jimsug

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by jimsug 1y ago
Interesting side effect of having to choose calendar years is that it misses the break between Xmas and New Years' Day that is often a good-value time to take off (and many people would take off anyway).
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by jimsug 1y ago
... > very plainly morally and ethically unambiguous unambiguous[ly] _what_? Bad? Good?
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by jimsug 2y ago
As mentioned - only works for YT. I also don't know if the crowdsourced skiplist works for podcasts as well as for youtube ads, since I think a larger proportion of podcasts use dynamic ad insertion - do they have consistent length? Mi
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by jimsug 2y ago
Do shops usually show both prices, so you can see before you have it rung up "how much the government is fleecing you"?
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by jimsug 5y ago
Agree that it could be seen as excessive, but this was not just in response to these commits, but also to the university's failure to act once they were informed of them. They university, and indeed, the researchers, only acted once th
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by jimsug 5y ago
> We just want you to know that we would never intentionally hurt the Linux kernel community and never introduce security vulnerabilities. Our work was conducted with the best of intentions and is all about finding and fixing security vu
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by jimsug 6y ago
I think that it's straightforward enough in Australia, but that's partially because we file and pay only federal taxes, with states levying payroll tax, land tax (or stamp duty), etc, but those are less frequent transactions and g
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by jimsug 6y ago
This reminds me somewhat of people who aren't particularly skilled at math, or are proud of not being particularly skilled at math. A common refrain is "I'm hopeless with math/numbers". And to be frank, calculator
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by jimsug 6y ago
On android, Firefox beta (and maybe stable; haven't used stable in a while) allows you to have bookmarks as well as open all links in a private tab by default. On desktop I use multi account containers and wipe history on exit, and hav
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by jimsug 6y ago
> On Android this is more acceptable since you need a Google account for the OS itself anyway. I don't think you do, I'm pretty sure I've skipped that step during device setup on occasion.
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by jimsug 6y ago
> If you show up at the polls to intimidate voters you get arrested. Yes, if this is consistently and fairly enforced, I agree - only doubting that it is because I honestly don't know, and hopefully never have to find out firsthand.
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by jimsug 6y ago
I don't quite understand why the expect that there would be ~6x the number detected, though, assuming that the ~8500 cases detected is accurate. It would be very (and probably statistically naive) if the minimum total cases was simpl
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by jimsug 6y ago
I'm not sure that refusing a gay wedding cake to a straight person would avoid your action as being discriminatory toward a protected class, since that's the effect. Perhaps it would. I also don't know that I would want Trump
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by jimsug 6y ago
Not sure where 15,000 to 45,000 comes from, as the report itself concludes only c.8500 cases of duplicate voting. I'm also not sure about the methodology there, so perhaps someone could explain it to me. From what it looks like, GAI st
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by jimsug 6y ago
I don't know whether the distributed nature is a problem, though. Voter intimidation is a lot easier, for example, if you know where and when to turn up. You would probably find it easier to tamper with a voting machine if you know whe
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by jimsug 7y ago
Firstly, thanks! This has been immensely useful to me, and yes, my main uses have been primarily web scraping and then piping it into various channels. Been running it on a cheapish VM for a couple years, very reliable and lets you monitor
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by jimsug 7y ago
Interestingly the most... clever, if not necessarily convincing, phishing attempt I've heard of, went like this: 1. Phishers call someone and pretend to be from their bank. If they've guessed the right bank and the person gives aw
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by jimsug 7y ago
I get these calls from time to time, and any bank with proper training should be 100% okay with you questioning their authenticity. There are some replies which indicate that the agent is annoyed... That's just poor training. As for th
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by jimsug 7y ago
Whoops: [2] indicates that using singular they is as good as 'he' for male referents, and better than 'she' for female referents.
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by jimsug 7y ago
Studies around singular they/them: [1] it was in use long before the prescriptivist grammar movement (yes, I know you've raised that this has shifted but I just wanted to highlight that this is not a novel use): https:/&#x2F
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by jimsug 7y ago
Well, that's not entirely true either. > The driver's coming at 5pm and they're always on time, so we'll need to be ready for them. Seems pretty unambiguously alright to use it in the singular there, unless there&#x27
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by jimsug 7y ago
I don't know if we're in the minority, but I agree. Facebook has just become the defacto shared calendar for me and my friends, so I spend less than a few minutes on it on average a day. Just checked and I spent 7 minutes on it on
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by jimsug 9y ago
You don't necessarily need to hire a lawyer, but I've always found this to be one of the pains of the American costs system. On the other hand, a court can't really order you to work for the company, so even if by some miracl
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by jimsug 10y ago
The legal enforceability of browsewrap is questionable. Certainly if it's not prominent enough, it would be a weak argument.
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by jimsug 10y ago
And this is why I use uMatrix, despite the little bits of extra hassle I go through when visiting sites for the first time.
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A small Australian town wants to go entirely off the electricity grid(abc.net.au)
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