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by scubbo 5y ago
And those merchants will still charge those higher prices no matter what method you're using to pay, unless they only accept crypto. So by paying with crypto you're paying an artificially-higher price _and_ paying gas fees.
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by scubbo 5y ago
$0.24 > $0.00, though. And: > something that can take months for a credit card merchant OK, instant closing is desirable for sellers - but why would a consumer care?
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by scubbo 5y ago
The actual term for that is the wonderful word "teledildonics"
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by scubbo 5y ago
Wow, did gas fees drop to $0!? That's huge news, I'm surprised the media hasn't reported on it!
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by scubbo 5y ago
There's a "Get Started" page linked from the top-right: https://github.com/SEPIA-Framework/sepia-docs#welcome-to-the...
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by scubbo 5y ago
> Nintendo is probably the most universally hated gaming company That's a _fascinating_ claim. Just off the top of my head, I can think of Blizzard/Activision and EA who I think of as more-hated (for labour practices and workin
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by scubbo 5y ago
Fun! In one of my early roles, there was a script passed named `cat-art` that includes some images that are presumably references to this - see https://pastebin.com/hhv0nXsm
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by scubbo 5y ago
a) I'd never heard of book-weight font before, but https://gist.github.com/lukaszgrolik/5849599 lists it as either 300 or 350, and the weight of this font is indeed 300 b) It looks pretty close to black to me.
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by scubbo 5y ago
Not the person you replied to, but - yes, `head file.txt` is perfectly reasonable, as are a few other use-cases like `grep`/`sed`-ing. But when you go beyond "processing streams of lines of text" and start having to introduce
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by scubbo 5y ago
My two favourite starting words (SOARE and CLINT[0]) are tagged as invalid here, whereas they're valid in the original game. Literally unplayable /s (Seriously - cool idea, nice execution!) [0] https://blog.scubbo.org&#
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by scubbo 5y ago
> Internet should be a kinder place. Thank you for doing your part to make it so :)
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by scubbo 5y ago
I (also at Amazon) once wrote a script that fetched data from a whole bunch of different sources and aggregated them into a single static snapshotted overview Wiki page (no, they weren't live-dashboardable, for...reasons). One of those
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by scubbo 5y ago
> You are aware of the corporate info on the reactjs.org page footer right? They clearly weren't, and neither was I (not being in a role that uses React). Consider being less dismissive and more informative next time someone doesn&#
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by scubbo 5y ago
I vividly remember a "small-hands" (smaller all-hands) very early in my career, where the VP basically said "we recognize that oncall is a burden, and we want to compensate you for it. At first we thought we should give you a
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by scubbo 5y ago
Surprised not to see Goodhart's Law[0] referenced here - "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure". Not the same concept, but a related one (as is the Cobra Effect[1], of which the poppy-field burning
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by scubbo 5y ago
> running uBO as a "malware" blocker just happens to siphon up legitimate ads in the same bucket in the process (which is what I think is your point) My point's actually sort-of the inverse of that. My point is that, by de
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by scubbo 5y ago
I get what you're saying, but I think that's actually counter-productive. To present things like uBlock as malware blockers suggests that "any ad which is not malware is fine". I think it's perfectly justifiable to
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by scubbo 5y ago
Even more so, the worst coworker I ever had once wrote a script that accepted neither, and (when run) would default to trying to process data (and deleting it whether or not it was fully handled) _in production_. The first time we ever ran
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by scubbo 5y ago
Reading this as my home Wireguard-host has just gone mysteriously unresponsive for the second time in a month[0], rendering all my home-hosted service inaccessible - you're right about the pros _and_ the cons. I'm not shying away
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by scubbo 5y ago
Most people can imagine that scenario. The problem is that there is literally no other alternative. You either use a VPN (which _might_ be compromised), or you don't (in which case your traffic is even less protected).
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by scubbo 5y ago
I'm on the fence about that. I prefer a situation where the forum (bug tracker, ticket intake, etc.) is tracked well-enough that no-one _needs_ to ping-for-attention (and, crucially, people asking questions trust that enough that they
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by scubbo 5y ago
Bravo.
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by scubbo 5y ago
I haven't implemented the best strategy at _all_ times, but this blog post[0] proposes a strategy (pick the word that minimizes the expected-size of the resultant set of possible answers). I made a User Script[1] that tells you how man
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by scubbo 5y ago
I'd love to see your code! My strategy[0] (not-yet-automated) doesn't aim to minimize in the worst case, but rather to minimize the expected size of the set of possible words. [0] https://blog.scubbo.org/posts&#x2F
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by scubbo 5y ago
Those things you have described are still exclusive in that the owner _could_ prevent public access if they chose to.
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by scubbo 5y ago
> The whole "average person doesn't care about privacy" while generally true, is in my opinion, a cop out that allows us software developers to hand wave away the ways we monetize people. Right, yep, I absolutely whole-hea
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by scubbo 5y ago
Interesting - I (Amazon employee) have a buddy at Grafana who brags about it all the time. I've tinkered with it, and found it slightly more functional than iGraph, but a lot prettier. What do you think iGraph does better? +1 on Pipeli
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by scubbo 5y ago
You are approaching all of these from the perspective of an engineer and not recognizing that ordinary people don't see products and systems the way you do (a mistake I also often make). > Alexa is a spy machine that makes already e
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by scubbo 5y ago
Can you elaborate on their approach?
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by scubbo 5y ago
That tracks here. From later conversations with him, he was not actually a hentai enthusiast nor particularly kinky, but was just sharing it "for teh lulz" - whereas I later ran into another coworker that had expressed concern abo

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