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by omoikane 3y ago
The certificate for zerossl.com is also issued by Let's Encrypt. https://crt.sh/?q=zerossl.com
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by omoikane 3y ago
Part of it seem to be in the format of the "stop doing math" meme[1], so I am not sure how much of it is serious. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20200418170753/https://twitter.c...
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by omoikane 3y ago
What's the motivation behind closing file descriptors 3 and 4? # Close weird external file descriptors exec 3>&- exec 4>&- From this commit: https://github.com/dehydrated-io/dehydrated&#
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by omoikane 3y ago
I had classes like that, where at the beginning of the quarter, each student gets assigned an username of the form "<course id> <three alpha characters>" and all participation is based on username from then on. Even t
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by omoikane 3y ago
> talk your way out of sticky situations This reminds me of "Death by AI"[1], although that one uses text-based input instead of speech. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38318889
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by omoikane 3y ago
The idea that taking away food also takes away what's human reminds me of Dazai Osamu's "Ningen Shikkaku"[1], where the narrator wrote in the first chapter that he had no idea what being hungry means, that he never under
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by omoikane 3y ago
I always thought the "bank error in your favor, collect $200" in Monopoly wouldn't work out in real life.
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> if you absolutely have to do SMS for some dark pattern "harvest my customers' phones" I had a bank that asked for my phone number when I sign up, and I gave them a landline number that is not capable of receiving SMS. S
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by omoikane 3y ago
This reminds me of "All The Queen's Horses"[1], where a woman embezzled $53 million through careful accounting. I seem to recall it was mentioned how the perpetrator was described as nice and generous by her friends. [1] ht
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Personally I found SJC to be more convenient than both SFO or OAK. But I guess it's always limited by which flights are available at each airport.
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Maybe that's the height of "mount everent" [sic], which is different from "Mount Everest".
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by omoikane 3y ago
I have had some experience with Godot and Net Yaroze (PS1). It was significantly easier to make a game with Godot. Godot comes with an IDE that build/edit/run games all in one integrated experience, and the user manual comes with
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by omoikane 3y ago
Many modern game engines are free and less frustrating than SDKs for old consoles (e.g. a lot of common tasks are often built-in with new game engines, such as physics). For people who want to get into making games, I would recommend one o
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by omoikane 3y ago
> This attitude is a problem in our society Need to clarify which society is meant by "our". The authors of this paper are Japanese, and the participants are local university students. I would assume suppression of anger is th
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by omoikane 3y ago
"Decision quality" appears to be average difference in winning probability between player's move versus a move by Alpha Go (Leela Zero). It's on page 16 of: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3893835 Whe
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by omoikane 3y ago
Discussed a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39754943 - The Super Mario Maker community faces its final boss (arstechnica.com)
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by omoikane 3y ago
Once new users gain the ability to downvote stuff, actively engaging in discussions increases the risk of losing karma, and lose the one ability that is not available to new users. So if users perceive the main value of Hacker News as a mo
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by omoikane 3y ago
The low adoption of DNSSEC might be due to posts like these: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36171696 - Calling time on DNSSEC: The costs exceed the benefits (2023) And also many news regarding validation failures: ht
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by omoikane 3y ago
You could say you were learning math: https://kotaku.com/on-pornhub-math-teacher-makes-his-mark-te... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28934711
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I was on Fastmail until Opera bought them. Looks like they have since bought back their company, but there wasn't a compelling reason for me to go back.
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by omoikane 3y ago
I had a similar thought, I would assume the patent is meant to be used defensively to discourage something downstream of Roku from injecting ads. If Roku wants to display ads, they can already do so if the content originated from their syst
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by omoikane 3y ago
There might be some meta-fear to go with the peer pressure argument, such as "if I don't overcome my fear and go on this rafting offsite with my coworkers, I am afraid I won't be accepted as part of the team". I was invi
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by omoikane 3y ago
I can't find any sequences that list Randall Munroe as the author, but there are several sequences that referenced xkcd: https://oeis.org/search?q=xkcd&go=Search https://oeis.org/search?q=randall+mu
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by omoikane 3y ago
This highlights just one of the many features, the linked site has more and is being discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39917509 - Improvements to static analysis in GCC 14 (redhat.com)
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Probably because they had a fire a few years ago, and weren't able to fully recover everything. https://blog.archive.org/2013/11/06/scanning-center-fire-ple... "We lost maybe 20 boxes of books and f
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Excellent documentation: > How can I score points? No points are given during game play, as in reality.
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by omoikane 3y ago
When IMGZ was first announced a few years ago[1], someone mentioned that the marketing style was "extremely distasteful and offensive."[2] I had the same thought. If I was going to pay someone, it would be nice if the recipient s
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It's likely that there is a whole team behind this operation, and part of that team might include tasks such as "socially engineer XZ project to accept a maintainer of our choice." This was suggested in a different post[1], w
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I have observed a recurring pattern of "this popular place is doing something I don't like! Let's all move to a less popular place, that will show them!" Time and time again, the people who made the move learned that t
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MSVC has `pragma pack` that removes padding to reduce memory usage, but I think it preserves field order: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/preprocessor/pack?view... GCC and Clang also support this pragma

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