wolfgang42

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by wolfgang42 1y ago
The item in question, and presumably the rest of his collection, was purchased in the form of an attractive resin display cube containing an absolutely minuscule amount of radioactive material: https://www.luciteria.com/elem
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by wolfgang42 1y ago
> just piling on ugly radioactive waste in your bedroom This is an egregious mischaracterization which detracts from your otherwise excellent comment. Lidden was working on collecting the periodic table in decorative display cases.[1]
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by wolfgang42 1y ago
Some relevant discussion/pointers to other notes on this sort of proposal can be found here: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/AutoconfVa... (The conclusion I distilled out of readin
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by wolfgang42 1y ago
Linking to ChatGPT as a “source” is unhelpful, since it could well have made that up too. However, with a bit of digging, I have confirmed that the information it copied from Wikipedia here is correct, though the AP and Spokane Times cita
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by wolfgang42 1y ago
I’ve been through a couple of different tools for my personal blog, and, having seen this trap, every time I did the migration I made sure to write a blog post about something completely unrelated instead. A few years ago I built my own st
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by wolfgang42 1y ago
Personally, I’m a lot better at recognizing good writing than producing it, and LLMs are great at being a “calculator for words.”[1] Writing posts became a lot easier once I got an automated editor I could tell to “break up this run-on sent
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by wolfgang42 2y ago
Yes, it’s a design choice, in that you have chosen to design something worse for the sake of feeling industrious. There is no need to show a consent banner for authentication cookies (these are considered “Strictly necessary cookies... esse
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by wolfgang42 2y ago
The only difference between your “DOM cookie” technique and a browser cookie is that it sounds like you’ve (re)invented a session cookie that only works with single-page apps. Either way it boils down to an opaque session ID token which is
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by wolfgang42 2y ago
Could you explain how, rather than linking to the middle of a large chunk of code? Fundamentally you need to have some way to associate the data on the server to a particular client, and cookies (or something like them) is the way HTTP do
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by wolfgang42 2y ago
Most people today will be familiar with her as depicted in the title card for Columbia Pictures. The Big Three TV broadcasters (NBC, ABC, CBS: National Broadcasting Company, American Broadcasting Company, and Columbia Broadcasting System) a
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Dark mode with almost no CSS(search.feep.dev)
25 points by wolfgang42 2y ago|3 comments
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by wolfgang42 2y ago
There are also plenty of ways to set it up so the only thing the public can see is that the name exists; and you should probably be prepared for that to become public knowledge anyway (even if using a wildcard certificate), if only becaus
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by wolfgang42 2y ago
Most computer people, perhaps. For the average user the difference between an app and a website (especially an app-like website) is much fuzzier, and “launching” an app sounds more technical (and thus more appropriate for an operation tha
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by wolfgang42 2y ago
I suspect this tool is probably tuned to help with “14-step coffee days”[1] rather than big projects; the list you got is genuinely the more plausibly helpful one for that situation. [1] https://crafty-butch.tumblr.com/post&
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by wolfgang42 2y ago
The OP doesn’t give any hints as to what users are doing, so as I said I just assumed “last 90 days of data” was the only query they’d make, but it’s a fair point that that caused me to leave out CPU power since it’s basically negligible fo
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by wolfgang42 2y ago
Let's do some math. First, the IOT devices reporting daily. In the absence of further context, I’m going to assume that it doesn’t matter when the devices report, so they can be configured to spread out their load. I’m also going to
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by wolfgang42 2y ago
Famously subject of the biggest heist in Canadian history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Canadian_Maple_Syrup_Hei...
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The current state of StackOverflow's data dumps(search.feep.dev)
1 points by wolfgang42 2y ago|0 comments
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by wolfgang42 2y ago
The quest for performance has turned modern CPUs into something that looks a lot more like a JITed bytecode interpreter rather than the straightforward “this opcode activates this bit of the hardware” model they once were. Things like branc
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by wolfgang42 2y ago
TIL about http://demo.gltr.io/client/index.html The specific top_k counts were: I(4) tasted(927) Honda(5363)'s(0) spicy(327) rodent(11589)-(0)re(202)pelling(1) tape(5202) and(6) I(1) will(67) do(29) it(3) again(0)
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by wolfgang42 2y ago
Yeah, an important but little-understood fact about ZIP codes is that they are not an area, but a collection of points (≈mailboxes) and polylines (delivery routes); this is because they were created by the post office, who care about logist
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by wolfgang42 2y ago
You’re not going to hear from the people who thought it made perfect sense, so the replies are a pretty biased sample. (This is also true of the parent complaint about reading comprehension, tbh.) But I see three confused replies and three
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by wolfgang42 2y ago
I thought that starting my story in media res would make for a better dramatic effect, but it seems I overestimated my audience and went a little too heavy on the narrative ellipsis.
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by wolfgang42 2y ago
I mean, it’s possible that the library had rearranged their chairs in the intervening years and that exact one was now at a different table, but it was certainly a chair in the same location.
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by wolfgang42 2y ago
He was being arrested in the article, not IRL. When I say “Ulbricht walked into the public library and sat down at the table directly in front of me” I mean that I read > He went... past the periodicals and reference desk, beyond the ro
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by wolfgang42 2y ago
Tangentially related: I had the disconcerting experience of reading a Wired article about his arrest[1] while unknowingly sitting about six feet from the spot where he was apprehended. When I read that the FBI agents had stopped at Bello Co
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by wolfgang42 2y ago
Furries do tend to be more open about kink (as part of the community’s general culture of acceptance), but to describe furry as a “kink subculture” is misleadingly reductive at best.
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by wolfgang42 2y ago
> If you have constant, multiple, concurrent writes on a non-append-only database, it is bound to perform poorly no matter what database you pick. This is obviously incorrect, since Postgres can handle more than one simultaneous write
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Literate Programming, UnTANGLEd(linestarve.com)
3 points by wolfgang42 2y ago|1 comments
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by wolfgang42 2y ago
The Forgotten Weapons video says that probably less than 100 of these were ever produced, and the production line never managed to make one that worked properly. This seems like an important detail which is missing entirely from the Wikiped

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