fallingsquirrel

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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
News about crime -> advertise a home security system Opinion piece about politics -> advertise a book of the same political leaning I guarantee, no matter the topic, there's always a more relevant option than someone's ass.
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
A saner solution would be to target based on the content (like advertisers did for centuries before the internet). If someone's reading an article about guitars, there's a good bet they'll respond more favorably to a guitar a
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
It seems obvious to me that uBlock Origin uses less battery than an autoplaying video in the corner of every website you visit. So on balance I don't think it's fair to say the addons are the cause.
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
That's easy to say now, but it will be little comfort when you're watching from your hospital bed as your younger clone holds your wife's hand while they both watch the doctors pull the plug on your obsoleted body.
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
> What are size do you suggest everyone on the planet go to? 65536 > Who exactly is going to get everyone to switch to the new value? The same people who got everyone to switch to IPv6. It's a missed opportunity that these migrat
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
I would think the highly variable costs make it a great fit. The whole point of insurance is to spread outlier risk across a large group of people. (To be clear, I have no love for the health insurance industry in general, but it's for
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
1x 3090 would be faster than the mac, cheaper than the mac, and run on a normal residential circuit. How many breakers would you need for a cluster of 20 macs running at full throttle to match the perf of OP's build?
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
It seems to me that it's impossible for a binary search to detect all errors. The precondition is that the list must be sorted, and to fully verify that assumption would be O(n). That would make your binary search no better than a line
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
So if Bluesky ships video support within the next two decades, they'll be fine. Or more likely, HN will just move on to the next thing to complain about.
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
I think Microsoft is just purposefully lax about enforcing their own trademarks on their own properties. It could be due to organizational memory of their antitrust case. It could be to avoid bad publicity (like the recent spat where youtub
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
Maybe so, but this isn't the way to fix it. Two wrongs don't make a right. The natural conclusion of your line of thought is that the police should be able to enforce against things they personally think are "bad", rathe
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
You can do this without assuming the name by execing /proc/$PID/exe. Then you're not vulnerable to the argv[0] spoofing described in the article. (But of course since argv[0] does exist, you should set it properly and pa
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
Suppose Chase's system has a momentary outage. Which headline would you rather see? 1: Three idiots on tiktok steal petty cash from the ATM and go to prison 2: Millions of Chase customers' lives grind to a halt as they can't
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
The first electric cars date from the 1890s. The reason we're having trouble* now is because ICE cars are so entrenched in society, much more than 60 years ago. Back then it would have been easier than today. *I take the word "tro
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
That doesn't solve the greater issue. Let's say you bought an Intel CPU because your company requires remote attestation. Then a researcher publishes an exploit. Then Intel pushes an update that revokes keys from your model of CPU
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
From the article: > They are often required to leave family members behind as collateral to prevent them from defecting while outside their home country.
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
That's the approach Zig is taking: https://ziglang.org/news/goodbye-cpp/
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
Fair enough on the perf, I get it lol I'm hunting for names that had resurgence in popularity because of TV shows/movies. The name that inspired the project is Mabel. It disappeared in the 1960s, then reappeared the year after Gra
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
I was actually playing around those files today. I know this will be a typical HN comment and I'm sorry but, if it takes you an hour to load that data into sqlite, you're probably doing something very wrong. $ sqlite3 x.db &#x
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
Really now? Please don't credit X for this. Nitter operators are working hard behind the scenes to keep as many usable IPs and accounts in operation as they can. Give credit where credit is due.
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
I could see the double pick being genuinely useful, since it's easy enough to tip the second pick out of the way when you're only picking one string.
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
> We note that other customers have also initiated legal action against us to block revocation. This seems crazy to me. In what world does suing your business partner make more sense than clicking some buttons in a UI or running some she
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
Out of all the comments, this one speaks to me the most. No idea why either :) but I think I have my new system. Thank you for posting this!
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
Use farside.link to find working instances. I refreshed three times and got three working instances: - https://nitter.poast.org/hackermondev/status/181662535705258... - https://nitter.lucabased.xyz&#x2F
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Ask HN: How do you choose a hostname for personal devices?
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
Misleading. https://andrewkelley.me/post/goodbye-twitter-reddit.html > I enthusiastically participated in the launch of Stack Overflow, including asking basic questions such as "How do you open a file in C++?&q
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
I want to keep snapshots of my work. I run nightly backups which have come in handy numerous times, but accessing the cloud storage is always slow, and sometimes I've even paid a few cents in bandwidth to download my own files. It woul
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
Different categories of app. Duplicity is geared toward backing up files to a separate machine, and this tool snapshots your filesystem on the same machine.
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by fallingsquirrel 2y ago
In fairness, this app supports snapshotting your home directory as well, and that's not solvable with Nix alone. In fact, I'm running NixOS and I've been meaning to set up Timeshift or Snapper for my homedir, but alas, I have

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