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kilburn

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    Comment #49184171

    There's very few people in the world that can maintain 47 years of uninterrupted discipline. Most people hit one or a number of: - A significant health issue that also drains them …

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    Comment #49151316

    Other legistlation plays a similar game: - Slandering laws set a limit for what you can say about others - Copyright laws set a limit on what you can share with others under which …

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    Comment #48786010

    > do they think if they get the disc, they can just hold and be able to play that disk for decades or just copy to drive they have? We can legally back-up owned discs to hdd or wha…

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    Comment #48758939

    The harness was absolutely not an issue in my case. The new pricing model where I got banned from using Opus entirely and half a day of work (with weaker models) consumed the 10$ p…

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    Comment #48121522

    > Seems like theres room in the market for some kind of an On Prem Private Cloud Stack that emulates GCP/AWS etc but locally maybe? It's more like cloud-in-a-rack, but that's what …

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    Comment #48082609

    If you enter a bookshop and you ask for a book that does not exist then it's definitely your mistake. If you ask for a book they don't have it's a different matter. In any case, wh…

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    Comment #45676464

    Implementing IMAP NOTIFY [1] would be a simpler path assuming you have IMAP implemented already though. [1] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5465.html

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    Comment #45602826

    > even if it means slightly-to-modestly more expensive meat. This is a hard one to prove without trying. A lot of people would say that and then buy the cheaper version when the ti…

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    Comment #44214570

    Not necessarily. You are still running within the same kernel. If your images use the same base container then the libraries exist only once and you get the same benefits of a non-…

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    Comment #43961293

    I don't know what kind of breakage was the parent talking about. My experience is that as the car gets older it is common for the vents to lose the capability to stay pointed where…

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    Comment #43814431

    You may have reasons to require separate profiles. However, keep in mind that firefox multi-account containers [1] address many of the use cases for separate profiles in chrome wit…

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    Comment #43784241

    There's no car identification in this protocol, meaning that impersonation/mitm attacks are trivial. Try again :)

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    Comment #43203315

    > The recurring joke was that general AI was just 20 years away, and had been for the last few decades. You seem to think that joke is out of date now. Many others don't ;)

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    Comment #43203291

    Random is prng. They still cannot cache though because they do many reading "passes" through the same data. If build a cache that gets hits on the first pass, then it won't work fo…

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    Comment #43126698

    The recommendation was to disable it because: a) If you didn't use it (the less bad case you are considering) then why pay for the stat syscalls at every request? b) If you did use…

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    Comment #43125492

    I don't think this is worth it unless you are setting up your own CDN or similar. In the article, they exchange 1 to 4 stat calls for: - A more complicated nginx configuration. Thi…

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    Comment #43125422

    Apache's .htaccess is much worse performance-wise because it checked (and processed if it existed) all .htaccess files in all folders in the path. That is, you opened example.com/s…

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    Comment #42792203

    redux-query is not popular by any means. [1] Both react-query (that is tanstack query now) [2] and rtk-query [3] include extensive configurability regarding their caching behaviors…

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    Comment #41648111

    This is the same in Spain: ISP-provided ont/router combos are fine but they must have a bridge mode (you may have to call support to enable it).

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    Comment #41317515

    This is equivalent to about:config and works on the regular firefox mobile version too: chrome://geckoview/content/config.xhtml

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    Comment #40394569

    Also, they would school them on actual-world problems in the process: - You can't wait until you receive the entire body to be able to compute a signature to then validate the send…

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    Comment #40394486

    I couldn't resist.... Your post advocates a (x) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't wo…

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    Comment #40371962

    In fact, Thabeast is beating every N64 game, and he means ALL of them. [1] He has already completed all games, but the videos are waaay behind (he's releasing one video/game a week…

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    Comment #40128710

    Incidentally, today is the day of the books and roses [1] in Catalonia. If you are ever planning on visiting Barcelona I promise you won't regret it if you can arrange it so you ar…