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by new_guy 5y ago
Why would you not do it yourself? It's literally webdev 101. If you offload it to a 3rd party you're giving them access to your entire customer base (regardless of what they say), you're also introducing multiple points of fa
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by new_guy 5y ago
If you'd read his stuff it's crap, even Wittgenstein thought so in his later years.
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by new_guy 5y ago
I wouldn't necessarily say Wittgenstein is overrated but he became so 'good' because he bugged the sh*t out of Bertrand Russell. A bit like how George Harrison and Ringo Starr became so good because they were in the presence
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How to stop Bing ranking XML feeds over your webpages(ctrl.blog)
3 points by new_guy 5y ago|0 comments
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by new_guy 5y ago
Wim Hof is a bit of a joke, it's a western bastardisation of an Indian science that's thousands of years old. You're better going straight to the source: http://www.yogebooks.com/english/atkinson/190
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by new_guy 5y ago
Not to be a pedant but if you're eating regularly (AND minimum 4 times a day) then you're really not fasting at all. You're just watching what you eat, two very different things.
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by new_guy 5y ago
It would take literally all of 5 minutes to code that up, why on Earth would anyone pay you for that?
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by new_guy 5y ago
Don't try so much to memorize them as understand them. If you have a solid understanding of what the algorithm does and how it does it, then it becomes trivially easy to memorize the corresponding code, or just rewrite it from scratc
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by new_guy 5y ago
Exactly this. Cloudflare actively blocks legit crawlers. It shouldn't be dependent on seeing some random hn comment from some random at cloudflare to get that fixed.
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by new_guy 5y ago
Two things jump out at me 1, you set yourself up to fail by not having a web version 2, and again you're setting yourself up to fail by limiting your users to a location based service, open it up Constructive criticism: Launch a web ve
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by new_guy 5y ago
> Looks good, but unfortunately my first thought is: this looks like a 1 or 2 person shop, how big is the risk of them calling it quits within 5 years from now? As opposed to something like Google that constantly shuts their services do
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by new_guy 5y ago
Google in $5bn lawsuit for tracking in 'private' mode: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52887340
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by new_guy 5y ago
'Surprising' is emotional noise that has no place in any scientific paper of value.
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by new_guy 5y ago
And what about those over 40? It seems like an arbitrary cut-off. There's just as much risk of taking that vaccine regardless of age, so what I'm hearing is over 40s are disposable. The alternatives should be offered to everyone r
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by new_guy 5y ago
Hire him yourself. Give him some small projects to get going with.
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by new_guy 5y ago
If they are manipulating the data, they're not stupid enough to make it this obvious.
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The KGB Had a Classified Information Exchange Program with Extraterrestrials(anomalien.com)
3 points by new_guy 5y ago|0 comments
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by new_guy 5y ago
> In your case, the solution seems, to me, to be as simple as making the system ignore whatever variables you feel shouldn't be taken into account, whether that's gender or something else. But then what's the point of usin
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by new_guy 6y ago
You don't need lots of responses, you only want quality ones. If you ask everyone, everyone will have a different opinion and you'll drown in the noise. I have a contact email that works, and certain 'power users' never
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by new_guy 6y ago
> Anybody else noticed this before? I see it all over the internet; it's hard to define but very distinctive It's covering for a complete lack of knowledge in the subject matter, which is painfully obvious from reading that tri
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The Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini(smithsonianmag.com)
82 points by new_guy 6y ago|115 comments
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HAMR and MAMR will use lasers and microwaves to pack as much as 60TB into drive(engadget.com)
2 points by new_guy 6y ago|0 comments
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by new_guy 6y ago
Get these authors the Nobel Prize!
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A salt monopoly could spike car accidents in the Midwest(mattstoller.substack.com)
250 points by new_guy 6y ago|337 comments
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by new_guy 6y ago
> Right now digital has been very profitable for a relatively few since it takes lots of money to develop a product but scarcity will let many more people make a living. This doesn't really make any sense. Right now I can write one
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by new_guy 6y ago
They're probably using the Yandex API https://yandex.com/dev/xml/doc/dg/concepts/about.html
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A Cosmic Impact and the Beginning of Farming at Abu Hureyra in Syria(asor.org)
1 points by new_guy 6y ago|0 comments
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by new_guy 6y ago
>The guy running Gab is a True Believer He's definitely not but he knows how to play to his audience. Instead of owning it and saying 'we messed up' it's easier to blame the 'mentally ill trans hackers'! But
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by new_guy 6y ago
Sample size of one but I use it for porn.
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by new_guy 6y ago
I think the authors problem isn't so much his ethnicity (who really cares?) it's his attitudes to women, 'fag hags'. He comes across as an extremely unpleasant individual, it's always easier to blame external factor

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