bpeebles

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by bpeebles 5mo ago
To be more exact (in an excessive way), it uses the BIOS's code to set the video mode (INT 10h) which is probably a few dozen bytes (at least?) although I have been remiss at not ever reading them. And it depends on DOS configuring the
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by bpeebles 2y ago
It depends on order size. I think orders for one or two people over time you'd save close to 50% between deals and using points. For larger orders 20% off once a day is about the best you can do. (I'm my area/experience.)
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by bpeebles 2y ago
It's not always clear but notability is not temporary[0] under English Wikipedia's guidelines. Standards of what makes something notable have shifted over the years and sometimes the different is hard to tease out. 0. https:&#x2F
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by bpeebles 2y ago
https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2012/one-sentence-per-line/ is one possibility. And discusses a Kernighan Unix memo from 1974 advocating for the practice. "UNIX for Beginners" https://web.
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by bpeebles 3y ago
It seems like nothing changes in Android 14? Like at worst it's still possible on 14, whatever it is, but my impression from the title was that it's a new issue with 14 making me think I should delay updating.
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by bpeebles 4y ago
There are admins on all of the Wikipedias under the WMF umbrella--each one sets their own rules for how admins are picked and how long, if limited at all, their terms are. I do not know what the process is for the Arabic-language wiki in qu
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by bpeebles 4y ago
As of now, https://elements.heroku.com/addons/heroku-postgresql says $0.01/month and their CLI as of Wednesday also said that. Of course, this feels like a weird workaround until December 1 since they also say tha
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by bpeebles 4y ago
There are traveling carnivals to things like state/county fairs, as well as just big empty parking lots of malls/etc for a few weeks, with significant g-force rides. So well over a thousand locations in the US.
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by bpeebles 4y ago
Why do product announcements matter? Like I know many people like Apple's traditionally but they're just ads.
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by bpeebles 4y ago
It's still $5 but they say on the signup page they'll waive it if you ask because you can't afford it/can't send the money somehow. So it's still very accessible but very, very few spammers bother to do either
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by bpeebles 4y ago
Looked like no blackouts were needed yet.[0] > California ISO power grid peak demand hit 52,061 MW, a new all-time record. Still holding in EEA3 - no load shed. Conservation is making a difference. ow.ly/brMu50KBKHT 0. https:&#x2F
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by bpeebles 4y ago
Probably not super relevant outside of the Washington, DC area (although maybe other regions have it), but a multiple localities formed a general commuter support program and one of their benefits you can sign up for is up to 6 times per ye
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by bpeebles 4y ago
The vast majority of filers have no additional income to report that isn't already reported with their SSN. And the current standard deduction is big enough, many people won't have additional deductions. And all of the "IRS d
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by bpeebles 4y ago
I'd say its hard to start as a new Wikipedia editor if you only goal is to make article X or make huge changes to article Y that is somewhat controversial. On the other hand, if you start in Wikipedia by doing simple edits in non-contr
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by bpeebles 4y ago
It's just as easy for a game developer to say "eh we're no longer using that blockchain for game assets" or otherwise make your "purchase" (which isn't really a purchase) unusable with a blockchain based s
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by bpeebles 4y ago
It hasn't failed. I'm not sure the final outcome of the current debacle but there's still nothing that matches Heroku. I've been using it professionally for 6+ years now and it just works more than most other things I&#x
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by bpeebles 4y ago
That is the default on many Linuxes' bashes but it's not universal and you can turn it on or off using HISTCONTROL: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Bash-Vari...
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by bpeebles 4y ago
As my sibling comments say, you can ask for it. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:REFUND Also it being deleted once doesn't mean it can't ever be made. May be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by bpeebles 4y ago
The point is less visibility/criticism. Since this is confirming pretty bad news (the attackers had access to the environment variables.) The concept of a Friday night news dump is a fairly well-worn, but basically true, trope.
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by bpeebles 4y ago
There doesn't seem to be anything different now than 6 hours ago. So posting it after 8pm EDT/5pm PDT Friday seems very intentional.
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by bpeebles 4y ago
I had posted the most relevant paragraphs in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31255450 but it probably should be here too: >On April 7, 2022, a threat actor obtained access to a Heroku database and downloaded stored
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by bpeebles 4y ago
New update at https://status.heroku.com/incidents/2413 as of MAY 5, 2022 02:21 UTC the core paragraphs are > On April 7, 2022, a threat actor obtained access to a Heroku database and downloaded stored customer GitHu
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by bpeebles 4y ago
The read-only post from January said > Today, git.io is increasingly being used for malicious purposes. So my guess is they observed an increase use of some number of existing git.io URLs (perhaps where the destination URL was squatted o
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by bpeebles 5y ago
You don't list any so I'll bite, I guess. What "cryptocurrency" company isn't a "scam" as basically defined in the post?
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by bpeebles 5y ago
Python, I believe, is getting this feature in 3.11, which is due out in October. But the first 3.11 alpha release got some news talking about it: https://docs.python.org/3.11/whatsnew/3.11.html
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by bpeebles 5y ago
Right but they're still requiring you to set it as the default search engine or you can't use it on Chrome outside of an Incognito window. That's such bad behavior (and I know it's a hard market to break into) I can&#x27
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by bpeebles 5y ago
What do NFTs add to gaming compared to the status quo of in-game purchases that already exists in many games?
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by bpeebles 5y ago
Ah, I hadn't come across them. My feeling is still a minority of sites use Akamai's DNS for their public-facing names, so probably those sites would be affected that way. Although either way the site is down once the cache expires
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by bpeebles 5y ago
So far it seems to be an Akamai internal DNS look up problem. That is, it seems if they need to resolve the hostname of the origin to serve a page they front for, it fails but I haven't seen any actual DNS failures on my side or othe
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by bpeebles 5y ago
> Even we cannot see your decision contents. Reads to me it's impossible for you to see them, as if you used client-side encryption of some sort. It's good to hear it's well protected as is, but I'd reword it. For the

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