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by ralferoo 1y ago
It wasn't intended as "some kind of gotcha", it's an observation that the order trying to make burning the flag illegal is in direct contradiction with the government's own recommendation on the preferred method to
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by ralferoo 1y ago
I'm sure I remember reading last time this discussion came up that burning the flag is the only government approved way of disposing of a damaged US flag. Disclaimer: I'm from the UK, not USA, so I could well be wrong. EDIT: this
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by ralferoo 1y ago
Haha, yeah. I went and bought a CM4 board with extra NIC so I could use an RPi as my gigabit router, and placed an order for a CM4 module (actually several) that didn't arrive until a year later (and they're still unused another 2
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by ralferoo 1y ago
I'm actually not so sure. Even if 100% of the signups to the new version came from users trying for the first time, the previous version being essentially free could have got the app a lot of publicity in tutorials, recommendations or
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by ralferoo 1y ago
Two guesses: (1) Rhode Island is democratic controlled or (2) Trump will personally benefit significantly by keeping America's oil production high. FWIW, we now have quite a few off-short windfarms in the UK. Apart from the curiosity (
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by ralferoo 1y ago
What's worse is when you get bots blasting HTTP traffic at every open port, even well known services like SMTP. Seriously, it's a mail server. It identified itself as soon as the connection was opened, if they waited 100ms-300ms
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by ralferoo 1y ago
> It depends on people knowing about it, and adding the complexity of checking it to their crawler. I can't believe any bot writer doesn't know about robots.txt. They're just so self-obsessed and can't comprehend why
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by ralferoo 1y ago
Out of spite, I'd ignore their request to filter by IP (who knows what their intent is by saying that - maybe they're connecting from VPNs or tor exit nodes to cause disruption etc), but instead filter by matching for that content
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by ralferoo 1y ago
Likewise, when I was at school, many of my older teachers would say things like "an hotel" although I've not heard anyone say anything but "a hotel" for decades now. I think I've heard "an hospital"
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by ralferoo 1y ago
> ... when diluted 1:2 water:wine. it was a true show of wealth to serve wine that was less than 1:1. Did you mean 2:1 water:wine? If you meant 1:2 water:wine, then 1:1 would be weaker and I'm not sure how that would show wealth mor
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by ralferoo 1y ago
I work in game development. All the developers typically have the same spec machine, chosen at the start of the project to be fairly high end with the expectation that when the project ships it'll be a roughly mid range spec.
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by ralferoo 1y ago
Just because it doesn't match your situation, doesn't make it a silly argument. Even though I haven't compiled a Linux kernel for over a decade, I still waste a lot of time compiling. On average, each week I have 5-6 half h
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by ralferoo 1y ago
If something was less than 24 hours ago, there's a good chance that it was actually be "yesterday" rather than "today". The peer post linking to someone else's solution that uses size appropriate scales seems b
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by ralferoo 1y ago
2080 hours is way over estimating the hours worked per year IMHO. The way I calculate it is something like this: 2080 hours is 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, 52 weeks per year. There is no annual leave or country-specific holidays in this ca
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by ralferoo 1y ago
If there's really a hyperlink I need, I might e-mail it to myself, add it to a text file in an appropriate place in the appropriate project, leave the tab open in my browser, or just do the task now. But IMHO none of that is related to
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by ralferoo 1y ago
I prefer A4, but yeah. I adopted something roughly based on Bullet Journal about 6 or 7 years ago and now on my 4th book. There's something about manually writing and copying over TODOs to the next month that makes you really question
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by ralferoo 1y ago
Country flag emojis are actually just specialised glyphs for pairs of characters, taken in pairs to form a country-code. If the system doesn't know how to render a given country code, it will just fallback to displaying the country cod
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by ralferoo 1y ago
Agree about a specialist, but probably moving an existing company into an umbrella structure is likely to be considered similarly to a sale for tax purposes. In the UK, you have to specifically request HMRC to authorise any such plans if yo
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by ralferoo 1y ago
> For two (real ballpark number here) about 1 in 10 Americans would actively be subject to a German style exit tax like this, concentrated among working adults. I'm sure that a sizeable percentage of Americans own a significant amou
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by ralferoo 1y ago
Specifics of only putting tariffs on 1kg bars and not other sizes seems utterly pointless. The article itself points out that people will just ship different sized bars to the US instead and re-cast them on arrival. It doesn't actually
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by ralferoo 1y ago
https://archive.is/qziGV
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by ralferoo 1y ago
Even in your example, and assuming that the only feature that the enterprise plan offers is SSO, that's not even close to a 12400% increase, that's a 1147% increase. My point was that saying the minimum order is 125 seats for ente
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by ralferoo 1y ago
Some of these seem iffy. Looking at one at random with a seemingly excessive increase: Coursera: $399 per u/y -> $49875 per year [7], 12400% So, I check out the footnote: [7] Coursera requires a minimum of 125 users to access SSO pr
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by ralferoo 1y ago
> Problem is we live in an English city and it's extremely low-trust like most English cities these days. If you go hiking in the countryside, you encounter honesty boxes in small villages fairly often. I guess the fact that every k
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by ralferoo 1y ago
It strikes me that this is a massive red flag pointing to AI being in a bubble. This is an insane amount of money to give away to employees who were presumably already happy with their compensation package. Given how high data centre costs
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by ralferoo 1y ago
https://archive.is/yyIJA
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by ralferoo 1y ago
It's common sense. Would you rather have your house burn down and someone to blame or for it to not burn down at all? Aside from 2 laptops which are pretty much permanently plugged in (but since their batteries are already charged, the
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by ralferoo 1y ago
A couple of missing steps: 2.5. OpenAI gains a lot more training data, most of which was supposed to be confidential 4.5. Previously confidential training data leaks on a simple query, OpenAI says there's nothing they can do. 4.6. Gove
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by ralferoo 1y ago
Likewise, while the idea of sticking the determination of whether a given feature is enabled or not in a REST service would make sense, it's not at all clear why you'd ever want to farm that out to another provider, apart from the
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by ralferoo 1y ago
When I was a kid, my school had several "1 litre" tubs of 1cm³ wooden cubes so that we could stack them 10x10x10. This would have been very early 80s UK. Just googled and I found some on Shein with 200 cubes for £2.50. They also h

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