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by lmm 5mo ago
> we accept RFC 1918 and CGNAT addresses in records Doesn't that cause security issues by making it possible to put other people's private servers (that you want to do XSS-type attacks against) into your domains or something? I
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by lmm 5mo ago
Which suggests that a similar but worse product shouldn't sell either?
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by lmm 5mo ago
> Bike helmets mitigate one of the most serious and common forms of injury while riding bikes. A form that is still extremely rare. No-one seriously advocates helmets for car passengers, for example, even though the injury rates are very
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by lmm 5mo ago
> Its presence would likely lower the insurance premium significantly, due to a much lower chance of hitting someone right ahead of the vehicle. Why? It's not like drivers have to pay up when they hit someone, as long as they weren&
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by lmm 5mo ago
It's more cars per person yeah - more people working per household, more car dependency, and cars becoming cheaper.
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by lmm 5mo ago
If you trust your browser it's fine, and if you don't then both CSS and SVG are significantly more risky.
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by lmm 5mo ago
It was great 15 years ago before the Iron Law of Bureaucracy kicked in and the powermods took over.
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by lmm 5mo ago
Something that would disprove the author would be an increase in industry code quality . A reduction in bug rates might be a reasonable proxy measure.
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by lmm 5mo ago
It's not periodic so much as continuous. But yes, HN is constantly where Reddit was about 3 years ago and correspondingly declining. E.g. see the rise in "underrated comment" type comments lately.
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by lmm 5mo ago
That explains why it's impossible to tell whether any given Jira operation is going to halt or not.
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by lmm 5mo ago
> Naive question but if it works best wouldn't companies that have a four day work week outperform theirs peers and because of that grow faster, and become more common? Eventually, but what's the typical lifecycle of a company?
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by lmm 5mo ago
> So then what's the point of making this distinction? It keeps the semantic web people busy not doing too much damage. Otherwise we might get an XHTML3 or CSS4 based on RDF triples or some such horror.
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by lmm 5mo ago
> And maybe calculate the Levenshtein distance between all terms if it’s not found, and just assume it’s the closest one. So when a library adds a new method, it silently changes which method client code calls? That's a bit too magi
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by lmm 5mo ago
> Anecdotally, the number of people who have asked me about VPNs over the last 12 to 18 months has skyrocketed. I probably get a message a month from people of all backgrounds. That's probably more to do with the increasing populari
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by lmm 5mo ago
Is anyone even selling those in the US these days? Obviously there's a (dwindling) supply of used ones, but I can understand wanting to put your kid in a new car for safety reasons.
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by lmm 5mo ago
> on the Mediterranean islands usually rental is the only option It's not like buying an ICE or hybrid instead of an EV helps with this scenario at all.
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by lmm 5mo ago
accursedUnutterablePerformIO or bust :)
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by lmm 5mo ago
> I can't for the life of me think of something that qualifies more for being a 125b company than actually having 125b in assets. Which this company didn't. They managed 125b of assets belonging to other people, they didn'
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by lmm 5mo ago
I want web pages to stand alone, not be part of a newsletter I'm meant to subscribe to. Maybe we could, shock horror, share links to individual good pages.
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by lmm 5mo ago
> Business logic just works with data it has access to. Backup, encryption, access control can be separate concerns. A good programming stack would make sure you don't have RCE. The problem is that the business logic tells everythin
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by lmm 5mo ago
Yes and no. In practice sooner or later you need to update something - you need it to work with a new OS/database/TLS algorithm - and then often there's a domino effect.
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by lmm 5mo ago
> Enough people did not vote against Trump is my point. The argument is that there were enough people who voted against Biden-Harris, or against the DNC process, to swing it.
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by lmm 5mo ago
Separating the runtime from the business logic doesn't really work because the business logic has the authority to do anything it has the authority to do. It's the https://xkcd.com/1200/ problem all over agai
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by lmm 5mo ago
Until you run out of hardware that can run an OS old enough that the old version of the framework works, sure. Even then, you may find it hard to add new dependencies without getting current on the framework, since most ecosystems require y
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by lmm 5mo ago
Yes and no. It's a two-party system and a lot of people vote for candidate X to stop candidate Y getting in. Indeed IIRC a lot of democrat messaging around the previous election was explicitly about stopping Trump rather than the merit
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by lmm 5mo ago
They had him at 30% at a time when most reputable media had him in single digits at best. You might not remember now, but the result of that election was a real shock.
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by lmm 5mo ago
> a good analyst can't predict the future in politics, sports, or anything else. What they can do is make good probabilistic estimates of what is likely to happen. 538 wasn't pretending to do anything more than that. Well, sure
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by lmm 5mo ago
Conversely weather forecasters report a 40% chance of rain when the actual chance is 10% or similar. So I have a bit of sympathy for people who don't have a good intuition for probabilities, given that the world is constantly gaslighti
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by lmm 5mo ago
In some vague abstract sense? Wouldn't protesting specific instances where bad laws are letting companies get away with environmentally damaging practices be more effective? As and when there's a pattern of events that is best add
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by lmm 5mo ago
> Frankly, bullshit. It worked reliably, extremely so. It had remarkably few bugs too. It was also actually doing way better financially. It was still notoriously prone to failure, and it had been a financial disaster area until the Trum

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