conquistadog

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by conquistadog 3y ago
I find it refreshing when someone steps downward for perspective (if perhaps also necessity), having done so myself in the past.
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by conquistadog 3y ago
Turnstile fails spectacularly for me using the materialistic app to read HN articles. Not sure yet why.
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by conquistadog 3y ago
There is only one "now", is there not? All else is perception of speed.
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by conquistadog 3y ago
I was shocked when the local auto zone or equivalent looked up my car by plate and knew stuff I'd have objected to.
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by conquistadog 3y ago
Similar experience. I bought a Kia last month. The salesman was insistent that his "delivery checklist" needed to be complete or he'd be in trouble with his manager. It included sitting with me in the car to make sure the a
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by conquistadog 4y ago
> there is still room for my ilk in the tech world. There is. I'm trying to hire more of it as we speak.
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by conquistadog 4y ago
I've spent many years becoming quite fluent in bash. It's not trivial. But all objections here are surmountable if not outright features. Python is the right tool for many jobs. But so is bash, for someone willing to truly lea
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by conquistadog 7y ago
Org is just a shorthand as far as I know. Emacs Org-Mode works with files typically ending in ".org". I prefer to avoid the confusion by saying "Org-Mode" and "Org-Mode files" fully (and, I believe, properly).
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by conquistadog 8y ago
A fix is indeed a change, even if minor. To be fair, my own distaste for clickbait is palpable here. But I think I can suspend it in light of the importance of this article's bigger point. I've always thought this sounded like a g
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by conquistadog 8y ago
I find that GV is also excellent at inbound robocall and spam rejection, FWIW.
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by conquistadog 8y ago
Even an incomplete blacklist might be helpful, just in the interest of keeping perfect from being the enemy of good.
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by conquistadog 8y ago
Ring customer here. I recently shared a video of crime on my property using the neighborhoods feature. I also downloaded the video to my phone, in order to email a copy of it to cops who asked for it (and apparently don't participate
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by conquistadog 8y ago
By obscuring the real destination, it's also terrible for security.
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by conquistadog 8y ago
Is there a way to exclude results that don't actually contain all of the search terms? For example, results for +chicken +neutrino should not include this [1] because the word chicken isn't there. Quotes and plus signs both fail t
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by conquistadog 8y ago
I suspect this will continue until any such service can be successfully marketed on the actual merit of the actual service provided, without the hype (or even the mention) that it's an AI-based service.
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by conquistadog 8y ago
In this case at least, we can thank the media for the acquittal -- if you count the magazine among the media. It's a little less dramatic than it might have been, since his artwork as the catalyst had nothing particularly to do with th
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by conquistadog 8y ago
For self-hosters like me, I like and recommend Gitea [1] (based on gog). Same workflow as GitHub, but in your own hands. You can open it up to the masses or keep it close to the vest, your call. A Docker version is available, but its Go-nes
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by conquistadog 8y ago
People seem to have much greater fear of spectacular and bizarre deaths than of considerably more likely but relatively mundane deaths.
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by conquistadog 8y ago
Right. Given their size, I'm not sure how painful this amount would be to the offender. Too low, and it's just a cost of doing business. A percentage penalty (of nationwide if not worldwide revenue) might prove much more concer
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by conquistadog 8y ago
Robert Reich has become a very compelling and rational voice on these issues, making the problems and their causes much easier to understand. I strongly recommend his documentary at http://inequalityforall.com as well numerous
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by conquistadog 8y ago
No offense intended. By now your actual main point has been addressed, so I'll simply apologize for mistaking what your point was really about.
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by conquistadog 8y ago
The randomness of the website is irrelevant to the requirement, at least as I understand it.
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by conquistadog 8y ago
Let's consider the social contracts that intellectual property protections exist to fulfill in the first place. For trademarks, for me at least, that seems to center on preventing various harms resulting from consumer confusion, delibe
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by conquistadog 8y ago
"Worse, the destination would say '250 OK' to every e-mail I sent them so I had no way of knowing that the messages had been sent to the big bitbucket in the sky. I got annoyed" This. I go to a lot of trouble to follow
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by conquistadog 8y ago
Scrappy founder here. Telegram crushes it for low latency, instantly synched desktop/mobile flexibility, easy topic channels and groups, and trivial bot API. I've not seen anything do what it does as perfomantly. For code, wiki,
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by conquistadog 8y ago
You make a fair point, but that advice is a very hard ask for some. Just looking for some reassurance.
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by conquistadog 8y ago
Very interested. How much about one's idea must be disclosed? Is there any protection for secret sauce?
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by conquistadog 8y ago
How does the existence of a catch-all, of any kind, make it not a "valid business domain?"
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by conquistadog 8y ago
What technical means do you use to detect a catch-all address? I know of no reliable method for that purpose, since receiving server cooperation would be required and could not be trusted.
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by conquistadog 8y ago
What constitutes a "valid business email", exactly? I entered one, clicked "verify", and was warned to "enter a valid business email." I assure you, I did. What's the trouble?

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