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by addingnumbers 5y ago
Perfect is the enemy of good. There's a chance the data center where I host my offline backups could be destroyed at the same time as my house. Does this mean I should stop wasting my time and effort on off-site backups?
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by addingnumbers 5y ago
One of the interesting points he makes is that forwarding ports with IGDP is a small part of UPnP's functionality. By equating the two and discarding all of UPnP's other local service discovery features, for fear of IGDP specifica
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by addingnumbers 5y ago
March 5, 2018: Hacker gets root access and key material on a NordVPN server. 404 days after hack, NordVPN finally discovers server is compromised 594 days after hack, a twitter user boasts of experiments with NordVPN private key material th
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by addingnumbers 5y ago
They're doing something fishy with that "sorted by adjusted score." If it sorted by tomato-meter value instead, the esteemed classics would rise to the top, and the entries you took issue with wouldn't even crack the top
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by addingnumbers 5y ago
> Even once escalated, there would be a lot of red tape to go through to make the necessary changes to how things are ranked. When I write a program that accidentally gradually fills a disk with garbage, I don't wait until I can red
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by addingnumbers 5y ago
I just tested it, the close button works perfectly. I'm not required to do anything.
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by addingnumbers 5y ago
> Basically the EU is forcing me to create a Google account. When I see the age gate asking me to log in, I close the tab. How will the EU stop me from doing that?
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by addingnumbers 5y ago
I worked in DSL support for one of the baby bells back in 2002 and talked to a customer who had a line item in her bill for telephone rental that went back as far as the billing system could show me. It jumped out at me since I'd seen
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by addingnumbers 5y ago
I wish they'd done a self-referential bulletin along the lines of "We have found a vulnerability in one of our security bulletin systems which allows attackers to craft and deliver notifications which seem legitimate..."
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by addingnumbers 5y ago
> One time there was a thread about a new movie, most people liked it but he simply said "I just left the theater a few hours ago, I didn't really dig it" he was immediately banned for "trolling" simply for shari
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by addingnumbers 5y ago
Well, to me it doesn't sound like you are a typical YouTube user.
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by addingnumbers 5y ago
Aren't analogies a comparison of two things based on their being alike in some way? Ok, I'm being disingenuous, that is the Webster definition. Do you think Google is satisfied that people will readily associate dislikes with meta
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by addingnumbers 5y ago
Isn't autoplay the normal, default setting? Do a significant percentage of users have autoplay disabled? Disabling autoplay on an ongoing basis isn't an option for me because I won't log into Google services, except to check
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by addingnumbers 5y ago
The way they tell it, the perceived relationship between dislikes and bullets is the sort of thing they're trying to end.
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by addingnumbers 5y ago
> Remove negative counts, make people more likely to click on videos How were you seeing the dislike count before clicking videos before? I might be mistaken but I thought under normal circumstances you couldn't see the dislike coun
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by addingnumbers 5y ago
> Shouldn't there be a sort in there before the uniq? Probably. uniq only removes duplicate lines when they're adjacent to each other. I doubt the git grep command output has all the matches adjacent. I've read it's m
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by addingnumbers 5y ago
If you frame it as witnesses and informants giving you clues where a criminal has fled, this would also be essentially the same as the first Carmen Sandiego games.
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by addingnumbers 5y ago
Worth mentioning since it's unimaginable to many kids today, in the BBS days, there was no multitasking. When you kicked off a download that took 40 minutes, you couldn't do anything at all with your computer while it was transfer
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by addingnumbers 5y ago
> Many BBSs had leech ratios - you needed to upload stuff as well. Ashamed to admit I was unzipping my zips and re-zipping them with `pkzip -e0 ...` to disable the compression before uploading them to another BBS. It inflated my upload r
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by addingnumbers 5y ago
Professionals and hobbyists who analyze smart phone app behavior with APK decompilers, reverse engineering suites, personal cell towers, SDN radios, SIM dongles, mobile device emulators, etc: "Facebook apps are not listening to your c
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by addingnumbers 5y ago
The implication that you have two choices, either zero dollars or a billion, isn't hard to understand because it's cryptic. It's hard to understand because it's completely irrational.
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by addingnumbers 5y ago
> They were ordered to connect their private laptop and desktop computers to more powerful office machines so they could continue their high-tech operations. > "We didn't mind," says Chris, "but I found loads of sc
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by addingnumbers 5y ago
Speaker for the Dead and the ensuing novels in the Ender's Game series managed to tell multi-stellar stories with sub-light travel and relativistic effects. Also most of the Three-Body Problem trilogy, there is no FTL until the very en
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by addingnumbers 5y ago
In the book it took them eighty years of being metal-starved on Terminus to develop pocket reactors, with everyone else in the galaxy incredulous that it was possible. Bulky power sources at this point in the timeline are entirely consisten
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by addingnumbers 5y ago
> you need a guiding hand to keep that top spinning and not tumbling over, so you need the Second Foundation to be The Management That's where your anthropic principle ends, though, halfway through the trilogy. From there on out the
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by addingnumbers 5y ago
> A perfect summary. "Foundation" trilogy is essentially a novelization of the generalized anthropic principle[0]: protagonists aren't special, the only reason we're reading about particular characters and not some ot
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by addingnumbers 5y ago
Genuine question, what led you to believe Google would fight this sort of thing?
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by addingnumbers 5y ago
Their spam detection is true garbage. One year in I had zero actual spams blocked and hundreds of false positives. Unsolicited mail from a direct mailer in India for an SEO webinar, straight to the inbox. Every message from your bank, strai
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by addingnumbers 5y ago
That seems uncomfortably close to claiming every Turing-complete device is artificial intelligence.
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by addingnumbers 5y ago
Reducing the growth rate of a subset of a total does reduce the growth rate of that total.

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