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by drdec 6y ago
> But, isn’t cgit basically read-only? So are SELECT statements until little Bobby Tables shows up. Which is to say that SQL injection can be used to turn read-only functionality into write functionality. Secondly, if you care about who
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by drdec 6y ago
In Firefox, right-click and open in a new private window and the links will work. Just tested in Chrome and it works there as well.
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by drdec 6y ago
My experience - I have a TCL Roku TV, no skip button on the remote. When the promos play on Amazon Prime a Skip control (link? button?) appears on the lower left of the screen with focus. If I press OK on my remote it activates and goes r
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by drdec 6y ago
The linked page claims that CloudLinux has pledged $1M/yr to AlmaLinux which solves one of the main concerns I have about Rocky. It also seems like CloudLinux has already been doing something like this internally so it shouldn't b
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by drdec 6y ago
>I am not really a big fan of end-to-end encryption for solving society’s main communication problems, I think people (pseudonymous or not) should be accountable for their speech. I think there ought to be an on-line analogue to two cons
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by drdec 6y ago
I would humbly suggest that perhaps your memory isn't quite accurate. https://www.bankrate.com/banking/cds/historical-cd-interest-... https://barbarafriedbergpersonalfinance.com/savings-accoun
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by drdec 6y ago
How long would it take you to OCR each bill? Then, once you know you have the winner, how long is it going to take you to find it?
578.
by drdec 6y ago
Can anyone expound on the question of if the disposition of Oracle v. Google (concerning API copying) has any bearing for Octave vis-a-vis MATLAB?
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by drdec 6y ago
If you are interested in experimenting with non-fixed width fonts for programming, you could try Source Insight. I was at a company that used it for a while and surprisingly, I didn't miss using fixed width fonts at all.
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by drdec 6y ago
In the US we have deer crossings, moose crossings and even the occasional duck crossing or goose crossing.
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by drdec 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideas_and_delusions_of_referen...
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by drdec 6y ago
> 2 - AI. This mainly threw a big wrench in the planned integration of Communist China into the Western system. AI enabled CCP to maintain control of the Chinese society, which was completely unexpected. Could you expand on this or bette
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by drdec 6y ago
Society needs children to survive. Even if you don't care about the propagation of the species, you will need younger people to run things when you are in your old age (if you want to be comfortable). So in that way we all have an in
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by drdec 6y ago
> There is no democracy on a privately owned platform. Interesting. Would the right-wing be better off if Twitter were a government-owned entity, thus ensuring that their right to free speech would always allow unfettered access? Would
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by drdec 6y ago
The campaigns do not rely on the publicly available poll data for the reasons you pointed out - they need accurate polling in order to make serious decisions about resources. They pay polling companies to get accurate polls and they keep t
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by drdec 6y ago
While you are correct (IMHO) to question the use of masculine and feminine to characterize these sets of words, in the end that is not actually relevant to the result. That is, if the authors had called the sets "cooperative words&quo
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by drdec 6y ago
> The real situation is this: you have $200 of illegal money. Now you have the choice between using that $200 to buy a widget that's worth $100, or a widget that's worth $200. > Obviously you'll buy the widget that&#x27
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by drdec 6y ago
> Chrome OS being open source is not a threat to Google Agreed. I always though that Chrome and ChromeOS were created so that Google could ensure that a platform always existed for their real products (which are offered over the web).
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by drdec 6y ago
I think the point the GP is trying to make is that if one has thought about security and privacy then one is more likely to use www.example.com instead of example.com for one's website for this very reason.
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by drdec 6y ago
I think it might be even more useful to think about the time you saved - i.e. without a car, will you be spending more than 5% of your time on transportation?
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by drdec 6y ago
Here's a relevant quote from the article: > The results paint a troubling picture: The more equipment a department receives, the more people are shot and killed, even after accounting for violent crime, race, income, drug use and po
592.
by drdec 6y ago
>'Proportion' and 'fraction' unfortunately both suggest a ratio of integers instead of a unit real. I don't mean to pick on you in particular abecedarius, but I find it amusing to be worried about signalling that
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by drdec 6y ago
>>It shouldn’t be, there should be a way to properly decouple employment and healthcare. >It's really simple, remove the tax benefit from employers purchasing health insurance... and employer plans and whatnot would be outlawe
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by drdec 6y ago
If they had purchased a building years ago now they would be stuck with it as the market turns south and they have no need for it. This scenario is actually a good argument for a company keeping to its core competencies and not letting non
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by drdec 6y ago
Netflix is experimenting with shuffle: https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/08/18/netflix-is-testing...
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by drdec 6y ago
FYI, the US Post Office is an independent agency with its own budget. It does not receive taxpayer money. So really what was happening is that other people or companies sending mail or packages were subsidizing overseas mail and packages.
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by drdec 6y ago
We need the police to take care of their own house and stop the us against them mentality. Until they do we won't be able to truly address the events that have led to BLM and the current protests. The problem isn't a few bad appl
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by drdec 6y ago
We'd better all cancel our life insurance in that case.
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by drdec 6y ago
Isn't this what Venmo and Zelle are doing (sorry US perspective here)? The trick is to get companies to accept payments via those methods where the customer has control over the recurring payment.
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by drdec 6y ago
Why not a context menu entry to truncate the content to the correct length? Or even better, some kind of warning when the paste happens, giving the user the option of truncating, canceling or continuing anyway?

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