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by istillwritecode 3y ago
Google went about two years until they showed their first ad. They initially thought they would be providing search to companies for their intranet.
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by istillwritecode 3y ago
It's surprising that the paper doesn't even mention SRS (Sender Rewrite Scheme).
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by istillwritecode 3y ago
I just stopped using it. I can understand that they might have had problems with abuse, but I won't use any of their authentication options.
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by istillwritecode 3y ago
Bacon is the candy of the meat family.
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by istillwritecode 3y ago
Essentially all browsers are ad-supported, including Firefox.
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by istillwritecode 3y ago
I'm old enough to remember when people said they would never buy a Japanese car because of the lingering resentment over WW2.Some people won't buy Fords because of his alleged anti-Semitism. Some people won't buy Teslas. Time
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by istillwritecode 3y ago
I like how he tried to disprove the Riemann Hypothesis. That's actually how I first heard of Alan Turing, by seeing his paper on the subject. https://www-users.cse.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/turing.zeta.pdf
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by istillwritecode 3y ago
I was a twilio customer developer until they instituted a change that demanded to know my personal phone number in order to login to their account. They claimed this was for security, but TOTP doesn't require a phone number. After a me
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by istillwritecode 3y ago
I will continue to use reddit.
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by istillwritecode 3y ago
Don't forget that the vast majority of users don't use third party apps.
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by istillwritecode 3y ago
I fully expect to someday lose access to my gmail account because I regularly delete cookies and I won't give them a phone number. If they won't accept a password as proof of ownership on an account, then the account will someday
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by istillwritecode 3y ago
I assume the goal is to keep people logged in. The bullshit reason is to get rid of passwords. I have passwords that are strong and 20 years old, so I regard passkey as evil.
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by istillwritecode 3y ago
Richard Hamming used to travel around and give that talk at every university he visited. I was lucky enough to hear him speak during my PhD studies around 1980.
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by istillwritecode 3y ago
I continue to be underwhelmed by the impact of machine learning (which some people refer to as AI). It certainly has interesting applications, and I expect it be important as a generator of entertainment. I'm just tired of the repeated
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by istillwritecode 3y ago
I'll pay attention to these things when they are open source instead of a service.
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by istillwritecode 4y ago
There are ridership estimates but I am very skeptical. Fares are expected to be 80% of airfares but airfares to Fresno aren't cheap.
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by istillwritecode 4y ago
I will no longer give my phone number to a cloud provider. Count me out.
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by istillwritecode 4y ago
The products they offer don't have wide appeal, though they keep technology enthusiasts amused.
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by istillwritecode 4y ago
No tolerance for drugs? So you're going to outlaw bars? Maybe you haven't heard but marijuana is legal, and not all drugs are the same.
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by istillwritecode 4y ago
ft.com epitomizes what is wrong with web, with a big ass modal about cookies that only goes away if you accept their cookies. I would be happy to see such sites go bankrupt because they piss of so many potential readers who won't see t
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by istillwritecode 4y ago
It's time to stop using medium for your blogging. I won't sign up for an account to read stuff - the world already has too many accounts. I get that the author doesn't want to use SMS. I mostly use signal, but I sometimes use
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by istillwritecode 4y ago
I'm probably one of the few users here who saw it when it first came out.
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by istillwritecode 4y ago
I've used TeX since the 80s. I also find it surprising that nothing has come along to replace it. The entire LaTeX ecosystem is showing its age, and one of the problems is that it is not designed for reading on variable width screens.
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by istillwritecode 4y ago
You're only 40? Hold my beer. I'm 68.
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by istillwritecode 4y ago
Don't worry. They are flammable.
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by istillwritecode 4y ago
A perfect reminder of what a shitshow the web has become.
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by istillwritecode 4y ago
I gave signal my landline. They don't need SMS.
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by istillwritecode 4y ago
Reviewing is not the cause of the economic problems in academic publishing. The economic problems arise from the car at of copy and production editing. That's where the money goes. See https://f1000research.com/articles
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by istillwritecode 4y ago
Typescript: uh no.
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by istillwritecode 4y ago
I'm a linux user for over 25 years. I want my development environment to match production and that almost never involves new software.

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