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by bvinc 22d ago
I found a good solution. In the YouTube settings you can turn off your watch history. It’ll want you that your recommendations will not be as good. You can watch a YouTube short, but when you try to scroll to the next one, it’ll tell you th
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by bvinc 3y ago
I read this entire article but I’m still confused. What exactly is the financial motivation for keeping units empty? And is the concern the fact that the units are empty or are they concerned about the conditions of the empty units?
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by bvinc 3y ago
“Love-hate relationship” were the exact words that I used when I used go professionally every day. I could complain all day about things the language does obviously wrong, often in the name of simplicity. But after all my complaints I still
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by bvinc 3y ago
> right shifting adds zeros to the most significant side. So, using the same number we get… 1110 >> 4 -> 0000 1110
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by bvinc 3y ago
I don’t remember NYT. But I recall the other major poll site Real Clear Politics had an election map with a percentage chance for each state and they had Hillary at 99%. Their mistake was that they treated each state as an independent event
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by bvinc 3y ago
I see “blocklist” becoming more popular in programming. But it just occurred to me how bizarre and out of place it would be if the parent comment said “a blocklisted word”.
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by bvinc 3y ago
This sounds like an xwindows thing. The way popup menu windows work in x, is the program grabs all keyboard and mouse events.
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by bvinc 3y ago
Has someone made a faithful representation of ssh over quic? You could use quic’s built in certificates and multiple streams of data and create something very similar to ssh. Is anyone doing that?
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by bvinc 4y ago
My wife thinks they’re cute.
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by bvinc 4y ago
To be more clear, here is a quote from another article > The company said it would publish 17 of the author's books in their original form as The Roald Dahl Classic Collection along with the planned edited versions so "readers
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by bvinc 4y ago
Why did they feel the need to move the backslash key?
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by bvinc 4y ago
Might I suggest a spin on this: instead of blocking the IPs, consider serving up different content to those IPs. You could make a page that shames their domain name for stealing content. You could make a redirect page that redirects people
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by bvinc 4y ago
What’s to stop someone from sending unique last-modified dates to uniquely fingerprint browsers?
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by bvinc 4y ago
Is this one step closer towards signal being TikTok?
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by bvinc 4y ago
This article is crazy. Basically, big tech is a god, a fairy tale, a delusion, pushing unnecessary technology on all of us, and praying on poor tech workers by dangling stocks in front of them, and having big problems with racism and sexism
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by bvinc 4y ago
Make a version that uses different frequencies for different major companies.
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by bvinc 4y ago
People just use whatever their programming language provides. There's a concept of sorting "stability" in which equal elements stay in their original order relative to each other. If stability is important, then usually some
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by bvinc 4y ago
This is every company that deals with fraud of some sort. They collect evidence. Once evidence is damning enough, they ban, without giving any information. If they were to give out their evidence, then their evidence collection methods woul
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by bvinc 4y ago
Everyone else replying to you is trying to convince you with arguments that reddit isn't a good use of your time. As you already know, this won't work. You're already convinced. The only thing that works is a site blocker. I
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by bvinc 4y ago
So they checked 666 python repositories and fixed bugs in 69 of them. Interesting choice of numbers.
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by bvinc 4y ago
In those cases, Claritin and Zyrtec are allergy medicines. The -D indicates that this allergy medicine comes along with a decongestant. The version without the -D will just be the allergy medicine.
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by bvinc 5y ago
This is really good news. Whenever I see people talking about if previously infected people should be vaccinated, they always mention how we don't know how long protection lasts for previously infected people. This study includes thi
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by bvinc 5y ago
The conspiracy, which was not mentioned in this thread, but is all over youtube and twitter, is that the WEF is somehow going to reset everyone's wealth to zero and enact communism. A video where futurists predict that you'll rent
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by bvinc 5y ago
Here's what I did, I put up roadblocks to mindless browsing: Use firefox nightly on android and do the hackery required to install arbitrary extensions, and install the "Request Blocker" extension. Block all browsing front
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by bvinc 6y ago
I always thought this was a good idea for a company. Almost all of the electricity providers in Texas all buy energy at wholesale prices and lock customers into long term contracts. If you were an electricity provider, what would be the bes
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by bvinc 6y ago
> I find it disturbing that people have stopped supporting free speech when they stopped liking its content. You're misunderstanding the argument. The argument isn't that they don't like the content. The argument is that
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by bvinc 6y ago
Lifetime tenure is supposed to make them impartial and free from political pressure.
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by bvinc 6y ago
It's used often in rust. Rust crates are configured with toml files.
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by bvinc 6y ago
Someone should mention that one time that a leaked password database from Adobe was actually encrypted, instead of hashed. It lead to this XCKD comic: https://xkcd.com/1286/
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by bvinc 6y ago
> As a C programmer I would say they are my favorite class of bugs, because they are so easy to fix, I know what you're trying to say, because at least 95% of segmentation faults are easy to fix, but I take issue with this. The har

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