardable_dan 5y ago
Plex supports a lot of this as paid features.
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by discardable_dan 5y ago
Kinda: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rewritingreddit
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by discardable_dan 5y ago
It is, frankly, _weaponized_ facebook. It literally shows you content that is the most-engaging and most-interacted, across the entire site (not just your friend group). Which is ironic, given how often users there was philosophical about t
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by discardable_dan 5y ago
This is the Gell-Mann amnesia effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#GellMannAmnes...
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by discardable_dan 5y ago
You know what makes for a good user experience? Not using a website that hosts white supremacists, but staying in your little corner that doesn't deal with them (you hope).
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by discardable_dan 5y ago
I remember when Imgur was launched as a free image hoster for Reddit users. It was jarring to me, years later, to see it had attempted to become some weird Reddit/9gag mash-up. Not because it was a bad move, business-wise, but because
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by discardable_dan 5y ago
I have a 10-year-old reddit account. When it was static pages served out of lisp, it was rock-solid. Their rewrite got to the instability you're describing, and it never really recovered.
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by discardable_dan 5y ago
Just to pick this one out: > - remove the "influencer" aspects of the site. People don't need a profile with a custom picture, don't need to post to their /u/ board when they should be posting on a reddit re
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by discardable_dan 5y ago
Reddit said, not six months ago, that they weren't going to ban anti-vaccine rhetoric. The lead admin stated: "We appreciate that not everyone agrees with the current approach to getting us all through the pandemic, and some are s
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by discardable_dan 5y ago
Yes, they really don't care unless it results in a site going down. An industrial giant is happy to throw infinite machines at a problem until it is resolved. The issue isn't in their behavior, it's in Linux's implementa
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by discardable_dan 5y ago
bruv clearly it's sriracha on everything bruv

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