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by addingnumbers 4y ago
Election to office is an indication that voters generally agree with your claims of expertise, and thus are proclaiming you an expert. Voters who want someone in office who is not an expert at governing vote for someone who doesn't cla
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by addingnumbers 4y ago
If the definition of "self-proclaimed" includes agreeing with popular proclamation, who is ever proclaimed but not self-proclaimed? You've rendered the "self-" prefix redundant, in which case why include it?
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by addingnumbers 4y ago
Elected officials aren't "self-proclaimed." Election is the best possible example of proclaiming.
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by addingnumbers 4y ago
> person famous in their field posts a lie about something well within their field This heavily implies Klein is involved with astronomy, which he is not.
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by addingnumbers 4y ago
Apparently Matthews was an accomplished designer and illustrator and did some fancifully specific diagrams of the Air Loom that was controlling his mind. https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/illustrations-of-madnes...
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by addingnumbers 4y ago
Those seem clearly presented in the article as direct quotes from a mentally disturbed person and from the agent of a grifter. The article is about paranoia and irrationality. It would throw off the pacing and be condescending to the reader
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by addingnumbers 4y ago
BGP is something that makes everything more resilient when it's achieving its goals, not like an unknown assassin. Large-scale BGP harm almost always comes from a trusted, good-willed peer making an honest mistake.
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by addingnumbers 4y ago
That routine is so old, the last time I saw it I downloaded it over Napster and opened it with realplayer
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by addingnumbers 4y ago
I lost interest in the question of its sentience when I saw Lemoine conveniently side-step its unresponsive reply to "I’ve noticed often that you tell me you’ve done things (like be in a classroom) that I know you didn’t actually do be
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by addingnumbers 4y ago
It's a reference to the story that inspired the movie. > The prototype of our character is the cyborg dolphin Jones from the story "Johnny Mnemonic" by William Gibson.
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by addingnumbers 4y ago
> I do not see any bad event in wikipedia There is a "Controversies" section of their Wikipedia article with 8 distinct sub-headings, and the section is prefixed with "For a more comprehensive list, see List of controversi
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by addingnumbers 4y ago
Lots of people say privacy doesn't exist but for some reason they'll usually refuse to follow up by publishing a full dump of their email and instant messages.
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by addingnumbers 4y ago
I got mild dang scolding for one unduly snarky comment a year or so back and really appreciated it. One of my favorite online communities back in its heyday was somethingawful. You had to make a one-time token payment of a few bucks to be a
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by addingnumbers 4y ago
Obligatory plug for shutup.css and the browser plug-ins derived from it: > shutup.css is a CSS stylesheet that can be applied to your web browser to hide comment sections on many popular websites. https://github.com/panic
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by addingnumbers 4y ago
Direct streaming is great but I wish you could enforce it natively from the server side. The challenge is getting your friends and family to change the default prefer-transcoding behavior every time they fire up a new client. I know you can
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by addingnumbers 4y ago
That's the "commit-confirm" process they mention they will use in the write-up: > Primarily, we will be concentrating on automation improvements ... and provide an automated “commit-confirm” rollback.
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by addingnumbers 4y ago
Maybe a testament to BGP's effectiveness that so many large-scale outages are due to misconfiguring BGP rather than the frequent cable cuts and hardware failures that BGP routes around.
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by addingnumbers 4y ago
> Interestingly nobody would be fined by the regulator had the misconfiguration not been discovered by someone stupid enough to to post about it with their real name, organised criminals would have been smarter about it. Isn't there
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by addingnumbers 4y ago
Wow, they dressed him up exactly like Lyle Lanley singing Springfield a monorail song.
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by addingnumbers 4y ago
It's easy to look clean when you haven't been lifting payloads of gear into it for 20 years.
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by addingnumbers 4y ago
I blame Steam for shifting the market's expectations about early access. In the years before Steam got in on early access, I bought a few early access games, and the attitude was "Keep at it! Hopefully this will pan out," not
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by addingnumbers 4y ago
I would think the stuff that coalesces there does so because it has very low velocity relative to the Lagrange point and thus the JWST. Anything moving fast enough to pass through the satellite won't be staying there.
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by addingnumbers 4y ago
Surely he's the legal owner of much of it, unless you're trying to imply he doesn't do any creative work at all outside the scope of his current contracts.
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by addingnumbers 4y ago
I only know one guy who used Ad Nauseum, two or three weeks later his gmail account was banned and to this day he has to complete a CAPTCHA every time he visits a Google site from his home IP.
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by addingnumbers 4y ago
Wave did their marketing push when it was invite-only. The invites were going for $50-$100 on eBay. A lot of people like me weren't rich or well-connected enough to try it if they wanted. It went on like that for ten months, then with
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by addingnumbers 4y ago
It was fun seeing the "take turns on double newlines" rule occasionally broken for normal conversational interrupts, like their HAHAHA's interleaving with your message to let you know they're already laughing along, or O
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by addingnumbers 4y ago
Good catch, I wish he mentioned that explicitly but I guess I could have inferred it from the screenshot
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by addingnumbers 4y ago
> I went through and bought a dummy number to figure out how to purchase the number programatically, and then did the same method as above to purchase it. This guy is going a little hard on the automation at the end there, what's th
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by addingnumbers 4y ago
After I cut over to a new wifi router I left my old one partially configured with no internet connection and mirroring everything to one of the LAN ports that goes to an un-numbered (no IP address, no IP egress) port on my main server where
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by addingnumbers 4y ago
It's very elegant depending on your goals. It's the ultimate DRM for games, you can't crack a game's copy protection if you can't see it's binaries. You can't data-mine the locations of valuables if you do

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