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by oasisbob 5y ago
For comparison, in the US four-party system provided by credit card networks (Visa/Mastercard), interchange fees paid by consumers (~2%) more than cover the costs of fraud. (IIRC < 0.5% of transaction volume.) In my view, the insani
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Missed that. Thanks!
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> but that Sony has a reputation to protect and the expertise to do proper quality control. They don't, though. Sony, like many other companies, makes products for developing nations which are not sold in more affluent Western count
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Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but JSON as defined in RFC 7159 doesn't require UTF-8.
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I miss the days when visalist wasn't full of hostile anti-patterns. Back in 2019, it was easy to recommend to fellow travelers as an accurate source of information. Not so much, now. I'm sad to see that it funnels users away from
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by oasisbob 5y ago
Rhetoric is the art of persuasion. It's not a flaw in communication which one should try and avoid; rather, it's a very useful set of skills to develop. https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/academic
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For the same reason I'd expect privacy in an employer-owned bathroom.
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News articles, plural. Eg, here is another story by way of Ars: > Essentially, 1990's algorithms used in photocopying and scanning compression are still lurking in modern communication software, with all of the flaws and baggage tha
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by oasisbob 5y ago
Having spent some time with OCR and scanning recently, I'd have to agree. A lot of news articles are describing JBIG2 as something archaic, when it seems to be as relevant and commonplace as ever. (see MRC, for a modern application)
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> A touch over dramatic, verging on smug given that it’s a nerd in-joke. I don't see how it's dramatic or smug at all. 451 is an improvement on the vague 403 forbidden status code, and is specified in RFC 7725, a standards trac
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Yes. As an write this, about 25% of the front-page posts are Ask/Tell/Show HN. (7/30) That feels high.
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I had the same thought. However, I think it's a more generic attack. If you can persist or inject the jdni strings, there's a chance they will be emitted by another component which analyzes the logs and has a log4j dependency else
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I agree, writing (and arguably configuring) robust logging libraries isn't much fun, and not easy to do yourself. So, don't. Ship the logs as quickly and as simply to a system which is explicitly for log management. The choice isn
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Yup, 2011. That's the one. One of those US presidential campaigns stayed up throughout because of EBS-phobia. Geez. We have decades-old cloud war stories now? I suddenly feel really old.
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Interestingly, the AG of Washington state just settled with Amazon over this same kind of borderline and illegal sales: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazon-agrees-t...
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> Third, you’re gonna go down when the cloud goes down. Not much use getting overly bent out of shape. Ugh. I have a hard time with this one. Back in the day, EBS had some really awful failures and degradations. Building a greenfield sta
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Log4j configuration isn't free either. Ask anyone who has ever been woken up by an asinine log rotation bug. (The tailer broke, or the rotation didn't happen... again, etc) Playing application log janitor is miserable. Just ship t
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Fiber may be simple, but the way we use it is not. Unlike copper, a GPON fiber install is going to have active electronics and splice trays for every several dozen subscribers. Plenty of opportunities for water ingress to still cause proble
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Grounding and bonding is done for many safety reasons. Reducing stray voltage is certainly one of them: https://www.mikeholt.com/technical-stray-voltage-newsletter-...
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I find it frustrating that they didn't test many foreign brands, but recommend against import nonetheless. Laxmi Turmeric is the one Indian (for import) spice brand I recognize on the list. Testing Devi, and the other common import bra
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by oasisbob 5y ago
> Uhh there is no amount of lead anyone should have in a day That's very easy to say, but it's another thing to require that products with lead above the level of detection should be kept from markets and destroyed. Start clear
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And, some states which used to have emission tests like Washington have discontinued them entirely, via OBD or sniffing. Justification was diminishing returns as the distribution of cars on the road has naturally changed and eliminated many
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Also r/trees: it's a euphemistic drug sub. The sub for the woody perennials ("real trees") is resigned to r/sfwtrees.
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I don't know, but a team of Canadian researchers synthesized a pox virus in 2018. They say, "this is the first complete synthesis of a poxvirus using synthetic biology approaches." The methodology required was involved. They
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Smallpox has a genome with approximately 200k base pairs. I think you're underestimating the difficulty of synthesizing and amplifying a full genome of this size.
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I'm still trying to figure out how to tell Podcasts not to play episodes I've heard before. Play #27 of Show, then #26, and after playing #26, it will automatically choose to go on with #27 again.
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That's insane. If only all the small US banks and credit unions held off on their (~2005) indirect lending strategy and saved it for now, it might have actually been profitable!
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> I suspect today someone pitching a public works project based on woven willow would be laughed at Live fascine bundles and live stakes from willow are commonly used riparian restoration techniques. Less elaborate and smaller, but the t
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The price of high quality paint, insulation, structural reinforcements, and exterior drainage sounds expensive. I've never messed with containers because digging yourself out of the thermal hole of starting with a metal box still doesn
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You might enjoy this series of interviews with Supreme Court justices on writing style in _The Scribes Journal of Legal Writing_ vol 13: https://legaltimes.typepad.com/files/garner-transcripts-1.pd... The interviews go

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