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by rhizome 7y ago
I noticed this happening with Google Image search the other day, too: image previews are base64 strings, and then sites will use URLs like https://some.site/image/abc123-GUID?format=jpeg for the source image on the sit
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by rhizome 7y ago
The thing to recognize (or at least something I feel is under-recognized) is that Capitalism prefers monopolies or monopsonies, whichever the case may be. Capitalism talks a big game about the benefits of competition, but history tell us th
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by rhizome 7y ago
You mean when Michael Arrington used his popular meda outlet to assassinate Blaine Cook's job and reputation? https://techcrunch.com/2008/04/23/amateur-hour-over-at-twitt...
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by rhizome 7y ago
> the more people find businesses, the more value the yp has in it's base product vs the costs of buying an entry. I'm not sure this is true. Zero marginal cost for usage does not create an opportunity for profit. How could it
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by rhizome 7y ago
Of course it doesn't guarantee compliance, but like all standards it makes interop possible in a predictable way, e.g. some tcsh scripts run fine under bash, but that's not by design. The inability or unwillingness of concerned pa
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by rhizome 7y ago
The states DO have less. Less masks, less gloves, less tests...all things the federal government could alleviate.
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by rhizome 7y ago
> Blame the constitution "The Constitution is not a suicide pact." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Constitution_is_not_a_suic...
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by rhizome 7y ago
I'm sorry, I'm dumb: what do the "10 days ago" indicate, something that happened 10 days prior to that date? Like "10 days after Good Friday?"
909.
by rhizome 7y ago
"Pfft. Chickens don't even know what a road is !"
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by rhizome 7y ago
I get notifications to update my Rails apps from GitHub as a matter of course when there's a CVE in my dependencies. Does this kind of thing not exist/is impractical for JS?
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by rhizome 7y ago
> The UHH is a fun read, yes, but the biggest real-world problem with the Unix Wars was cross-compatibility. Your Sun code didn't run on Irix didn't run on BSD and god help you if a customer wanted Xenix. OK, you can draw some
912.
by rhizome 7y ago
NIH Syndrome is a double-edged sword that persists regardless of innovations.
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by rhizome 7y ago
The entire business model of the Yellow Pages is to sell entries to businesses, and any value you get out of that is (at least) secondary. It's basically a gym subscription model, except its hosting costs and transit that eat into thei
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by rhizome 7y ago
In other words, supply-chain problems just like we're seeing in many other segments: paper products, sanitizer, rice/beans, etc.
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by rhizome 7y ago
I don't think people "let" their kids go wild so much as run out of parenting skills. That's what makes the idea irrational: use your parenting skills to make up for your lack of parenting skills. All you have to do is d
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by rhizome 7y ago
Come on, all you have to do is google "jordan peterson meat" and you get pages and pages of when-he-said-thats.
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by rhizome 7y ago
> but as a provoker of attention/reflection. Smart business choice, this is how you capitalize on ambiguity. Sarcasm as a business model.
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by rhizome 7y ago
We don't even know if "time to develop" in that way is even a thing in reality.
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by rhizome 7y ago
How about two blurs? I've thought that a rotational blur followed by a gaussian or similar would be pretty secure.
920.
by rhizome 7y ago
That's why I distinguished McD's out of the comparison with "mid-priced."
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by rhizome 7y ago
Just with a cursory "oil tanker for sale" search, they appear to be for sale in the $10-20MM range.
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by rhizome 7y ago
> The model just needs to be able to understand the important meaning of "no" in here, in the context of the whole sentence It's easy to say, isn't it? Unfortunately, sticking the word "just" in there doesn
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by rhizome 7y ago
Then the algorithm would not be acting in the customer's interests. Presumably this would be after the algo devalued people who clicked on "Next Page" until they came to a page that had stripeless shirts on it, or who, after
924.
by rhizome 7y ago
This isn't about civil rights per se, it's about a definition of "standing" in a particular context (the Unruh Act).
925.
by rhizome 7y ago
I was talking about this just last night. Five Guys is absolutely the worst of the mid-priced hamburger chains, and even their fries are almost as bad as In-N-Out's, which is like making a car whose steering wheel flies off while you&#
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by rhizome 7y ago
First of all, you're not too young for IRC, it's still out there! Lots of people! Lots of channels! Depending on your interests your usage could resemble a live-action Reddit. Second, I don't think this is necessarily a big d
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by rhizome 7y ago
My impression is that the nature of mainframe systems and the applications that run on them is that they're essentially fully custom operations that could serve as full-stack object lessons in Conway's Law.
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by rhizome 7y ago
Yeah that's the basic difference, but I believe there's also something accounting-ish or tax-y about it, too.
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by rhizome 7y ago
Generally in the US, debit card fraud liability is limited to $500 if the card owner reports it within 60 days.
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by rhizome 7y ago
And the stories I've read say their accuracy is questionable.

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