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by philsnow 1y ago
> As a certificate authority, one of the most common questions we hear from customers is whether they’ll be charged more to replace certificates more frequently. The answer is no. Cost is based on an annual subscription […] (emphasis a
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by philsnow 1y ago
This part was galling to me; somewhere in the USPS, the data about what mailpieces/packages are arriving soon exist in a very concise form, and they templatize an email and send it to me, after which I can parse the email with simple+
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by philsnow 1y ago
> how absolutely little I trust Google, I’d never tell trust Gemini with the things I’ll say to ChatGPT. Are you pretty sure that Google won't eventually buy OpenAI and thus learn everything you've said to ChatGPT?
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by philsnow 1y ago
> Why, oh why, must the love stories fail? Well, Julia's (and then Charles's) love for God prevails, in the end. On the face of it, it's not a story where the guy gets the girl, as such. However, there is a sense where Je
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by philsnow 2y ago
bflesch might be suggesting that you (or some other motivated + heroic person) write a new spec for calendar collaboration, like what jmap.io is trying to do for mail. I know that calendars and datetime management suck, hard. I hazard a gu
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by philsnow 2y ago
Is it necessary to rely on ip address attribution? If FlowExporter uses ebpf and tcp tracepoints, could each workloads be placed in its own cgroup and could FlowExporter directly introspect which cgroup (and thus, workload) a given tcp soc
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by philsnow 2y ago
"obachan" expansion potential
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by philsnow 2y ago
> I also think some alterations are plain mistakes. For instance in the same book: That one appears to not be a mistake, [0] suggests that not quoting the name of the book of the bible being referred to (so [Job] rather than ["Job&q
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by philsnow 2y ago
Except that only his character was Streisand-ing it; Colbert-the-person thought it would be hilarious to slyly encourage people to remix a spoken interview with a "great dance beat" (and, at the time, it kind of was)
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by philsnow 2y ago
> "No Alteration Allowed - The Netscape Now button must not be altered in ANY way. Do not shrink it; take it apart; change its proportions, color, or font; or otherwise alter it from the Netscape-supplied version." did little t
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by philsnow 2y ago
The idea has also been around for at least 15 years; "ensemble learning" was a topic in my "Data Mining" textbook from around then. Meta calls these individually smaller/weaker models "experts" but I'
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by philsnow 2y ago
A million years ago (in the age of “made in Dreamweaver” badges on web sites) I had a dumb little ball-and-stick image of adenosine triphosphate and I made a dumb little “made with ATP” badge, because I typed out html with plain-vanilla vim
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by philsnow 2y ago
I was just working on a "web app" for personal use yesterday where I'm doing document.getElementById and so forth. It still works ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by philsnow 2y ago
Frontend is completely inaccessible to me. From time to time I dip my toe in and try new things, but as productive as I can get with Astro, the illusion vanishes as soon as I have to understand any of the plumbing. Fortunately, I can still
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by philsnow 2y ago
https://tv.garden/hk
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by philsnow 2y ago
> Fortuitously I had learned Perl in, appropriately enough, a computational linguistics course This sentence increases the likelihood that I have crossed paths with the author by something like a factor of a million , as I estimate that
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by philsnow 2y ago
> one side starting with a big advantage I have never played this variant of chess, but on the surface it seems that having both bishops on the same color would be a sizeable disadvantage. The other randomized pieces (queens and knights)
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by philsnow 2y ago
(4 years ago) I guessed that Amazon was going to sell access to its Sidewalk network to tv manufacturers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27358758 If they do that, they’re not going to be very upfront about it.
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by philsnow 2y ago
> If you clearly understand your access patterns and memory requirements, you can often outperform the default OS page cache. I believe various RDBMSs bypass the page cache and use their own strategies for managing caching if you give th
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by philsnow 2y ago
> reads and writes transparently redirect to the equivalent of a tmpfs, up to a certain size The last bit (emphasis added) sounds novel to me, I don't think I've heard before of anybody doing that. It sounds like an almost-&
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by philsnow 2y ago
Forgive me, I'm not trying to be argumentative, but doesn't Linux (and presumably all modern OSes) already have a ram-backed writeback cache for filesystems? That sounds exactly like the page cache.
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by philsnow 2y ago
> Configured a block-level in-memory disk accelerator / cache (fs operations at the speed of RAM!) I'm slightly old; is that the same thing as a ramdisk? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAM_drive
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by philsnow 2y ago
> 3) opens an interactive terminal to look inside 4) publish to a registry once you exit the terminal It seems like it would be good to be able to prevent the pipeline from publishing the image, if the inspection with 'terminal&#x27
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by philsnow 2y ago
How has Blender succeeded here where Gimp failed? Is there some unsung heroic person who has imbued Blender with a sense of taste?
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by philsnow 2y ago
> I've heard that few can speak Latin 'correctly', because the skill is almost useless - you can't talk to Romans or almost anyone else; it's all written. Because Latin has died out as a spoken language, it doesn
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by philsnow 2y ago
I started using Things about 4-5 years ago and it's been amazing, partly because of the first-class support for syncing between devices and their cloud. Thanks for making this great! I would be interested to read any articles you&#x27
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by philsnow 2y ago
> Over time, the meaning of the word 'Xerox' changed. More specifically, it gained a new meaning. For a long time, Xerox only referred to a company named in 1961. Some time in the late 60s, it started to be used as a verb, and
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by philsnow 2y ago
I’ve never heard or seen either of those terms before reading this thread. What you’re calling “CNAPP” I’ve been calling “endpoint security”. I’ve been building internal “CSPM” tooling since 2014 with like raw cloud api calls feeding into
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by philsnow 2y ago
You’re getting downvoted but I’m similarly put off by the gratuitous downblouse and upskirt shots (at least in the first underware video [0] which is itself referred to from the linked video). I was more put off by how long the video is and
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by philsnow 2y ago
In “Avatar: the Last Airbender”, there’s one-ish characters who can bend lightning, and to the credit of the animators, it is indeed depicted as cyan colored

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