exikyut

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by exikyut 5y ago
You're onto something with that particular number there. After a second go at dubiously tinkering with Algolia, I finally found a post I knew I'd seen a little while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=248
902.
by exikyut 5y ago
Reading the sibling comments, what would your recommendation(s) be in terms of the mailing-list-friendly version of the posted article?
903.
by exikyut 5y ago
Well come on, what is it :)
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by exikyut 5y ago
That only works if the loan snapshots the BTC price at the time of the loan. In the case of the most naive lender in the world who does this, you will be bitten by their incompetence in some other unrelated way almost immediately. In the ca
905.
by exikyut 5y ago
Now I'm really glad Hyundai bought Boston Dynamics :D Plot of I, Robot foiled for a few more years...
906.
by exikyut 5y ago
Enlightenment moment. Con: OSS is less optimized than proprietary solution, requiring bigger hardware Pro: OSS allows you to buy bigger hardware, use all of it without logical restrictions, and scale infinitely beyond the arbitrary point yo
907.
by exikyut 5y ago
[Smiles in n-gate]
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by exikyut 5y ago
And this was your first developer job...? I am very curious how you wound up there. The other comments are talking about minimum safe paranoia levels from the perspective of the applicants, but there's also the facility to consider: it
909.
by exikyut 5y ago
And then of course there's the old stereotype (I'm remembering from Idiocracy) of it being the smart people that don't want to have kids, while the dumb people, uh... end up with kids, and that the human race thus became dumb
910.
by exikyut 5y ago
The question is how to engineer those kinds of emergent situations where you just wind up with a bunch of $$$ - in a way that you'll be fine with looking back on later. It's weird. On the one hand it feels like "lateral creat
911.
by exikyut 5y ago
Just from the perspective of shedding light on where the brokenness was/is distributed, was this specifically about vision-related accommodation, or something else? Just idly curious.
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by exikyut 5y ago
Ah, thanks. *Files away *
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by exikyut 5y ago
Regarding the Ministry of Information concept, I recently realized that one potential motivation for the large-scale end-to-end encryption agenda is to move the "keys to the kingdom" for the world's trillions of chat messages
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by exikyut 5y ago
Sigh obligatory XKCD https://xkcd.com/548/
915.
by exikyut 5y ago
files: enwiki-20210616* size: 18.9 GB How'd they manage that ...
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by exikyut 5y ago
No, as other comments have noted it's stored in S3.
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by exikyut 5y ago
Nobody'll see this, but still, > Milton pled not guilty to the criminal charges in a Manhattan courtroom Thursday afternoon. He was freed on a $100 million bond secured against two of his properties in Utah. He is barred from conta
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by exikyut 5y ago
Reading this from a totally naive/optimistic perspective, my first response was "wow, this just effectively shut down cyberbullying of minority groups, those with mental health issues, etc. Awesome." And then I open the comme
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by exikyut 5y ago
After taking a quick look at Mandos, I realized you might have some insight into how to solve something that's had me stumped for a while: How might I handle the situation where a given device has been stolen, attacked and returned, wi
920.
by exikyut 5y ago
Update-update: Bureaucracy, Inc™ has belatedly noticed and exercised untold power to bring the domain back in a great hurry. Everything's back to exactly how it was before, even down to using "" (ie, empty string) where my na
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by exikyut 5y ago
Wow. Why not?!?! ...Hmm, probably undocumented API stuff :/
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by exikyut 5y ago
Ah, interesting. Know when these started?
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by exikyut 5y ago
Cool. Now I'm (benignly) curious what's keeping you on VLC 3.0.x...
924.
by exikyut 5y ago
UPDATE: THE DOMAIN EXPIRED HAHAHA Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20210729160256/https://mtm.maste...
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by exikyut 5y ago
Amusingly, I signed up for this a couple days ago ( https://mtm.masterthemainframe.com/ ), which worked fine at the time, but the following day when I went to follow up I discovered the HTTPS cert had expired :D That was seve
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by exikyut 5y ago
I get the impression (as a vaguely interested outsider looking in from a distance and making a LOT of presumptions) that it's "just" institutional drag and "tradition". Create a culture founded upon filling in forms
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by exikyut 5y ago
"Product moved so slowly it ceased to be noticed by management, who accidentally moved resources elsewhere"
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by exikyut 5y ago
Hmm. In all seriousness, you could probably build a lint rule/tool to allow only the format you note.
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by exikyut 5y ago
Yikes. This just made me think of chemical fluid analysis (if the advertising provider buys the drain (!)), which provides an absolute mountain of data. Cameras are rightly forbidden *inside* restrooms, but there are often security cameras
930.
by exikyut 5y ago
That's really cool. Sounds like it was an abstract-declarative sort of narrative - header files are generally references that prospectively describe and model things. I'm curious if the code was valid. (Hmm, and if the numbers wer

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