l_b_i

@l_b_i@yiffit.net
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Joined 1 years ago

the next dev, Hey this obscure feature probably doesn't work, should I fix it... No, I'll just patch "temporary-fix-don't-use" and let the next guy fix it properly.

You might not like the prices, but computer components, cpu, gpu, motherboard.. keep getting better each generation, some bugs cause issues, but that's due to trying to maximize performance, not cheeping out. 3-d printer tech. In fact, thinking about it, a lot of competitive products keep their quality. Also small brand premium products in general.

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Its funny how youtube has its circles. Tom scott is in the science youtube sphere, with Smarter Every Day (Destin), Technology Connections (Alec), Practical Engieneering(Grady), Stand Up Maths (Matt Parker), Steve Mould, Numberphile, Computerphile, and many, many others.

Tom Scott is Nice in this category as his videos are usually short, to the point, interesting, and weekly. He has some longer form content and game shows on other channels to. Overall if your interested in science and trivia game show youtube, he's worth a watch. His other channels are Technical Difficulties, lateralcast, and no longer used Matt and Tom.

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And if you don't forget it, you'll use a simple one that's easy to guess or contains common substitutions, p@$$w0rd!. And then when you do forget it you'll call support who will reset it, and they get so many calls it will make taking over another account easier.

Perfect security. Nobody can access.

Looks like a test instance. URLs are read from the end to the beginning, so enterprise.lemmy.ml is a domain controlled by lemmy.ml. As that is the instance that the main developers control, it would follow they have a testing environment. In addition. Almost all the posts, users, and communities seem to have "test" as part of their name. It being the instance controlled by the developers is why lemmy.ml is always a link, while lemmy.world would need to be formatted as a link to get a link.

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How did you get into it?

Look at a dog or similar and think what muscles you would use to move your ears. Try to "listen" behind you.

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So long as its metal, keep on going. Plastic has an unfortunate habit of breaking when its old.

A password manager does nothing to stop Social engineering and human factors on the provider side.

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I haven't been to the dentist is ~10 years. I should probably go.

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If they cycle through do you get all of that at the same time?

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No. I'm already on mint, and I'm commenting from a furry instance. How much credit do I get?

That reddit filter will have less than an effect than it used to. Reddit blocked all crawlers except google.

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There have been a lot of days recently where I just want to take a month off from "Adulting". Not just a month off from my job, but paying bills, shopping, all those little things you have to do to continue existing. I want to work on personal projects, volunteer, play games, relax...

I'm a big fan of standard time myself, the light in the morning helps me wake up. I usually don't have a problem with the fall shift, but I've found myself slowly drifting my sleep back to saving time. I think it the near record highs in my area the past couple days. As a pedantic note, its saving time, no s, yes its really awkward to use.

Cracking the Cryptic has shown me the wonders of variant sudoku. My personal favorite variant is thermo. Their GAS series is a good introduction, or jump right in at logic masters

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I voluntarily changed jobs last year, even though I wanted to leave, I found it hard to convince myself to start searching for a new one. When it came to hand in my notice, even though I had already informed people I was leaving, actually sending in my notice was one of the most terrifying things I have done.

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So a hacky solution that uses lots of javascript to search your home instance and re-write the page. Got it.

I never moved growing up, so only ever saw 1 dentist, I don't really want to try to find one. I don't want to be told my wisdom teeth need to come out; they don't bother me. I only bleed a little when I do floss and I don't eat/drink much sugar at all. Still though, Yea I need to suck it up and go.

Mine went to once a year for most systems. There is probably an external requirement somewhere that says they need to be changed periodically and once a year is the lowest frequency they can do.

corporate sites make money by selling your info to advertisers and data brokers. Their goal is to keep you on the site and clicking links. Youtubers make money by people waiting their stuff; they are incentivized to clickbait for watches, some channels are very effective at this. I don't know that you will fall into interesting things as there is no incentive in the algorithm for it. You have to seek it out, forums, small sites, blogs, small communities or instances here...

reddit recently updated their robots.txt to disallow all crawlers Google paid a bunch of money to have access to crawl reddit

You'll still see old stuff, but crawlers that care about robots.txt will get no new information.

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There is a tool I've heard about that subscribes to remote communities for federation until a real subscription. https://boost.lemy.lol/

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For employment references, many companies will only acknowledge that you worked there and the dates.

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That's completely up to you, I'm just saying how things work as I understand them.

Simon's enthusiasm is infectious. I am up to the point I can do most of the puzzles that don't involve set theory or really heavy math. So much fun.

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It was 15 years ago that I marched in the Macy's Thanksgiving parade.

Some airports have fancy scanners that don't require removing anything. For everything else, maybe you were marked for precheck or similar? Its only a trend when your return trip is the same.

Change is hard, leaving an existing job for the unknown is scary. Even if you don't like where you are now, you at least know what it is like. Concentrate on the reasons you want to leave, not why you think you should stay.

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I don't have any first hand experience, but anecdotes I hear, Medical and Banking have some of the worst password/security practices.

I like the way you think, but then you probably have to deal with $erver components.

They both worked in banking, so the math makes sense. For the sums I have a feel for most of the extremes and common ones, the triangular numbers, the maximum numbers, the missing or extra "ones" (4 digits that add up to 14, 4 digits for 11...). I usually just use the killer calculator for the other ones. At least on the desktop site its under the advanced settings.
That too is about my limit for set, although I might see the expanded ones too. As soon as Simon highlighted the cells in yesterdays feature he immediately knew it was set. I don't know how he does it.

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I think your missing the point. It doesn't matter how good an individuals security practices are if the system itself has bad security architecture.

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Hosted my parents for an early thanksgiving last weekend. Happy to have them around, also happy when I'm alone again.

What about when you go and log in tomorrow?

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It was probably a year after I started watching before I started attempting the puzzles myself. It started with Mark's videos that were under 45 min and Simon's that were under 30. Now I think my limit is under 90 minutes for Simon, except pencil puzzles, I'll try any of those. The video length can actually be a bad indicator of how difficult I find it. They both do math heavy puzzle really fast, and Simon has a knack with set theory.

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I stopped getting older after graduating college.

I don't think I've gotten past finding the correct length video. Getting that to work with everything else and keeping what's his face alive is just too much.