barryrandall

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by barryrandall 10mo ago
Python's ping3 package also encodes this knowledge in LLM-accessible form.
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by barryrandall 1y ago
I'm not looking forward to _that_ CAPTCHA.
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by barryrandall 1y ago
Then they'd have two problems: people camping out in the stores and managing thousands of printers.
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by barryrandall 1y ago
Because enough people will pay $200 for a "premium" HDMI cable, that a market for premium HDMI cables exists.
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by barryrandall 1y ago
It's not a person in the chat, it's an account. The account is usually controlled by the person associated with it, but you can't assume that it's always controlled by that person.
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by barryrandall 1y ago
All the more reason the elected need to experience it.
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by barryrandall 1y ago
One could assume that the previous priority was "grow the app catalog through the use of a permissive listing model," and it's changed to "improve the quality of the app catalog by being more selective about who and what
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by barryrandall 1y ago
Please note that this isn't a call for investments or request for startups.
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by barryrandall 1y ago
Never present an option you wouldn't want to live with. The internet teaches us that what "nobody should ever do" isn't obvious to everyone all the time.
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by barryrandall 1y ago
IIRC, nerds were the primary drivers of the search engine wars.
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by barryrandall 1y ago
How many of these would it take to drive down property values in a neighborhood?
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by barryrandall 1y ago
Policy is a political issue.
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by barryrandall 1y ago
But for modernity's sake, the site needs to add 100 MB of poorly-understood and maintained JavaScript dependencies that break the behavior you're describing so that it can be done entirely in JS.
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by barryrandall 1y ago
Someone has to pay, but there's no requirement that someone gets to take a percentage as profit.
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by barryrandall 1y ago
What's the percentage?
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by barryrandall 1y ago
"We have inferred that you need to learn more about Florzipan+ by Pajoobi."
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by barryrandall 2y ago
I'd be very surprised if there's not at least a debug port onboard.
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by barryrandall 2y ago
Sure, but FreeBSD also has a Linux compatability layer. For a company that's given up on the server market so many times, making MacOS compatible with _THE_ server OS makes a lot of sense.
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by barryrandall 2y ago
Not if you're breathing through your mouth. Inhaled asthma medication has about the same consistency as brake dust.
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by barryrandall 2y ago
It's either that, or Enterprise Linux vendors will start buying out struggling maintainers in order to make future updates subscriber-only.
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by barryrandall 2y ago
It's great because it gives politicians a foreign enemy to deride, generates lots of online engagement, doesn't impact people's lives in any meaningful way, and when it's implemented, it's only visible to people in
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by barryrandall 2y ago
This is the parody. Anything else would be imperfect.
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by barryrandall 2y ago
It happens because political theater works on enough people to swing elections.
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by barryrandall 2y ago
What's the political alignment of this group? All we have is a paid press release from a group founded in 2024, with an executive board consisting of "Jive, Lilli, and Nathan."
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by barryrandall 2y ago
One example: They're selling domain registration privacy, but don't sufficiently secure the private data. The entire Domains by Proxy dataset is available on the dark web.
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by barryrandall 2y ago
It's not the first time they've tested things in public in a way that undermines public trust.
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by barryrandall 2y ago
I've noticed a slight drop-off, but my phone is still useless.
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by barryrandall 2y ago
It happens all the time in 2024, but it takes the form of pharmacy benefit managers arbitrarily forcing people off effective medications onto cheaper, less effective ones.
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by barryrandall 2y ago
That was Change HealthCare, a UnitedHealthCare subsidiary. The reaction to the news was similar.
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by barryrandall 2y ago
All TypeScript is valid perl if you apply the right regex.

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