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by kijin 2y ago
High-latency networks are going away, too, with Cloudflare eating the web alive and all the other major clouds adding PoPs like crazy.
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by kijin 2y ago
"Oil" used to mean olive oil and nothing else. Its usage gradually expanded to include other vegetable fats, liquid animal fats such as whale oil, and finally mineral oil when it was discovered. People back then weren't parti
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by kijin 2y ago
Kaspersky could very well be their big creditor, if it really made up such a huge percentage of their sales. Assume, for illustration purposes, that they had a monthly revenue of $10M, of which $7M was Kaspersky sales. 15 days after their l
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by kijin 2y ago
A cat is like a small tiger. Ferocious at times, but mostly very cautious. If something doesn't work as planned, their default reaction is to abort asap. A chicken is literally a dinosaur.
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by kijin 2y ago
There's no money to hoard. It doesn't really work like that. Companies like this are usually run as a barely sustainable ponzi scheme. Any money they might have had is long gone. They're paying your September revenue with mon
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by kijin 2y ago
I think a lot of oddities we attribute to cats can be explained by the fact that they are both predator and prey. No other animal we spend a lot of time with occupies such a schizophrenic position in the food chain.
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by kijin 2y ago
What does a one-time donation between $10k and $100k do to help the second case? Perhaps it will allow the maintainer to take a few months off and work full-time on the project, or maybe hire someone to clear the backlog. But what happens a
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by kijin 2y ago
It depends on whether the downstream only ever consumes upstream changes, or also often contributes changes to upstream. Rebasing in both directions can result in a messy history, too, especially if upstream isn't very careful in how i
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by kijin 2y ago
Indeed, there needs to be some sort of connection between the truth and the justification, not just "true && justified". The problem is that when you're working at such a low level as trying to define what it means to
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by kijin 2y ago
Completely agreed. Natural fibers like wool and cotton help moderate humidity by quickly absorbing moisture and slowly letting it evaporate. Synthetic fibers can be designed to channel moisture away from your skin instead of trapping it, bu
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by kijin 2y ago
Your bed needs to be breathable. That's the single most important thing. A cool bed without proper ventilation will attract condensation and mold, and make you feel damp. A good spring mattress sitting on top of slats will never get un
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by kijin 2y ago
You could put a small compressor outside and connect a well-insulated hose to pump the refrigerant inside, just like a split system air conditioner. Then the noise in your bedroom will be no worse than the occasional hum of a fridge in the
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by kijin 2y ago
This is a big problem with the "blogging CMS" market. A technical person who just wants a blog can easily set up a SSG, or even write their own CRUD app, in just a couple of hours. So they don't really need a WordPress altern
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by kijin 2y ago
It's not just linguistic distance. A good literary translator needs to really understand of the source material, with all of its cultural context and multiple possible interpretations, and somehow recreate the same effect in the target
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by kijin 2y ago
It looks like the author's memory of PHP stopped before modern standards were established. Which is to be expected, since they probably left PHP a long time ago to become an evangelist for another language/framework. Here "PH
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by kijin 2y ago
The incorrect capitalization made me think that, perhaps, there's a scarcely known escape sequence \N that is different from \n. Maybe it matches any character that isn't a newline? Nope, just small caps in the original article.
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by kijin 2y ago
Of course it depends on whether the target demographic has adequate access to fluoride by other means, such as toothpaste. A similar case might be iodine in table salt. A lot of salt available in America is iodized on purpose. We don't
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by kijin 2y ago
I take issue with the assumption that you always need a 1 coin. If we're going to go to such great lengths to minimize the number of coins, even at the cost of making real-life transactions more complicated, we could totally forgo the
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by kijin 2y ago
That actually sounds more promising than the way most altcoins are operated today. If only Sam Altman doesn't elope with all those GPT13 coins...
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by kijin 2y ago
It's even uglier in jurisdictions where sales tax is not included in the $X.99 price tag. The total amount you need to pay becomes something like $X+1.07 and you end up with a lot of of unexpected change. Edit: In the example, I meant
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by kijin 2y ago
What's wrong with opening a MySQL connection on every page view? Unlike PostgreSQL, MySQL was specifically designed to handle a very large number of short-lived connections. A properly configured MySQL daemon can handle tens of thousan
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by kijin 2y ago
But WPEngine is toeing the line especially precariously. The company is called WPEngine, sure, but their tagline says "Most trusted WordPress platform". Their plans are named "Essential WordPress", "Core WordPress&q
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by kijin 2y ago
AI scrapers are parasites. I don't care whether you're OpenAI, Amazon, Meta, or some unknown startup. As soon as you generate a noticeable load on any of the servers I keep my eyes on, you'll get a blank 403 from all of the s
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by kijin 2y ago
The great thing about having unfettered physical access to hardware is that you can easily recover from mistakes like this. No need to rebuild that EC2 instance. No need to beg a hosting company for IPMI access. You can just pull the plug a
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It baffles me that Windows Explorer still doesn't know how to connect to an SFTP site out of the box. It has been able to handle FTP sites since decades ago, and Windows has shipped with a working SSH client for several years now. Putt
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by kijin 2y ago
As long as the machine you are connecting from has a working sshfs, it should be able to mount any path on any host to which you have SSH access.
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by kijin 2y ago
Because you chose to use a program that doesn't accept self-signed certificates. Use a different program or a different computer that actually respects your freedom to tinker with it. Problem solved.
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by kijin 2y ago
Aware, of course, they're aware of it now. But the best that they can realistically do, once they've found out about the shenanigans, is to cancel the licensing deal with the Hungarian manufacturer. Which they probably will. Maybe
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by kijin 2y ago
The alphabet T is pronounced "teh" in French. So insofar as the French company is concerned, T-fal sounds close enough to Tefal.
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Few civilian brands would survive the scrutiny if every product they put their stickers on were required to be Mossad-proof.

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