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Do they include expiring credit in that figure? Most of the time they have a buried clause that says that you forfeit all of your credit or get charged an inactivity fee if there h…

I bought a large format e-reader for the opposite reason - being able to read and study from large format textbooks while on long train journeys or in hotel rooms (or even camping)…

If you are wasting time wording communication then are you doing it wrong? I imagine the response would be looking at it briefly, seeing if it looks dangerous or reproducible and g…

Is that not a problem with how people are using CVEs, scoring them and attaching value to them rather than whether a CVE should be assigned itself. A CVE is simply a number and som…

From memory, online and offline transactions are usually split out by BIN number (first six digits) The BIN will tell you which bank was the issuer and which class of card you have…

I last used a carbon imprinter in the UK in 2013. We hired out car roof boxes / cycle carriers at a summer job I had. I am not sure how valid it was, though they would take a depos…

I used to have an online maestro card (was solo and now known as debit mastercard) and an offline card (was switch, now also known as debit mastercard) from a UK bank, due to havin…

Assume 40 inches rather than 40ft Adding 12 meters to an aircraft is quite a big change.

There are services like vast.ai that act as marketplaces. You don't know who owns the GPUs / if or when your job will complete and if the owner is sniffing what you are processing …

Often you will obtain a vulnerability in some software and then search for companies using it. You can often use Google or Shodan to do the searching, but perhaps ingested LLM data…

Would it even be possible to enumerate all edge cases and test all the permutations of them in non-trivial codebases or interconnected systems? How do you know when you have all of…

It is highly recommended to configure two or more DNS servers incase one is down. I would count not configuring at least two as 'user error'. Many systems require you to enter a pr…

Private DNS on Android refers to 'DNS over HTTPS' and would normally only accept a hostname. Normal DNS can normally be changed in your connection settings for a given connection o…

Sometimes devs rely on Chrome specific quirks, or are shipping broken apps that Chrome manages to make the correct guesses for it to be functional. Many see 'it works on Chrome and…

Devs, particularly those with pressure to ship or who don't know better, unfortunately see 'it works in Chrome' as 'it works', even if it is a quirk of Chrome that causes it to wor…

I'm also surprised that no one would have thought to use a stone crucible before pottery, or some sort of concave piece of stone Or cooked something in a natural hot spring or natu…

Maybe I read it differently from you, but it states "You can use resources (e.g. publications on Google Scholar, Wikipedia articles, interactions with LLMs and/or human experts wit…

Could AI still be a useful tool if the reviewer performs a manual review first and then queries the LLM with: 1) Here is a new academic paper. Point out any inconsistencies, gaps o…

Counterexample: Storing the bcrypt hash by appending it to a CSV file containing the usernames and hashes of all users then having a login process where that CSV file is downloaded…

I have seen it posed as 'This site has bot protection. Confirm that you are not a bot by clicking yes', trying to mimic the modern Cloudflare / Google captchas.

I am not technically an employee - I get given a project and agree to complete milestones for payment. I supply my own tools and take on any risks that it won't be delivered or stu…

I 'work' remotely for a US company from abroad regularly. I have no connection to the US. I own a corporation and it is a B2B outsourcing arrangement rather than an employee though…

Thanks! - I am now aware of those two lists Agree about the lack of info

Thanks! - I wasn't sure where the definitive list was, or if they could be using some other brand name that wasn't their company name on the list. Posting here to see if anyone els…

I have considered that, though I was not sure that letting a spammer know that your address is active and being read by a human was the best strategy, so thought I could make a HN …