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mparlane··on Ask HN: Is your email inbox also filled with Zendesk reply spam?
Yes, sadly they are legitimate emails so its hard to block them. The problem seems to be on zendesk side where they are accepting any email as the source of the ticket and simply replying to that email with the contents of the ticket.

Apparently they are well aware of this problem since at least last year:

https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/9833274501786-...

mparlane··on Six day and IP address certificate options in 2025
Because it returns a 301 moved permanently with a header of location: https://one.one.one.one/
mparlane··on The Omnichord will be re-produced to commemorate our 70th anniversary
Gorillaz owe their sound to the Omnichord

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn0NtSNeQEQ

mparlane··on Grover's algorithm offers no quantum advantage
Does this finding affect Shor's Algorithm which I only learnt about last night from Veritasium ?
mparlane··on Where does all the cardboard come from?
I imagine the consumers who took their products home in the free box will then recycle the box. So the recycling company gets the box anyway and not another plastic bag.
mparlane··on Show HN: iPod.js – An online iPod that connects to Spotify and Apple Music
I think in terms of scrolling through the big lists, the wheel was a far superior scrolling device than touch scroll is.
mparlane··on Michigan asphalt company paves first US public roads containing recycled plastic
Is rubber considered a microplastic?

edit: oh no, tyres use 24% synthetic rubber (which is a plastic polymer) :(

mparlane··on Farming robot kills 100k weeds per hour with lasers
Still easier to harvest if you have the rows though.
mparlane··on Missing hiker found after man using computer at home pinpoints his location
Twitter thread here is the person explaining their method:

https://twitter.com/ai6yrham/status/1382375691233103874

mparlane··on Suppressing a gene by using its antibody can lead to tooth growth: animal study
Wouldn't they fall out like baby teeth do if new teeth grow under to push them out?
mparlane··on Proteus Technology: New Material Is Strong, Light and Non-Cuttable
More likely it will be picked rather than cut at that point.
mparlane··on Show HN: Skynet Simulator
Is it possible to "win" time quest ? I feel like I always end up in the same place, and the enemy always catches me up in attack ability....
mparlane··on GDC 2020 has been postponed
Red Hat Summit April 27-29 is also in the Moscone Center in San Fran
mparlane··on One whole-body MRI could replace multiple cancer scans
Because CT scans and MRI scans are very different technologies....

CT = xray

MRI = Magnetic resonance imaging

There is no exposure in an MRI to radiation. The only danger would be having bits of metal on you or inside you.

mparlane··on Ghidra, NSA's reverse-engineering tool
Bad actors have been using IDA this entire time. So no, not really.
mparlane··on China’s Plan to Build the World’s Biggest Supergrid
Why? You created an account just to post this?
mparlane··on A $10 Accessory Proves Smartphones Are Too Big
Take the viewable title of the article:

"A $10 Accessory Proves Smartphones Are Too Big"

Paste it in to google, and click the first link that takes you back to that website.

Due to google's requirements of the search bot seeing what normal people can see when coming from google, they have to honor this...

mparlane··on 'Anti-authority' tech rebels take on ISPs, connect NYC with cheap Wi-Fi
I imagine tor exit points have the exact same issues?
mparlane··on Recovering commit after Git reset --hard
Except for git stashes :(
mparlane··on Google's latest iPhone rival off to a rocky start
S7 also..
mparlane··on Tesla Model 3 Hits Production
Yep, I clearly got my Yes/No around the wrong way....
mparlane··on Tesla Model 3 Hits Production
An extra month delay if you are an existing tesla owner?
mparlane··on Engineers Investigate a Simple, No-Bake Recipe to Make Bricks from Martian Soil
Sounds similar to rammed earth construction? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rammed_earth
mparlane··on WebAssembly consensus and end of Browser Preview
Top-down I think ?
mparlane··on The Met Makes 375k Images Available for Free
Also hard to see the depth of some of those brush strokes in the flat scan. Some of them are quite thick.
mparlane··on Galaxy Note7: What We Discovered
That is not the missing insulation the parent comment is talking about. The insulation puncture is another fault.
mparlane··on Turning CO2 to Stone
s/cutting/eating/ ?
mparlane··on HTTPS on NYTimes.com
What happens with local LAN machines, like the admin webpage for your wireless access point? It's not like they can go HTTPS?
mparlane··on Dolphin Progress Report: December 2016
Dolphin also runs on the PS4 ;)

https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/814497640599658496

mparlane··on Linux 4.9 is out
The amount of times the word "updates" appears in the commits makes me feel much better at my difficulty of choosing succinct and unique commit messages.
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