dc396

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by dc396 6d ago
Mostly agreed. In a previous life, I used to write code, then got Peter Principled upwards to the point where I "trusted" the engineers under me to do their job. Did I understand all the code my team wrote? Of course not. Even if
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by dc396 17d ago
Elections have consequences. I doubt anyone rational would have thought it would be a useful expenditure of time to get into this particular pissing match, but here we are. Maybe in the next presidential election the 87 million eligible vot
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by dc396 25d ago
https://xkcd.com/386/
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by dc396 1mo ago
This is a troll, right?
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by dc396 2mo ago
This would argue that change of ownership of a domain should be treated equivalently to creation of a domain. Of course, given GDPR (or rather how the registrars have chosen to interpret GDPR to reduce their legal liability risk), ownership
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by dc396 3mo ago
I'm curious: can anyone provide an interpretation in which this agreement does not boil down to surrender by the US?
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by dc396 3mo ago
California has 11x the population of Utah, with California having around 250 people per square mile and Utah having 40 people per square mile. This probably plays more into the fire risk than the number of pine trees.
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by dc396 3mo ago
> And why is California uniquely fire prone? Combination of CA's climate (mediterranean), which leads to hot/dry summers exacerbated by global warming, natural ecology that evolved to handle that climate and fires (e.g., lodgep
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by dc396 4mo ago
Science? Maybe in an ideal world. However, how science actually gets done has always been at the mercy of social, cultural, institutional, and/or economic pressures.
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by dc396 4mo ago
Congress neutered itself, largely because it has been politically less risky to let the Executive branch do whatever they want, then either cheer it on or rage against it depending on party and what drives donations so congress members can
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by dc396 4mo ago
No. It's been a while, but I believe if you use multiple TXTs, resolvers can reorder them as they see fit. For example, label IN TXT "foo " IN TXT "bar " IN TXT "baz" You can have any number of
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by dc396 4mo ago
"The length limit of a DNS TXT record is 255 characters." Nope. That's the maximum length of a TXT record string. TXT record strings with the same owner name get concatenated together. The maximum for a TXT record is 65,280 o
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by dc396 4mo ago
As someone on the tail end of that birth cohort (and to quote Monty Python), "I'm not dead yet!". According to BLS (as pointed to by https://usafacts.org/answers/what-is-the-labor-force-partici... ), the
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by dc396 4mo ago
Seems the Trump administration is trying to use 1984 as a how-to: “And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.”
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by dc396 4mo ago
My understanding is that this NDA is far broader in scope than CUI. CUI restrictions only apply to information explicitly marked or identified as CUI. The draft NDA would apply to “confidential government information,” defined much more bro
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by dc396 4mo ago
For one version of this, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_Sunshine_of_the_Spotle...
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by dc396 4mo ago
How many people in NYC that are buying raw milk do you think are doing so to make cheese or kefir?
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by dc396 4mo ago
If DJB is "hated", it isn't because he's a lone author (Linus Torvalds was once a lone author and I don't think he was hated). It's because he can be an asshole. To quote George Bernard Shaw, “The reasonable ma
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by dc396 5mo ago
Oh joy. Now the volunteers maintaining the IETF RFC tools get to waste their time trying to prevent folks who think it's cute to litter all over the IETF drafts. I suppose it was inevitable. Another reason why we can't have nice t
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by dc396 5mo ago
I was hoping someone had just shown that DNS was Turing complete (extending https://web.cs.ucla.edu/~todd/research/hotnets21.pdf ). Using the DNS as a remote file store isn't as interesting. Some quibbles: -
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by dc396 5mo ago
See "inflation". Look at the outcomes of countries who remove controls on printing money (e.g., Zimbabwe, Venezuela).
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by dc396 5mo ago
You mean the ones that are the result of experience through controlled clinical trials with statistical analyses and error bars, yep, sure. I guess I have a bit more faith in those leaflets and the testing regimes that generates them than t
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by dc396 5mo ago
> Ok, and? According to our new AI overlords, a short synopsis of potential risks of BPC 157 based on mechanistic and animal work to date (don't know human risks because there haven't been sufficient clinical studies): * Possib
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by dc396 5mo ago
> It is very safe and tolerable. Can you point to the clinical trials that demonstrate this? > Doctors seem to be giving GLP peptides out like candy and those are injected. There have been several _thousand_ clinical trials that have
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by dc396 6mo ago
Loans, mostly. Artemis costs about $4 billion per mission, with around $90 billion already spent. The war in Iran is costing the US about $1 billion per day, so (as of today), $35 billion spent. The US debt is $39,000 billion ($39 trillion)
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by dc396 6mo ago
/remind me after the 2026 elections.
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by dc396 6mo ago
This is a bit like saying sound waves have no attribution layer for music. The Internet is a transport medium. It sounds like you are asking if it possible to (somehow) associate universal, intrinsic, and immutable attribution metadata with
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by dc396 6mo ago
Was wondering how long it'd take you to come in and trash talk DNSSEC. And now with added FUD ("and once you press that button it's much less likely that you're going to leave your provider"). At least you're c
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by dc396 6mo ago
I signed up for a Pro account yesterday, now when I try to access it, I get shuffled off to the 'create a new account' page. Trying to access a human in support to understand wtf has been going on, perhaps unsurprisingly, has been
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by dc396 8mo ago
As others have pointed out, using 'tmptest' works until someone buys tmptest -- unlikely, but people will buy anything these days. I always use the ISO-3166 "user-assigned" 2-letter codes (AA, QM-QZ, XA-XZ, ZZ), with the

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