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by kmoser 10mo ago
I first interpreted it to mean the EFF had created their own site to perform age verification. So yes, a very poorly written title indeed.
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by kmoser 10mo ago
Not true; kids too young to understand porn can stumble across it, or find it because they searched for it simply because they heard about it from their friends. I'm not saying they'll be harmed by it (most of them won't be),
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by kmoser 10mo ago
> My view is that there's no reason why we can't come together and come up with a rating system for websites There's no way everybody will agree what constitutes "adult only content," therefore there's no wa
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by kmoser 10mo ago
Pro tip: those scanners probably don't work with passports, so a human must still eyeball your passport to verify that you're old enough.
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by kmoser 10mo ago
Office 640 ought to be enough for anybody.
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by kmoser 10mo ago
> I'm perfectly happy with "speaking to a human" being the last port of call to fix a problem. Both versions of the Contact page have issues. The author's version (with only a form) doesn't let you specify whethe
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by kmoser 11mo ago
The camera could be separate from the billboard, and point at the backs of the cars. The billboard would be a short distance past that.
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by kmoser 11mo ago
Some questionable assumptions here: > The code was calcified because the developers were also. Personality types who dislike change tend not to design their code with future change in mind. Reasons vary widely. Code can also get calcifi
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by kmoser 11mo ago
Or a "tin whiskers" version, where just playing the game gives your player damage--even when the machine is powered off.
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by kmoser 11mo ago
Or a "tin whiskers" version, where just playing the game degrades the machine--even when powered off.
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by kmoser 11mo ago
I initially read the headline to mean they got Doom running on a PCB. I suppose with a large enough board that would be possible.
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by kmoser 11mo ago
> Mr. Brender [...] said his friend made him a sign with a Venmo username written on it, but no one has stopped to use it, and he doesn’t even know how to access his account. If he can't access his account, how does he know nobody h
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by kmoser 11mo ago
These are neat images, but it's hard to tell how they differ from long exposures taken without any illumination by atomic blast. I've taken long exposures at night that look very similar.
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by kmoser 11mo ago
Like the way the French and English write "Cologne" for the city Germans call "Köln". The NYT is just adhering to a different standard, not making up anything new.
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by kmoser 11mo ago
Also, I imagine if you live in the middle of nowhere, landscaping skills would be all but useless. You need to be within reasonable distance of enough people willing to pay you a living wage.
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by kmoser 11mo ago
Presumably the negatives, but not the pictures, as this is intended to scan only negatives. You'd probably have better luck with a cheap flatbed scanner that comes with adapters for slides and negatives. (I've used both dedicated
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by kmoser 11mo ago
Not really, because the standard in air travel is that departure and arrival dates and times are always local to the departure or arrival airport, regardless of where you are when you book the flight (or what time it is locally when you boo
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by kmoser 11mo ago
> Travel booking often has a fixed schedule with limited time options, such as every 15 minutes. Relative dates like “Today” and “Tomorrow” can be easier to understand. Except when you're booking a flight and you're not sure wh
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by kmoser 11mo ago
> In my opinion, the fact that Apple is now selling a bag to carry your oversized phone around in, is an admission that they failed to make phones that are convenient to carry. Marketing 101: Create a customer. Even if phones were small
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by kmoser 11mo ago
What surprised me most is that there isn't a ton of publicly available information on translating ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics that would make this reasonably easy, or even a website that would allow one to enter an English phrase an
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by kmoser 11mo ago
> Not to mention that the hard copy always scans flawlessly at the gate. Phone scans, not so much. Not true. Recently I printed a hardcopy of my boarding pass at the airline's kiosk, then found it wouldn't scan at security. Luc
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by kmoser 11mo ago
Last year I purchased a ticket to a Broadway show in NYC. I refused to use their digital ticketing nonsense, and when I showed up at the box office just before showtime and said my phone wasn't working (for my own definition of "w
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by kmoser 11mo ago
How can you use this to view a reel when you don't know the username?
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by kmoser 11mo ago
> Lots of people study compilers and even do theses and dissertations on the topic, and absolutely can't find work doing that. What's your point? Maybe those people aren't as good as her at turning their academic knowledge
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by kmoser 1y ago
I wonder how this would fare as a zip bomb against rogue LLM scrapers?
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by kmoser 1y ago
The need to match a particular font comes up fairly often in web development. There are a number of such apps/websites to help with this, the most well known of which is probably WhatTheFont [ https://www.myfonts.com/pag
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by kmoser 1y ago
> Many “Oopsie woopsie”-style errors are a fallback message that appears in unexpected errors - since the developer doesn’t expect it to happen, it could be dangerous to reveal application context as part of the error. In my experience m
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by kmoser 1y ago
I like to have the error message include the line number that emitted it, e.g. "Unable to log in to your account (error code 123)". This comes in handy especially when you don't want (or are unable) to log messages, and/
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by kmoser 1y ago
> It took an additional hour for the team to realize that the green light on the smart card reader did not, in fact, indicate that the card had been inserted correctly. I'm not sure which is worse: bad UI/UX use of lights, or i
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by kmoser 1y ago
From https://github.com/IRS-Public/fact-graph/blob/main/docs/fact... : > Standardize Fact Dictionaries as a canonical format for declaratively modeling tax logic

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