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kr2 commented on Guid Smash   guidsmash.com... · Posted by u/nugzbunny
nopassrecover · 4 months ago
Reminds me of a problem I ran into once where someone had wanted unique but short codes as identifiers for relatively small counts, and picked a substring of a UUID:

http://mattmitchell.com.au/birthday-problems-friendly-identi...

kr2 · 4 months ago
> However, the overall takeaway was: Don’t use the MongoDB Increment value as a Unique Identifier.

However, the overall takeaway should be, as always: don't use MongoDB. Period. Every time I learn something new about it I'm baffled about why people continue to use it.

kr2 commented on YouTube's new anti-adblock measures   iter.ca/post/yt-adblock/... · Posted by u/smitop
snailmailman · 6 months ago
I have all ad targeting features turned off on my account - which I assume means i unfortunately get the bottom-of-the-barrel ads.

The still frame ads are always NSFW games or ads for viagra-like products. In shorts, the ads are always scams of some kind. Usually deepfakes of elon musk “giving investment advice” but also “medical experts” recommending likely dangerous scams, or “free money the government isnt telling you about” if you give them all your information, or weird ai generated videos advertising mystery products that certainly don’t actually exist.

In front of (and in the middle of) actual videos, it’s a mix of the all the scams, plus the occasional ad for a legitimate product, but rarely in my native language. Usually Spectrum internet ads exclusively in spanish.

I got a gun ad a few times several months ago. Advertising features such as “no license required” and “easy to sneak through security”. As blatantly illegal as it was, the ad ran for at least a full month. I reported it every time I saw it, but I’m convinced those reports aren’t ever viewed by anyone.

I continue blocking these ads on my desktop without remorse. I only encounter the ads on my iPhone.

kr2 · 6 months ago
> The still frame ads are always NSFW games or ads for viagra-like products. In shorts, the ads are always scams of some kind. Usually deepfakes of elon musk “giving investment advice” but also “medical experts” recommending likely dangerous scams

WHAT?? This (and similar anecdote in parent comments) is completely shocking, I had no idea this was a thing. All ads I get on YouTube are blue chip companies or (big budget) movie trailers...seeing a porn still in an ad on YouTube would floor me

kr2 commented on What makes a good engineer also makes a good engineering organization (2024)   moxie.org/2024/09/23/a-go... · Posted by u/kiyanwang
eightys3v3n · 7 months ago
It's a bit annoying to see something I think is worth keeping on a website, only to find that the author has excluded their website from the Wayback Machine. Now the content can't be stored easily in a reliable way. I would have to host it myself and make some solution to find it.
kr2 · 7 months ago
in case it’s helpful for you, what i do when i find an article i really enjoy and want to keep to maybe revisit: i have a folder in my google drive for these with some sub-directories for light categorization, and then save a pdf copy of the article in there. don’t have to worry about a website going away in the future, and you get searchability
kr2 commented on Bus stops here: Shanghai lets riders design their own routes   sixthtone.com/news/101707... · Posted by u/anigbrowl
kr2 · 7 months ago
Chiming in from Los Angeles, USA to say wow, must be nice living in a modern society that prioritizes public transit and peoples' ease of movement. I know, I know, it comes with trade offs of living in an authoritarian state, but the absolute abysmal state of infrastructure in this country is maddening. Ever been on a train in Denmark or Japan or Switzerland?
kr2 commented on Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more   blog.plover.com/lang/etym... · Posted by u/JNRowe
aitchnyu · 10 months ago
In the New Testament, the governor actually asks the crowd "do you want a pardon for Yeshua or Yeshua Bar Abbas", Bar Abbas meaning son of Abbas, a common naming convention. The text officially goes "do you want a pardon for Jesus or Barabbas?"
kr2 · 10 months ago
This is still used today by Jews for Hebrew names. "Bar", the Aramaic word for "son", has in Hebrew its counterpart "ben" ("bat" for women). So your Hebrew name is eg "David ben Benjamin", David son of Benjamin. This is used anywhere to address you in Hebrew, eg for bar/bat mitzvahs, calling up to give blessings in synagogue, headstones, on your ketubah (Jewish marriage license), etc
kr2 commented on Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more   blog.plover.com/lang/etym... · Posted by u/JNRowe
kr2 · 10 months ago
In Farsi / Persian we have "-zadeh" which means child of (born from). Last names were not instituted in Persia / Iran until early 1900s and everyone got to pick their own, so there are a lot of *zadehs as it was an easy choice. So eg Hassanzadeh is child of Hassan
kr2 commented on The Elegance of the ASCII Table   danq.me/2024/07/21/ascii/... · Posted by u/thewub
kalleboo · a year ago
It was at some point looking at a chart like that where it also dawned on me where the control codes like ^D, ^H, ^[ etc came from
kr2 · a year ago
I was going to ask you to please explain as I didn't understand, but I am guessing you are talking about the same thing as this comment[1] right? That's super cool

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41042570

kr2 commented on Postzegelcode   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pos... · Posted by u/tdeck
molf · a year ago
In the case of sloppy writing, the letter will be ejected from the sorting machine and reviewed by a human (same process as for illegible addresses).

If a human cannot find a match then the sender will receive a request to pay for the missing postage (presuming the code is invalid). If the sender is unknown the recipient will receive a payment request (which can be appealed).

Speaking from experience you would normally want the letter to arrive at its destination so I take care to write the code very clearly. I imagine this is true for most people.

kr2 · a year ago
You massively underestimate the care or thought some Americans give to anything including legibly writing an address; very cool look into how USPS handles that situation (link free to read without subscription)

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/04/us/where-mail-with-illegi...

kr2 commented on "AI-powered" has become a red flag   iml.bearblog.dev/ai-power... · Posted by u/Ilasky
kr2 · 2 years ago
The same hype cycle as with anything else, as noted in the article. I too am wary of the badge - what's your actual product doing man?

Remember when everything was on the blockchain?

u/kr2

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