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by quesera 11mo ago
Tap (NFC, radio), dip (EMV, chip), or swipe (magnetic stripe). The fake terminal concern that vlovich mentions above is real. Look up "credit card skimmers" (the same threat applies to debit cards and ATMs -- anything with a magst
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by quesera 11mo ago
Entering your PIN and using a debit card is the least secure/safe version of electronic payment. Tapping (NFC) or dipping (EMV) are safer and faster for everyone.
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by quesera 11mo ago
> Meanwhile, 48 state governments 48? Are some states particularly dysfunctional? Or are you excluding commonwealths?
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by quesera 1y ago
By "browser" here, you mean lynx or links or w3m etc, right? Assuming so, what would be the benefit of rendering within neomutt instead of lynx?
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by quesera 1y ago
It might not be the best idea to add caffeine to unexpected foods. The caffeinated lemonade from Panera has apparently killed people.
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by quesera 1y ago
FWIW, both sugar and salt are used as preservatives to inhibit microbial growth. So, it might actually be pretty clean, from that perspective.
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by quesera 1y ago
Sugar content is a function of serving size, of course. The astonishing thing to me is that we can sell a 32 fl oz (950 mL) drink as "large", instead of "a week's supply of empty calories that you should never consume in
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by quesera 1y ago
In my (imagined) architecture, the auth requester sends the asset attributes (including tags in this example) with the auth request, so the auth service doesn't have to do any lookup to other systems. Updates are pushed in a message qu
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by quesera 1y ago
Reminiscing: this was a rite of passage for pre-cloud remote systems administrators. Proper hardware (Sun, Cisco) had a serial management interface (ideally "lights-out") which could be used to remedy many kinds of failures. Plus
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by quesera 1y ago
I think it's simple. It's just a stemming pattern matching tree, right? The admin UX is ... awkward and incomplete at best. I think the admin UI makes the service appear more complex than it is. The JSON representation makes it lo
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by quesera 1y ago
IAM is very simple, and very solid. The scale, speed, and uptime, are downstream from the simplicity. It's good solid work, I guess I read "amazing" as something surprising or superlative. (The simple, solid, reliable service
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by quesera 1y ago
No harshness intended, but I don't see the magic. IAM is solid, but is it any more special than any other distributed AuthN+AuthZ service?
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by quesera 1y ago
> caused us grief developing Frame Maker back in the 80s To be fair, Frame Maker caused the rest of us a whole lot of grief back then, too. :) The license manager daemon, lmgrd (?) would crash regularly enough that we just patched the
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by quesera 1y ago
This is a lawsuit, to recover repair costs and any loss of use. It's not worth it, but it's necessary.
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by quesera 1y ago
There's a demo app for the original iPad multitouch display, which can distinguish eleven simultaneous inputs. Prompting the obvious question: Why eleven?
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by quesera 1y ago
Running the models is cheap. That will be worthwhile even if the bubble pops hard. Not for all of the silly stuff we do today, but for some of it. Creating new LLMs might be out of reach for all but very well-capitalized organizations wit
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by quesera 1y ago
I'm old enough to have heard this before, once or thrice. It's always different this time. More seriously: there are decent arguments that say that LLMs have an upper bound of usefulness and that we're not necessarily closer
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by quesera 1y ago
You're right, and I should not have implied homicidal negligence on the part of the engineers involved. Assuming the best, it might just be an extremely rare corner case that was unknown and inadequately covered in QA. This stuff can g
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by quesera 1y ago
I think that's the crux of it. Obviously, "software update while traveling at highway speeds" is just rolling too many drama dice. OTA is fine. Ideally parked, or minimally A/B on the firmware, new version only run on
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by quesera 1y ago
Because it's your car and your safety. Unless vehicle tracking is intended as something other than a safety feature?
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by quesera 1y ago
Upvotes on Reddit are not indicative of sanity. Any suggestion to remove due process or the rule of law from governance is objectively degenerate and retrogressive. No matter who you are, you do not want to live in that world.
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by quesera 1y ago
Isn't Ubuntu primarily a desktop distribution? The numbers might favor server installs (no idea), but it seems like the decisions must be primarily desktop. (i.e. a server admin or business that installs a thousand Ubuntu instances i
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by quesera 1y ago
I don't recall any of that narrative being why people didn't like snaps. One of the early sticking points was switching Firefox from deb to snap. That doesn't fit into your characterization.
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by quesera 1y ago
A US passport does not require fingerprints or any other biometric data, aside from a photograph.
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by quesera 1y ago
We can theorize about the non-violent path to emancipation, and the speedy path to legal equality. But it's counterfactual. It took severe violence plus 100 years to get there. Plus another 60 (yikes) to get to where we are today. That
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by quesera 1y ago
If your preparations for war are influenced by advertising in the DC Metro, you are not a serious professional who the public can trust to desire peace.
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by quesera 1y ago
https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/china?country=CHN~USA I'm no expert, but if these data are correct, emissions in China are growing dramatically, and in the US they are trending downward at (honestly) a
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by quesera 1y ago
> the name derives from "phone hacking" or phreacking Etymology quibble: There is no 'c' in phreaking. Phrack is just a portmanteau of "phreak" and "hack". :)
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by quesera 1y ago
This is inadequate. Alternative medicine is simply any therapy that is not included in the established currently-accepted set of treatment options. This varies by culture, time, and sometimes by individual. Most alternatives are not better
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by quesera 1y ago
> but please trust the science! If you're going to disparage the best idea humanity has ever had, you are required to commit and explicitly suggest your preferred alternative. Your attempt at clever irony is a negative contributio

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