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by eythian 6y ago
> this is an issue that is already entirely solved by the client No it isn't. What if I want to see the images in an email newsletter, but don't want to be tracked? The client can't give me a button "open images excep
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by eythian 6y ago
Yep, in a newer perl you can say: $hash->{$key}->%* to do the same thing. And you can replace the * with stuff to do slicing or whatever if you like.
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by eythian 6y ago
Several years ago I did some experimenting: https://imgur.com/gallery/0zv5m This is the using a hackrf and I'm sending a file vs. not sending a file locally (i.e. to roughly max out the throughput) using powerline
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by eythian 6y ago
G+ had events, I used to use them all the time. And then they removed them from communities, which was a large portion of how people (in my circles at least) used them. So that made it a lot less useful.
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by eythian 6y ago
It wasn't the fastest, but I think that now browser (and CPU) tech has moved on since then, it'd probably be a lot smoother. I remember using it once to coordinate specs on a small contract job and it worked pretty well for that.
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by eythian 6y ago
To point 1., it's illegal. You can't (readily) stop people who are willing to do things that are illegal unless you're willing to use legal methods to do so. There are points where you have to accept that a perfect solution i
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by eythian 6y ago
Personally, I see the arguments about software security to be a bit distracting. In my experience, users of free/open source software don't generally inspect the code (there are definitely exceptions of course.) What it can provid
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by eythian 6y ago
> I seem to remember you would get a dial tone when someone hung up on you too.. not immediately, that might take 8 seconds? It's very dependant on where in the world you were. The dial-tone on hang-up thing that you get all the tim
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by eythian 6y ago
http://www.kallisti.net.nz/wikifiles/RobinsStuff/ga_thesis.p... (multipopulation) and http://www.kallisti.net.nz/~robin/thesis.pdf (representation) Warning, I wouldn't say they're g
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by eythian 6y ago
As far as I know, no, unless you manage aspects of that yourself via git-annex or something similar. My setup to do this is that I run my own nextcloud server, which handles the computer and phone etc. syncing, then nightly that's back
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by eythian 6y ago
In my case I'm doing it because I really enjoy thinking about representations of solutions that make evolutionary operators more effective - it was the topic of my masters thesis. This is more "pure" GA than alife though, mos
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by eythian 6y ago
> Replica means replicated data, usually a copy. Yes, and a slave database is probably better called a replica. Because that's more descriptive of what it is. > Secondary means backup or parity module. Or it could mean the second
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by eythian 6y ago
I feel a better takeaway is "people are sometimes going to mess up, if you can do something easy to make those mess-ups less serious, it's probably worthwhile."
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by eythian 6y ago
> It is the most descriptive single word describing this mode of working. It often isn't. It's not uncommon that "replica" or "secondary" actually make more sense.
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by eythian 6y ago
Oh man, I spent a lot of time in high school playing around with Tierra. It is a lot of fun. A while back I started to reimplement it in rust, just to learn it, but never got very far. About a year ago, give or take, I did do a reimplementa
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by eythian 6y ago
In firefox for me, it's just a blank page and the headers returned seem mostly to be from cloudflare rather than medium.
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by eythian 6y ago
Some countries resolve the porting issue by having a list of numbers that have been ported, so that banks (for example) can check that and not rely on it if the port happened in the past two weeks (also, for example.)
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by eythian 6y ago
It costs the merchant more to process a credit card transaction, so they don't bother unless they're likely to get a lot of tourists. These days, more and more places are going cashless too, though those places generally always ac
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by eythian 6y ago
In some countries, and I wouldn't be surprised if Sweden is one of them, it's a requirement that you be allowed to have a bank account. You can't be refused.
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by eythian 6y ago
Netherlands and Germany have them.
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by eythian 6y ago
The NHG only applies to mortgages under a certain value, €325.000. This means that more and more it isn't available as prices go up (though I don't know anything about how or when they adjust that value.)
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by eythian 6y ago
Non-scientifically, about 20% of people won't: https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/978747364105011202
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by eythian 6y ago
Yep, years ago I was loosely involved (as a Koha developer working for one of the organisations involved) in this: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/230631/koha-trademark-ca... It was a lot of work by a lot
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by eythian 6y ago
Really? I don't know if I'm representative, but I pretty much only use the front brakes. I only use the rear ones if I'm trying to avoid an accident because I'm not slowing fast enough on the front. I don't even kno
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by eythian 6y ago
FWIW this was amazon.de, it could be the flow there is different.
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by eythian 6y ago
Curious, I cancelled mine yesterday because they messed up my billing and wouldn't/couldn't unsuspend it¹, so the CS person suggested to cancel and resubscribe. I did have to confirm about three times that this is what I want
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by eythian 6y ago
Sorta similar but different, I left a 3 star review for something (cheap headphones that were OK but not great), and got a few emails after it offering me credit etc. if I changed it to a 5 star review. I didn't, but did report it to A
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by eythian 6y ago
If you can look closer at the HTTP requests, it may still be distinct. For example, the header order may not match any legitimate browser, or some other header doesn't make sense in the context of that UA.
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by eythian 6y ago
about:robots also works in Firefox, I know it's been there for a long time but I have no idea if it was ever in Netscape.
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by eythian 6y ago
Leaving a bear trap goes way beyond negligence, it's literally setting a trap. Similar with unmarked dangerous chemicals, they're required to be marked for good reason.

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