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by dpifke 2y ago
I run mail servers for myself, a couple of side projects, and some friends and family. A double-digit percentage of all spam caught by my filters is from Google's mail servers, not just forged @gmail.com addresses. Of the "too bi
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Better Binary Quantization in Lucene and Elasticsearch(elastic.co)
1 points by dpifke 2y ago|0 comments
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by dpifke 2y ago
It's very common in the U.S. It's ostensibly done to gather evidence of discrimination. Most government forms require it, and large employers are required to report the racial/ethnic makeup of their staff to the government,
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by dpifke 2y ago
Write a blog post about why you think it's cool, and post that to HN.
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by dpifke 2y ago
I use uBlock Origin cosmetic filters for blocking trolls on here. Something like: news.ycombinator.com##:matches-path(/^/item\?id=/) tr a.hnuser:has-text(/^dpifke$/):upward(tr)
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by dpifke 2y ago
+1 to this. The Elmers who run these classes are great. Having a structured environment with class assignments is what finally got me to practice regularly enough to build up some speed. And once I could send and receive at a reasonable ra
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by dpifke 2y ago
(Rejected) proposal to add something like this to the standard library gives some context: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/53171
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by dpifke 2y ago
If third party ad servers get access to your main domain's cookies, they can impersonate your signed-in users and steal their data.
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by dpifke 2y ago
Not to mention the time value of haggling on Ebay, dealing with scammers, etc.
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by dpifke 2y ago
When I lived in a condo in San Francisco, I had a storage unit for my camping and outdoor gear. The alternatives would have been: a) buy a new tent/cooler/propane stove/etc. every 2-3 months, or b) not go camping regularly.
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by dpifke 2y ago
I recently wrote about how NOT to do this: https://pifke.org/posts/middle-manager-rotation/
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by dpifke 2y ago
Piling on re: mixing roles: I read "abuse of position" in the GP comment as "conflict of interest," which is potentially problematic for a board member of a non-profit. I can't speak to the veracity of the facts pr
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by dpifke 2y ago
With many (non-police) cars now having radar for collision avoidance, are radar detectors still useful?
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by dpifke 2y ago
It's not just taxes. U.S. environmental and labor regulations are a big part of why Ford would prefer to manufacture vans in Turkey, burning bunker oil to ship the vans overseas and wasting energy to make and then destroy seats, seat
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The Middle-Manager Rotation: A Modest Proposal, or Possibly a DevOps Parable(pifke.org)
3 points by dpifke 2y ago|0 comments
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by dpifke 2y ago
Have you been to Bavaria? Europe is just as varied as the U.S. in terms of attitudes towards religion. I don't think you can generalize either the entire continent or all the states.
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by dpifke 2y ago
Someday, I hope the FAA will catch on that it's a safety issue that the incessant droning on about shit-tier credit card programs is training people to ignore cabin crew announcements.
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by dpifke 2y ago
There's probably a takings clause argument that the police should be required to reimburse the owner for reasonable expenses from the temporary loss of use of their vehicle. Edit: cursory Googling turned up an old law journal article a
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by dpifke 2y ago
Composability is what I love about Notmuch: https://notmuchmail.org/
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by dpifke 2y ago
ISOC/PIR (who run .org) was kinda supposed to be this, but then they tried to sell .org to private equity. See: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/what-the-heck-happened-w...
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by dpifke 2y ago
Related HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41212788
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by dpifke 2y ago
My dogs' microchips have a body temperature sensor. When one of them is acting like they might be sick, I can take their temperature with via my Flipper's RFID reader.
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by dpifke 2y ago
I put a lot of effort into a YC application in 2019 and got a generic form letter rejection. If I had gotten any indication anyone had actually looked at it, I might consider applying again, but as it stands, I probably won't.
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by dpifke 2y ago
LOC on reverse DNS seems a much more elegant solution than RFC 8805 Geofeeds ( https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8805 ). In particular, it solves the discovery issue discussed in RFC 9092 ( https://www.rfc-edit
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by dpifke 2y ago
Normally, I avoid YouTube comments like the plague, but gotta give it up for the top comment there: @bigman1688 4 years ago oh ok, when captain beefheart does advanced polyrhythms and experimental time signatures he's a "vision
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by dpifke 2y ago
From https://huggingface.co/datasets/mlfoundations/MINT-1T-HTML#l... : We release MINT-1T under a CC-BY-4.0 license, designating it primarily as a research artifact. While the dataset is freely available, users a
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by dpifke 2y ago
I was curious, so I went the Wikipedia page, and it says[0]: Not the least of these challenges was his unfamiliarity with the Cincinnati political scene, as he had never resided in or near the city, having grown up in the Cleveland area an
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by dpifke 2y ago
Lawyers' time isn't free, and even if you're in the right, it still takes time and money to get a judge to agree with you. South Dakota is like most states, where the expectation is that each of the parties to a lawsuit is r
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by dpifke 2y ago
I regret paying extra for buyer's title insurance on my home. (In my state, this is separate from the lender's title insurance policy.) I got sued a week after closing by someone with a meritless claim against the sellers, whose
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by dpifke 2y ago
There are multiple ways to "override" a file managed by dpkg: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianAlternatives https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ap-pkg-diversions.h...

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