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by colimbarna 2y ago
Google will be prohibited from doing that under the DOJ's proposal.
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by colimbarna 2y ago
I agree with you, but I go one step further: I am disappointed by OSM raster tiles and especially Google's digital tiles because even they show barely enough information, if you compare them to old style printed street directories. I t
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by colimbarna 2y ago
Sometimes the alternative blows up in your face though.
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by colimbarna 2y ago
I agree, I also dislike the term SQL injection. But the problem isn't that there is a query, there problem is that the source code of one program is constructed by string manipulation in the source code of another program. XSS issues (
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by colimbarna 2y ago
Do you mean you switched to self-managed GitLab, or you have a self-managed GitLab that you keep around as a backup plan?
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by colimbarna 2y ago
It's closer to the truth than you usually get. They're having a bad day, it's completely true. It's the start of my day, but I guess this is the middle of the night for them. There's no such thing as unicorns, but t
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by colimbarna 2y ago
Hold for me is pretty good. I've never used the phonetree feature, but I think it's often the case that I don't know which button I need to press: I have to listen to them all first, then decide which one. Commonly I have to
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by colimbarna 2y ago
Isn't it entirely dependent on the airlines, what counts as one itinery? How could I contractually obligate them to something they didn't agree to be contractually obligated to? (BTW: I've had multiairline itineraries many ti
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by colimbarna 2y ago
I can't believe they haven't started using three digits and an emoji.
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by colimbarna 2y ago
Cookie disclaimers are not GDPR. They're also completely optional; you can have a fully functional modern website that stores state in cookies and not put in a cookie banner. Businesses make choices not to do that and we've become
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by colimbarna 2y ago
Yes please! Firefox used to have a fantastic feature where I could crash it, and it would have a tab that contained my previous session within it. It would be there forever, between restarts and restores. I could have a kind of chain of ses
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by colimbarna 2y ago
If you want to go beyond writing a configuration.nix then you don't want a beginner friendly anything. Configuration.nix does at least as much as any user-friendly operating system does.
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by colimbarna 2y ago
> On the other hand, the goal is to get away with fraud, not to convince an international community who will likely look for any confirmation of their suspicion. Despite my joke in a sibling comment, this is key. When you're a polit
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by colimbarna 2y ago
Thanks. Note to self: Next time I want to rig election results, generate a random integer between 54.2% and 54.3% of the vote and count it as the winner's vote, subtract from total pool, wash rinse repeat.
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by colimbarna 2y ago
Most countries with presidential systems and FPTP have third party runs to such an extent that it's impossible to decide who the first, second, third... party is. It's more than such and such a famous politician runs for the presi
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by colimbarna 2y ago
Desert, n, stress on the first syllable, means a place without much rain, but it comes from the notion of being deserted so sometimes it just means an unpopulated area. To desert, v, stress on the second syllable, means to leave/abando
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by colimbarna 2y ago
In addition to the UK, it's almost certain that this had high level political influence between Australia's prime minister and the US president. I don't think the perspective that the US would be willing to damage their relat
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by colimbarna 2y ago
There's a fair number of apostrophes in fact. Here's an example: https://maps.app.goo.gl/ZSVi4GfuAgcUspm2A (Note that Google's database seems to lack the apostrophe in that name). Rules such as the following
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by colimbarna 2y ago
See my comment sibling to yours for some concerns with `env $(cat file)`; I would have these and then some with sourcing the file even in a subshell. You can do whatever you want in a shell script which can have effects outside of the subsh
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by colimbarna 2y ago
Further addition, I haven't investigated dotenv deeply, but I suppose it would be a command that specialises in making sure the contents of .env are just environmental variables that get defined. The `env` command as I wrote it is prob
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by colimbarna 2y ago
env $(cat .env) my-cmd-wanting-dotenv would, though, wouldn't it? ETA: the main difference between `env` and `dotenv` seems to be that `env` gets its arguments from the command line, whereas `dotenv` gets its arguments from a
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by colimbarna 2y ago
Forwarding traditionally looked like this: 1. I tell my email client from colimbarna@fine.server.example to send an email to eisenstein@old.server.example using my.correctly.configured.smtp.server.example 2. my.correctly.configured.smtp.ser
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by colimbarna 2y ago
"Sed" is the name of a specific tool. It is not defined by the GNU tools, but has existed in some form since 1974, well before Perl. GNU sed and POSIX sed both support BRE and EREs, but not PCREs. Maybe there's some other imp
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by colimbarna 2y ago
Yes exactly, they match the end of a line, not a newline character. Some examples from documentation: man 7 regex: '$' (matching the null string at the end of a line) pcre2pattern: The circumflex and dollar metacharacters are zero
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by colimbarna 3y ago
3.14 is about 0.00159 less than pi, whereas 22/7 is about 0.00126 greater than pi, making pi approximation day closer to pi than pi day.