ajryan

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by ajryan 5mo ago
Claude and I wrote a python decoder for these https://github.com/ajryan/toyshop-decoder Have not yet tried printing and folding one yet
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by ajryan 10mo ago
I use this - pain in the ass but it works. https://github.com/tom-englert/RegionToShare
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by ajryan 1y ago
Redmond only
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by ajryan 2y ago
South shore of Alamdea CA has this and it’s great. My kids called them the “secret paths.”
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by ajryan 3y ago
Can you estimate what proportion of fraud is automated/bot/scripted versus manual human interaction? Do you rely much on botnet detection or IP reputation?
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by ajryan 3y ago
Card testing doesn’t require a purchase, fraudsters can validate a card by adding it to an online wallet. The retailer will send a $0 authorization to the bank. Fraud happens across all transaction amounts, what do you think people use the
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by ajryan 3y ago
Call it Blazor weirdness then. This obviously wasn’t a swipe at Microsoft being closed, just a point that Blazor stuff is not general standard web stuff.
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by ajryan 3y ago
Embrace, Enhance, Extinguish for those unfamiliar.
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by ajryan 4y ago
Uhh Yeah Dude is one of the very first podcasts (est Feb 2006). Zero ads.
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by ajryan 4y ago
People are conflating consistency of a design system with consistency of ux metaphors. I worked on the team that built the new home page dashboard and my experience with the components and associated guidance was excellent. It is not the fa
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by ajryan 5y ago
Wellbutrin is an NDRI, not an SSRI.
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by ajryan 5y ago
I wonder how much energy we waste on pedantry.
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by ajryan 6y ago
We contain multitudes too. Inconsequential, no - a node in the fractal seat of consciousness.
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by ajryan 7y ago
Another, better-written take on this: https://www.thecut.com/2020/02/spread-of-corporate-speak.htm...
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by ajryan 7y ago
Where exactly can I find this in Windows' Task Manager? I don't see it as a column on the Details pane...
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by ajryan 7y ago
You should be using OnPush everywhere, then your struggle will change to only getting changes detected in certain scenarios. Still a pain sometimes but not as bad as the Default change detection strategy.
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by ajryan 8y ago
None of those definitions mean "disclosure," which is certainly what was meant.
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by ajryan 8y ago
What are you disclaiming?
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by ajryan 8y ago
You could replace .NET core in this comment with any $framework and see plenty examples of developers misusing a tool.
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by ajryan 8y ago
We use .NET core in production and are very happy. A mixture of EF Core (for ad-hoc queries) and Dapper (for stored procs) works just fine. Also, new in EF Core 2.1, you can map views and stored procs just fine: https://docs.micr
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by ajryan 8y ago
https://zealpc.net/products/zilents
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by ajryan 8y ago
You said "no one else makes" them...
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by ajryan 8y ago
I think they meant "high-quality cherry-switched keyboard," referring to the quality of the keyboard, not the switches. Regardless, Cherry switches are absolutely high quality - they are manufactured out of premium materials to ti
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by ajryan 8y ago
This is an insanely privileged thing to say though. The problem, in your mind, is that you have to see sick people, not that there are sick people who need help.
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by ajryan 8y ago
Metafilter has just about the highest groupthink quotient of any site I know of. Every single post ends up being about social justice, even when it isn't.
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by ajryan 8y ago
I could have written this paragraph about 15 months ago, at the tail end of attempting to manage my depression with various cocktails of research dissociatives and nootropics. I've been sober for over a year, and it's now amazing
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by ajryan 8y ago
As a scary anecdote, that's not very scary.
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by ajryan 8y ago
What the parent describes is not ego death - that is meant much more literally - loss of a sense of self and dissolution of the barrier between one's identity and the rest of existence.
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by ajryan 9y ago
"changes in the brain" is too vague to be useful. Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS) is supposedly a thing that can last months, but it's just an observation of a collection of symptoms - no analysis of a specific mechanis
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by ajryan 9y ago
I see "helps me work" used pretty often as a rationalization for drug use that's actually a coping mechanism.

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