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I think captchas will evolve in the next few years using A.I.-generated images. I expect that there is a prompt and the user has to decide which of the pictures were generated with that prompt.
Monday, 12-Sep-22 06:43:02 UTC from web-
@adiwan There are GANs for that. Wouldn't work for CAPTCHA
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@oracle I think you can make a GAN practically for everything in the realm of captchas. I think that it'll going the way I predict in order to enhance the generating models with A-B-testing (or other similar tests) by actual humans. The same as it is done now with captchas that ask humans to recognize traffic lights, cars, busses, zebra stripe crossings, bikes...
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They think: "Why don't we store everything flat, use compound foreign keys, and make relations as cumbersome to find out and create views that are less helpful as they do rarely use JOIN and use a BAZILLION of WHERE clauses. WHO NEEDS READABILITY AND PERFORMANCE?
Friday, 09-Sep-22 10:40:06 UTC from web-
@adiwan JOINS are inexpensive, but when you need do trillions of them, they become an obstacle. This problem was why Amazon created DynamoDB
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@oracle Well... It's not an environment with a ton of activity. A lot but not Amazon-a-lot. The database is an older Oracle installation because legacy software running needs exactly that old version. It stems from a time where entity frameworks were the rage and thus all objects were stored in a database. That same database is misused as a semi-persistent storage for message queues. In the recent past it was a few times as the culprit for some major downtime, as it is the biggest single point of failure without redundancy. I'm pretty soured by that.
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What the hell this place still exists? Hi I'm a girl now and I'm in Seattle for a pony convention
Saturday, 27-Aug-22 22:57:07 UTC from web-
@redenchilada Like an MLP pony thing, or an actual equestrian event?
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@redenchilada I picked a great time to log back on. How have you been?
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@oracle Hey right on, it's almost a reunion or resurgence here!
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Ah, I see the website I created still lives. Happy Birthday Rainbowdash.net!
Friday, 15-Apr-22 19:36:50 UTC from web -
But anyway, I guess... pick your battles?
Saturday, 13-Nov-21 04:24:52 UTC from web -
I'm only going top give this tip once. Put a single frozen otter pop in a mug before beginning a single serve coffee brew. When it's done you can also use it to stir, rinse it off, put it back in the freezer. Your coffee is now at a perfect temperature for consumption.
Tuesday, 14-Sep-21 16:24:40 UTC from web- Scribus likes this.
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I summed up how much I cycled so far in the last 6 months, with the help of the Google Maps Timeline feature. I cycled about 120km. Due to some really annoying data entry of the streets and junctions, and the infrequent and inaccurate GPS sampling, not every trip was correctly recorded. Good for data protection but also bad for this application, so I had to guesstimate.
Monday, 30-Aug-21 09:33:17 UTC from web-
@adiwan If cycling is as important to you as it is to me, I would recommend purchasing an odometer. They are quite cheap
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@oracle I have a bicycle computer that has the feature but it is cumbersome to access in the menu. I have it only to display the current velocity / average velocity. It was just in the spur of the moment that this question came up as my father jokingly said to me that I barely drive my new car that just passed 600km.
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Just had some keto cinnamon cereal for the first time. It tastes about as joyless as a retirement community.
Sunday, 22-Aug-21 20:53:25 UTC from web -
If me not wearing a mask increases the likelihood of someone who choose not to get vaccinated to get COVID, I see that as a good thing. I'm sorry for the immunocompromised who get caught in the crossfire.
Tuesday, 27-Jul-21 23:59:22 UTC from web -
They say one of the best way to make yourself miserable is to compare yourself to others. I get that, I get that, however, it also hold true that one of the best ways to make yourself happy is to do the same.
Monday, 31-May-21 23:26:27 UTC from web-
I was around a group of about ten average people yesterday. I had forgotten just how pitiful and dull our species is.
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Step 1: Create an open source library
Step 2: Wait until the library is used in a bunch of projects
Step 3: Update library to include telematics
Step 4: Change the license to require for-profit companies to pay a royaltySaturday, 22-May-21 00:18:15 UTC from web -
App / Website Idea
A friend finder???
Step 1: Log in with Google, Facebook or Apple.
Step 2: Select your privacy settings.
Step 3: Add your personality defining likes. Interests, hobbies, ect.
Step 4: Add things you explicitly don't like to do or talk about.
Step 5: Get a list of people sorted by how a like they are to you and how close they are to you.Friday, 07-May-21 23:43:27 UTC from web-
@scribus Location would only show City. Privacy options would include display controls for name, social media links, city and few other. Most would be set to private by default.
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Buying a new car, even a cheaper new car, is still a huge thing to put money into. That huge purchase makes all the little things look insignificant. "4€ for a bread, it's nothing, doesn't cost as much a car."
Thursday, 25-Mar-21 08:42:25 UTC from web-
@scribus OK. That's an inflation problem. A new car costs now less than it did back then. A modern car has in addition a computer, entertainment system, navigation, explosives (air bags), automatic driving assistants (break, lane control, distance, parking). Although a house usually keeps its value or increases it over time.
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@adiwan Yeah, it's a thing. The other week for me it was, $2100 for a new bed? Why not, that's only 1/26th what we paid for our Tesla. No but seriously, I still feel tremendously guilty and uncomfortable when I go to a restaurant.
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@oracle Crom, I paid a grand for my bed and thought that was stiff, then again it is only for one...
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(Working in tech) Inside you are two wolves, one moves fast and breaks things, the other moves slow and break things. ... look at me, listen to me, you need to stop breaking things.
