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You just reinvented reinforcement learning

I was tempted to make a finger gun at this post and take a photo to show how ridiculous this is, but I'm afraid to (deservedly) get hammered by dang for this.

Saving you a click: Queen - Another one bites the dust

Curious question: Why are all these sites behind Cloudflare and why is Cloudflare not acting?

These sites are literally made to steal my grandma's money when she's buying presents for Christmas and what not.

I find the recommendations genuinely horrible. I only get channels like real life lore, Adam Something etc, with sometimes very shallow takes at politics. And after marking those channels with "I don't want to see this", I get their hundreds of copycats.

I mostly watch channels like Aswath Damodaran, mCoding, etc., which are not related to the contents of the mentioned channels at all, yet their recommendation engine still shows me all this stuff.

Hmm, in Germany children and teens can still enter contracts, as long as they are able to pay it with their monthly pocket money. Every single thing you buy here in a supermarket is also an implicit contract (Kaufvertrag).

So, you could theoretically rent servers and buy ad space on Adsense as long your pocket money covers it. On the other hand: this is a liability for Google and $provider -- as most of them are post-pay. If a teen ever decides to spawn an A1000 instance with 36 cores and cannot pay, the contract is void and Google has no entitlement for compensation.

Pre-paid stuff like a small instance on vultr.com should work fine, though.

You didn't get the joke :(

> Calories In, Crust of the earth Out

Telemetry does.

> "unsafe forbidden" (GH tag)

Unrelated to this project, but I dislike the obsession of "unsafe" within the rust community.

Sometimes I need to dereference a raw pointer (rare!).

Sometimes I actually know what I'm doing (very rare!!).

Sometimes I rigorously tested my code (exceptionally rare!!!).

When I see people making PRs (to e.g. Actix) to change unsafe code to safe code in an API the user *never* sees, which results in a performance penalty, just for the sake of not using the word "unsafe" in the code, I get mad. I totally understood Nikolay's reaction back then. Random people opened PRs and flamed him without knowing anything about the internals and the consequences.

The unsafe keyword means that I know what I'm doing. Just trust me for once, please.

Edit: if you actually want to know what you're doing too, I recommend you writing some linked lists. I hate linked lists with passion, I think they are a bad data structure and you should use Vectors 90% of the time and VecDeque the other 10% of cases. But they help you to understand what you're spending your electricity on.

Some might see Occham's razor in this, but I could imagine this being a real edge case:

When I had an Android (OnePlus) device I often factory reset when tinkering with it, go to bed and continue whatever I wanted to do on the next day. Of course my phone had it's bootloader unlocked and TWRP recovery, since I was trying to get lineageOS + spoofed signatures + microG to work.

So basically the scenario is: factory reset your phone, go to bed, wake up with banned google account, have a new brick decor for your garden.

Would be funny if they didn't think of this possibility.

Question: Assuming you have a modern android phone like samsung galaxy S20. When you factory reset your phone you need to log in with your google account to use it. This prevents people from stealing your phone.

How does this work when your account has been banned? Is my phone a brick afterwards? Someone should try this out.

vscode + markdown preview :)

I dislike this kind of overblocking a lot. Not just TLD blocklists, but also IP blocklists.

I recently had to write an email to my local police station ([email protected]) and their server was rejecting it because my IP (vultr) was on the "Proofpoint® Dynamic Reputation"-blacklist. I owned this single IPv4 for at least 3 years, so they whole vultr range must have been blocked by Proofpoint.

Great if you can't even contact your government because they are using some shitty blocklist product.

Personally, I run a mailcow instance with Rspamd and get only very few spam mails, albeit my email was being leaked in the ledger.com hack a few years ago. When I was still using mailbox.org, I got crypto spam mails (update your wallet yada yada) in my inbox twice a day. So just a configuration thing(?).