xaphod

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by xaphod 16d ago
I got this same email about an hour ago. About two weeks ago I received a notification from Dropbox that somebody signed in that I did not recognize. I immediately changed my password and enabled 2FA. There were no open unknown sessions or
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by xaphod 2y ago
This reminds me of this old Feynman video where he talks about how people use different methods in their heads when counting, seems relevant: https://youtu.be/Cj4y0EUlU-Y?t=135
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by xaphod 3y ago
chess.com has different "AI players" with personalities that you can play against.
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by xaphod 3y ago
Interesting, for me it happens sometimes if I'm badly hungover. Instantly after closing my eyes, I start seeing cartoon-like shapes that rapidly mutate to something different. Usually it's faces of people. The shapes are very dim,
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by xaphod 3y ago
I think they mean peloton. It's not English, I believe it is French, meaning a group of bicyclers. In this context it refers to the peloton leading the race.+-
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by xaphod 3y ago
>I hate that UI. Why can't we just click on the "man", and then click on a spot to drop it? You can, actually. When you click it, all of the roads that have street view are highlighted with blue color. In this mode you can
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by xaphod 3y ago
Oh you were able to google the exact thing after reading what it was? Great job!
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by xaphod 3y ago
I saw once a support person from $COMPANY_I_WORK_IN ask a client to send their private key in email, so they could troubleshoot something. I pressed "Reply all" and called it out, and was yelled at later.
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by xaphod 4y ago
I wonder what model this site is using. FWIW I tried with ChatGPT (both GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 versions), and it does a better job (tried multiple times). On one attempt it even said the Floor name is misleading: The given code is a C-style impl
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by xaphod 4y ago
Text is broken into something called "tokens" [0] for GPT. It doesn't work on individual characters. That explains why it always fails these character counting questions. [0]: https://help.openai.com/en/a
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by xaphod 5y ago
The Windows key is a tragic misstep in computer evolution. It should not exist.
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by xaphod 7y ago
At least they got Hallucinogen up there.
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by xaphod 7y ago
I completely disagree. When I see embedded Google Map I always try to zoom it by scrolling, but then get frustrated when it scrolls the page instead and I'm supposed to press control for zooming.
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by xaphod 9y ago
I'm sorry if I sound rude. I don't mean to be. I'm just saying that backing up your git workspace to recover from rebases or merges gone wrong is not necessary. Those are not "surgical tools", they don't modify
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by xaphod 9y ago
This is so wrong. :) With git you exactly do not have to backup your local workspace, because it already is backed up in git. If it is committed, it is safe. You can go back to it. If you messed up your branch, just reset it to something
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by xaphod 12y ago
AFAIK apple varieties don't change over time, because the same genes are used over and over by grafting the trees instead of growing from seed. This is because seedlings produce wildly different characteristics from their parents. htt
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by xaphod 13y ago
One important aspect of logging is to include enough information when something fails. This sounds like it should be common sense, but I have seen this too many times: java.net.ConnectionException: Connection refused ... Why not include at
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by xaphod 14y ago
I'd like to think that's his point.
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by xaphod 15y ago
I hate the praise that fail2ban gets. It is useful, but it is not securing anything really, unless maybe you run a public ssh box that has other users who have bad passwords. It will keep the logs cleaner though. A better way to secure SSH