Pharaoh2

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Comment · 11 months ago
https://react.dev/blog/2025/12/03/critical-security-vulnerab...

Privately Disclosed: Nov 29 Fix pushed: Dec 1 Publicly disclosed: Dec 3

Comment · 1 year ago
https://www.dnsperf.com/#!dns-resolvers

Last 30 days, 8.8.8.8 has 99.99% uptime vs 1.1.1.1 has 99.09%

Comment · 1 year ago
NPOs still need to be financially sustainable/viable. They still need to pay their employees and pay their vendors.
Comment · 2 years ago
The wiki link says otherwise. Silver and gold are <40% reflective in visible, while aluminium is ~90%, neither of that is enough. Reflectivity goes down very quickly as metals heat up.
Comment · 2 years ago
The article's result is large than that
Comment · 3 years ago
This isn't real. This is a scam video for crypto.
Comment · 4 years ago
I see it there
Comment · 6 years ago
Its fairly common to embed canary trap into message to find out who the leeker is. Not saying this memo had one, but its generally no longer safe to just show redacted messages without compromising the source.
Comment · 6 years ago
This scams are very common and fairly easy to detected even without contacting the person.

I have been looking at apartments since november and finally found a place in January, and this is the third apartment I have rented in SF over the last 5 years. I believe this one would have been caught by point 2.

Detecting a SF craigslist rental scam:

1. Is it too good to be true? Its a scam. What's too good to be true you ask? Check other listings, especially on something like rentSFnow, or the many other property management company to get a baseline price range.

2. Reverse image search the images and if it comes from a house listing on redfin or some other website to buy/sell houses, its a scam.

3. Does it mention a management company? Check their website, if the apartment is not listed there, its a scam. If they don't have a website, its a scam. Does the building/apartment's google maps or yelp not link to the management company website? Its a scam.

4. Are the pictures really good/professional looking? It MAY be a scam.

5. Does the listing provide no/very little info about the apartment/roommates? Its a scam.

6. Look for listings for the same apartment on alternate sites like apartments.com/hotpad/zillow/trulia. Don't find another listing for the same place? Its a scam, with a minor chance that the owner may not be technically adept, in which case look at the pictures, if they are good, its a scam.

7. Are there multiple postings on the same day/close by with different titles but same content? Its a scam.

If it passes all of these, it may still be a scam, reach out and proceed with caution.

If after reaching out, they ask for deposit before seeing the place, its a scam. If they ask you to sign up on any website, it may be a scam. If the sign up requires credit card/bank account or sensitive personal info, its DEFINITELY A SCAM.

Ignore most things they tell you, the only thing you should care about is actually checking the place out and making sure it works for you in person.

Even if they let you see the place, IT MAY BE A SCAM. Proceed with caution and make sure the person actually own the place/has the right to rent the apartment.

Comment · 7 years ago
Its mostly higher bandwidth from being closer to source. Latency is definitely improved but so is bandwidth if you are in peered in the same exchange. Peek bandwidth is going to be much higher, especially if you are pulling/pushing north of 10G.
Comment · 7 years ago
Basing this solely as a person from India and not some research background,

In the small minority of hacker rank study set, I would say that women are just as much encouraged or frankly expected to be in STEM as men. Although I am fairly certain that this observation will quickly disappear and will be heavily male dominated on a larger percentage of the population.

Really, looking at the actual hacker rank source, it seems like their sample set is really tiny and heavily biased.

Comment · 7 years ago
Presumably because the gap exists in the current system, and the current system is optimized for the current scoring function. Changing the scoring function will cause the system to rebalance into a new steady state.

Although, there is no clear reason why the new steady state would not be female dominant or evenly split, but if I were to take a bet, I would bet that the new scoring function will still hold existing bias because the problem starts much earlier.

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