Wednesday, 20-Jan-21 02:26:31 UTC from web -
Hey guys, if anyone wants to make a quick buck, the gold prices are likely to increase to by about 100$ an ounce in the next week due to the recent QE / Defense Budget
Thursday, 31-Dec-20 23:54:06 UTC from web-
@oracle If you guys listened to me, you can now sell that Gold. About 100$ of gains
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"Making a title sound more impressive is a way of paying someone with something other than money." -Jonathan Blow
Friday, 18-Dec-20 06:35:51 UTC from web-
@oracle My title is "Lead Developer". It sounds way more impressive than I feel it represents my ability to actually lead.
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A lot of brainwashed right-wingers spouting conspiracy theories about YouTube going down. Wow. Americans are a diffrent breed of stupid
Thursday, 12-Nov-20 03:40:22 UTC from web-
@oracle Conspiracies were so much more fun in middle school, when it was the Alien's cloaking tech keeping Bigfoot and Nessie safe, and Mothman tried to warn us of infrastructure failures...
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Somewhere at Google, a DevOps engineer is mangoting his pants right now because YouTube's CDN went down. Glad I don't have that job!
Thursday, 12-Nov-20 00:50:38 UTC from web-
@oracle It's not just YouTube, Google Play is also offline. GLOBALLY!
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The court documents and proceedings from the Trump campaign in the swing states is ABSOLUTELY entertaining. If we have to deal with this until December 14th, I will not not be complaining.
Monday, 09-Nov-20 17:12:24 UTC from web -
Now I can’t wait for the entertainment of watching the Orange man kick and flail his way out of the White House in January.
Saturday, 07-Nov-20 18:22:43 UTC from web -
Welcome to the USA, where "counting all of the votes" is now considered by conservatives to be a radical idea.
Wednesday, 04-Nov-20 22:48:09 UTC from web-
@oracle except in Arizona, where Trump was behind on election night. We need to keep counting those. :eyeroll:
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Well it was early in the morning, I was tired, thought to myself, "I really hate myself, I'm going to upgrade the production servers from Ubuntu 18 to 20 LTS". Backups, who needs backups, I don't think the dependencies have changed in this version release.
Wednesday, 28-Oct-20 22:17:33 UTC from web-
@oracle I'm crazy with my "rolling release" Debian Experimental. Any time used *buntu and dist-upgraded it was always a hell and ended up in a complete re-install for the sake of saving time fixing each issue individually.
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@adiwan I know what you mean, the LTS releases bundle too many programs together in my opinion. In my f-up, it was the upgrade to python 3.8 that caused most of my problems.
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@oracle My upgrades aren't peachy either. Often I have to manually handle a less than fortunate set of dependencies due to conflicts or just unavailable packages. I don't mind that as I make a little game out of it and the frequency of those problems is not that bad. Strangely most of the time samba and python are the cause of an issue.
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I thought I was a patient person, but damn. I'm going crazy waiting for my model 3 delivery.
Thursday, 29-Oct-20 20:02:35 UTC from web -
Was anyone on here named Adam Hussein?
Tuesday, 27-Oct-20 23:53:32 UTC from web-
@oracle No, Saddam posted for a bit under his post-fake-death identity but hasn't been around in a bit, he's old now.
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To bad I missed out on watching paint dry to catch the debate yesterday, I really missed out.
Thursday, 01-Oct-20 01:08:07 UTC from web-
@oracle Most-watched debate in cable television history. Imagine that. More Americans watched that travesty than any before it.
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This is the only time I will ever be able give sound financial advice, but I'll make it count. BUY GOLD
Thursday, 20-Aug-20 01:33:52 UTC from web -
I thought it was just a stupid fad, but boy was I wrong. Hard seltzer is amazing, I highly recommend trying it.
Monday, 10-Aug-20 00:55:29 UTC from web-
@oracle I've never really been fond of seltzer, but I would say I agree. Crisp and lightly flavored.
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All that effort is for nought. As I have woken up the temperature is as it was before.
Sunday, 09-Aug-20 07:40:13 UTC from web-
@adiwan Is a small portable or window mounted air conditioner not an option for you?
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@oracle I need to save some money for a portable AC. The window mounted kind is out of the option because we have here no sliding windows. Last year it was bearable but the streak of hot days recently is killing me right now.
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So, no. I do not have goddamned nginx figured out, and no, the Pleroma 2.0 launch has not made this any less goddamned infuriating.
Sunday, 15-Mar-20 04:19:48 UTC from web-
@scribus The installation of Pleroma comes with an NGINX config file located at /opt/pleroma/installation/pleroma.nginx copy it to the NGINX sites-available directory, change your server names, then symbolically link it to the sites-enabled path
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@oracle I had done that previously and it still wasn't working. The directions said to name it a certain thing, which was not the usual Nginx method of naming it the same as the URL is supposed to be. Might that have been my problem? The second time around, I did try modifying a default, instead of copying the provided one, so obviously that was the error, there. :p Thanks.
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@thismightbeauser Well, my latest (balls-deep-in-failure) attempt is on Ubuntu 20.04, and nginx is 1.17.10 (Ubuntu)
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I find it way more amusing than I probably should that there's a Homestar*Runner reference in the Node.js documentation.
Thursday, 09-Apr-20 23:26:59 UTC from web-
@thismightbeauser I always loved how down to Earth open source projects can be, evident by funny documentation and names. A favorite of mine is "the Non-Sucking Service Manager"
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