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by zootboy 3y ago
Since we're already complaining about "New thing Bad, Old thing Better," why oh why does this blog require third-party JS from three separate domains (s3.amazonaws.com, fargo.io, and scripting.com) just to render a page of st
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by zootboy 3y ago
I know this is a totally off-topic complaint, but why did the author choose purple as the CSS link color? Perhaps this is just a sign that I'm old, but I genuinely was confused for a moment, wondering how I had possibly visited all the
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by zootboy 3y ago
I wish it had, but unfortunately it seems like the IRS just waited out the storm and is now back at it. Their website implores you to "create an account with ID.me as soon as possible": https://sa.www4.irs.gov/secu
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by zootboy 3y ago
In a related vein, there's a Numberphile / 3B1B video about the pitfalls of plotting randomness in a circle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZBwsm6B280
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by zootboy 3y ago
Just be aware that you get what you pay for. I have experience with these specific converters, and many of them have no thermal protections. If you overdrive them (e.g. more than 1/3 of their "rated" capacity), you run a pret
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by zootboy 3y ago
You're downvoted because you didn't bother to even look at the copyright citation on the linked Archive.org page. Specifically: > Copyright-comment > Scanned under the Creative Commons Founders' Copyright license, pe
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by zootboy 3y ago
I have no personal experience with either of these, but I was considering them when looking for options to handle router duties for my 10 Gbit fiber link: https://protectli.com/product-comparison/ https://sh
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by zootboy 3y ago
There was a recent supreme court case where they discussed this exact practice: https://www.oyez.org/cases/2022/21-1397 From listening to the oral arguments, the court didn't seem to think that just CC'i
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by zootboy 4y ago
I'm curious how confident you are that all hospitals in the state are listed in the OSM database. In my experience, the point of interest data in OSM is highly variable, with many being totally absent. I know you mentioned a few mis-ta
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by zootboy 4y ago
> It seems the trend is to support Authenticator apps Oh, I wish that were true for financial institutions. But for my sample size of 3 credit unions, 1 large bank, and 1 brokerage, only one (small CU) supports TOTP. All the others have
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by zootboy 4y ago
"Copy as Path" is definitely available in Win10, and probably older, just hidden under the Shift-RightClick context menu.
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by zootboy 4y ago
Indeed, the de-editorializing of the title made the interpretation more ambiguous. I'd actually prefer the real title ("how to completely own an airline...") or a more clear adjustment ("how to hack an airline...").
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by zootboy 4y ago
There's a term for that: unpaired word https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unpaired_word
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by zootboy 4y ago
I think it's meant to be interpreted as "hiring additional welders would be creating capacity for nothing" because the number of welders was not the bottleneck.
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by zootboy 4y ago
Except Apple loves to drop the articles when describing their hardware. E.g. "With iPhone, you can do X, Y, and Z!". So "I like Apple TV" could easily be referring to the hardware box in Applespeak.
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by zootboy 4y ago
The version I've seen specifies that the printer is from 2004: > Tech Enthusiasts: Everything in my house is wired to the Internet of Things! I control it all from my smartphone! My smart-house is bluetooth enabled and I can give it
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by zootboy 4y ago
Just say "no" to database hits for static content: https://web.archive.org/web/20221218180411/https://www.andyc...
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by zootboy 4y ago
> I don't even understand why Microsoft is forcing S0ix this hard Because for whatever inexplicable reason, they've gotten it into their heads that laptops need to achieve feature parity with smartphones. Smartphones get to be
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by zootboy 4y ago
In a large number of places, it's either already shut down or will be shut down soon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2G#Past_2G_networks
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by zootboy 4y ago
Setting as default is quite different from "ensuring exclusivity." I'd have no problem banning Google from paying companies to be the only search engine usable on a phone.
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by zootboy 4y ago
There were proposals for this sort of thing a while back, but they never caught on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash
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by zootboy 4y ago
No one wants to do anything themselves anymore. It's pretty sad, to be honest. DNS isn't even that hard.
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by zootboy 4y ago
If you want a slightly better look: https://neal.fun/design-the-next-iphone/cubemap/px.png
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by zootboy 4y ago
It was the same deal with some Windows Mobile 2003 (and presumably other) devices. Except it was Windows, so of course it had to have a weird interface. There was a slider in the control panel that let you change the allocation of RAM betwe
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by zootboy 4y ago
I think part of the frustration is the asymmetry of the situation. Good luck telling Hetzner that you'll be paying "up to $20 per month" for your server. The moment you under-pay, they drop you. But somehow it's OK that
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by zootboy 4y ago
Nothing. It's meant to be an absurdist joke meant to leave the person wondering exactly what you were wondering.
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by zootboy 4y ago
If your IPv6 prefix begins with 2602:240, then your router is using the Sonic 6RD tunnel.
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by zootboy 4y ago
If it's truly an early-stage paper, then its title should reflect that. An authoritative, blanket statement like "wear-leveling considered harmful" is disingenuous. If this is speculative / unfinished work, I would hope
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by zootboy 4y ago
Honestly, that is what I was expecting given the title of the paper. That or a partial reverse-engineering and emulation of an SSD controller firmware.
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by zootboy 4y ago
I'm not super impressed with this paper. It doesn't appear that they've done any tests on actual SSDs. From the paper: > we evaluate three representative WL techniques [3, 6, 7] that have been compared against a wide varie

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