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by rfarley04 2y ago
I was literally just reading about how the guy mostly responsible for MIME regrets screwing up a header that is no mostly irrelevant but still included in most emails: "Luckily, Borenstein says, “there’s never been a need to advance th
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The Andrew Project – Multimedia Messaging Before MIME(en.wikipedia.org)
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by rfarley04 2y ago
Still less ridiculous than Han Solo defeating a giant space squid by luring it into a gravity well: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Summa-verminoth
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This is awesome. I was just doing a deep dive on some forgotten C64 hardware (the PowerPad: https://archive.org/search?query=subject%3A%22Chalk+Board+In... ) and love how many people are still hacking on these machines, they
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by rfarley04 2y ago
I remember a few peak Newgrounds games from two decades ago more vividly than AAA, 60hr games that 100%'ed a few years ago.
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by rfarley04 2y ago
I mean, duh: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetEase#Chinese_government_reg...
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by rfarley04 2y ago
This is my absolute favorite explanation of OAuth 2: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4727226/how-does-oauth-2...
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Double opt-in emails go back as far as LISTERV in 1993(buttondown.com)
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I can't tell if Snoqes is satire or deception
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EU regs get Garmin to add encryption to HR strap data(dcrainmaker.com)
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by rfarley04 2y ago
I mean privately owned, centralized internet based apps like WhatsApp, Facebook (the social media and the messenger), Twitter, etc.
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Yea, I should have been more emphatic that I was specifically thinking about apps. Although I didn't mean the question to be explicitly about undue influence over a population, it is what I was wondering, e.g. how many (centralized) pr
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by rfarley04 2y ago
I had thought about excluding gov apps from the question. But ultimately curious about those as well. Thanks for answering!
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Ask HN: How many apps would it take to reach 90% of the people in your country?
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Properties of Pandigital Numbers (each base digit appearing only once)(en.wikipedia.org)
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It worked so well for RadioShack! https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/22/22849943/radioshack-defi...
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by rfarley04 2y ago
For me (and this is a small one), it's not to touch the build plate with your hands. I started having really bad adhesion and had never been told that it was the oil from my hands touching the plate.
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by rfarley04 2y ago
Excellent choice! The shaman begins whistling and occult-related listicles and Buzzfeed-style quizzes start appearing on your domain. You now rank 4th for three occult-related keywords of your choice.
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A hired companion. +5 to all intimidation checks for as long as you can afford to pay them.
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A) classically trained orchestral skull piper B) artisanal skull whistle carving C) SEO consulting for the occult "What're ya buyin'?"
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Now imagine you heard that terrifying scream, followed it down the ravine, and there's a shaman sitting cross legged, looking at you unblinkingly and blowing into a human skull
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The time Dick Spam Depew spammed Usenet with his antispam moderation spam (1993)(groups.google.com)
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Holy hell their revenue was over 1 billion dollars in 2018?? - https://aimgroup.com/2022/02/07/craigslist-revenue-rebounds-...
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by rfarley04 2y ago
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick It's a little zoomed out and more focused on information theory than computers, specifically, but the overlap is significant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by rfarley04 2y ago
"Hello Frog. My name is scorpion and I promise not to sting you as we cross this river together."
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https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lucille-ball-fillings-spie...
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by rfarley04 2y ago
More recent analysis of the same thing from The Economist: https://archive.ph/knWrN
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Throbac: THrifty Roman numeral BAckwards-looking Computer(mitmuseum.mit.edu)
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True. But the action seemed to drive forward a big picture message, the action was the means to deliver a message, until the end. Then it was just shooting and explosions without putting a bow on whatever philosophy had been introduced. Tha
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My thing about Miéville is that all the books of his I've read (Embassytown, Perdido street Station, and the one about trains that I didn't realize was pretty YA) felt like the endings dissol into B grade action (IMO Stephenson ha

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