philsnow

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by philsnow 6d ago
> It's unclear what the value proposition is, paying for a MitM proxy. Is that not exactly cloudflare?
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by philsnow 28d ago
People who are new to skiing/snowboarding are often surprised that their faces get sunburned, because of course it's cold and so how could they get burned
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by philsnow 2mo ago
I don't keep anything on my phone anymore. I use gadzorp.
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by philsnow 3mo ago
Yeah tuns (a word well known to homebrewers) is not as esoteric as yttria (a word known to.. chemists?)
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by philsnow 4mo ago
> so hit play on sandstorm For a brief hopeful moment, I thought this was the .io kind of sandstorm
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by philsnow 4mo ago
I'm feeling nostalgic for ~1998 when I ran xscreensaver hacks in the background on the root X window (so the "desktop" I guess)
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by philsnow 4mo ago
There's a greentext that's been floating around for a while, I don't know the original author and can't remember the exact text to search for it, but it's along the lines of > my deepest fantasy is that one day I
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by philsnow 4mo ago
The story for sensitive/proprietary repositories doesn't feel well-fleshed-out yet: > Radicle supports private repositories that are only shared among a trusted set of peers, not the entire network. These are not encrypted at r
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by philsnow 4mo ago
My idea of the term "bleeding heart" is more like "painfully aware of the plight of people (and often wants to make sure you're also painfully aware of it)", whereas the author's tone struck me as simply charit
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by philsnow 4mo ago
Tarsnap has you put money into a stored balance, and when that balance goes to zero (and after a grace period), they delete your backups. Not exactly a subscription since it's a stored-balance system, but still.
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by philsnow 5mo ago
They might like to hear "Michael Jackson? Like the guy who wrote the book about scotch??" once in a while
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by philsnow 5mo ago
Right, but you can use a different (codegen) model to make that code.
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by philsnow 5mo ago
Thank you for posting this, I've been increasingly frustrated with ice recently and have been considering paying for bartender, now i won't.
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by philsnow 5mo ago
Nearly every brand on the "approved" list is outerwear, hiking equipment, knives, tools, and "EDC" gear. Is this because of the Palantir / techbro culture that the author is immersed in, or for some systemic or econ
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by philsnow 5mo ago
> Most engineers do not know this number. How could they not ? When I penciled this out ~18 years ago, I included the amortized cost of all the interviews it took to hire a given engineer as well. It's not rocket surgery, as they
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by philsnow 5mo ago
The clearest demonstration that the knife edge is dumb is that there isn't a similar sharp edge around the exterior.
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by philsnow 5mo ago
I'm reminded by the caveman skill of the clipped writing style used in telegrams, and your post further reminded me of "standard" books of telegram abbreviations. Take a look at [0]; could we train models to use this kind of
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by philsnow 6mo ago
thither is one of the only words in the english language that has the ablative case marked on it https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ablative_case
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by philsnow 6mo ago
When you're killing (C-u, C-k, C-w, etc) + yanking (C-y), you can also use yank-pop (bound to M-y in bash and zsh by default) to replace the thing you just yanked with the thing you had killed before it. $ asdf<C-w> $
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by philsnow 6mo ago
Answer it as if somebody had knocked on your front door: "who is it?"
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by philsnow 6mo ago
( https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ken-lee )
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by philsnow 6mo ago
Fork-then-thread works, does it not?
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by philsnow 6mo ago
> The main downside of this was memory usage. You would have to load all of your code and libraries N types and in-process caches would become less effective. You can load modules and then fork child processes. Children will share memor
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by philsnow 6mo ago
I agree with you that they're more or less equal. I don't like the idea of my reverse proxy dealing with letsencrypt for me, personally, but that's just a preference. One tricky thing about nginx though, from the "If is
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by philsnow 6mo ago
Unexpectedly, I love the animated ascii diagrams, very cogmind-esque. Anybody know how they designed those?
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by philsnow 7mo ago
I got a 4-pack of zigbee power plugs that report usage, and I have a home assistant automation that goes ding (or whatever) when the washer or dryer had been using electricity for at least a few minutes and then stops using electricity.
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by philsnow 7mo ago
> In saying “every point,” we obviously have to turn a continuous problem into a discrete problem, and the choice of what level of resolution to use is non-trivial. Right now, when I set that resolution to only make a calculation for eac
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by philsnow 7mo ago
> The forced changeover from coal gas to natural gas is largely credited with a reduction of suicide by 40% after it was done. The mechanism of that reduction very well could be reducing the level of depression in the populace and thus s
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by philsnow 7mo ago
> Google Talk and Facebook Messenger were XMPP all the way through and worked with vanilla XMPP clients I remember this, it was great to connect to absolutely every chat platform with bitlbee and pretend that all my chats were just DMs o
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by philsnow 7mo ago
This is a great explanation; Prosody/ejabberd seem to kind of be "everything to everybody" but because they are so general it's hard to know if they're a good fit for any one particular purpose. Snikket seems to ju

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