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Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates

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Re: Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates

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Post by bsimpson »

tetraodonpuffer wrote: post #11
moralestapia wrote: post #6

Hehe, I do a similar thing for phone numbers and I got real good ones almost for free :)

phone numbers seem risky, years back I got randomly assigned a "cool" number (I think it ended with 8888 or something) and it seems it was on all possible fax spam lists, constant calls all hours of the day and the night, had to change it asap.

I have my HN name @gmail.com.

I've never actually used that account, because there are too many anonymous Bart Simpsons (and old people who don't understand email addresses) who use that one.

The shitty thing is that I use Google Apps for Your Domain (a.k.a. Dasher/GSuite) to get around this. For years, things like Photos and Music were stuck to my useless Gmail account, because the PMs involved never bothered going through the approvals to get those things to work on custom domain accounts (which Google ret-conned to be for businesses only).

A lot of these are resolved now, but there are still frustrating places where it comes up:

- I pay twice for YouTube Music - once for myself, and once for my family. I can't share my account with them, because it's attached to my domain name.

- I similarly can't join their Google Home accounts to do things like have my voice recognized when I visit them.

- Gemini CLI thinks I'm a business and quotas me like one.

Re: Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates

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Post by zzo38computer »

What character set does it use? For example, can "O" and "0" considered different characters or same character, and are some letters/numbers not used? If so, then how many they say are possible is not quite that simple, since some might match (so they cannot simply be added together) and some might not be possible.

Re: Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates

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Post by actionfromafar »

btilly wrote: post #97
HWR_14 wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where? I've never heard of that

It's called pay-to-stay. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay-to-stay_%28imprisonment%29 for more. This happened in Oregon to my kind of brother in law. (Married to half sister of my half siblings - what do you call that?) He's Native American, so the local police thought that they could target him with a BS charge. They lost. The private jail that he'd been kept in, now that they weren't getting paid by the state,…

And that's Oregon... there are worse places, too.

Re: Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates

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Post by oniony »

culi wrote: post #107
Aurornis wrote: post #42

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> These people are imprisoned, and I'm assuming forced to do this work This is an incorrect assumption, at least in my state. It’s a job that they can apply for and opt in to do. The debate is about their hourly wage. There is a possibility of forced penal labor, as I understand it, but it’s mostly things like being forced to do cleaning duties, road cleanup, etc.

Prisoners are charged rent. The hourly wages have no minimum wage and are usually cents on the dollar. Definitely not enough to pay their rent for their cell. It's slavery. The South fought hard to include the "except as punishment for crime" clause in the 13th amendment. The US has never fully abolished slavery.

Say what? Prisoners pay rent?

Re: Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates

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Post by reactordev »

MisterTea wrote: post #124
reactordev wrote: post #13

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Shouldn’t be a problem with all that medieval money lying around. /s Does a kit car count? You can build a Lotus for around the cost of a Honda civic. Like a Lotus 7.

Money? You mean you don't just go to Q and procure one?

I guess you could get the tax payers to pay for it.

Re: Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates

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Post by decimalenough »

oniony wrote: post #134
culi wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Prisoners are charged rent. The hourly wages have no minimum wage and are usually cents on the dollar. Definitely not enough to pay their rent for their cell. It's slavery. The South fought hard to include the "except as punishment for crime" clause in the 13th amendment. The US has never fully abolished slavery.

Say what? Prisoners pay rent?

Yup!

> Fees for room and board—yes, literally for a thin mattress or even a plastic “boat” bed in a hallway, a toilet that may not flush, and scant, awful tasting food—are typically charged at a “per diem rate for the length of incarceration.” It is not uncommon for these fees to reach $20 to $80 a day for the entire period of incarceration.

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/amer...

Re: Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates

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Post by bombcar »

MisterTea wrote: post #127
bombcar wrote: post #104

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When you realize the total combos of car key possibilities, you have a decent chance your key would work, too!

Had two GM 3500 cargo vans, one a 2002 Chevy Express, the other a 2001 GMC Savannah. Same vehicle different badges. Noticed the keys were a bit similar and found that the Chevy key could in fact unlock the GMC with some wiggling but not the other way around. It did not work in the ignition lock.

Ignition locks were always better machined - the door locks were the first to get loose enough for “alternative keys”

Eventually a screwdriver works for both.

Re: Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates

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Post by wiseowise »

LikesPwsh wrote: post #51
sltkr wrote: post #18

It's a fun story of course, but it also seems that people like OP who abuse public APIs are why we can't have nice things, and why so many web pages these days are bogged down by Cloudflare and Anubis interstitials that waste human time.

Skiddies targeting an individual site are a drop in the ocean compared with the industrial scale LLM scraping, so blaming them for it is in bad taste.

> Skiddies targeting an individual site are a drop in the ocean compared with the industrial scale LLM scraping

They're not. Both are bad, but at least there's some utility to LLMs.

Re: Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates

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Post by alexfoo »

mtrovo wrote: post #109
alexfoo wrote: post #58

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> One thing that stopped me from seeking the vanity plate I'm sure it differs between countries but in the UK vanity plates have become reasonably contentious. As a gross generalisation they're fine if the car is worth hundreds of thousands or the plate itself is worth hundreds of thousands. The UK plate "F1" last sold for just under £1m (about US$1.3m) over 10 years ago and it's rumoured that there are offers for te…

Loved your description of the class system. There's a general theme of old money wealthy people not caring about vanity purchases because they don't know how much stuff costs nor if that is a too much money or not. It's interesting to see how luxury brands have different segments of clothes that range from no logos at all to a huge alligator the size of your chest, depending on whether you need to announce to the wor…

Yes, the classic description for a member of the British Upper Class is someone who looks down on people who have to buy their own furniture.

(One classification of "upper class" is someone who has never had to buy their own furniture because they inherit it and pretty much everything else they need.)

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