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811.
by orev 5y ago
I’m not sure if there’s a formal name for this fallacy, but it’s pervasive in almost all financial reporting: the sticker price has nothing to do with the cost of materials; it’s driven only by how much people are willing to pay. As a man
812.
by orev 5y ago
Despite the snark here, I think it’s good that someone’s excited about discovering something and wrote about it. I haven’t looked at webp in a while, so maybe I’ll try again.
813.
by orev 5y ago
Same. I interpreted the title to mean it was somehow messed up or broken in some way.
814.
by orev 5y ago
I see. “Misfile” vs “overpay”. There’s always some subtlety in finance terms!
815.
by orev 5y ago
Do you have a source for this? Where is it stated that one cannot overpay taxes for the purpose of getting a bigger return? Many people do this as a “savings” account as they’re not very good with savings so it sort of forces them to save s
816.
by orev 5y ago
Market funds are a very bad place to keep money that might be needed soon. Ibonds provide a safer place to keep funds you might need in an emergency. You should never have emergency funds in the market. Also, assuming a government bailout w
817.
by orev 5y ago
Getting paper Ibonds this way is also a way to bypass the 10k annual limit for an individual. You can use a tax refund to purchase an additional 5k within the year, enabling a total of 15k per year.
818.
by orev 5y ago
Whatever you were doing with those faulty machines that failed daily was a problem with you, not a problem with running remote hardware. I’ve run remote hardware for 20 years and only have to physically go to the data center a handful of ti
819.
by orev 5y ago
The keyword is “laptop market”. There were quite a few years where it looked like they were going to completely kill their desktops (nothing released for years after the trash can), and doing everything they could to make laptop users unhap
820.
by orev 5y ago
The main thing with Atlassian is they royally screwed over all their customers by discontinuing their most popular product and forcing everyone to cloud using really, really unsavory tactics. The only product remaining you can use without c
821.
by orev 5y ago
> next to a display of Tommy Hilfiger, it's all started to go sideways … Some people ingest a single peanut and their head swells like a basketball. … Tommy Hilfiger does it every time … A mountainside of Tommy coming down in her he
822.
by orev 5y ago
> And nothing can be more conformist and anti-punk than lazily copying a now classic aesthetic and doing nothing else with it. In Pattern Recognition, the character Cayce is “allergic” to Tommy Hilfiger clothing because the style is so c
823.
by orev 5y ago
I agree that this is distasteful, however one could argue that capitalism is working in this case (it just doesn’t usually work as fast as people would like). Who’s going to buy a Visio TV anymore? Or a Samsung? Those companies are on every
824.
by orev 5y ago
> people who have extraordinarily high output, but slowed everyone around them I’m pretty convinced that most high performers follow this pattern. They’re really good at making it very visible all the stuff they’re doing, but they only
825.
by orev 5y ago
Retroarch is probably what you’re looking for. It supports pretty much any emulator, and gives a nice front end you can navigate with controllers. It takes a bit to get comfortable with the interface though.
826.
by orev 5y ago
At some point I figured out that solving technical problems is very much like a game. It’s more rewarding because you’re actually accomplishing something (more or less), as opposed to playing a game where it’s just other people making point
827.
by orev 5y ago
Corporate “anti-virus” is much more than just anti-virus these days. Most of them don’t even call themselves anti-virus, but endpoint protection. Other than anti-virus, they let you set policies on USB ports, block web browsing by categorie
828.
by orev 5y ago
“Racism” is definitely defined as discrimination because of race . It doesn’t matter that the general twitterverse has decided to misuse a term. (don’t get me started on the now constant incorrect use of “calculus” instead of “calculation”
829.
by orev 5y ago
The original PalmOS did this from the beginning, with the main difference being that memory was all RAM instead of non-volitile. Apps existed in one part of memory, and data in another. Data storage didn’t use files, but databases and memor
830.
by orev 5y ago
11:59 pm is 23:59 by all definitions. Why GP would have exams at midnight is anyone’s guess, but the example can only be interpreted as just before midnight.
831.
by orev 5y ago
> but they would probably still exist in some shape even without it. I don’t agree. The people who run traditional scams know that what they’re doing is a scam, and they take precautions to avoid criminal prosecution. This deters general
832.
by orev 5y ago
ZIP code is a security measure. I’m sure many would argue it’s not a good one, but it is better than nothing. Foreigner can pay inside directly to the attendant, or sometimes pumps accept 99999 as the ZIP code in those cases.
833.
by orev 5y ago
Squid is meant to be used as a general proxy for things like caching to help your local network save bandwidth, etc. Mitmproxy is more of a pen testing/security tool. They’re very different things and not something you would be compari
834.
by orev 5y ago
The need for MFA is an admission that all the education about passwords has completely failed. Even after decades of pleading, users still reuse passwords, choose pet names, and do other dumb things. Forcing MFA it essentially telling users
835.
by orev 5y ago
You don’t seem to be getting the point. The idea is so you can compare the nutritional value using a standard measurement size, no matter how big the bottle is. Knowing how much sodium is in something is not very useful when shopping if y
836.
by orev 5y ago
Serving sizes are set to a standardized size so you can compare equal portions between products. So if you want to know which type of potato chip has lower salt, they both list “8 oz” as the serving size, even if one bag has 10 oz and the o
837.
by orev 5y ago
So many have been sold on cloud using the idea that they don’t need to worry about this stuff, because the big cloud provider has better security teams, etc. It’s not surprising at all that you end up with issues like this — any Ops person
838.
by orev 5y ago
Just because your local neck of the woods does or doesn’t do something doesn’t mean that’s how everyone else does it.
839.
by orev 5y ago
Cook once in the weekend in a big batch, and eat the leftovers during the week. Most of the effort of cooking is prep, heating up the pan, etc., and that doesn’t change much if you double a recipe.
840.
by orev 5y ago
An upgrade to port knocking is Single Packet Authorization [1]. It doesn’t suffer from the observability, and other, problems of port knocking. [1] https://www.cipherdyne.org/fwknop/

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