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by kijin 1y ago
The article is unclear about when the freezings took place, but the sentence starting with "By July" seems to suggest that 3 million is the cumulative total of all the accounts that were frozen from January to July. So it probably
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by kijin 1y ago
Cats seem to prefer sitting in enclosed spaces, like a cardboard box.
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PHP is much closer to raw C and doesn't do any threading by default, so I suppose composer doesn't suffer from the thread synchronization and event loop related issues that differentiate bun from npm.
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The webflow one at the top has an interesting detail about them not allowing you to offload images to a cheaper service. Which you can probably work around by using a different domain.
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Which countries you need to avoid depends on your threat model. For example, there is need to avoid the USA if all you're trying to do is bypass the Chinese firewall. There might even be a legitimate use case for pretending to have a U
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by kijin 1y ago
Well the thing is, millions of stars go supernova in the observable universe every single day. Throw in the daily gamma ray burst as well, and you've got bit flips all over the place.
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by kijin 1y ago
Remember the Airbus that crashed in the middle of the Atlantic because one of the pilots kept pulling on his yoke, and the computer decided to average his input with normal input from the other pilot? Conflict resolution in redundant syst
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by kijin 1y ago
Statistics. Not all smokers get lung cancer. But with large enough samples, smokers turn out to be much more likely to get lung cancer than non-smokers. That's why we say that smoking causes lung cancer. It's not as if someone has
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by kijin 1y ago
South Korea has implemented something similar, but through private corporations, not directly by the government. When you sign up with a South Korean online service that might contain age-restricted content, you provide your name, date of b
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by kijin 1y ago
A practical problem with DNS-01 is that every DNS provider has a different API for creating the required TXT record. Certbot has more than a dozen plugins for different providers, and the list is growing. It shouldn't be nginx's j
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by kijin 1y ago
Certbot has a "standalone" mode that occupies port 80 and serves /.well-known/ by itself. Whoever first recommended using that mode in anything other than some sort of emergency situation needs to be given a firm kick in
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by kijin 1y ago
Only if you let certbot take down your normal nginx and occupy port 80 in standalone mode. Which it doesn't need to, if normal nginx can do the job by itself. When I need to use the HTTP challenge, I always configure the web server in
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by kijin 1y ago
Yeah their new business model is called CBAAS, or confirmation bias as a service.
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Requiring (supposedly) universally available CPU instructions is one thing. Starting to require it in a minor version update (8.11.1 -> 8.12.0) is a whole different thing. What the heck happened to semantic versioning? We can't even
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by kijin 1y ago
I could tolerate the accounts, sequences, and restricted environments if they were required for an actual diploma that is widely recognized in society. But they're not. The MOOCs are just following somebody's playbook for maximizi
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The newer words were usually made up to explain Western philosophical and scientific concepts. A lot of this work was done in an academic context, so whoever came up with an appropriate translation first got to be cited by everyone else.
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by kijin 1y ago
Yeah I know some Finnish. I learned it mostly from hearing Linus Torvalds swear in Finnish.
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by kijin 1y ago
The backslash is universally reserved as an escape character. It was decided almost 20 years ago so I'm totally used to it and there's no point arguing about it anymore. But the decision to reuse the backslash as a namespace separ
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by kijin 1y ago
Other languages have all sorts of oversized arrows, like ==> and >>>. -> in PHP and C++ looks clean by comparison. I'll never forgive them for the brain fart they made of the namespace separator, though.
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The usual solution is to wrap it with a closure. function($x) { return array_key_exists('needle', $x); } Or using the arrow function syntax: fn($x) => array_key_exists('needle', $x) The same trick al
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by kijin 1y ago
Even that doesn't protect you from bind mounts. The rationale seems to be that only root can create bind mounts. But guess what, unprivileged users can also create all sorts of crazy mounts with fuse. The whole idea of a hierarchical d
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by kijin 1y ago
Path restrictions look simple, but they're very difficult to implement correctly. PHP used to have (actually, still has) an "open_basedir" setting to restrict where a script could read or write, but people found out a number
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by kijin 1y ago
Just replace typing with voice recognition, and you've got the perfect AI doctor already! Patient talks about symptoms, doctor returns a markdown-formatted prescription. Charge by the number of tokens.
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There is no consumer market for 4TB+ SSDs. There never was, and there probably won't be for the foreseeable future. Most non-technical people have been conditioned to store their data on their phones and/or in the cloud these days
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Only if they maintain their current burn rate, which is ridiculous. The current leadership is running the foundation as if it were an overhyped AI startup swimming in VC money. You know, the kind that tends to disappear overnight when said
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"Scale back operations", hell yeah. Fire those overpaid executives, and shut down or spin off everything except Firefox and MDN.
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The author doesn't use the Galileo episode as a premise, only as a catchy illustration. If anything, the more nuanced version of the story seems to support their argument better than the simplified version does.
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Regardless of what the standards of evidence were at the time, it surely wasn't "scientific" to threaten someone with prosecution for publishing a supposedly inferior hypothesis. That was politics. Speaking of politics, the R
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Exactly. There is no longer any point in backing up an entire "server" or a "disk". Servers and disks are created and destroyed automatically these days. It's the database that matters, and each type of database has
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Links to a site where the sponsor's product or service can be purchased, obviously.

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