nephrite

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Comment · 1 year ago
It is strange that MS added third option but lied that there was not. They could just not include it, could they?
Comment · 1 year ago
You're missing the point. The goal of garbage production is not to break the bots or poison LLMs, but to remove load from your own site. The author writes it in the article. He found that feeding bots garbage is the cheapest strategy, that's all.
Comment · 1 year ago
They just reimplemented floating point with bigger mantissa and exponent. Rounding erorrs will appear with sufficiently large/small numbers.
Comment · 3 years ago
They keep suggesting "#" and "$" but those don't work.
Comment · 3 years ago
What I want to have, and what nobody does, is replace the computer screen with a infinite virtual screen. Same apps, windows etc. except it is in virtual reality. This way we could replace mobile phones/tablets with even smaller devices and outsource the display function to VR glasses.
Comment · 3 years ago
Use any character you want then use sed to replace it with tabs. Or use some macro processor.
Comment · 4 years ago
In my setup, I use aliases or functions to have short/mnemonic names for commands. But the files on disk must always have proper extensions like .sh to quickly see what they are.
Comment · 4 years ago
> If a user doesn't know what .ssh/ or .bash_history are, and it can hurt them to accidentally delete or modify them, why show them by default? It's like training wheels on a bike.

You have permissions to prevent from accidental deletions.

Comment · 4 years ago
In Russian this phenomenon is called "бНОПНЯ" (read "b-nop-nya") and was caused by taking the word "Вопрос" (meaning: "question") in win-1251 encoding and reading it as if it was in KOI-8 encoding.

Also this is called "крокозябры" (read: kro-ko-zya-bry, nonsense word, no translation) especially when reading a binary file in a text viewer.

Comment · 4 years ago
> having a bookmark for "Hacker News"

I was punished in school for having NetHack source code in my home dir. And it was not because it was a game but because it allegedly was a hacking tool.

Comment · 4 years ago
How long before YouTube Premium starts to show ads? Netflix already does it.
Comment · 4 years ago
Humans created machines to do various work: to lift heavy weights, to go really fast, to fly, to float on water etc etc. It's not surprising that humans created machines that calculate real precisely, then machines that play chess and finally machines that create art. No surprises here. However, competitions have other purpose. I can easily "outrun" any marathon champion using a car (or even a bicycle... maybe). Will they admit me into marathon on a car? Of course not. I must run myself. So this case is real easy - the man was cheating and should return the prize.
Comment · 4 years ago
So it wasn't an utopia. The mice had enough water and food, but they ran out of living space. It's so obvious I can't understand nobody pointed it out yet.
Comment · 4 years ago
I haven't used an iron for ages, but old irons used dots for temperature, so the old icon represents what you would see on an actual iron.
Comment · 4 years ago
Tags are better at connecting notes: if you want to make a two side link, it's equivalent to creating an unique tag and tagging both nodes with it. But in general you can add more nodes to a tag.

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