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inejge
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> Developers do that too. Not at that speed. Scale remains to be seen, so far I'm aware only of hobby-project wreck anecdotes.
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> Once you start blocking actual users out of your sites, it simply has gone too far. It has, scrapers are out of control. Anubis and its ilk are a desperate measure, and some fallout is expected. And you don't get to dictate how a
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1y ago
> I am having a really hard time communicating this problem to executives Cc Legal/Compliance could do wonders to their capacity to understand the problem. Caveat, of course, that the execs might be pissed off that some peon is plac
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1y ago
> An "exquisitely low dose" should be safe. The problem is that a subset of self-experimenters have the mindset "the more, the better" -- I still remember the Covid-era vitamin D discussions, with people openly report
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1y ago
Those things take time and have an inertia in both branches: it's easier to continue using the existing resources than standing up your own, but once you're committed to developing a replacement it's not easy to stop. (EU alr
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1y ago
> It has kept the title, but so has France and how many Republics are they on now? The US has also kept the title of the Senate, but I'd argue that it's been a very different institution since the 17th Amendment. Also, the Fede
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1y ago
> It's like seeing atheists as a bit disabled They are seen as disabled, i.e., lacking the moral core. An atheist, the thinking goes, can't be a moral person. The US political (if not cultural) mainstream has been anti-secula
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1y ago
> But on the other, the fact that each pilot can see and feel immediately what inputs the other is applying is such a huge advantage compared to airbus’ fly by wire. Confusion is still possible on Boeing aircraft[1] (the incident happe
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1y ago
> Personally, over time, I have stopped caring too much about prompt customization. For a while, I tried a couple of Christmas tree prompts which included all kinds of condensed Git status and other bells and whistles, but eventually tir
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1y ago
That's not subliminal, that's plain old product placement.
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> Try submitting a bug about how menus are displayed 5px from where they are supposed to be in a GTK app rendered on a X11-server that runs on the Windows desktop and see if the GTK developers care. This one sounds so specific that I sus
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1y ago
> I had a 386 with 4MB RAM and am not the least nostalgic about it. In fact damn near everything about that machine was limiting and something I couldn't wait to replace with something newer. It is difficult to be nostalgic about th
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1y ago
> I'd be interested to see what the effects are of these assumptions failing Mostly confusion, but the combination of aviation and confusion can be dangerous and even deadly. Not directly related to this list, but I'm reminded
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1y ago
According to a recent message from Kees Cook, it was the "b4" tool that produced a mangled tree[1]. Try following the reflog: at that level, wrangling git is akin to juggling flaming live chainsaws. [1] https://lore.ker
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1y ago
Re the last part: USL vs BSDi was filed in 1992 and settled in 1994, long before any sizeable vendor paid attention to Linux. (Version 1.0 of the Linux kernel was released at about the same time that lawsuit was settled.) So you shouldn
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> The issue with this design is the front 3 geared hub. It says it would reduce maintenance needs. The derailleur and chain are often cheaper and require very little maintenance other than oiling and maybe cleaning. Internally geared hub
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1y ago
> I think that JSON is overused (DER is better) When I was younger and more enthusiastic about some aspects of network communications, I set out to understand ASN.1 by reading the specifications. That was when ISO and ITU-T were even mor
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1y ago
They would have to use ranges , though, and I think that the non-numeric phrases flow better, which should aid comprehension.
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1y ago
> Tried tapping that link on mobile, got a screen to view the corresponding post. Tapped it, and I got taken to the App Store. It's obnoxious, but if you really want to view the post you can switch the screenshot page to desktop mod
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> Your definition seems to have an unstated premise: you think certain kinds of “fear and discontent” are legitimate, and others aren’t. I don't. Fear and discontent exist, and I'm not interested in the degree of their justific
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1y ago
I'm sure you can look up the dictionary definition like everyone else, and it won't mention anything similar to "democracy", but if you want one from a random internet person: it's pandering to discontent and fear o
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> …where x and y evaluate in parallel without me having to do anything . I understand that yours is a very simple example, but a) such things are already parallelized even on a single thread thanks to all the internal CPU parallelism, b
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1y ago
Mammals have a strong nurturing instinct, which helps with raising progeny. (So do birds.) Strong enough that it can overflow to members of another species. No calculation or ethical predisposition required, though they would strengthen the
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2y ago
> I still find it wild that so many people are trying to frame these decisions through a political lens. Why? The decisions are pretty well politically aligned with the ideology which detests the size and scope of the government (realist
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> Rate limits are far simpler, anyway! Not when the bots are actively programmed to thwart them by using far-flung IP address carousels, request pacing, spoofed user agents and similar techniques. It's open war these days.
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> Spotify CEO stated on X that before asking for more headcount they have to justify not being able to do the job with an agent. Spotify CEO is channeling The Two Bobs from Office Space: "What are you actually doing here?" Just
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The interesting thing is, in a real emergency something often clicks, and people become more focused and organized than otherwise. The 2009 Hudson ditching is a celebrated example, but there were numerous others over the years. (More rece
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> I was just blown away they send you all that material for free by simply applying. It was a hangover from their days a quasi-socialist, monopolistic enterprise ("We're the Phone Company"), when they could afford to be &q
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One could do worse than using Eco's Ur-Fascism [1] as the starting point. The man had personal experience and he could write (oh how he could write.) However, I'd expect that some would dismiss him as an inveterate lefty (he wasn
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I can't blame them, an in-air cabin fire is no joke. This[1] happened on the ground and destroyed the plane. Another very recent one[2] was in the air and thankfully extinguished. But I don't see sodium batteries in portable devic
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