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by wlonkly 3y ago
Karma-point-harvesting bots do this already! Even comments -- one bot user reposts a popular post, and other bot users repost the top comments from the last time it was posted.
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by wlonkly 3y ago
There are a handful of subreddits (for example, one for recovering alcoholics, one for legal advice) that have decided that their value to the community is higher than the value of staying closed. So I think if it does get extended then the
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by wlonkly 3y ago
It also demonstrates to Reddit management that the moderators are capable of a coordinated action.
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by wlonkly 3y ago
> The Adams quotes are from some time ago I would be surprised if they were recent, but I wouldn't put it past him, either.
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by wlonkly 3y ago
As others said, those are non-Reddit-operated spambots. But as for the names, any new Reddit users gets a WordWord1234 type name now, and you have to go out of your way to change it, so there are also a lot of legitimate users using those
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by wlonkly 3y ago
I think the attack tptacek is suggesting is where a government replaces your key with their key, and your nameservers with their nameservers (perhaps with a passthrough for non-interesting records), at which point they can send whichever re
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by wlonkly 3y ago
I had to add a DS record to a Route53 zone just the other day, and when I did, I didn't see a DNSKEY option in the list of records. Don't count on that 100% because I wasn't looking for it, but I definitely don't recall
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by wlonkly 3y ago
A nit, but the resolver, not the client, validates DNSSEC. The client/stub resolver trusts its local resolver. That always struck me as weird.
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by wlonkly 3y ago
What bothers me about "hallucinates" is the removal of agency. When a human is hallucinating, something is happening to them that is essentially out of their control and they are suffering the effects of it, unable to tell truth f
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by wlonkly 3y ago
They did a better job of hiding the promotional easter egg.
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by wlonkly 3y ago
The distinction between "old" and "dead" seems important, though.
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If I can modify that slightly: The staff engineer isn't accountable for people that have a rough patch or who are assholes (and the manager is). I've found as a staff engineer that I definitely have to care, adapt to the rough p
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Geektools whois gateway has shut down after a 25-year run(geektools.com)
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GP specifically said that they found that "also dumb".
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by wlonkly 3y ago
For me it's metrics. We have a heat pump, so we change the temperature roughly twice a year: heating temperature in winter, air conditioning temperature in summer. But my Ecobee reports the temperature in three rooms (and occupancy, wh
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by wlonkly 3y ago
This is a weird article. They moved from Lambdas attached together with Step Functions to have their video monitoring service as its own program. Since some other service is serving video, handling billing, and all the other things Prime
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by wlonkly 3y ago
You can get an idea of the challenge by searching Youtube for videos of "pilot transfer" -- keeping in mind that pilot boats are intended to be boarded from, and container ships intended to be boarded by pilots. (But then again, G
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by wlonkly 3y ago
Allow me to also introduce you to the kebab, doner, and bento menus.
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by wlonkly 3y ago
Endless scroll with a footer is one of my favorite facepalm things.
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They should take away their driver's license!
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by wlonkly 3y ago
> fidelity is the only important measure in media How do you reconcile live shows?
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by wlonkly 3y ago
All rituals are made up.
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by wlonkly 3y ago
As perfected by the (Norse) Vikings!
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by wlonkly 4y ago
I suppose technically the timing of traffic lights or deciding whether to use a roundabout involves physics in that if you get it wrong, cars bounce off each other, but I'm not sure civil engineering is any more grounded in physics tha
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by wlonkly 4y ago
It's true that lives hang in the balance in those forms of engineering, but there are a lot of forms of engineering that are low-stakes, like mechanical engineering of HVAC systems in an office, or audio engineering of a musical record
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by wlonkly 4y ago
Back in the day one could possess Google-fu, so this must be prompt-fu.
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by wlonkly 4y ago
The Mini Cooper is bigger than you'd think -- same wheelbase and height as a Corolla, although the cargo area and hood are shorter. But the wheelbase of the Smart car (no longer sold in the US, by the way) is 2/3 that of the Mini.
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by wlonkly 4y ago
There's North American RVs, and there's Japanese-import vans, but this one looks to me like a an RV and a Japanese van had a baby.
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by wlonkly 4y ago
> The theatrical world takes an intermediate approach, where they use the terms "stage left / stage right", The opposite of that, rarely used but still out there, is house left/house right.
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by wlonkly 4y ago
https://github.com/danluu/post-mortems is a fun read and has been around for a while.

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