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by smitop 5y ago
They use Google Ads: I Googled "crane schools in california" and one of the results was an ad for California Crane School. Apparently they think that they are paying too much on those ads: "The complaint alleges that advertis
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by smitop 5y ago
For me I was able to reset my account (which removes all data) but not delete it. It appears to be an issue with their WAF blocking requests to the account deletion endpoint.
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Ontario bans non-competes and creates right to disconnect from work(gowlingwlg.com)
575 points by smitop 5y ago|171 comments
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Zopfli is *really* good at compressing PNGs(smitop.com)
12 points by smitop 5y ago|1 comments
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by smitop 5y ago
This is called a flipped classroom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipped_classroom
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by smitop 5y ago
uBlock Origin includes a dummy script that emulates the real Google Analytics script: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/src/web_access...
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Analyzing the public hostnames of Tailscale users(smitop.com)
38 points by smitop 5y ago|31 comments
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More than you want to know about gift cards(bam.kalzumeus.com)
210 points by smitop 5y ago|174 comments
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by smitop 5y ago
The compiler literally checks what GitHub org originated the package. If you fork a package that uses FFI, it won't work unless you remove the check from the compiler or use a hacky workaround to trick the compiler: https://
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by smitop 5y ago
Wikipedia was licensed under GFDL 1.2 or later, so relicensed by convincing the FSF to release an updated version of the GFDL (version 1.3) that adds a very narrowly worded clause allowing relicensing that pretty much only applied to Wikipe
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Bloom/Lambda School requires applying to 460 jobs before giving tuition refund(twitter.com)
64 points by smitop 5y ago|26 comments
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by smitop 5y ago
GitHub's takedown notice template says otherwise: "Have you searched for any forks of the allegedly infringing files or repositories? Each fork is a distinct repository and must be identified separately if you believe it is infrin
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Debit cards are hidden financial infrastructure(bam.kalzumeus.com)
302 points by smitop 5y ago|381 comments
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by smitop 5y ago
The LLVM IR is more expressive than clang is for expressing fast-math: it supports making an operation use fast-math optimization on a per operation basis ( https://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#fastmath ).
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by smitop 5y ago
BTW, you appear to be shadowbanned: many of your comments and all but one submission show as [dead] to me (although some of your comments have been vouched for, which unkills them).
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Google's new related search box optimizes for the wrong metric(smitop.com)
93 points by smitop 5y ago|40 comments
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ProctorU is dystopian spyware(shkspr.mobi)
602 points by smitop 5y ago|350 comments
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PNG compresses images using filters(observablehq.com)
2 points by smitop 5y ago|1 comments
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Intel: PC Games Are Incompatible with 'Alder Lake' CPUs Due to DRM(pcmag.com)
28 points by smitop 5y ago|19 comments
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by smitop 5y ago
Their job applications were rejected: https://docs.codeamigo.dev/blog/why-codeamigo
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Practical Time Machines(textslashplain.com)
32 points by smitop 5y ago|4 comments
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by smitop 5y ago
Discord uses a special indicator for system messages, like the Slackbot heart but more prominent: https://smitop.com/discord-system.png
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by smitop 5y ago
They would also have to exclude virtually all code that isn't public domain, too. MIT and Apache-2.0 and BSD all require that the copyright notice and license text is preserved in downstream use.
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by smitop 5y ago
They used to be separate occupation codes, but they were merged in 2005 ( https://usa.ipums.org/usa/volii/c2ssoccup.shtml ). Perhaps because there weren't enough legislators to justify getting their own categor
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by smitop 5y ago
It's hard to statically determine what parts of an executable affect the running of it. Many executable have timestamps in them that do affect how they run, so you can't just ignore all timestamps if you want reproducible builds
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by smitop 5y ago
Here's the mentioned implementation of Tor in Rust: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/arti
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by smitop 5y ago
The FSF has a somewhat relevant answer about this: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#StolenCopy It depends on if the accidentally public instance could be considered a trade secret.
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Apple sends DMCA takedown for IP address(twitter.com)
109 points by smitop 5y ago|63 comments
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by smitop 5y ago
They only need to provide the sources for the kernel, not the software running on top of the kernel. Usually they do publish the source for their kernel somewhere on their website in my experience (although they don't always provide
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by smitop 5y ago
FYI, if you have enough karma you can unkill dead comments by clicking on the vouch link from the page for the comment (which you can get to by clicking on the timestamp for a comment).

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