tempest

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[–] tempest 22 points 4 months ago

It's missing the last two panels where he pulls out a knife and carves up the data

[–] tempest 1 points 4 months ago

Maybe check out Kagi's ultimate tier. They let you swap between some of the different options to see which you might find useful. As a bonus you also get kagi search which can be useful.

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/ai/assistant.html

[–] tempest 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So... Just another Tuesday for consulting then?

[–] tempest 2 points 4 months ago

The aesthetic reminds me a bit of geometry wars. I should play some of that it was a great game.

[–] tempest 14 points 4 months ago

Ah yes the dumpling pie spectrum

[–] tempest 28 points 4 months ago (6 children)

I have a hard time believing someone can be sick from water but artificial sweetener in water doesn't cause that. Has to be psychosomatic.

[–] tempest 95 points 4 months ago (15 children)

The TV show has ruined any chance of that series ever being completed. The man is old and now has fuck you HBO money. He should just tell people he's not going to finish it and hand it off to someone else.

[–] tempest 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The 1980s is when the baby boomers discovered the stockmarket but hadn't learned from the 1920s why some forms of regulation exist and then they just continued that mentality right up to the present.

[–] tempest 6 points 4 months ago

Part of the problem is that every party wants a different form of electoral reform. This means either one rams it through with a majority and the others spend forever calling foul or they just bicker amongst themselves forever.

[–] tempest 4 points 4 months ago

I mean it seems to work for them so it's unlikely they'll stop

[–] tempest 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

They can be tracked back one by one but if you have any amount of traffic it's a constant game of cat and mouse.

You can block entire ASNs until they start using residential proxies provided by less ethical companies. Then you end up blocking all of France or destroying user experience by enforcing a captcha on everyone.

[–] tempest 2 points 4 months ago

The type of request is not relevant. It's the cost of the request that's an issue. We have long ago stopped serving html documents that are static and can be cached. Tons of requests can trigger complex searches or computations which are expensive server side. This type of behavior basically ruins the internet and pushes everything into closed gardens and behind logins.

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