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Re:Find SF parking cops on Thursday September 25, 2025 @08:02AM (#45371831)
Actually... those fees are outdated. It jumped to me because for the first time in years I got a fine for "parking on grades" - Somehow I was distracted and turned my wheels the opposite direction.

So I found the fees for July 2025[1]. My fine was $108 and not $68

But also they made errors in publishing their fees, they claimed it didn't increase this year, but it did [2] - and asked the AI to find all the other inconsistencies.

So now I wonder if I should ask for $40 back. That's a dramatic increase, and seems like the intent was it to stay at $68

[1] https://www.sfmta.com/media/42628/download?inline [2] https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/3330732a-2bd1-497d-ab...

Re:CrowdStrike attempts takedown of parody site on Thursday August 01, 2024 @08:15PM (#41134981)
I doubt clownstrike.lol is a legit website: I didn't get asked if I wanted to accept cookies.
Re:Psychological and Psychiatric Terms to Avoid on Thursday November 17, 2022 @01:05PM (#33643019)
Thanks for the link Andrew, it looks like a good show!
Re:Psychological and Psychiatric Terms to Avoid on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @05:48PM (#33632028)
Not on the list: "Oh, it's just my OCD" -- Either you have been diagnosed (and consequently suffer from OCD) or you have an obsessive personality (sometimes a quality).

But OCD is a diagnosis, abusing it do describe a personality trait doesn't serve the many many people impacted by the disorder.

-- From someone with an affected loved one.

Re:Traceroute(8) Gets Speed Boost on Friday September 03, 2021 @03:17PM (#28408190)
You wouldn't know which packet reached its TTL just by flurry of ICMP packets received? i.e. what is the actual order of the path(s)
Re:Daft Punk Break Up on Monday February 22, 2021 @08:30PM (#26232878)
Don't worry, they'll be performing at Burning Man 2021
Re:macOS Big Sur on Thursday November 12, 2020 @03:55PM (#25074875)
Thank you for the hard work and love put into iTerm2.
Re:Automatic Chess Board Design on Saturday March 14, 2020 @08:06PM (#22579801)
A video of one bishop moving (burried in the article): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_zU5RWM38c
Re:Alcubierre drive on Monday August 13, 2018 @02:46PM (#17752535)
It reminds me of Hyperion's Cantos' "Hawking drive"
Re:The Other Half on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @03:13PM (#13767827)
Why? Because: (small amount works, chewed is better) http://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/aspirin-for-heart...
Re:Zaha Hadid, Groundbreaking Architect, Has Died on Thursday March 31, 2016 @02:43PM (#11399521)
Licencing issues?
Re:Software error releases up to 3,200 inmates early on Wednesday December 23, 2015 @04:41AM (#10782650)
That's a lot of savings for the state.
Re:Happy Birthday Monkey Island on Friday September 04, 2015 @05:20PM (#10172930)
Hello, Craig Thomson? Are you here? Did you, indeed, become a programmer?
Re:I Quit: What really goes on at Apple on Wednesday April 08, 2015 @10:17PM (#9345483)
This line should have been the tl;dr

It obliterated the little anecdotical nuggets remotely interesting in the writing.

That's not my experience, validating the data has always worked by just spitting it back out to them without any alterations to the data.
Here is my solution to the encoding issues, let me know if it works for you (assuming your environment let you access the body of the request without parsing it, or already knows how to parse it correctly).

http://blog.cyberion.net/2014/08/parsing-paypal-ipn-requests...

I banged my head pretty hard on this recently, but afaict I have a working solution. I wish this had been better documented. One problem I faced is that I had to fiddle with Flask to make it work (Python user here). I'll post my setup somewhere tomorrow and comment back here.
Re:Dead Man's Switch on Monday April 07, 2014 @03:12PM (#7548629)
I have been toying with the idea for a little while too. Distributed, open and safe where on the top of my list.
Re:Teen to government: Change your typeface, save millions on Friday March 28, 2014 @11:51AM (#7487964)
Can we redo this study with Comic Sans MS?
Re:Best practices for API versioning? on Thursday March 06, 2014 @01:33AM (#7352245)
I'm tempted to both agree with you and curse at you.

Yes, I agree with the idea of enforcing backward compatibility as much as possible and, when that fails, make it a social problem (documentation, email, advance notice...).

But being in the midst of one of those PayPal integration... oh my, what a mess!

* The sea of DEPRECATED in the documentation (hide it away?)

* The pervasive inconsistency in everything

* The choice of x-www-form-urlencoded for IPN data... (I'm trying to figure out some charset bug at the moment)

Anyway... :) No hard feelings!

Re:Why Does A Good Kettle Cost $90+? on Monday January 20, 2014 @01:17AM (#7087876)
"water has ONE boiling temperature โ€“ 100 Celcius"

Well, if you are at sea level, that is.

Re:Childhood amnesia kicks in around age 7 on Wednesday January 08, 2014 @04:56PM (#7027020)
So... How good of a saver have you been since then?
Re:Letter From A Psychopath on Friday December 20, 2013 @12:41PM (#6942722)
You assume the author is a male.
Re:Letter From A Psychopath on Friday December 20, 2013 @12:28PM (#6942604)
So, why the throwaway account?

Did you think about telling anyone or did you even tell anyone, so that maybe others don't have to go through the same thing you did?

Re:Under Seattle, a Big Object Blocks Bertha. What Is It? on Friday December 20, 2013 @03:36AM (#6940553)
Headline: "Giant mystery object turned out being a banal paywall"
I hope whatever comes out of this mess, is some positive change for everyone.

I'm annoyed at shuttles (not sure which company) at the Caltrain station which park in the townsend st. bike lane every single evening, making it dangerous for cyclists. This intersection is sufficiently messy as it is.

I feel sorry for this employee who created a PR disaster this early in the week...
It would be nice if Github was giving a UI control over force-push behavior. If you open a ticket they'll manually flip this repository settings on or off for you, but still... Maybe this is the wake up call: it's dangerous and doesn't scale?

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