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by dspillett 1mo ago
Does it give a reason for the block? I know ISPs in a couple of countries⁰ (China for one) block it, as do many corporate networks that subscribe to certain blocklists¹, but I've not heard of the site itself blocking specific groups of
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by dspillett 1mo ago
And like a cult to those of us preferring not to engage, for whatever reason, with everyone and their dog telling us that we should (and sometimes getting quite offended, like our refusal to play that game is a personal attack on them for c
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by dspillett 1mo ago
It isn't as obvious as it used to be, no longer looking like a switch. Click the sunlight icon in the top right. Also, it doesn't work well on mobile.
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by dspillett 1mo ago
Few were as potentially deadly, at least at the time (in earlier times there might have been less we could do to treat them), and in the 80s the main source of fear of HIV was that it was not understood (people feared catching it in ways th
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by dspillett 1mo ago
Though that would likely be a bit more expensive, or if cheaper it might be by compromising on GPU performance.
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by dspillett 1mo ago
Not quite. They were running around shouting “look how much of a danger we might be!”, so more akin to them actively saying “we want it, come and give it to us” than to just looking a particular way. Though they aren't the only company
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by dspillett 1mo ago
Generally I don't care if the third option is there or not, but one place where “system” is useful is when the preference is in an app and saves to my profile. I usually use a light theme on desktop but dark on mobile. Though TBH if th
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by dspillett 1mo ago
Die is singular, dice is plural. 1 die, 2 dice, 3 dice, … It used to be something people were corrected on, but these days dice is accepted as the singular too and die is starting to be seen as a little antiquated.
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by dspillett 1mo ago
> Sony would like you to know that any reasonable gamer would know that purchasing a game is just licensing a game, not owning it. In that case, any reasonable company would have no trouble being honest and not using the words “buy” an
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by dspillett 1mo ago
If for your use case v3 or equivalent is essentially feature complete, just getting bug fixes is plenty sufficient.
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by dspillett 1mo ago
Again, correct. But “don't do this if you don't really need to do this” is rather pointless to say, hence is being downvoted, because people already being that sensible don't need to hear it, and those who are not are unlikel
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by dspillett 1mo ago
Correct. But if the page is, at least in part, an art piece rather than an information dump, or needs to do interactive rendering for its purpose (an editor like the markdown example, live updating status displays, games and other interacti
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by dspillett 1mo ago
I have a set of files in my true offline backup that my family (or other executor) will have access to should I pass. This is things like bank details and such, credentials for online accounts & other services so they can close them (an
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by dspillett 1mo ago
I only have a small collection of bits in true regularly updated offline backup (my authentication/other DB, some important documents). An extra protection against the possibility of malicious access such as ransom attacks is a two-ste
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by dspillett 1mo ago
> Does an LLM have any idea of what "best" is? "Best" here isn't being used to imply a conscious decision, but at each stage which token has the best score coming out of the model, so the overall best is the se
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by dspillett 1mo ago
> If I recall correctly, there were some papers which suggested that LLMs favor LLM-generated passages over human written ones That makes sense. What an LLM does is output what the model thinks is the best set of tokens in response to
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by dspillett 1mo ago
> AI isn’t replacing adjusters. > Anecdotally, many of them are aging out Ageing and out and neither being replaced directly or reduce numbers coming in at the bottom/mid as others move up, is still a drop in people. If part of
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by dspillett 1mo ago
I just assume that downvotes without explanation just mean that I am right and that has somehow made someone unhappy. Unless I've been deliberately bait-y, which does sometimes happen, of course. Sometimes I reread later I realise that
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by dspillett 1mo ago
> My main concern is that this job is slowly making me sick. This needs addressing sooner rather than later, either by fixing the problem(s), managing to care less, or getting out of dodge. It sounds like you want option 3 but are havi
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by dspillett 1mo ago
I also knew about reserve capacity. And I know, that like TRIM, it has no direct effect on the performance issue being discussed here (cause by file blocks being spread around larger blocks in the SSD's granularity). I have not back pe
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by dspillett 1mo ago
> You really don't wish me luck. Oh, but I do. Please note that I do not specify what variety of luck I am wishing. > I really don't need your wishes. You have them anyway. Enjoy. > But you really excel at being butt
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by dspillett 1mo ago
> I never said the approach was so stupid it could never work. In that case I have read too deeply between the lines/tone. Sorry for the somewhat accusatory assumption of your opinion's details.
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by dspillett 1mo ago
Heck, if we really want to kill them with confusion, ask them the way to Mornington Crescent!
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by dspillett 1mo ago
And yet you have not addressed the point that many report that tricks like Anubis work. If they are so stupid an idea that they could never work, why do they seem to having the desired effect?
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by dspillett 1mo ago
> … making pages with bad training data for bots won't make the bots go away. It'll just punish the bad actors running the scrapers. Exactly. I can't hope to keep them all at bay, but I can at least have the petty little
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by dspillett 1mo ago
One thing I've thought of trying is, if I ever get around to putting things back online, loading the pages with altered versions of themselves in a manner that human users are unlikely to see (though they could if they wanted to) but s
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by dspillett 1mo ago
> In other words not a meaningful barrier. And yet many report it works, at least for now, and the excess load due to scraping activity falls precipitously when Anubis or similar solutions are used. Maybe once this sort of challenge is
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by dspillett 1mo ago
You pretty being sure of that and not understanding the relevance of the reply, makes me very sure that you are the one without a clue. And you sound like a bit of dick on top. I wish you luck in your future endeavours.
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by dspillett 1mo ago
SSDs often interface with their storage in different (larger) granularities than the OS meaning that even though the data is effectively more random at large scale due to wear leveling there are still benefits to keeping blocks that are seq
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by dspillett 1mo ago
> I needed a reproducible storage layout while testing a high-throughput logger. Of course just having a compressed filesystem image to restore for each test, or a collection of images to cover various cases instead of only optimising

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