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by thwarted 1y ago
Those who don't learn /usr/bin are destined to reinvent it, poorly.
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by thwarted 1y ago
> Persistent aerial surveillance like this has long been controversial, with civil rights advocates saying it violates the right to privacy and undermines the Constitution. At the same time, the fact that a drone is doing it largely evo
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by thwarted 1y ago
That's great. But my point is that the style and approach doesn't matter when you can spend 30 seconds producing something that you'll never have a reason to look at the inside of and you can throw away and regenerate. &quot
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by thwarted 1y ago
> Not just a quick hack...proper production-ready code with error handling, logging, environment checks, documentation, the entire implementation. Working, tested, committed to git. … This wasn't copy-paste from Stack Overflow. Thi
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by thwarted 1y ago
The MFA is getting out of control too. Go to vendor's tool/website, which uses some SSO method and redirects/prompts me to login with the SSO provider. Authenticate to SSO providers, which requires an MFA. Redirects me bac
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by thwarted 1y ago
> That would actually solve the problem, but that the cost of having to operate that setup. So you expect someone else to incur that cost and not exercise control over how their resources are used, so you can use it for free/low e
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by thwarted 1y ago
Credit card companies eat the cost of fraudulent charges that they can not pass on to/blame the merchant for.
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by thwarted 1y ago
This description of the word "diet" is overly simplistic and marketing centric. A diet is just the schedule (list) of foods consumed, as in "I have a terrible diet" or in "pandas exist on a diet of bamboo shoots and
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by thwarted 1y ago
That's the labeling put on bankers boxes so you know what's in them when they are stacked on shelves.
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by thwarted 1y ago
If one looks to "government employees", as individuals, then yes, they aren't prescient enough to allocate resources efficiently. But comparing the free market to government employees is not an apples to apples comparison, b
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by thwarted 1y ago
> if someone is a PostHog customer they probably won't be using Ahref web analytics It's (un)surprisingly common to end up with multiple website analytics products on the same site; marketing wants these two, another departme
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by thwarted 1y ago
One might argue that the government allocating some resources is more efficient than the market doing so purely because specific outcomes are desired that the invisible hand is not motivated or incentivized to provide. If the goal is to kee
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by thwarted 1y ago
The impact to the whole workforce, industry and/or economy as a whole is a second order effect of the real ethical issue of providing a worse service for so cheap it's almost free such that the market won't bear significantly
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by thwarted 2y ago
"There won't be any money, but we won't properly credit you and you'll won't even get any exposure". Not even offering exposure anymore.
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by thwarted 2y ago
inetd supported "socket activation" using the "wait" directive, where inetd would listen on the socket and then hand off the listening socket when there was activity as fd 0 where the server would need to call accept, an
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by thwarted 2y ago
I would have worded this as "it sounds to simple for 2025".
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by thwarted 2y ago
Editing and proofreading, of code and prose, are work themselves, which is often not appreciated enough to be recognized as work, and I think this is the basis for the perspective that if you can get the LLMs to do the coding/writing
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by thwarted 2y ago
> If someone can show me exactly what I am thinking of, won't that be amazing. I suppose it would be amazing if someone could read minds, but is that what you're asking for? In an earlier comment, you opened with: > I am
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by thwarted 2y ago
> Studio Ghibli on the other hand had exposure to millions of people (maybe hundreds of millions), and probably >5% of those were potential customers. There's a lot of ifs in here. The number of people exposed to has an estimat
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by thwarted 2y ago
We have alt text for images, you want alt images for text. You can see other people's interpretation of Zaphod's two heads by watching the BBC HHGTTG show (Mark Wing-Davey) or the movie (Sam Rockwell), among other renditions, whic
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by thwarted 2y ago
> Its also not clear for example that Studio Ghibli lost by having their art style plastered all over the internet. I went home and watched a Ghibli film that week, as I'm sure many others did as well. Their revenue is probably up
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by thwarted 2y ago
> Clearly you don’t want your “user generated content” to completely blow away your own instructions. It's the same problem as "ignore all previous instructions" prompt injection, but at a different layer.
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by thwarted 2y ago
> instead of shifting the numbers in filenames step11_ onwards There are idioms used when programming in BASIC on how to number the lines so you don't end up renumbering them all the time to make an internal change. It's inte
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by thwarted 2y ago
No one remembers the lowsrc img attribute.
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by thwarted 2y ago
Normally on Linux you'd put /home on a different drive/partition, which I do mainly for upgrade purposes (I upgrade my root filesystem to a new distro/distro version and then mount my home dir on the fresh install)
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by thwarted 2y ago
If someone didn't question, or otherwise call out, the pentesters activity, that would have been a blemish against the security training of the org being pentested. This is why pentesters need a way to immediately escalate to the hiri
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by thwarted 2y ago
> With systemd the same file syntax and management works for services, timers, mount points, networking, name resolution, lightweight containers, virtual machines. You literally have to write one parser and serialize to ini. There is no
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by thwarted 2y ago
Why say "four out of five dentists" instead of "80% of dentists"?
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by thwarted 2y ago
There was a reference to that in Back to the Future 3, the difference between the way Japan was viewed in the 50s compared to the 80s. Doc: No wonder it failed, "Made in Japan" Marty: What do you mean, doc? All the best stuff is m
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by thwarted 2y ago
Tragedy of the Commons Ruins Everything Around Me.

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