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by jgalt212 2y ago
Without Cloudflare Turnstile (or some other similar solution), we would have been forced to suspend all our free content-based marketing pages.
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by jgalt212 2y ago
This is why using email addresses as usernames is a bad idea. Credential stuffing is trivial under this scenario.
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by jgalt212 2y ago
It's funny you say that, but when travelling abroad I wondered how Europeans and Japanese stay sufficiently hydrated.
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by jgalt212 2y ago
All I need to know about COVID is encapsulated in the market caps of big tech in late 2019 vs the market caps of big tech now.
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by jgalt212 2y ago
> AMP, and the Ad-blocking prohibition are evidence of this. That's the crux of the argument. I don't need any further evidence.
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by jgalt212 2y ago
Before when my children were too young for iPhones, they loved Buffalo Wild Wings because they gave all the kids devices to play with. I am surprised Bill Burr did not address this phenomenon at all. https://www.youtube.com&#x2F
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by jgalt212 2y ago
Very ahead of the times for 2014. > GSS was created by Dan Tocchini, leader of the TheGrid, the first AI website platform.
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by jgalt212 2y ago
> we made sure to tell the model not to guess if it wasn’t sure Fair enough, but it's kind of ridiculous that in 2025 this "hack" still helps produce more reliable results.
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by jgalt212 2y ago
Disk latency, and one's aversion to it, is IMHO the only way Hetzner costs can run up on you. You want to keep the database on local disk, and not their very slow attached Volumes (Hetzner EBS). In short, you can have relatively ligh
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by jgalt212 2y ago
Someone has to move the product.
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by jgalt212 2y ago
Because pyenv compiles from source, it's optimized for your own platform. In practice, are these performance differences noticeable?
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by jgalt212 2y ago
The Innocent (McEwan novel) > The novel takes place in 1955–56 Berlin at the beginning of the Cold War and centres on the joint CIA/MI6 Operation Gold, to build a tunnel from the American sector of Berlin into the Russian sector to
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by jgalt212 2y ago
futures markets (among other things) allow producers to temporally match assets and liabilities.
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by jgalt212 2y ago
> It does kinda show how markets don't just magically hit an equilibrium price. There's lot of research on situations where market prices fail to work, but not much (as far as I'm aware) of when they largely work, but ther
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by jgalt212 2y ago
only if such assets have very low / no vol. With any level of leverage such a strategy brings along a significant risk of gambler's ruin.
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by jgalt212 2y ago
That post from Yegge reads like it was written by some foaming at the mouth VC. I am getting decent use from Claude, but mostly as a stack overflow replacement. I will never let it read our company's code base. Then everyone will kn
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by jgalt212 2y ago
Gold has offered barely positive returns over long time periods.
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by jgalt212 2y ago
Indeed. Don't the LLMs have access to the RUBI rule set? It's open source. Why are they not memorizing the rules?
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by jgalt212 2y ago
I think you might be looking for PDF/A. https://www.adobe.com/uk/acrobat/resources/document-files/pd... For example, if you print a word doc to PDF, you get the raw text in PDF form, not an image of
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by jgalt212 2y ago
> Furthering personal knowledge Take a poll of student debtors, and see what per cent of them regard their specious degrees as an exercise in "Furthering personal knowledge".
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by jgalt212 2y ago
> What they hope for, in other words, is a handout for crypto holders—or, from the point of view of non-crypto-holding Americans, a misbegotten government backstop for purely speculative assets. Replace this with those who borrowed money
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by jgalt212 2y ago
Joe Lonsdale was on CNBC talking his book (long Palantir) the other day in the context of DoD cuts. He was confident that DoD would buy more from Palantir and other new contractors (e.g. Anduril), and DOGE would continue to cut the fat. Al
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by jgalt212 2y ago
The word count for "delve" is zero, so maybe not AI slop.
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by jgalt212 2y ago
The states were too small and numerous to effectively practice Realpolitik.
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by jgalt212 2y ago
> The truth is economic growth hasn’t been occurring in real terms for most people for a long time and the rich have been transferring money from the poor to themselves at a dramatic rate. It blows my mind why pension funds continue to i
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by jgalt212 2y ago
and the author report this about Wikipedia > Also, over 5B visits a month - consider me impressed. How does Wikipedia only do 5X the visits that Quora does? Which number is way off?
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by jgalt212 2y ago
> Yet, despite the challenges, Quora still pulls in just under 1 billion visits a month. Man, those a big numbers. I would have bet two orders of magnitude lower.
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by jgalt212 2y ago
> A partial deobfuscation of the code showed numerous references to usernames and passwords. However, as the file was still heavily obfuscated, BleepingComputer could not determine in what way they were being referenced. I thought ChatGP
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by jgalt212 2y ago
I can't believe there's market demand for non deterministic OCR, but what I really suspect is almost no one scans the same document twice and probably don't even realize this is a possibility.
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by jgalt212 2y ago
I remember Skype being a big malware vector, and did my best to avoid. I do think MSFT cleaned this up, but the brand was ruined for me.

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