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by hnick 5y ago
You didn't mention handling new lines as data. Excel for example will include these as-is and double quote the cell. It is very easy to overlook edge cases in CSV.
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by hnick 5y ago
I've actually used that whitelist pattern before for legacy software in a non-security context. We had some programs using old stuff, and it was a real hassle to migrate everyone off it due to the massive amount of testing involved. Bu
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by hnick 5y ago
In games we usually separate between exploits and hacks. Exploits are vague but typically things allowed by the game, but not intended (or have for more impact than expected). I believe if you lied in the game that would constitute a writte
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by hnick 5y ago
Competitive PvE exists too (speedruns, world first races, etc). In FFXIV mods are less tolerated and while some raiders use triggers (TTS voice lines triggered by enemy actions or friendly buffs to tell you what to do), many consider it bor
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by hnick 5y ago
It was apparently an issue in Vietnam, where individuals were rotated in and out of existing units. Units that had bonded over training, death, and suffering - and then a new guy (sometimes a new leader!) shows up. From what I read, people
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by hnick 5y ago
A possibility would be catering to local minorities and their creators in various places around the world, but that sounds like a lot of work. And here in Australia for example you'd be situated against SBS/ABC which do a lot of e
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by hnick 5y ago
Yes, private nude pictures of other people's children too, which do not necessarily constitute pornography. It was common when I was young for parents to take pictures of their kids doing things, clothes or not. Some still exist of me
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by hnick 5y ago
Mould will damage a house, cooking fumes will only damage the temporary residents. Smells go away by the time someone else moves in. FWIW I think every place I've lived in Australia has had a vented rangehood over the stove, but maybe
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by hnick 5y ago
It is old but I think the modern aspect is that is it much more of a 2-way communication medium. Yes, in previous eras you could get angry letters or phone calls. But today you can have hundreds of thousands of people respond directly on th
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by hnick 5y ago
Does that work for baking and similar activities? Sugar sometimes provides structure to a recipe. I've never tried stevia as an ingredient, only an additive.
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by hnick 5y ago
Would you have recognised the opportunity to use it, not knowing how it works? Sometimes when we learn a new technique we suddenly see all the places it can be used that we didn't know about before. There's the old (probably apocr
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by hnick 5y ago
I think it's also just modern internet reactive culture. I see it in other areas too. If I watch a video game review, sometimes the reviewer will spend a minute or more (in a <10 minute review) telling people this is just an opinion
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by hnick 5y ago
Uneven application of the law seems crucial to keep the system functioning and technology can erode that. Many simple laws, if enforced thoroughly and without prejudice, would become absolutely draconian. It is not even possible for a human
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by hnick 5y ago
I doubt it. What if it's a typo? There are at least 3 people who I get emails (and bank statements) for in my first.last@gmail.com address, and from what I can tell it's because they dropped the middle initial when signing up or t
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by hnick 5y ago
The original lootboxes were trading card games - MTG or Pokemon.
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by hnick 5y ago
Problem here in Australia too. TV aside, there has been some drama over this on Twitch. Streamers are shown gambling massive (to you or me) amounts of money daily. Kids watch this. It's entirely unregulated (maybe not in theory, but in
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by hnick 5y ago
The better ones do have an annual fee, so also take that into account. But for us while we were travelling more frequently, the flyer points and insurance made it very worthwhile. Chargebacks are useful depending on consumer protection laws
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by hnick 5y ago
As a naturally risk averse Australian it's been incredibly frustrating. Even 15-20 years ago I was thinking this can't keep going. Turns out I just should've invested everything I own.
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by hnick 5y ago
Insurance, points, cashback, chargebacks. It's also a one month interest free float of your funds if you pay in full each month, meaning you earn some interest. I know some debit cards are getting closer to credit cards in these areas
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by hnick 5y ago
Pretty sure they hated KeSPA piggybacking off their game and they hated the entire idea of eSports. They took an extremely hands-off approach on that side of things and intentionally or not did a lot to try and cripple it for SC2. I feel li
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by hnick 5y ago
Have wages among their demographic kept pace with inflation?
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by hnick 5y ago
You just reminded me that SC2 was split up into 3 parts. I'd completely forgotten. I can't remember how they justified it at the time, but through the lens of history and their other actions it certainly looks like they thought it
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by hnick 5y ago
I'd imagine personal emails trigger different flags than a bulk newsletter from a small business. One of the key suggestions on setting up a mail server (or even something like Amazon SES) is to 'warm up' by progressively sen
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by hnick 5y ago
There are meme "speedrun any%" videos on YouTube for this sort of thing, so there are probably some real ones out there. FWIW I made a female character on FFXIV (partly to see if this sort of thing would happen) and never encounte
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by hnick 5y ago
It's also a little harder these days with how barren the environment is, comparatively. The oceans and shorelines especially, past generations could walk on down and gather lobsters by hand. Good luck now. Maybe after a few hundred yea
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by hnick 5y ago
PHP (and old languages in general) are full of ASCII-only English-centric assumptions. I think both functions are now considered deprecated since we have even more variations like mysqli_real_escape_string (or just use PDO with bound params
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by hnick 5y ago
It exists because "mysql_escape_string() does not take a connection argument and does not respect the current charset setting."
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by hnick 5y ago
Or the existing code on your machine or local documentation. I learned quite a bit of QBASIC from reading nibbles.bas and gorillas.bas and the editor's own help was extensive.
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by hnick 5y ago
You don't like n7ms?
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by hnick 5y ago
Dubai is on the coast too, though. So there's something else going on. My guess is the dry sand might be a moisture sink and vegetation itself often puts out and collects a lot of humidity, but there's not as much around in Dubai.

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