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  1. Comment on What are your go to fast but tasty meals? Is there prep you do on weekends to make meals faster? in ~food

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    Recently started cooking with a wok, and discovered the grocery down the street stocks pea shoots daily… so that. If we don’t count prep work, short rib ragu and various other pasta bases live in...

    Recently started cooking with a wok, and discovered the grocery down the street stocks pea shoots daily… so that.

    If we don’t count prep work, short rib ragu and various other pasta bases live in my freezer. Extremely quick to cook a pasta dish if you have the prep done.

    5 votes
  2. Comment on Restaurant advice Astoria, Queens, NYC in ~travel

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    @mattw2121, check out Angel for Indian, one of the best in the city IMO.

    @mattw2121, check out Angel for Indian, one of the best in the city IMO.

    2 votes
  3. Comment on Vending machine error reveals secret face image database of Canadian college students in ~tech

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    I do appreciate how explicit the software engineer that named that app was - this whole thing would probably have gone unnoticed with minor amounts of obfuscation.

    I do appreciate how explicit the software engineer that named that app was - this whole thing would probably have gone unnoticed with minor amounts of obfuscation.

    46 votes
  4. Comment on Downtime due to sign up spam in ~tech

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    Building on this thought, there are now other proof of work schemes in use that are memory bound - I wonder if perhaps the underlying idea of requiring proof from the user is more valuable here,...

    Building on this thought, there are now other proof of work schemes in use that are memory bound - I wonder if perhaps the underlying idea of requiring proof from the user is more valuable here, and something with a better compute/memory tradeoff could be used instead?

    4 votes
  5. Comment on Downtime due to sign up spam in ~tech

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    For added context, this is more or less how blockchains work - to add a block you have to do something like the above (edit: got beaten to the punch by @teaearlgraycold). I thought this was a much...

    For added context, this is more or less how blockchains work - to add a block you have to do something like the above (edit: got beaten to the punch by @teaearlgraycold). I thought this was a much more useful and clever place to utilize the scheme than cryptocurrency though.

    Another interesting bit is that it does open the server up to another type of spam, if there is no back-off or rate limiting enabled. A malicious actor could send the server nonsense (userdata, nonce) pairs and incur higher computation costs for the server. At the same time, it serves as an excellent validation tool against spam by putting a burden of proof on the end user.

    6 votes
  6. Comment on Downtime due to sign up spam in ~tech

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    This is a really clever approach to introduce a bottleneck to this signup system, and want to share the idea here.

    This is a really clever approach to introduce a bottleneck to this signup system, and want to share the idea here.

    8 votes
  7. Comment on The old games that still hold up incredibly well in ~games

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    Heroes of Might and Magic 3 holds up today, it’s still a lot of fun to play.

    Heroes of Might and Magic 3 holds up today, it’s still a lot of fun to play.

    9 votes
  8. Comment on Q* - Clues to the puzzle? in ~tech

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    This is a really interesting proposal, and enlightening because I hadn’t heard about many of the developments in this video.

    This is a really interesting proposal, and enlightening because I hadn’t heard about many of the developments in this video.

    4 votes
  9. Comment on Going to Thanksgiving for the first time ever! What do I need to know? in ~talk

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    It’s mostly just a reason for people to cook and drink together. Don’t worry about it much and have a good time with your friends. Flowers and wine are fine (you know your friends better than any...

    It’s mostly just a reason for people to cook and drink together. Don’t worry about it much and have a good time with your friends. Flowers and wine are fine (you know your friends better than any of us), just ask if they need you to bring any food if a lot of people are coming.

    14 votes
  10. Comment on Do you have or know of fun domain names? Do you think it's worth having them? in ~tech

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    The best I’ve ever found and considered paying the premium for was i-f.art. I also own my last name under .com, .org, and .net TLDs.

    The best I’ve ever found and considered paying the premium for was i-f.art.

    I also own my last name under .com, .org, and .net TLDs.

    4 votes
  11. Comment on WeWork files for bankruptcy in the US in ~finance

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    I had someone from another team at a seat next to me in my office ask me to speak quieter recently, while they were on a call in the middle of an agile office space and I was conversing with my...

