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by jddj 11mo ago
It skews the other way just as often in my experience. That large clump at 10% has some wildly profitable businesses in it.
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by jddj 11mo ago
Sad, because I know first hand of legitimate businesses who struggle to run Instagram ads due to unexplained blocks or payment gateway issues
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by jddj 11mo ago
Almost there, but in the meantime supporting a casual squillion dollars of trades at JS
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by jddj 11mo ago
I think the repetition of 'dock' in the task loop which triggered the breakdown probably primed some HAL pathways as well
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by jddj 11mo ago
They could go the apple way and sign an annoyingly shortlived cert.
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by jddj 1y ago
Unless they claim, by noreply email, that it (eg. ATC strike in a 3rd country for which they had 2 weeks' notice) was out of their control and so no compensation is owed. Then you get the pleasure of a phone tree that only allows the o
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by jddj 1y ago
You say that, but azure and okta have had a handful of these and life over there has more or less gone on. Inertia is a hell of a drug
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by jddj 1y ago
Go for a scroll up https://neal.fun/space-elevator/
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by jddj 1y ago
I don't understand the metaphor in this case. If there's another European debt crisis (for example) does the bear eat Europe and any US issues go away?
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by jddj 1y ago
My mobile Firefox consistently has an infinity icon instead of a true count of the tabs (presumably because there are so many. Likely hundreds) and I notice no slowdown or battery issues whatsoever
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Deloitte to partially refund Aus government after using AI in $440K report(theguardian.com)
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by jddj 1y ago
Silver lining: it's likely that technically there is a backup (section 1.3). It's just in NK or china. Yikes.
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by jddj 1y ago
> Lots of people are celebrating but I’m not. It's a sad, lonely sort of anticlimax. It’s really crap and I feel really bad it’s all ended up like this. I thought she'd just say sorry Wow. > In May 2018, Hopkins won an IPSO
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by jddj 1y ago
That script still gets built somewhere using those deps
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by jddj 1y ago
Is the difference between the number of dev dependencies for eg. VueJs (a JavaScript library for marshalling Json Ajax responses into UI) and Htmx (a JavaScript library for marshalling html Ajax responses into UI) meaningful? There is a dif
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by jddj 1y ago
> They must've had bad experience with companies in the past? Ever used a gym, airline, or subscribed to a newspaper? Many businesses are genuinely customer-hostile.
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by jddj 1y ago
Very impressive work. I also learned something, which I'd always wondered cynically but never thought to investigate. The walking connection between lines at some stations in Barcelona seems so long as to not make sense, but it's
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by jddj 1y ago
Perhaps we should be inserting "...wait! But" at artificial locations to encourage deeper thought.
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by jddj 1y ago
Guaranteed needle-free haystack: https://anycrap.shop/product/guaranteed-needle-free-haystack . Ohh. Sassy: This ancient tome contains centuries-old arguments recontextualized to justify modern societal constructs. Its
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by jddj 1y ago
Are you referring to VAT?
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by jddj 1y ago
[Editing this while I still can as although I think it's a reasonable discussion I tend to regret getting too much into politics here.]
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by jddj 1y ago
I didn't get the impression they were making any value judgement
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by jddj 1y ago
I don't want to be trite, but terminals and things like MUDs and their precursors have been interfacing with humans via text for 40 years.
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by jddj 1y ago
Doesn't Wikipedia offer full tarballs? This would imaginably put some downward pressure on scraper volume.
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by jddj 1y ago
> Wherever you are on the map, look... a few hundred miles south The top half, at least. Sorry.
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by jddj 1y ago
Not to take away from your general point (which I agree with), but that depends where local is. > Identity technology used at a county's pubs and nightclubs since 2023 is to be extended for a further three years. > Northamptonshi
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by jddj 1y ago
Do you think the colour purple and the bluest eye should be banned from schools?
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by jddj 1y ago
From the seeming consensus I was dreading setting let's encrypt up on nginx, until I did it and it was and has been... Completely straightforward and painless. Maybe if you step off the happy path it gets hairy, but I found the default
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by jddj 1y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernoulli%27s_principle Under the Misconceptions header
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by jddj 1y ago
I always wondered about this claim. If I have a secret, A, and I encrypt it with classical algorithm X such that it becomes A', then the result again with nonclassical algorithm Y such that it becomes A'', doesn't any cl

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