Considering the quotes have an unknown, and almost certainly not public domain or CC BY-SA license[1], they wouldn't be appropriate for any Wikimedia project.
[1] And even if submitting required licensing the contribution under some Wikimedia-friendly license, considering each person included in a quote would also have to agree to such a license... and I have a feeling bloodninja wasn't following up their conversations with "would you mind sending me a signed release of the above six (6) messages under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license version 3.0?"
Speaking as a chronic procrastinator, I think GP is more referring to the difficulty that comes with actually /adding/ items that need to be done. At least, that's always been one of the difficulties for me.
Absolutely - with NowDo you just hit Ctrl+Opt+A (from any app) and type the task, hit enter - and then you can safely forget about it and get back to what you were doing. Making it as easy and non-interruptive as possible to add tasks was a key design goal for exactly the reason you mentioned.
Wow, I'd never seen those before. As far as ads go, those seem really stand-out—seriously creative, and even self-deprecating for the sake of promoting XP.
I can't say how the website I'm scraping would respond if I just went full throttle. But it's also just a matter of courtesy anyway not to make ten thousands requests per second.
Funny story - at work we once had a huge spike in requests from a single IP. We all crowded around, thinking it was some malicious hacker from France. How exciting - we're now interesting enough to warrant a DoS! Turns out another team in the company was just pulling all our data into Algolia to improve search. They were clearly not very courteous!
So on the other end (building APIs) I certainly do pay attention to traffic and have Grafana alerts set up around it.
I would block it, if I was the maintainer. As the linked post mentions, automated requests can "ramp up" at any moment, risking server stability. By preemptively blocking automated parsing (on a resource which primary usage is individual requests, not mass ones) I would avoid future problems for myself. Let them contact us via support if they really need an exception.
In general I would rate limit by IP anything connected to the internet.
Kind of a snarky response. Obviously this has been seen in the wild. If you created an intrusion detection system to look for suspicious requests, I think one occurring over and over and at a regular interval would clearly be seen as malicious and not a genuine user.
Can you provide an actual example? I see it come up a lot in these conversations, but I'm really skeptical that anyone actually does this analysis. It seems like rate analysis (either requests or bandwidth) would achieve the same result in a far simpler manner, so I suspect that is what actually happens.
If you want a replacement you can use `telnet telehack.com` and then run `starwars`. If you want it in a single command you can do something like `zsh -c '{ sleep 1; echo starwars; sleep 10000; } | nc -c telehack.com 23'`.
Well, that feels like a different circumstance to me. II, III, IV and so on are significantly more understandable and readable compared to... MMXXIII or what have you.
Before long, Hollywood is going to have to decide whether to continue using Roman numerals for sequels, or switch to Arabic numerals. Roman numerals are fine and well when it's for "Star Trek III" or even as much as "Star Trek VI" (somehow they skipped V...), but when in the modern age when your new movie is "Ant-Man and The Avengers CCXCIV" it gets a little ridiculous.
> Before long, Hollywood is going to have to decide whether to continue using Roman numerals for sequels, or switch to Arabic numerals.
They’ve already decided: “whatever we feel like for the film in question"
> but when in the modern age when your new movie is “Ant-Man and The Avengers CCXCIV” it gets a little ridiculous.
None of the Marvel films have used roman numerals, and, IIRC, in the MCU only the Iron Man films and the Guardians of the Galaxy films have used numbers (and Deadpool, which wasn’t really MCU until the next one, also uses numbers) outside of early working titles. Most of the other “series” within the MCU (Thor, Avengers, Captain America, Doctor Strange, Black Panther) have used subtitles after the first (or in the case of Ant-Man, used a longer main title for the second, and a subtitle to that for the third).
No, that's Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
The movie you pointed to doesn't exist; it's a conspiracy by IMDB and other parties to make you think there really was a Star Trek V, when in fact there was never any such movie. If you believe there was, then you're a crazy person who probably also thinks there were sequels to The Matrix.
Star Trek V absolutely exists, if it didn’t, I wouldn’t have anything to point to to explain why I ignore Shatner when he tries to say how Gene Roddenberry would disapprove of things in modern Trek.
Roman numerals for years are not so much harder to read than those for single digit numbers because they don't change very often. MMXXIII and MMXXIV are about as easy to understand as III and IV - you've already had three years to learn that we're doing MMXX prefixes now.
There’s also chessx[1], which is what I’ve found myself to prefer (I’ve also never gotten SCID vs PC to run on macOS, unfortunately). It has some oddities, but once you get past that there’s a lot of great functionality to enjoy.
[1] And even if submitting required licensing the contribution under some Wikimedia-friendly license, considering each person included in a quote would also have to agree to such a license... and I have a feeling bloodninja wasn't following up their conversations with "would you mind sending me a signed release of the above six (6) messages under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license version 3.0?"