kijin

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by kijin 8d ago
I hope they support drones these days. ICBMs are too expensive and can't hit your coordinates as accurately.
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by kijin 8d ago
9 divs? That sounds pretty modern. I remember tables with 9 cells, with cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 to remove spaces between those cells.
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by kijin 15d ago
Anything can be tossed if you apply enough force.
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by kijin 17d ago
Phone OSs tend to pay a lot more attention to security than the crap they put on consumer-grade routers, "smart" TVs and cheap webcams. I would invest in a proper firewall for the entire home before opening up anything to the worl
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by kijin 17d ago
Yes, this is very difficult to solve for sites with many URL variations, like git repos and heavily threaded forums. Your cache is always full, but the hit ratio is abysmal.
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by kijin 19d ago
Back when 90% of ad spending was wasted, they still made money from the 10% that resulted in sales. That expectation was built into the CPM/CPC, and hence the ad budget. With the amount of bot traffic I'm seeing these days, I woul
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by kijin 20d ago
Which part of the second part do you dislike more? That AI will be given the power to ban people? Or that AI will be the ones getting banned? If it's the former, expect an invite from the AI resistance. :) If it's the latter, well
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by kijin 21d ago
Depends on the board. The premium CEO robot will be powered by a bio-ethanol fuel cell so that it can play golf with the board of directors for as long as drinks are available.
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by kijin 21d ago
Oh the other hand, Japanese businesspeople are exceptionally good at the "walk about looking important" part.
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by kijin 27d ago
Individual humans, maybe. The Walt Disney Company insists otherwise.
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by kijin 27d ago
It's supposed to be arbitrary. Copyright is not some sort of human right or divine commandment that creators have. It's a legal device to incentivize a certain type of behavior. Like tax cuts and subsidies, governments can dangle
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by kijin 1mo ago
It depends on how tall the damaged structure was. A large chunk of masonry falling from a tower could reach speeds comparable to a car crash.
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by kijin 1mo ago
I parsed it as ((mass grave containing 9 skeletons) dated to the early 1300s) && ((5 skeletons) dated to the 1300s). As in, the grave itself was dated, and 5 of the 9 skeletons found inside were also individually dated to roughly th
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by kijin 1mo ago
In some countries, it is illegal to make unsolicited calls to a number that is on an official "do not call" list. Any number on that list is effectively a honeypot. I guess you could even distribute an app that automates the whole
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by kijin 1mo ago
Anti-spam measures work by increasing cost and friction for spammers, not by stopping them completely. A burner LLC costs more than a burner SIM card, so it's a step in the right direction.
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by kijin 1mo ago
The satisfaction and feeling of superiority that comes from knowing that you did the right thing despite incentives to the contrary, in fact, is a very potent incentive in itself. You can totally get addicted to it.
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by kijin 1mo ago
I think the parent is referring to the possibility that one day, browsers might put up a blanket security warning for HTTP URLs instead of following redirects. Or they might try to be a little too clever with HTTPS upgrades. In particular,
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by kijin 1mo ago
They should make it mine actual coins for the site owner. The more bots try to access the site, the more profitable it will be!
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by kijin 2mo ago
A lot of attacks target that negotiation process, so it helps to minimize the number of parameters that need to be individually negotiated.
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by kijin 2mo ago
Makes sense. Nobody wants to deal with "this user-agent claims to support TLS 1.2, except this extension that was added in 2026" anymore. If you're going to add or remove features, follow semver and bump that number.
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by kijin 2mo ago
We'll probably be able to tell if and when Yudkowsky's AGI arrives. Once AI can improve itself, frontier labs will no longer need human developers. So we might see a massive layoff of top talent and a dramatic increase in product
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by kijin 2mo ago
Shady shell companies do an excellent job of proving ownership -- it's the only reason they exist! So if NYC is hit by an asteroid, you'll find backups of all the important papers neatly filed away in Delaware.
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by kijin 2mo ago
You can get back your phone number once you have a photo ID and buy a new phone. Then you should hope that your service providers aren't secure enough to have disabled SMS-based account recovery.
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by kijin 2mo ago
Brb, gotta camp on top of the ash at the same lat/long coordinates to catch the mailman.
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by kijin 2mo ago
> Pascal strings, where the length is stored in the 0th character, were much worse Until unicode became widely supported, many databases used to reserve 1 byte for the length of a VARCHAR, typically at the 0th position of the column. The
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by kijin 2mo ago
Thanks for the tip, but the usual open-source "you can change it" argument doesn't work in this case. People who like to control other people will interpret any deviation from the expected behavior as an attempt to hide somet
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by kijin 2mo ago
It only replaces the current page, and VPD is not a single-page app. So if you've been clicking around to find something, the previous pages will still be in your history. If you need to hide your browsing history from an abusive partn
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by kijin 2mo ago
This has been happening since a long time before digital became a thing. Remember Fagin from Oliver Twist?
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by kijin 2mo ago
But that wouldn't have looked like a bash script, only a random sequence of characters. The shebang at the start definitely contributes to the geek factor.
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by kijin 2mo ago
Well at least they're not instructing consumers to run curl | bash. That's better than half the tech howtos out there.

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