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by jefftk 3y ago
Why do mail providers work against your interests by blocking outgoing spam? Because in aggregate it's beneficial to users if external parties can trust the more.
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by jefftk 3y ago
dale_glass is asking what goal Slotin had in 1946, not what goal Platts-Mills had today.
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> Because it selectively merges only patches which... This is probably pedantic, but I think the way they actually work is that they integrate all upstream changes, and then disable any behavior they don't want to support? Which m
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It depends what kind of advertising you're doing. For performance advertising, where you want someone to take an action right away (click an ad, complete a sale) not totally works. Performance advertisers are generally willing to deal
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by jefftk 3y ago
How does fixed pricing mean you don't need to care about bots? The site claims they get 1M visitors per day; should an advertiser believe them?
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This seems like a very reasonable reply to me; what's tone deaf or otherwise objectionable about it?
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> The debate is why hardcore 256+ bit crypto is needed at all by the operating system primitives on a simple device living in my home A device with a microphone and network connection? You don't think people would be excited to ha
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> Why wouldn't they catch this before they started work on porting this device to Fuchsia? Perhaps because the CPU was erroneously marked as supporting those instructions? > Why isn't this a problem with the existing OS (
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Seems relevant: For more context: we have historically required the crypto instructions because 1. We make heavy use of sha256 in blobfs, where such content-hashing is on the critical path of loading all binaries, and we believe that in th
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But the information on a check is sufficient for anyone to initiate an electronic funds transfer from your account.
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> I'm not totally comfortable with giving someone access to draw from my checking account whatever amount they claim I owe It's not comfortable, but every time you write a check you're doing exactly this.
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At 640x480 (for the whole screen) and 16-bit color
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If you want to use a PWA on an iPhone, you are fully dependent on Safari support. Firefox's decisions here aren't blocking anyone.
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> lasts only half the winter Are you also running your heat off the tank? Because it sounds like your parent isn't.
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Why gloss cooking smoke as "water vapor and oil droplets"? It's quite a bit worse: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4029104/
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> This article is about the particulate being released from the items inside the pan. That's right; this is all with an electric range.
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A good explanation of how he would reconcile his proposal and the ideas he's previously expressed: https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...
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Your parent is pointing out that the phrasing is similar to a law that requires specific treatment for "citrus fruits and oranges", which looks initially like it should be equivalent to requiring specific treatment for "citru
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It's really not that weird: there are open source fonts and proprietary fonts, just as there is open source software and proprietary software.
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> ... mentioning the Wiener Philharmoniker. I don't think they ever play out of tune. On the contrary: they never play in tune. They are consistently 12 cents sharp! (They play A=443, when most of the world uses A=440. Joking not
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The subfloors I've seen for old houses in Boston are also laid perpendicular to the joists, though diagonal does seem like it would make more sense.
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The closet partition stud was bearing enough load to matter, but it wasn't holding up the whole second floor by itself. I put in a new beam to replace the load bearing wall the preivous-previous owners had removed, with posts down to t
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by jefftk 3y ago
This was famously a problem for Google's distributed lock service, Chubby. They handled it by intentionally having outages to flush out ways it might have started to bear loads it wasn't designed for: https://sre.google
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For what it's worth, in the Boston area traditional sheathing is boards parallel to the ground, not diagonal. (I've seen dozens of houses from ~1900-1920 in the process of full gut rebuilds, and none of them had diagonally install
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by jefftk 3y ago
> With good tests, I don't care what the intent was, or whether this feature has grown new uses or or new users. I "fix" it and run the tests, and they indicate whether the fix is good. Except when the tests verify what
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> But I think a better option is often fiddling and seeing what happens. The trick is to make it so that fiddling is safe. E.g., on a project where I have good test coverage and find mystery code, I can just delete it and see what fails
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>> Hyrum’s law > It is Hyrums law. No, it's "Hyrum's" not "Hyrums": https://www.hyrumslaw.com/
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>> How did you find out the closet partition stud was load bearing, in the end ? > I tried to cut it and it started to bind the saw. I stopped and thought, and then did not cut anymore until I had shored up the upstairs. https:&
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I don't think that can be it: this was a dead leg, so a clog wouldn't increase pressure in the system elsewhere. Instead I think it has to be that popcorn polymer expands as it forms, directly putting pressure on the pipe in conta
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> "classic but inaccurate" Bald Eagle scream Specifically, a Red-tailed hawk scream. Ex: https://youtu.be/33DWqRyAAUw

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