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by avian 15d ago
How weird. It's almost as if 90% of amateur anything Youtube channels are actually advertisement businesses pushing the sponsored product of the day on their audiences. So weird.
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by avian 15d ago
I love how the "read this before you start" safety warning is about two pagedowns from the shiny "Get started" button.
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by avian 17d ago
It is provably impossible to write code manually. It takes an agent on the order of 100 billion operations to produce a single token. A person (generously) taking just a second for a single mental addition or multiplication would take tens
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by avian 1mo ago
> DMARC: adopted everywhere, enforced nowhere in particular Unfortunately this only talks about what DMARC policies are published by domains. I was hoping they will go into some analysis of how many mailboxes actually hard-enforce DMARC
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by avian 1mo ago
How times change. I remember when Gmail came around and everyone was more than happy to hand off their email to Google. No spam and ability to send and receive huge (for the time) attachments I think were the main things people wanted. Not
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by avian 1mo ago
There's a laser treatment for floaters now (laser vitreolysis). It's not always applicable and it has its own risks and side effects.
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by avian 1mo ago
> You know, if it hit you in the arm, it's not going to do anything serious. Yeah, the arm is definitely the part of the human body that is most sensitive to a laser that can make insects go up in a puff of smoke...
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by avian 2mo ago
Vaguely related question: what is the go-to open DMARC check implementation these days? I mean the part that checks _received_ mail against DMARC rules. It used to be opendmarc, but it seems people have been dropping it for a while because
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by avian 2mo ago
I am thinking how this would split the web. You would have the "new web" consisting of the top n major websites paying this fee. And then you would have the "old web", accessible only to people still owning their own PCs
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by avian 2mo ago
Maybe someone that has seen this first hand can chime in but I strongly suspect the real-life effect viewed with naked eye is much more disappointing compared to what is shown in this video. Real physics ain't need to get them likes an
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by avian 2mo ago
Each time I see beauty in old machinery I think about the recent IEEE article that started with something like "AI designs aren't limited by outdated concepts like simplicity and aesthetics." and remember that there is someon
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by avian 3mo ago
In related news, Imgur seems to be a/b testing a website that just pushes you to the mobile app and doesn't allow you do anything in browser beyond viewing the one picture you clicked the link for.
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by avian 3mo ago
> Freed from intelligibility and aesthetics, AI designs faster I like this headline. In other words, AI will suck out every last bit that makes engineering fun. I know, I know. The job is to make money for your employer not have fun. AI
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by avian 3mo ago
The Compaq laptop I was using had a 486SX and 4 MB of RAM. It had a 640x480 (if I remember correctly) screen and I'm pretty sure the framebuffer was in a separate video RAM that was not counted in that 4 MB. Used to type a lot of LaTeX
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by avian 3mo ago
I just spent the better part of the week looking at code. I guess I'm the last one.
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by avian 3mo ago
I hope it stays like that for a while, but I suspect it won't. Advertised prices for my setup are now roughly 2x what I'm currently paying.
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by avian 3mo ago
It's the tragedy of the commons. It's a complete non-issue for the offender because it's very unlikely they will face any consequences and less of a non-issue for their neighbor who suddenly can only receive this guy's S
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by avian 3mo ago
> Here in Germany you have to be careful when setting up a homemade radio signal - it might be illegal depending on frequency and transmit power. In Germany and everywhere else. The difference is how much it's enforced. Note that th
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by avian 3mo ago
I think solid state technology came too soon for the miniaturization of vacuum tube technology to be fully explored. Ken mentions in one of his older posts that even in these old tube-based IBM computers a lot of digital logic was in fact a
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by avian 4mo ago
Yes, this was weird. I saw that announcement yesterday, went through the list of fixed issues and decided to wait with the upgrade since none of them were relevant for me. If I haven't just seen this on the second page of HN I would ha
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by avian 5mo ago
This one provides the source and asks you to build it yourself so at least it has some credibility for the "education use only" claim. I've seen similar things posted on here before that had a binary build only and zero techn
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by avian 5mo ago
Because this is getting downvoted, and to check if my memory serves me well: Here's an excerpt from a 2013 article in Scientific American that appears on the first page of results when searching for "voyager left the solar system&
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by avian 5mo ago
Not to detract from the amazing success that is Voyager - I also still remember attending a lecture given by a JPL engineer that worked on one of the instruments - but I feel like the "Voyager has reached interstellar space" thing
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by avian 5mo ago
Thanks. It might still turn out to be this. My thinking so far against was 1) after a few months I'm pretty sure I would hear about the real attack 2) Repeating too frequently. People aren't getting hacked all the time (I hope). B
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by avian 5mo ago
I just block the group address on the MTA, but it doesn't matter. In all instances so far when it came to my attention the group was already deleted. Next time they will use a different group and I don't want to blanket ban all Go
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by avian 5mo ago
Somewhat related to spam coming from Google servers, maybe someone can shed some light on what could be the motivation behind this activity: In recent months I'm seeing instances where random personal mail accounts on a server I run wo
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by avian 5mo ago
> Recipient: Google LLC This complaint was sent to Google, probably because the cloudinary.com URL appeared in their search results. It's doubtful anyone at Fiverr was made aware of this - unless Google typically forwards these comp
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by avian 5mo ago
Wiring mistakes can kill or burn down a house months or years after they have been done. You will not notice unconnected protective earth or badly dimensioned circuit breakers until something else breaks and the protective element is not th
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by avian 5mo ago
> To keep a sending IP “warm” and maintain deliverability, you’re expected to send constantly. Like… all the time. The article provides zero evidence for this claim except "our low-volume (by their own measure) marketing campaign ge
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by avian 5mo ago
> use actual google tools to see actual reputation Google has a v2 of the postmaster tools that are actually useful now? Awesome news! I totally missed that. All v1 ever showed me as a small-time mail server admin was equivalent to &quot

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