I don’t understand this line of thinking. A one time fee for an internet service you could potentially use for a decade? I host a number of small projects online and if I scale them way down in terms of hardware resources and don’t add a database or external services (required for basically any functionality), I’m still paying a few bucks a month. Add a database to it and it doubles. Now add a fucking crawler and your egress data rates are gonna climb quick. Not to mention the domain name itself is $12-15 a year.

A one time fee is not compatible with an online service. Ads historically have filled this gap for recurring revenue. If you don’t want ads, there’s literally no other ethical choice to make sure you can stay in business and ideally turn a small profit.

You keep mentioning YouTube was ad free, and sure. But that’s the classic Silicon Valley model. Offer a great product cheaper (ad free) than others, gain adoption, and once you have a huge user base, start to ratchet up the price. Either via ads or subscriptions. You need deep pockets and lots of VC money to make this work and ultimately you’re pulling a bit of a bait and switch on your users. Is that the model you want to support?

No.

I tested a lot of different search engines when I was leaving Google and Kagi was the best by quite a bit. The customization features easily push it over the edge.

And that’s a shame I’ll have to live with for the rest of my life.

It would have cost you nothing not to say that.

I gotcha bud.

It’s a riff on the olive meme.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hungry-but-too-tired-to-cook-try-30-to-40-olives

256 bit and 512 bit encryption are somewhat common. A 256 bit private key is 64 characters long (I’m simplifying this, don’t @ me about it being hex). A 512 bit private key is twice as long. That long string of random characters is what gives this type of encryption its power. It’s essentially unguessable, even with a computer and a lot of time.

Using “4” as your private key would significantly undermine security. Hackers can’t check every possible option for a 512 bit key, but they can certainly (and trivially) try simple numbers padded by 0’s, like our “4” private key.

You’ve taken a strong and proven system and made it trivially weak. That’s the joke. It’s not that funny, but that’s what you’re missing.

Hope that helps.

The lowest paid person earns $460k a year. That’s absolutely wild.

Do I need to contact them if I don’t have a pairing? I’m a developer who is interested, but no idea what to build and don’t have a team.

I read this as they are inspired by cosmic brownies, not made from them. It wouldn’t be unheard of, but blending an already baked and processed brownie into a drink seems…bad. You asked if they were spoiled, but these type of processed baked goods don’t really spoil like that generally because of all the preservatives.

https://www.littledebbie.com/cosmic-brownies

If this is real, my guess is it’s a fiber issue. Would definitely be thick and if you aren’t used to eating a bunch of fiber, it’ll really mess up your guts.

Seems like he should just stand aside and let that boulder really start moving.

I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted. This is the critical question the OP didn’t answer.

Slemmer was taunted, beaten, and slashed. Shipp used a box cutter to carve a pentagram into her chest while she was still alive. Finally, Pike smashed Slemmer’s skull with a large chunk of asphalt, killing her. Pike kept a piece of Slemmer’s skull. Pike began to show off the piece of skull around the school, and the three were arrested within 36 hours.

I can understand why it’s difficult to sympathize with someone who has done something so heinous.

After Pike’s trial, the Tennessee Department of Correction adopted a policy requiring death-row inmates to be held in maximum-security conditions. As such, Pike has been held in solitary confinement since 1996.

This is why she starts to get some sympathy from me. That’s truly awful and not something anyone deserves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christa_Pike

It was a riff on popular stamp loyalty schemes like the green stamps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%26H_Green_Stamps

You couldn’t redeem black stamps for anything, so I think it was intended as a fun and familiar draw to get people in to see the movie. You can read a bit more about it here:

https://themagnificent60s.com/2020/08/09/marketing-black-stamps/

The “Columbia exchange” wasn’t a place to exchange stamps, it was a regional distribution hub for the movies themselves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_exchange

I think it’s just an easier way for the news to describe it to the every man. In reality, this is a combination of sandbox failures, what I’d have to imagine is incorrect prompting, and most concerningly, alignment issues in the models themselves.

We played badly and it hurt our feelings when you told us that with your boos. 🥺