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by tetromino_ 1y ago
> Consumer rags No. The linked article is summary of https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01403...
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by tetromino_ 1y ago
Then all those nav headers need to have a little button on the side to open a floating div with copy-pasteable content. Or, if needed - different versions of copy-pasteable content (as a command line for copy-pasting into the terminal, json
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by tetromino_ 1y ago
There's a similar Russian tale in blank verse by Pushkin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_the_Fisherman_and_... - probably either inspired directly by the Low German story or mediated through a version t
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by tetromino_ 1y ago
https://security.googleblog.com/2023/04/google-authenticator... Google Authenticator can be local-only or synced to the cloud. In local-only mode, the authenticator is bound to a specific device. You can manually
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by tetromino_ 1y ago
For one thing, because threads about BLM protesters and cars didn't blow up like this one with 2000+ comments. For another, Dang judged - probably correctly - that a large fraction of people active on HN thoroughly hated Kirk. Without
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by tetromino_ 1y ago
If you sign up for electrical service for your house, and your shithead neighbor taps your line to power his array of grow lamps and crypto mining rigs, the power company will happily charge you thousands of dollars, and you will need a pol
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by tetromino_ 1y ago
The idea is to sacrifice one part of the environment (municipal landfill and surrounding land) in order to have everything else reasonably clean and beautiful. (Alternative being a thin layer of waste and garbage spread all over the planet.
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by tetromino_ 1y ago
> have drones made combat helicopters obsolete? Which drones? Helicopters are vulnerable to small quadcopter drones when landing and taking off. This limits some traditional uses of helicopters (anything that involves landing in enemy te
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by tetromino_ 1y ago
They are not talking about pulling in Chromium on a microcontroller. Their web server is on a microcontroller, so they want to minimize server side CPU usage and force the browser to do their XSLT transformation. Since it's a microco
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by tetromino_ 1y ago
No, PP added that to the convo to explain why an ethical framework that requires waiting for an act's outcome to fully play out is not a useful framework.
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by tetromino_ 1y ago
> You could say the same thing about chess No, chess is on the opposite side of the spectrum! In chess, at all times you have perfect knowledge of the entire state of the board; in poker, you know 2 cards.
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by tetromino_ 1y ago
I have always been mystified by the popularity of poker. To me, it is an unpleasant game. First - the fact that it's played for real money. If I win, I feel like a common swindler stealing money that someone could use to pay their bill
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by tetromino_ 1y ago
Paywalled here - can only read 2 paragraphs. Possibly paywall is triggered conditionally, for example if you read multiple articles in some time period?
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by tetromino_ 1y ago
Short sighted cowards. The correct decision would have been to shut down Wikimedia Portugal, tell the Portuguese authorities to screw themselves and block Wikipedia if they wish, and to leave the article - if it was reporting verifiably sou
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by tetromino_ 1y ago
> But come on, having "a cold" twice a month... IT IS suspicious Suspicious in that it's only twice a month? When my kid first started preschool, we got exposed to all sorts of wonderful novel viruses, and I had respirator
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by tetromino_ 1y ago
That is the idea in theory. But in practice, apparently North Carolina teachers, under pressure from rich parents, don't want to teach algebra to talented kids from poor and black families - i.e. don't want to teach precisely thos
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by tetromino_ 1y ago
> When cyclists ride in the road they are at most equal danger to pedestrians as the cars in the road. When e-cyclists ride in the road and obey the same traffic laws as cars in regard to traffic lights, stop signs, pedestrian crossing
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by tetromino_ 1y ago
https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/extending-our-built-in-... > We will use AI to interpret a variety of signals that help us to determine whether a user is over or under 18. These signals include the types of vid
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by tetromino_ 1y ago
One of the other 3 was Didarul Islam, an NYPD officer, born in Bangladesh, living in a working class neighborhood in the Bronx, who had 2 children and a pregnant wife. His death has received extensive press coverage, e.g. https:/&#x2F
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by tetromino_ 1y ago
> it is ultimately the Evolution developer's responsibility to not ship an end product with known security issues Is it? One could argue that Evolution developers do not ship an end product, and that it's distros - Debian, Fedo
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by tetromino_ 1y ago
Summary: there is a long-standing bug in Webkit which causes network connection from (probably?) any tag that sets a `rel` attribute to be non-auditable and non-blockable by client code using Webkit. Mike Cardwell stumbled on the manifestat
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by tetromino_ 1y ago
Which is in some ways similar to the case in this article. The police violated department policy to identify the student who hurled a rock at another student . And the article is somehow painting the rock-throwing attacker as a victim, eve
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by tetromino_ 1y ago
> I've never personally been hurt by them You say that because you lack the tribal mindset. While people who do have the tribal mindset, if they see another person of the same demographic as them being mistreated, will automatically
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by tetromino_ 1y ago
In New York, you sometimes find unofficial community parks / third spaces on unused plots of land which for whatever reason (such as a strange shape) are difficult to develop. These are maintained by enthusiastic local residents, and t
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by tetromino_ 1y ago
One might ask why Mozilla needs to search for a high-level executive in the first place. Most open source projects, even very large ones, function reasonably well without a hired executive - so what makes Mozilla different such that it requ
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by tetromino_ 1y ago
I have a school teacher friend who commutes by car every day between the Bronx and upper Manhattan (outside the congestion zone - but you said "Manhattan" without any qualifier). Obviously she doesn't pay for parking. Public
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by tetromino_ 1y ago
Sounds like the TikTok ban a la Russe - a local tech giant using national security as a pretext to ban foreign-based competitors.
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by tetromino_ 1y ago
> A good example would be a dull knife. There's something "sad" about an object whose nature or purpose it is to be sharp to lose or lack that sharpness. Interesting - I think you've just explained "Tear-Water Te
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by tetromino_ 1y ago
My favorite funny function in the Android source is android.os.Handler.runWithScissors() [1] - but (unfortunately) it is not part of the public API. [1] https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base&#x2
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by tetromino_ 1y ago
> I do not know a single person who has ever been charged with this. My parents were charged with this soon after coming to the US - they brought a bottle of wine to a barbecue at a public park; the bottle wasn't even kept in view,

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