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meinersbur
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- What is your alternative explanation for why people rent public storage space? Urban growth and growth in suburbs are not mutually exclusive.
- Changing execution behaviour based on filename is common in Linux environments too. Some examples:
1. BusyBox is a single executable that executes different commands based on which symlink was used to call it
2. Bash puts itself into compatibility mode if invoked as "sh"
3. "ping" can be invoked as "ping4" or "ping6"
4. Some of git's subcommands are symlinks back to the main executable
5. Clang switches to C++ mode if invoked as "clang++"
6. AppArmor profiles activate on file paths
- From the GitHub issue it becomes clear that blocking happens by the EasyPrivacy blocklist. The blocked URL youtube.com/api/stats/atr is/can also be used for tracking users, this is why some are arguing that it legitimately on that blocklist.
The tracking not malicious. YouTube has a legitimate interest to verify views, e.g. to recommend popular videos to others. If a view counter was increased by just invoking an API, view counts could be manipulated easily. Also see the video [1] from ... 13 years ago ... so it might be slighly outdated. Just slightly.
- Please don't downvote comments only because you don't like their opinion (reply to them instead). It cannot be that the same opinion is valueable when someone famous write it [1].
- Sounds like feature creep. Zip is not a database, at best its just slow. Use a archive utility to handle archives.
- Is it just me or does the talk actually confirm all its Python "myths and fairy tales"?
- They absolutely do have that infrastructure. They implemented every country's content rating system, such as PEGI, ESRB, ... . Games are regionally banned, such as in Germany [1]. Games can also have regionally censored games, typically for violence/gore in Germany [2]. With the strange effect that if you change your account's region, it re-downloads some of the games.
The legal situation with VPNs and traveling between regions is the same as with any internet service.
[1] https://steamcommunity.com/groups/foruncut/discussions/17/41... [2] https://steamcommunity.com/groups/foruncut/discussions/17/39...
- https://help.zapier.com/hc/en-us/articles/8496101927181-What...
I don't think there is an official list. It is security-related and changes over time
- GMail (and Fastmail) are rendering the email. It just happens that the email and we webbrowser are both HTML. In no case should they just literally forward the email HTML to the browser. They scrub JavaScript, non-whitelisted HTML elements, rewrite links/external resources including tracking pixels.
You can see the raw email with "show original" in the options
- There is also market separation in play: For the base service you only charge cost+small margin. For higher service levels you charge higher profit margins even though the additional service does not cost that much more to provide.
Best example: flight seats. Economy class fills the plane, but business and first class are the money makers [1].
- Researchers trained a deep learning network on photos to make GTA5 more realistic-looking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1IcaBn3ej0
I was surprised that most of it is is just tone mapping. It looks too green-ish to me, needing some white balancing, but realistic.
I think Video games are intentionally over-saturated and contrasty to make them look better, just as paintings are[1]. I took many screenshots in Horizon Zero Dawn that would be look bland if it was realistic like the modfified GTA5 footage above[2]. You also don't want animation movies[3] with realistic tone mapping. But for a horror game you would do exactly that, it's about immersion (or you would never be frightened), not beauty.
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/horizon/comments/1ix7ms2/my_hzd_oil...
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/horizon/comments/x97gi1/this_game_i...
[3] https://www.imdb.com/de/title/tt0892769/mediaviewer/rm284102...
- It will also compress worse, making it less like a zip bomb and more like a huge document. Nothing against that, but the article's trick is just to stop a parser to bail early.
- Just learned about the ellipsis statement and the !a modifier (I already knew !r and !s).
- Result from game discussed at https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=43745868
- > Email works perfectly
OMG. How can someone say this in the age of AI spam. Legitimate emails categorized a spam. Impossibility to run independent email servers because getting blocked by the big players. Forced subscriptions to mailing lists. Tracking through images....
- There is a classic DailyWTF about this technique: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Sketchy-Skecherscom
> [...] the idea of building a website like this in XML and then transforming it using XSL is absurd in and of itself [...]
In the comments the creators comment on it, like that it was a mess to debug. But I could not find anything wrong with the technique itself, assuming that it is working.
- Right from the abstract:
> Our findings confirm the existence of a robust “Gender Attractiveness Gap” (GAP), with female faces rated significantly more attractive than male faces across rater genders, cultural backgrounds, and portrayed ethnicities.
- The retractable antenna could only be used for Morse code. Only Harry Manning was well-versed in Morse, so after he quit, neither Earhard nor Fred Noonan effectively couldn't use it anyway [1].
That retractable antenna was for low frequencies. If you are referring to the underside "V" antenna (which was not retractable), that one was likely just damanged, not intentionally removed. [1, 2]
[1] https://youtu.be/zTDFhWWPZ4Q?t=1629 [2] https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=39262061
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- Both claims are incorrect.
LaTeX would rather produce a bad document if it cannot produce a good one. Example: overfull hbox. A designer is still required who creates the documentclass, it is just that LaTeX comes with some predefined ones intended for scientific publishing.
HTML+CSS require pixel-perfect rendering. Example: ACID2 test. While it might have been the idea of plain HTML at some point (<em> instead of <i>), control has never been taken away from the author thanks to CSS.
- Because only a hacked "core mainframe" (definition please) of a bank can excuse the lack of resources at 4chan? Only accepting overly specific evidence is a neat trick to never lose an argument.
- Flang (LLVM Fortran Compiler) uses parser combinators.
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/flang/lib/Par...
- Does someone know how companies handle these short-term changes of tariffs? Like, when your shipment from oversees eventually arrives, a 50% tariff is due that makes your entire accounting unprofitable, e.g. a contract with another party to sell it to might already been signed. Do the companies usually ensure against these kind of things?
- It also matters what jobs they change to.
There is a documentary out there showing someone who could quit their regular job and become an artist thanks to an UBI pilot (Canada IIRC). It is presented as a positive example in that they did not become lazy, but just work something different and still make revenue close to what they earned on their job by selling art.
How many people will become artists with UBI introduced nationally? Who is going to buy all that art?
- It's even worse: Has never seen Gattaca
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- Why prefer this over SysInternal's Process Explorer (other than it is Open Source) or Process Informer (on which TaskExplorer seems to be based on) directly?
- I am urprised how much money suddenly is available where other future-critical projects are starved of funding while needing just a fraction of that amount, specifically nuclear fusion.
[1] https://www.chaillot.com/ip-news/validity-of-3d-trademarks-f...