oxygen_crisis

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by oxygen_crisis 2y ago
Both together are even better... seamless persistence of your session across sleeps/connection lapses from mosh, and from tmux for everything else like switching client machines, a dead battery, a client's OS/terminal crashin
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by oxygen_crisis 2y ago
> do anything under the slogan of "protecting the children". This is far too forgiving a representation, they are surveillance wolves disingenuously wearing the sheeps' wool of protecting children to further their eventual
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by oxygen_crisis 2y ago
WizTree is famously almost 50x faster than WinDirStat (on normal Windows NTFS drives) by reading the Master File Table (MFT) instead of walking the tree to measure each file. WizTree isn't open-source like WinDirStat but "free as
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by oxygen_crisis 2y ago
There's nothing wrong with open communication when everyone understands that it's open and treats it accordingly.
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
So ask for clarification. State your interpretation and give an opportunity for the speaker to confirm or clarify. This isn't some new intractible issue, this has always been a fundamental aspect of communication in a natural language.
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
If you're using bash 4.3 (released 2014) or higher you could convert this from using an "undocumented feature" to use the documented feature that does the same... > "Numeric values less than zero result in every comma
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
Piping `find` through `grep` like that is inefficient, find has robust filtering capabilities you can use without the overhead of spawning subshells with pipes and calling another binary like grep. find . -type f -not -path '*&#x
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
A study showed that it's hard to measure any difference in reading speed and there is no difference in comprehension. The difference in reading speed only applies to people who are used to double-spaces, there is no difference in readi
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
I have the Bookmarks toolbar set to "Only show on New Tab," I don't want anything more than that from a new tab screen.
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
Odd, how? They're not unfamiliar with biological systems containing meat, they describe beings that are a "meat head with an electron plasma brain inside..." We have a word for wood, yet we would be astonished by consciousnes
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
I've referred to that clip in past conversations about future moon missions revisiting relics like the Apollo 11's flag and the first footprints. People tend to forget every manned moon landing site is also a launch site. Sure, th
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
Previous discussion: Passive SSH Key Compromise via Lattices [pdf] (iacr.org) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38161174
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
By now everyone needs to just abandon the fantasy that SSNs are private information. At this point it's obviously not much better protected than your street address. The fact that a criminal knows your SSN doesn't absolve companie
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
Once they have everything running in RAM, they can have racks of servers that contain no persistent storage whatsoever, and are therefore subpoena-proof. > On April 18 [2023] at least six police officers from the National Operations Dep
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
You use public data only for your external-facing products like Copilot and Bing. You use all data, public and private, for your in-house skunkworks LLM-AI used by vetted, NDA-bound staff and execs. Bing won't be able to answer questio
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
It's distastefully ghoulish and trivializes the trauma of people who have lost loved ones to vehicle accidents. For anyone who hasn't led a wonderfully sheltered life that lets them conceptualize the situation as if it were someth
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
It's definitely not HR language, they are especially squeamish about evoking gruesome images like a person being run down in the street by a bus. Wikipedia's sources suggest it's a metaphor conjured by developers, as you sugg
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
That would have the opposite effect. If you don't want people to leave the game running when they're idle, you don't penalize the save-and-exit command.
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
It would be more credible if he acknowledged and debunked some common reasons people use to justify using CSPs, but this article reads as if he's never heard or thought of anything more substantial than "everyone else is doing it.
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
Yep, comment lines from the original Crowther and Woods PDP-10 FORTRAN source code: C SUSPEND. OFFER TO EXIT LEAVING THINGS RESTARTABLE, BUT REQUIRING A DELAY C BEFORE RESTARTING (SO CAN'T SAVE THE WORLD BEFORE TRYING SOME
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
> It noticeably slows down the start up On my gaming PC I went into the Windows 10 Task Scheduler and added a task to run "steam.exe -silent" when the machine is idle for 10 minutes. That way it doesn't slow down booting b
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
There's already "DeckHD" after-market upgrade kits, a 1920x1200 OLED screen for $100. Looks like a pain to install, though. Saw a time-lapse of the process on LTT and it looked like it involved removing just about every singl
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
"The government will decide what is safe or not" is an extremely frightening phrase to me when it comes to issues of morality. I recognize the importance of having the government decide what foods are safe, what industrial byprodu
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
Google's lawyers rejected the first two warrants issued for asking for too much information, it wasn't until after the prosecutors got on a call with Google lawyers for coaching on how to serve a more subtle warrant that they comp
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
> But that’s not what happened. That definitely happened. 98. Law enforcement also served an additional warrant on Google for the account information belonging to E.M. There was no connection between Mr. Seymour, Mr. Bui, D.S., and E.M
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
After that, impression tracking just needs to start covering some of that gap of air between your brain and the screen. Let's throw in some attention-detecting cameras so you can't skip the ads by looking away from them.
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
That's even better, then, to address the issue of laypeople misinterpreting a distinctive problem according to familiar, overloaded definitions of the word used to refer to it.
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
It does, doesn't it? Best I can tell, it does care at all what formatting symbols you use or don't use. https://maclookup.app/search/result?mac=9436cc000000 https://maclookup.app/search/r
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
I've never gone back to a company I've left before, but more than once I've gone back to working for someone I reported to before, at a different company. The analogy is flawed, because the "old bridges" can move an
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by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
He measured it in "stadia" and there was no consensus about exactly how long a stadion was. The definitions ranged widely, from ~150m to ~210m. The low error assessment comes from magnanimously (but baselessly) choosing to use the

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