waste_monk

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by waste_monk 2y ago
Unfortunately they have to be pretty harsh about chasing up child support, as people spend fantastic amounts of time and effort trying to dodge it. Support has to use imputed income based on earning capacity, because people regularly quit t
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by waste_monk 2y ago
>The Security Manager was not so hard to maintain it merited a removal without replacement. It sounds like the OpenJDK folk disagree with you, though. From the JEP: >The Security Manager has not been the primary means of securing clie
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by waste_monk 2y ago
Have you read the JEP [1]? They're confident that removing it won't cause any real harm because practically no one is using it, and there's been almost no community push-back since it since it was deprecated in Java 17 (3-ish
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by waste_monk 2y ago
My mistake. I thought all new domain registrations had stopped, but apparently it's to do with being able to process international payments due to Ukraine-related sanctions [1]. Presumably this domain paid in rubles. [1] https:/&
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by waste_monk 2y ago
>The situation you described sounds so stupid. To break emails and websites of many people simply because the two letter acronym isn't matching reality well Perhaps, but it's also not particularly bright to rely on the continue
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by waste_monk 2y ago
>If there are 100000 people being charged for domains companies will find a way to continue doing so The companies will not have a choice in the matter. If ICANN removes the .su ccTLD from the DNS root servers, they'll simply stop r
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by waste_monk 2y ago
Do you work for the National Sewerage Agency? :D
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by waste_monk 2y ago
We had something similar, our home ec classes had some household management, but the focus was largely on cooking and making/repairing clothing. This further split into seperate elective classes in the last few years of high school. Th
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by waste_monk 2y ago
"There is no choice" - clueless MBA
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by waste_monk 2y ago
Always has been.
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by waste_monk 2y ago
>Back in the MS-DOS days, when the RAM was sparse, there was a class of so-called "memory optimization" programs You may find this interesting: Investigations into SoftRAM 95 by Raymond Chen [1] and Mark Russinovich [2] respect
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by waste_monk 2y ago
>leaving a horrified meeting organizer to fight them off while trying to post a rebuttal on slack Perhaps they should have used Discord instead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRs0OqV4uSc
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by waste_monk 2y ago
It seemed quite promising but from the outside momentum appears to be almost completely stalled, with only a handful of posts per year on the forum. I'd be curious to know if there's progress being made behind the scenes.
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by waste_monk 2y ago
It has historically been solved in different ways [1] :) Unfortunately most people would not be happy taking the same approach to their web browser. [1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180228-00/?p=98.
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by waste_monk 2y ago
>I recommend you to sometime go to look at second-hand markets for books. That is less selective antiquarians and especially something like salvation army or flea markets. Places that accept donations of books and then try to resell them
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by waste_monk 2y ago
We have folk who believe in a flat earth, I wonder if there is also a "flat core society"...
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by waste_monk 2y ago
Tool use is fine, when you have the education and experience to use the tools properly, and to troubleshoot and recover when things go wrong. The use of AI is not just a labour saving device, it allows the user to bypass thinking and learni
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by waste_monk 2y ago
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. - Sun Tzu Failing that, I have heard that removing your jacket, wrapping it around one arm, and allowing the dog to bite that arm is a decent move,
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by waste_monk 2y ago
Cripes [1]. [1] https://qntm.org/perso
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by waste_monk 2y ago
Everyone who eats a banana (eventually) dies. Coincidence? I think not!
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by waste_monk 2y ago
> but I'm yet to find an instance of it explaining a concept wrong. How do you know for sure? LLMs output is often plausible-sounding but incorrect - usually it's fairly obvious, but it can be subtle enough that I would not sug
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by waste_monk 2y ago
At this point it's more about being scared of the bird.
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by waste_monk 2y ago
I was able to perceive all of them, using the "focus on something behind the plane of the monitor surface" technique (rather than the "bring your face up close and slowly move away while keeping your eyes focused the same&qu
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by waste_monk 2y ago
I would never make a moral judgement on a cube.
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by waste_monk 2y ago
I occasionally check on Star Citizen "development" just to look at the drama, and some of the stuff they're selling is straight-up obscene. There are ship packs that cost literally tens of thousands of USD (IIRC the most expe
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by waste_monk 2y ago
Too much drinking lead perhaps.
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by waste_monk 2y ago
That's why I swallow a pinch of cobalt-60 every day, to make sure my DNA is unrecognizable to adversaries.
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by waste_monk 2y ago
>Even identical males twins don't have the same penis structure/routing. Thanks for sharing your own personal example (I am the twin, in mine). A form of biometric authentication, perhaps? Assume one has a spare CT scanner or s
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by waste_monk 2y ago
I think they mean the scenario where the attacker sneaks in and adds a persistent backdoor / sets up privileged accounts for themselves to use / generally makes themselves comfortable, and then sits on their thumbs for a long peri
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by waste_monk 2y ago
Perhaps it was simply a very big fan of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and thought that no-one should be without a towel.

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