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I had a young coworker blow a fuse because of allowances given to parents not available to others. But I’m so old and have seen it so many times I just shrugged and told him to get used to it. It is what it is.

A guide would be nice but you can always look at the jQuery implementations. isNumeric:

https://github.com/jquery/jquery/blob/bf48c21d225c31f0f9b544...

Any statement from the YC partnership?

Never heard of this so I looked it up [0]. I was a poor student working for the federal government and always had hold periods on physical paycheques deposited in person. Once or twice it was a hassle. I guess one would have to know their rights and be prepared to assert them.

[0] https://www.canada.ca/en/financial-consumer-agency/services/...

I have been daily driving the same machine for a couple months. Would buy again. Upgraded from a Macbook Pro – the Framework hardware lacks Apple’s level of refinement but it’s decent. The swappable ports and HW switches for camera and mic are nice. I prefer Linux to Mac OS and that counts for a lot. Running stock Debian modified with binary blobs from newer kernels.

IP-based rejection may be the answer. You may not be doing anything problematic but if your IP neighbors misbehave, your IP will be blacklisted too.

> One million free first annual installs. Membership in the Apple Developer Program includes one million first annual installs per year for free for apps distributed from the App Store and/or alternative marketplaces. [0]

[0] https://developer.apple.com/support/core-technology-fee/

In practice I think people who care about deliverability have already instituted these measures ... because spam blocking measures at Big Email are so opaque you’ve tried everything/anything. And it’s not that difficult.

If your personal self-hosted email routes outbound messages through a smarthost, it could affect you.

Tell me more about this inbox deliverability guarantee.

None of the internal candidates qualified to do the job are interested, which says something.

But it isn’t a business that can shuffle human resources at will.

Your point reminds me of Theo losing his shit about how long it took me to build the CD release images I was responsible for. Poor machine crunched for more than a week to do it.

The reality-fantasy aspect turned me off too. Majorly. On the other hand the writing is pretty terrific. The similies are especially evocative.

> like deducing all the rules of Wimbledon from the few balls that flew out of the stadium, without ever having witnessed what takes place on the court

sheldonbrown is a good benchmark.

You’re right!

Lots of confusion here about what such a meter actually looks like. See the start of this [0] document for a photo. It’s an older photo but I remember the same from Edmonton in the 1980s. No digital display, no thermal printer, etc. They were numerous — one meter for each parking spot. Later in the subject’s tenure they were swapped for digital display/timer meters with the same form factor (still no printer).

https://pub-edmonton.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?Doc...

Edit: disregard — this doc is for parking meters rather than LRT machines (which the article also calls LTR).

I had a judge at my place for a social gathering who described his job in these terms. Today the prompt is given to law clerks.

Thanks for sharing. Very enjoyable.

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I had this problem for years. I would get the block lifted and it would return in short order. I surmise it’s because my mail server runs on a VPS and other users on my subnet are not well behaved (actually I know this for a fact).

I solved the problem by paying for a next hop SMTPS server as an upstream smarthost for non-local mails. That means my mails come from a subnet that fronts TONS of other servers/domains. That makes it a bigger headache for MS to block.

Sad but there you go. I do not use the external service for inbound. Inbound mails come direct to my server per the MX.

Many, many sites are slow when on the front page of HN. Anecdotally it loads in under 10s for me.

I would say all the info was already known, for example Apple’s participation in PRISM.

This happened at a company I worked at so it’s not out of the question. I figured it out by reverse engineering and quit on the spot. They tried to tell me I’d never work again if spying on users was a dealbreaker. They showed me a natsec slide deck that identified other collaborating companies as a way of making their point. Among them was Apple.

I’ve lost track of where the goalposts are. The original author is all over the place.

The drama is about notice so I did a quick search of SMTP server software marketshare (number of servers, not users). Postfix apparently runs 37% of them.

https://www.securityspace.com/s_survey/data/man.202311/mxsur...

> 2023-11-29: CERT/CC allows public release of SMTP smuggling, since no software vulnerabilities were identified ("it's not a bug, it's a feature")

https://sec-consult.com/blog/detail/smtp-smuggling-spoofing-...

Sure I sometimes say features are assets but code is a liability. Usually as part of an argument against complexity that some engineers favor to be ready for speculative future circumstances.

The people pulling the purse strings would disagree. They’d cite the comparatively much larger losses to Russia (without spilling a drop of American blood).

I can't say I agree jail time is the solution. I would like to see lifetime driving prohibitions but somehow that's never on the table.