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by philsnow 2y ago
In another post, you mention that there’s a header that can include an https link to POST a request to unsubscribe. So this extension and anything like it must be able to read email and send POSTs to arbitrary endpoints[0]. > ensuring y
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by philsnow 2y ago
They're very much intentionally walking distance: https://tylervigen.com/the-mystery-of-the-bloomfield-bridge
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by philsnow 2y ago
Not a dumb question at all; one of the hard constraints of cou design is signal propagation time. Even going at 1/3 the speed of light, when you only have on the order of a billionth of a second (clock frequencies in the GHz), a signa
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by philsnow 2y ago
Rootless is a good UX especially if you use a tiling window manager locally, because of the cognitive dissonance when one of your tiled windows is a remote fvwm desktop or similar. Likewise, I think the overwhelming majority of tiling windo
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by philsnow 2y ago
> You can make a search for all users, which will tell you there are 97,616,627 users at the time of this writing, but you can only fetch at most 1000 results from a search, and they don’t come in any clear order, so you can’t just make
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by philsnow 2y ago
> maybe those cheap new Chinese EV's I've been hearing about will not be connected, nor connectable, "because cost-cutting". TCL TVs are so cheap because they sell ads and information about what you’re watching to any
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by philsnow 2y ago
My house was built recently, and the modern aesthetic that builders are producing in my part of the country is very sterile, spare/spartan, gray, and open-concept. I currently intend to stay in this house until my kids are off, but I
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by philsnow 2y ago
Dynamic linking gets you two benefits: reduced size on disk (which was a bigger deal a few decades ago) and also the dynamic libraries can be updated/patched without needing to recompile the entire system (so that when openssl.so gets
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by philsnow 2y ago
No matter which upstream DNS you use, if you have a local resolver, you might be able to configure it to resolve archive domains with google's dns, which has consistently worked for me for years. If you use dnsmasq (either bundled insi
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by philsnow 2y ago
> And I guess I think of it more as data than as code. What about OpenSCAD? I haven't looked into tscircuit very much and I barely remember any of the vhdl I did in college, and maybe it's more useful/relevant to make par
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by philsnow 2y ago
I have a Pavlovian annoyance response to noticing that I have inadvertently clicked a mailto link, because back in ~2005 firefox would try to start Evolution. I usually only noticed the click because of the sound of my spinning disk thrash
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by philsnow 2y ago
> No individual is going to be trusted by any company that would care about this threat model. Many (most?) companies do not care about threat models. Rather, for them, security is an exercise in box-ticking so that they can sell to o
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by philsnow 2y ago
> this house will be purchased by a developer & razed, and they'll build a new 4000-sqft 2-story which will be listed for $5M+ Reminds me of this empty lot that sold for about $4M https://archive.is/z9tru , if y
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by philsnow 2y ago
Allegro has been around for decades . I still remember using it with DJGPP in the mid- 90s , which is at least four forevers ago. One thing I remember making was a fire/heat visualization, not optimized at all but that didn’t matter
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by philsnow 2y ago
The end result is much cooler looking than I was expecting, and will be even more so with multiple colors. For people who want labels for homemade bottled products, and who don’t want to make or buy a plotter, milk labels are pretty great
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by philsnow 2y ago
Even searching for this is tricky, because you’ll see a ton of information on how the cell “knows” mitosis has begun and the chain reaction of what happens after that, but I found this article from 2015 [0], which refers to this Nature arti
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by philsnow 2y ago
> I had this same experience being taught physics and maths. Just a bunch of what feel like pretty dull experiments which ends with a gold leaf moving... > But the STORY of physics is fascinating. There’s a college some of my kids hav
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by philsnow 2y ago
Media-specific content-addressed stores (ideally as overlays which refer to but don't change your directory structure or file organization) seem to be the way to go with this. I think photoprism and photostructure don't really car
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by philsnow 3y ago
I periodically take firefox's recovery.jsonlz4 and pipe it through a bunch of jq to export it as a datestamped bookmarks-$(date ...).org file. Right now I have 15 windows and 5351 tabs. Then I close all but the windows I have actuall
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by philsnow 3y ago
> If this is the grand reveal -- showing that childhood heavily influences future financial mobility -- it's not super obvious. I mean, yes, there seem to be a bit of a skew towards low earners in the bottom tranche -- but really it
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by philsnow 3y ago
> I’ve been curious what happens when some of the laws dictating how light moves are deliberately broken, building cameras out of code in a universe just a little unlike our own. Working with the richness of the full spectrum of light, s
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by philsnow 3y ago
It was also not even a round number of “beats” off if UTC, it was like UTC+1 so midnight UTC was like @41.67
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by philsnow 3y ago
> visit a YouTube video with captions, which is almost all of them Depending on what you're watching, you might never come across a video with good subtitles but rather Youtube's auto-generated subtitles. Whisper can do a bette
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by philsnow 3y ago
Note, I'm very sympathetic to not wanting to use proprietary platforms in general [0], but I'm not at a point in my life where I can spend any brain glucose at all on it. [0] in particular because of the plight of the umbrella pro
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by philsnow 3y ago
That sentence was right after this paragraph: > Talking over phone is the most reliable way to announce the party, send reminders and confirmations, and to coordinate during the party. That way, there's no question of "didn&#x2
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by philsnow 3y ago
Every organization that publishes (or at least has a style guide) has to make a decision about whether to put names in their "native" order or to standardize to their audience's expected order. I can see an argument for eith
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by philsnow 3y ago
That one line was the part that stood out to me the most as well, but: If you zoom in sufficiently at x = 0, f(x) = sin(x) looks indistinguishable from f(x) = x, whereas g(x) = cos(x) looks indistinguishable from g(x) = 1. (also, sin(x) is
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by philsnow 3y ago
Not sure (because I don't know Vietnamese names very well but I thought Truong would be her surname) but some communities write the surname / family name in allcaps for cultural disambiguation, see https://en.wikipedia.
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by philsnow 3y ago
They call the chips “security chips” and the scheme “dynamic security”, but it’s absolutely not to protect the printer or the consumer: off-brand manufacturers have every incentive to make cartridges that mimic (or exceed) the behavior of
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by philsnow 3y ago
Not a fair comparison, probably, but I swore off of gnome-terminal ~20 years ago because it was using half of my cpu while compiling a kernel. Xterm used ~2%.

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