jadamson

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by jadamson 10mo ago
For the past decade or more, the people that drone on about male privilege were arguing conscription would never happen again so it didn't matter. They knew they were telling a lie then, they'll just come up with a new one now.
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by jadamson 10mo ago
> The body parsing logic is in react or nextjs, that's my takeaway, is it that incorrect? The exploit they were trying to protect against is in React services run by their customers.
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by jadamson 11mo ago
RuBep? As ever, the fastest way to get a correct answer on the internet is to post an incorrect one: > The Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers Inc., the international governing group for such technology, has designated P1
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by jadamson 11mo ago
Fairly sure that's a typo, or he misspoke, given the sentence immediately before says "per year".
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by jadamson 11mo ago
Notably, QUIC (and thus HTTP/3) uses UDP instead of a new protocol number for this reason.
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by jadamson 11mo ago
Dear God, I hate the way the Windows 11 Start Menu takes slightly too long to open - long enough that I often accidentally close it again. You can actually watch CPU usage increase if you toggle it.
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by jadamson 11mo ago
Let's see... Marion Donovan appears to have invented a "diaper cover" among other things, her patent then being ignored by several companies. Unfortunate, but I've never heard of whoever supposedly stole credit for that
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by jadamson 11mo ago
> Ah yes, he just took Rosy's pictures (she doe snot deserve her full nale) I took that as an accusation of misogyny and I'm unclear how else it could be interpreted. Watson named her as Dr. R. E. Franklin, so it can't be
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by jadamson 11mo ago
Tell us about how Hedy Lamarr invented Wi-Fi, how Ada Lovelace was the first programmer, how Margaret Hamilton wrote the software for the moon landings, and then repeat this claim.
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by jadamson 11mo ago
The only thievery here is yours. Just as we are expected to believe that Ada Lovelace invented programming, Hedy Lamarr invented Wi-Fi, and Margaret Hamilton wrote the software for the Apollo missions all by her lonesome, we must believe th
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by jadamson 11mo ago
> If my supervisor took my data and went on publishing them under his name, not only would I have kicked him in the ass publicly Setting your bizarre ranting aside, you appear to have misread - Franklin was the supervisor. It was her P
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by jadamson 11mo ago
He didn't steal anything. Franklin's PhD student took the famous Photo 51, Franklin was credited in the paper [1], and there's much more besides [2]: "We are much indebted to Dr. Jerry Donohue for constant advice and cri
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by jadamson 1y ago
I did some Googling on your behalf as I remember having something like that but can't reproduce it right now: https://old.reddit.com/r/OLED_Gaming/comments/1kovgdx/green_... I'd make sure your
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by jadamson 1y ago
We comprehend you perfectly.
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by jadamson 1y ago
The user you replied to said "collective guilt", which implies the former, and you seem to be confirming they were correct and that this side track about "feelings" is just you trying to diminish their point. There'
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by jadamson 1y ago
Are Brits not guilty of conquering the world? That would seem to be an honest reading of what you wrote.
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by jadamson 1y ago
> "Give me liberty or give me death!" is a quotation attributed to American politician and orator Patrick Henry from a speech he made to the Second Virginia Convention on March 23, 1775, at St. John's Church in Richmond, V
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by jadamson 1y ago
As I said, there is a vast overlap between boys and girls. Boys even do better in some subjects, notably mathematics and (some) sciences[1]. In the same way that if we streamed per-subject, there'd still be a significant number of girl
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by jadamson 1y ago
That's trivially not true. Girls do better overall, but it's a long, long way from being bimodal. Do you have another reason for being against streaming?
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by jadamson 1y ago
A few big threads on this from June: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44169115 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44182204 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44235467
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by jadamson 1y ago
If your app is monetized, the contact details of your "business" are shown in the play store. For many smaller developers, this will just be their home address. https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-de
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by jadamson 1y ago
He didn't first create the universe.
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by jadamson 1y ago
> Since 7.8 kHz is in the audio range, you can use the parasitic EMF from your phone's speaker to "transmit" a similar code by playing a crafted audio file The range of human hearing is about 20 to 20000 Hz. As a by-produc
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by jadamson 1y ago
Spaces are avoided on base Linux systems because they're clunky for terminals more than fear of outright breaking things. To the extent spaces there do break things, that also happens on Mac and Windows for the same reasons (hence Prog
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by jadamson 1y ago
> The abbreviations I wrote are unambiguous. When I first learned about Unix, I basically guessed They're completely ambiguous to someone who doesn't speak English. > /mnt - the whole metaphor of "mounting" is
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by jadamson 1y ago
The first shell listing starts with `cd` and `ls`, the former being run in `~`. What does that weird `~` mean? Very strange. More seriously, their file system is still case-sensitive, and inside /Programs they have `Iptables` and `Font
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by jadamson 1y ago
What I took out of it is that we are human, and humans use abbreviations to save time and effort, not because printer ink was expensive in the '70s.
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by jadamson 1y ago
https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K000138794 It seems to be part of some "bot defense" product by these F5 people, to "test the different browser capabilities". I doubt it's intended
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by jadamson 1y ago
https://metro.co.uk/2025/04/10/angry-driver-forces-protester... It literally happened, though? Bus and everything? More than once, in fact: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10&#
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by jadamson 1y ago
No, and there's large spikes on downdetector et al., so we're not alone.

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