These tactics are sometimes useful. Here's an summary:

1. Timing is everything.
2. Always start with a blind quote.
3. Negotiate on the phone or in person.
4. Let them negotiate against themselves.
5. It really works like the movies.
6. Never save anyone.
7. Offer to pay up front and/or sign the papers today.
8. Don’t pay setup fees.
9. Negotiate for the long term.
10. Know when to stop.

I personally have been benefited from some of the tactics. It's an interesting find while I was dallying on the internet.

Check if your IP has been blacklisted by various providers.

A very detailed and informative on the Unicode standard. Includes history, codespace, combined glyphs, character properties, emoji, encoding, rendering and more.

An article that mixes OpenAI's CLIP and StyleGAN to allow text-instructed image manipulation. The effect is really cool.

This article describes the security implication of using jwt token for authorization in order to save a db lookup.

• Logout doesn't log out if the token is still accessible
• Server-side cannot force block a user
• etc.

Very interesting insight for the role of parentheses in lisp languages.

If you model a Lisp as a stack language that evaluates from right to left, each parenthesized block must push exactly one value onto the stack, and must not consume any values.

Common misconceptions about SSD and how they are different from traditional HDD.

Tune these settings to get a better mobile network connection. This article explains the settings in *#*#4636#*#* inetrface.

Some information about Anki's internal representation and database structure.

Also see: https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/wiki/Database-Structure

Note that some of the info are out of date today. For example, the the information about decks are also accessible from a new "decks" table that's not mentioned on either of the document.

Run SQL on different database engines and different versions. Supports most major DB engines, including PostgreSQL, MariaDB, SQLite and more.

Two seemingly unrelated words may have shared origin.

Covers a lot of content about DNS lookup, including these:

nsswitch
/etc/hosts
/etc/resolv.conf
ping vs host style lookups
systemd and its networking service
ifup and ifdown
dhclient
resolvconf
NetworkManager
dnsmasq

This is a Wikipedia front-end that's presumably not blocked by governments, useful for sharing to people who don't have access to the free internet.

See https://codeberg.org/orenom/wikiless for the source code.

A curated list of services and alternatives that respect your privacy.

Documentation on various usages of VXLAN.

Kernel documentation on VXLAN, very concise.

A gamut of linux interfaces with nice and brief explanations.

Audi resources released under CreativeCommon license.

Instagram currently requires login to view public pages. This tool provides a proxy to view public content directly without having to log in first.

See how two (or more) terms correlates in human corpus through history.