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by dlcarrier 3mo ago
Inevitably the internet will have two types of users: 1. The anti-bot bots that must stop you from proceeding, because they aren't entirely sure you aren't a bot and 2. The bots that can get past them, which we all
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by dlcarrier 3mo ago
It's really easy to make a C hello world program that forwards the success of printf: #include <stdio.h> int main(void) { return printf("hello, world\n"); } I just tested it in a Bash shell,
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by dlcarrier 3mo ago
Here's a more in-depth article: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/ebay-former-exec... Seven former eBay employees and contractors pleaded guilty, and prison sentences were issued to forme
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by dlcarrier 3mo ago
The original pricing didn't break any US regulations. Of course, anyone can bring anyone else to court for any reason, but if the defendant didn't break any regulations, the plaintiff won't prevail, and publicly asserting th
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by dlcarrier 3mo ago
That's why I compared it to a similar stunt on regular ground. That kind of horseplay wasn't allowed in my household, or really anything we were into as children, so my parents could let several of us play on the trampoline at a
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by dlcarrier 3mo ago
The lot was graded in 70's or 80's, which was late enough to have modern drainage as part of the design. In their neighborhood, most houses are graded at several feet higher than the sidewalk gutter, so the trampoline just needed
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by dlcarrier 3mo ago
They're also using federal military land to mine critical materials: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/titan-mining-signs-lease... This is part of a plan to ensure critical infrastructure is built on remote
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by dlcarrier 3mo ago
This was also an initial de-facto regulation in many areas, due to generic regulations to prevent use of pagers due to fears they would be used to facilitate drug deals. Those regulations are often still on the books but not enforced. For
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by dlcarrier 3mo ago
Also, if you have trouble with your phone displaying too much movement when you aren't moving, use the "Reduce Motion" settings in iOS, or in Adnroid enable developer options and set all animation scales to off. This not only
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by dlcarrier 3mo ago
It's just like housing regulations. Someone might try to build a shack with power outlets more than 12 feet apart, and we can't permit that, so they're better off homeless.
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by dlcarrier 3mo ago
Fun fact: The 2008 financial crises resulted in the US bailing out foreign banks more than domestic ones. They prevented a larger Eurozone crisis, because it would have brought down the US, too.
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by dlcarrier 3mo ago
They banned importing internet-connected foreign-produced inverters. ( https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-423682A1.txt ) They are perfectly legal to sell without built-in connectivity, and external monito
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by dlcarrier 3mo ago
I'll never understand why the US government didn't let Amazon acquire that dead husk of a company. Letting it fall into the hands of its overseas suppliers was the very clear alternative and clearly a far worse option.
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by dlcarrier 3mo ago
What did Monster do? I'm not familiar with the lore.
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by dlcarrier 3mo ago
My parents dug a hole in the ground for a trampoline, so it was flush with the ground. It was great because you couldn't accidentally fall off, and it was safer than doing any given stunt on regular ground.
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by dlcarrier 3mo ago
…I integer overflowed my mom’s level of worry and she was too glad to have me back to be angry. I had a childhood acquaintance who was lost in the forest for half a day, and was found by a search and rescue in perfect shape, minus
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by dlcarrier 3mo ago
You just keep renaming it until everyone has given up on the concept. Is there no sign we'll ever get strong AI? Then, we need to dumb it down and call it a post-singularity AI! Is that not coming any time soon, then how about an eve
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by dlcarrier 3mo ago
It's still working for me.
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by dlcarrier 3mo ago
It's not standard for the FDA to announce an expansion to a recall then immediately rescind it. The lettuce from Taylor Farms de Mexico was already recalled, and we're not getting much clarity or transparency on what has happened
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by dlcarrier 3mo ago
It shows the bare minimum overhead needed to start a project and gives some insight into the readability.
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by dlcarrier 3mo ago
Are you in the Cayman Islands? It looks like that's where the owner of the gTLD, Internet Naming Co., is based. Did you mean commonwealth or common law? Either way, their pricing is in line with other gTLD providers and there's
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by dlcarrier 3mo ago
Some of the reasons that executive organizations in the US that investigate safety concerns are so effective is that they are independent of the executive organization that creates regulations for the field (e.g. the NTSB is independent of
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by dlcarrier 3mo ago
This has happened in several fields, and will continue to happen for the foreseeable future. The cost of cloth is scarcely more than the cost of the yarn it's made from, because machine time on a loom is practically zero. That change
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by dlcarrier 3mo ago
You are paying for a domain on a gTLD, which is owned by an organization that can charge whatever it wants, and thousands to tens of thousands a year isn't uncommon. Your registrar is only charging tens of dollars a year for their ser
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by dlcarrier 3mo ago
Also, it's easy to make a C program return the number of characters printed and doesn't hurt readability: #include <stdio.h> int main(void) { return printf("hello, world\n"); }
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by dlcarrier 3mo ago
If they could prohibit internet communications and allow LAN communications, that would be great. Also, it should apply regardless of where they are manufactured. It's far more likely for an attack to happen through a compromised cent
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by dlcarrier 3mo ago
This is the most interesting part: Seven former eBay employees and contractors pleaded guilty, and prison sentences were issued to former eBay security executives James Baugh (57 months), David Harville (24 months), Philip Cooke (18 m
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by dlcarrier 3mo ago
I just looked up a Hello World program from the Zig Wikipedia article: const std = @import("std"); const File = std.Io.File; pub fn main(init: std.process.Init) !void { _ = try File.stdout().writeStreami
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by dlcarrier 3mo ago
The Lord of the Rings also taught us that it's possible to take a very short prequel novel and stretch it out so long that you have to add material, and that doing so can make it worse.
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by dlcarrier 3mo ago
We cannot 100% trust human-generated output. In some fields, it's pretty close to 100%, or even rounds up to 100%, but it's never all the way there. Some fields have such poor quality human-generated output that AI-generated outp

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