palsecam

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by palsecam 10mo ago
Yes @ 444 ( https://http.cat/status/444 ). That’s indeed the lightest-weight option. > You have an image on your error page, which some crappy bots will download over and over again. Most bots won’t download subresour
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by palsecam 10mo ago
I do something quite similar with nginx: # Nothing to hack around here, I’m just a teapot: location ~* \.(?:php|aspx?|jsp|dll|sql|bak)$ { return 418; } error_page 418 /418.html; No hard block, instead reply to bots
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by palsecam 1y ago
Exactly. The Atom feed of my website declares an XSLT stylesheet which transforms it to HTML. That way it can be served directly to, and renders prettily by, a web browser (see https://paul.fragara.com/feed.xml ). For the cu
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by palsecam 1y ago
Btw, a Tor relay can be relatively lightweight. I run one on a $5/mo VPS (which does many other things). You need 1 GiB of RAM, but a single basic CPU core largely suffices. My relay sends/receives ~150 GiB of traffic per day (~15
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by palsecam 1y ago
Oh but yes, Firefox (and Chrome) do support XSLT natively! See https://paul.fragara.com/feed.xml as an example (the Atom feed of my website, styled with XSLT). FTR, there’s also XSLTProcessor ( https://developer.m
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by palsecam 1y ago
> and directly running it? How much more personally involved can you get? Ms. Farmer is the CEO of BNSF Railway[1], she is the one “directly running it”. Moreover, Berkshire/Buffet is notorious for _not_ micro-managing, for lettin
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by palsecam 1y ago
> My pet theory is the BigCo's are walking a tightrope of model safety and are intentionally incorporating some uncanny valley into their products, since if people really knew that AI could "talk like Pete" they would get
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by palsecam 1y ago
Nice username btw ;-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo
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by palsecam 1y ago
Ironic indeed. For ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip (I didn’t get it at first) The Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists,
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by palsecam 1y ago
“Reverse brain drain”, so to say. Well, good for Europe. Like it was good for the USA when (jewish) scientists emigrated there in the 30–40s.
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by palsecam 1y ago
You have a point, for sure; the _whole_ previous century (couple centuries, even) of Japan economical history is one-of-a-kind (as is Argentina’s). However, wtr. “lost decades are quite easy to understand with conventional economics”: that’
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by palsecam 1y ago
The “Lost Decades” (1990–2010), during which Japan GDP hardly grew and deflation occured: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Decades
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by palsecam 1y ago
> I'm positively surprised by some deputies remarks. Not personally surprised, but I agree, they talk sense and understand the matter quite well. Thanks for finding and sharing the debate video, btw! > Retailleau is either tot
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by palsecam 1y ago
Vladimir Arnol’d (the famous Russian mathematician) touches on that subject in his essay « Sur l’éducation mathématique » < https://smf.emath.fr/system/files/filepdf/Gaz-78-Arnold.pdf > (in French; Arnol’
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by palsecam 2y ago
(2015)
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A Great Old-Timey Game-Programming Hack (2013)(blog.moertel.com)
4 points by palsecam 2y ago|0 comments
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by palsecam 2y ago
I just removed interstital ads.
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by palsecam 2y ago
Thanks for letting me know. That’s not my choice but AdSense. However, I can manually disable ads like this one, I’ll look into it.
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by palsecam 2y ago
I’m glad you like it :-)
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by palsecam 2y ago
Thank you!
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by palsecam 2y ago
Ah, thanks for letting me know! I may have found a fix. I previously applied CSS `overscroll-behavior: contain` on <body>, it seems it also needs to be set on <html> (see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US&#x2
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by palsecam 2y ago
Using a lightweight PWA (progressive web app) is also an option: https://FreeSolitaire.win (self-plug). Doesn’t generate unwinnable games[1] & detects dead-ends. Works offline after the first visit. No ads until game over, a
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by palsecam 2y ago
That’s a fun variation of crosswords! I like it. Btw, a self-plug, for the polyglots out-there: https://paul.fragara.com/cw.html Poly -alphabets crosswords, mixing Latin and Cyrillic letters!
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by palsecam 2y ago
They are missing (for me too). Unfortunately, they are also missing on the Internet Archive ( https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.lanl.gov/media/pub... ) :-(
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by palsecam 2y ago
> While playing solitaire to while away the time during rest, Ulam asked himself a straightforward question: what are the chances that a hand laid out with 52 cards will come out successfully? It is a deceptively challenging problem—the
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by palsecam 2y ago
ZA (South Africa) is 15–20% of revenue.
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by palsecam 2y ago
There is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_without_words / https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Proof_without_wo...
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by palsecam 2y ago
Many thanks for that pointer!
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by palsecam 2y ago
> I wish I could double-click a card to automatically move it up to its respective suit stack (if possible) Oh but you can! But, as I said recently (in an e-mail to another player): “Someone once told me about how ‘double-click is fini
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by palsecam 2y ago
Yes, revenue is ads-based (and a few donations). I use Google AdSense. ~40% of players use an ad-blocker; I let them block ads, I don’t play cat-and-mouse.

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