    I had someone from another team at a seat next to me in my office ask me to speak quieter recently, while they were on a call in the middle of an agile office space and I was conversing with my teammates seated behind and next to me about a technical issue. There was multiple rooms available they could have taken this call at, and I was speaking at a normal volume. Hybrid combined with agile office arrangements are my personal hell; how did we get here?

    13 votes
  12. Comment on WeWork files for bankruptcy in the US in ~finance

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    It is an immense waste of my time and money. It’s supported by businesses because they don’t want the value of their office real estate dropping. It’s supported by cities because these dense...

    It is an immense waste of my time and money. It’s supported by businesses because they don’t want the value of their office real estate dropping. It’s supported by cities because these dense office areas produce lots of revenue from commuters, and rather than solving the problem of how to make other areas of the city generate revenue (like how dense, walkable office areas tend to do it) now that the number of commuters has declined they are instead encouraging returning to the model from before covid, even as obviously detrimental as it is to individuals from a time and cost perspective. My team at work is split between different countries and time zones - returning to office has only made communication worse, because items get spoken about in person between certain groups rather than communicated to the team as a whole. And finally, on principle, I don’t like being treated as if I’m in a college general education course that’s taking attendance.

    13 votes
  13. Comment on WeWork files for bankruptcy in the US in ~finance

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    The company I work for rents office space from them, I hope this unfolds I’m a way such that I will get to work from home again for some period, and not this hybrid nonsense.

    The company I work for rents office space from them, I hope this unfolds I’m a way such that I will get to work from home again for some period, and not this hybrid nonsense.

    18 votes
  14. Comment on Trip suggestions for a week in New York? in ~travel

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    Link to an old thread that is quite good. I’ll shout out One Vanderbilt again as a good viewing platform.

    Link to an old thread that is quite good. I’ll shout out One Vanderbilt again as a good viewing platform.

    2 votes
  15. Comment on Desktop CNC recommendations? in ~hobbies

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    I don’t know what the current state of things are, but in the past I’ve seen the general sentiment about printed parts on a CNC machine is that they’re too flexible to utilize. You could probably...

    I don’t know what the current state of things are, but in the past I’ve seen the general sentiment about printed parts on a CNC machine is that they’re too flexible to utilize. You could probably use CF nylon parts due to their stiffness, or use printed parts reinforced with epoxy granite, but all of this is to say it will be hard to DIY it with limited tools. Additionally, have you considered the noise? CNC machines are loud, and you might want to consider how you’re soundproofing things if you have limited space or live in an apartment. Also, do you want this to be five axis and do you know how big the dimensions you want to machine are?

    1 vote
  16. Comment on Where is everyone hosting their email these days? in ~tech

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    I host my own SMTP server on a VPS. Probably not what I’d recommend doing for most people, but I like it. I have a LUKS partition for encryption at rest, running NixOS using Simple NixOS...

    I host my own SMTP server on a VPS. Probably not what I’d recommend doing for most people, but I like it. I have a LUKS partition for encryption at rest, running NixOS using Simple NixOS Mailserver with some additional configuration to services like fail2ban, nginx, and postfix. I’ve been meaning to set up a backup service like borg but haven’t gotten around to it. I also have a Graphana dashboard that I intend to feed information into eventually, but also haven’t bothered yet.

    1 vote
  17. Comment on Is the Tildes code base really only 1.3MB? in ~tildes

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    Probably wouldn’t be hard to do a shallow git clone and figure this out for sure. I don’t have the time myself but it would certainly be an interesting figure to know.

    Probably wouldn’t be hard to do a shallow git clone and figure this out for sure. I don’t have the time myself but it would certainly be an interesting figure to know.

    4 votes
  18. Comment on What is your favorite live album? in ~music

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    Pinegrove on Audiotree Live is incredible; well mastered, impressive playing, good songs.

    Pinegrove on Audiotree Live is incredible; well mastered, impressive playing, good songs.

  19. Comment on Two authors file a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that ChatGPT unlawfully ‘ingested’ their books in ~tech

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    Ah, yes - I misunderstood your point.

    Ah, yes - I misunderstood your point.

    1 vote