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by gnfargbl 4y ago
If by offender you mean the bot, then I'm confused. The bot asked for robots.txt in a plaintext format. The bot was delivered some binary garbage that it couldn't parse. The bot continued to ask for an updated robots.txt, and co
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by gnfargbl 4y ago
A healthy skepticism can be a useful way to avoid vacuous thinking.
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That's really fair criticism. OP, if you're still reading, please don't take anything I wrote here as an attack on you. Instead, it was meant to be a reflection on your situation from someone who struggles with many of the sa
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Well, if you actually asked what the goals of the manager's proposed evaluation/comparison were, great! If you had probed around the context of the discussion a little bit by asking some open questions like "So why did this a
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by gnfargbl 4y ago
> I needed to understand why our checkout had to be improved; I explained that technology choices made no difference to the user. However, the manager interpreted my words as outright rejecting their idea. That's an exceptionally pa
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by gnfargbl 4y ago
When these stories come up, I would like to hear enough context that enables me to understand whether or not Stripe is behaving reasonably. I understand Stripe takes customer privacy seriously, but even so it would be great to get the missi
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by gnfargbl 4y ago
The IP address mentioned in the article is a VPN exit: https://spur.us/context/209.205.206.42
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by gnfargbl 4y ago
This made me chuckle: > Then someone had a brilliant idea: we would ship US Sprint a blank tape with our usual letter listing the changes in the release. ...preceded by... > Our relationship with US Sprint was always iffy, and one
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https://archive.ph/m2Ab1
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> From the name of the class I knew I was looking at Strada — the, yet unreleased, framework from Hotwired. That's a slightly unusual statement to make in the middle of a reverse-engineering-ish piece like this. After reading it, I
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by gnfargbl 4y ago
For HN'ers outside the UK who might be put off by the Godwin above: People here really do have strong opinions about Brexit, one way or another. It has been a central part of the news for many years now, and it has increasingly real im
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by gnfargbl 4y ago
SVB's older UI is/was extremely dated, but their more recent SVB Go brand (connect.svb.com) is a huge step up.
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by gnfargbl 4y ago
Currently, a GP1-S instance in PAR3 is 3.3x the price of PAR1. After these price changes, it will "only" be 1.5x as expensive. I'm not sure whether this will be enough to have the desired effect of increased PAR3 utilisation.
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by gnfargbl 4y ago
> even if the conditions they violated were spelled out only in a contract or terms of use. Is that correct? In https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1507126/downl... , I see: > that divisi
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by gnfargbl 4y ago
I make 340Tbit/sec about 1.1x10^11 GiByte/month. GCP premium tier networking is priced at $0.08/GB, so at 80% load that cable would, very naively, have the potential to bring in $7B/month in revenue. I'm sure they
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by gnfargbl 4y ago
There's also one argument which your CTO didn't make, but really should have: Hetzner is less reliable. For instance, both my postgres master and replica went down one day the other weekend, because another machine in the same rac
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by gnfargbl 4y ago
Yes, they are an American thing. These salaries (or a decent percentage of them) are open to you in the UK, but you'll need to work remotely, probably for a US-based company. This may mean contracting. Because some component of tech
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by gnfargbl 4y ago
Same here, on Android Chrome. The JS script that the author is using relies on listening to both mousedown and touchstart events, etc. It isn't clear to me why Android has a problem with that, but I wonder if switching to listening onl
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by gnfargbl 4y ago
An elephant not explicitly mentioned in the article: The Queen's Platinum Jubilee weekend is coming up on 2-5 June.
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by gnfargbl 4y ago
What it is that leads you to believe the 3-6 months thing is so significant? There are (a very small proportion of) AirBnB guests who are awful. There are (a very small proportion of) longer-term tenants who are awful. At least with AirBn
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by gnfargbl 5y ago
Using pop-up shops as a front for grift of some kind is as old as the hills. In the 90s/00s it was tanning salons, then hand car washes in the 00s/10s. Nail bars, vape shops and those weird places with the feet-eating fish should
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by gnfargbl 5y ago
This is a proposal for a 3.6GW interconnector (as 2 x 1.8GW HVDC cables). The headline here is incorrectly editorialized.
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by gnfargbl 5y ago
I don't think we will actually be getting 10GW net from this. The article itself claims that the project will > deliver 3.6GW of reliable energy and > be capable of supplying 8 percent of Great Britain’s electricity needs ...
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by gnfargbl 5y ago
Serious answer: My work laptop is a toolbench, and I want the tools to operate exactly as I expect them to. For me, that means that I want a Linux environment, not a BSD-ish environment. I want my standard Unix tools to be the GNU variant
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by gnfargbl 5y ago
Another very happy LG Gram / Linux user here. Fingerprint reader seems to work for me, running Ubuntu 22.04.
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by gnfargbl 5y ago
You're absolutely correct. But: Wikipedia aren't trying to ban all multiplexed IPs. Instead, they're seeking to ban the IPs that bad actors disproportionately use -- and those are the heavily multiplexed ones. It's kin
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by gnfargbl 5y ago
That's a great point and very fairly made. For my own ISP (BT in the UK), I get a new IP on each router reboot. I understand that for some others like Virgin, the IP is very stable over long periods.
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by gnfargbl 5y ago
> Surely they are aware that this is basically all IPs nowadays...? There are indeed many classes of IP address which multiplex large numbers of users (mobile network exits, VPN exits, ISPs with CGNAT, some corporate web filtering system
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Henri Poincaré on How Creativity Works(themarginalian.org)
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by gnfargbl 5y ago
> A Chrome extension can basically deny the "normal" uninstallation route by preventing you from getting to chrome://extensions (and presumably about://addons for Firefox, etc.) This seems like something t

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