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Six Wikimedia Chapters Rejected as Observers to WIPO(wikimediafoundation.org)
4 points by smitop 4y ago|0 comments
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Undocumented Google Sheets formula functions(smitop.com)
1 points by smitop 4y ago|0 comments
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by smitop 4y ago
For anyone curious, Bradley made $141k in 2020 including benefits (the deadline for their 2021 return is yet to pass): https://sfconservancy.org/docs/software-freedom-conservancy_...
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Reconciliation: A game designed to frustrate the player(bam.kalzumeus.com)
2 points by smitop 4y ago|0 comments
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Charitable donations and the infrastructure supporting them(bam.kalzumeus.com)
2 points by smitop 5y ago|0 comments
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by smitop 5y ago
They have some data on this ( https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p55b.pdf , pages 33-35). Out of 509,917 examinations, 18,988 resulted in a refund. There was $7.0 billion of tax refunded in 2020. For comparison, there
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Turning off Rust's borrow checker, completely(smitop.com)
1 points by smitop 5y ago|0 comments
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by smitop 5y ago
It seems you can't pay with cryptocurrencies; in order to use the pay later thing you need to be paying with a credit card. The pay later service is provided by a 3rd party, and usually they just give the full amount (minus whatever %
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Oak 2022: Incorrect Entry Timestamps Incident Report(groups.google.com)
1 points by smitop 5y ago|0 comments
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by smitop 5y ago
At one point node-ipc deleted all files on the filesystem if the user had a Russian/Belarusian IP, they have since made it non-destructive (just adding a file to the desktop).
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Accounting for SaaS and Swords(bam.kalzumeus.com)
37 points by smitop 5y ago|1 comments
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Tracking PDF forms as plain text(smitop.com)
1 points by smitop 5y ago|0 comments
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Each step of decoding a PNG(smitop.com)
1 points by smitop 5y ago|0 comments
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Zopfli is *really* good at compressing PNGs(smitop.com)
3 points by smitop 5y ago|1 comments
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HTML comments work in JavaScript too(smitop.com)
135 points by smitop 5y ago|88 comments
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by smitop 5y ago
It looks like the domain just expired, and got picked up by someone later to use it with some advertising service that does these redirects.
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Hybrid Offline/Online Transactions(bam.kalzumeus.com)
5 points by smitop 5y ago|0 comments
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A Better Way to Measure Progress in Semiconductors (2020)(spectrum.ieee.org)
2 points by smitop 5y ago|0 comments
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by smitop 5y ago
I think you're thinking about this incident? https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Value_overflow_incident In that case, ~9 hours of transaction history were reversed because of a transaction that resulted in an overflow in
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Finality does not exist in payments(bam.kalzumeus.com)
104 points by smitop 5y ago|181 comments
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by smitop 5y ago
This video was archived while the issue was occuring: https://archive.fo/IMxlI
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by smitop 5y ago
> garbage collection The draft WASM garbage collection proposal is partially implemented in Chromium, you can try it by enabling the enable-experimental-webassembly-features feature flag. > DOM access WebAssembly will never have dir
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by smitop 5y ago
It's from March 2002: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22109078
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by smitop 5y ago
I'd guess that it's because they (incorrectly) think it's an embedded Webview, which get blocked (see https://developers.googleblog.com/2021/06/upcoming-security-... and https://developer
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by smitop 5y ago
Here's where Purism says that the reason for the workaround is indeed for attempting to get RYF certified: https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-solving-the-first-fsf-ryf-hurd...
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by smitop 5y ago
With just that prompt, Copilot keeps writing a comment about the function but never actually writes the function. Prompting to actually write the function by starting it with `func` gives: // A Go function to swap the sixth
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Mortgages are a manufactured product(bam.kalzumeus.com)
199 points by smitop 5y ago|222 comments
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by smitop 5y ago
> If 51% militantly attack the treasury and fed it won't exist either. It is significantly harder to convince 51% of the population of something than to convince >51% of Bitcoin hashpower: the top 4 mining pools control 51% of th
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BNPLs: Businesses Needing Provided Legibility(bam.kalzumeus.com)
66 points by smitop 5y ago|10 comments
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by smitop 5y ago
You need to be hand-building your CPUs. You need to stop using CPUs built by anyone else. You need to be soldering in circuitry to bootstrap an x86 environment. Making your own control unit, ALU, registers, memory, buses. You need to contro

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