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by B-Con 13y ago
> B-con is confused. The behavior in question - the drive powering down right away - would actually occur less frequently if I were trying to do something "high performance." I'm not confused. a) The drive will only stay o
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by B-Con 13y ago
Don't use the Green line for anything performance related, even if it's watching videos. The Green line is simply not intended for that. I think it's designed to be an occasionally-accessed backup drive, or something like t
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by B-Con 13y ago
And yet both had their legions of die-hard supporters who acted like said president could do no wrong. What's that say about the people they governed? There's just really no way that future textbooks will have anything good to say
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by B-Con 13y ago
1% distinct users. Many users comment several times in a thread over the course of a conversation.
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by B-Con 13y ago
> but in every article there's always a note "Please use TextSecure, don't use Telegram". This is very common in the security field. Good crypto/security software is often not very straight-forward for the public
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by B-Con 13y ago
This is Slate. I expect nothing better.
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by B-Con 13y ago
While searching for the Dilber strip IvyMike mentioned, I came across one relevant to your post: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1994-10-24/
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by B-Con 13y ago
One of my personal rules for communication is that high-level language is a killer. Whenever conflict or confusion arises, high-level words need to be abandoned in favor of precision if the communication is to go anywhere. This is very simi
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by B-Con 13y ago
I have those exact earmuffs and have used them for the last 4 years. (I bought them because they had the best dB rating (31, IIRC) I could find within a reasonable price range.) They definitely do eliminate surrounding sound very well. I we
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by B-Con 13y ago
Your mental model isn't necessarily wrong. The phrase "salted hash" generally refers to something more plain than PBKDF2. PBKDF2 is technically a "Key Derivation Function", but it can also be used as a "Passwor
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by B-Con 13y ago
I like these kinds of games. I usually have a game like this that I bring out a couple times a week to help my brain warm up in the morning. Could we get a URL that goes straight to a specific level? That would be easier than repeatedly goi
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ECB Isn't a Mode of Operation(bradconte.com)
1 points by B-Con 13y ago|0 comments
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by B-Con 13y ago
Don't duck, it's the truth. We built really powerful computers and decided the best way to use them was to run web apps consisting of a poor performance scripting language with a poor performance visual-rendering language and half
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by B-Con 13y ago
> 4GB is plenty of RAM for a web browser with many tabs, I always up-to-date Firefox, so hopefully the memory leaks are minimal. I reboot my Linux machine every month-ish and don't exit Firefox unless necessary. I always keep a few
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by B-Con 13y ago
When I opened the first page I thought that it would be a page of unrelated GIFs. I saw the first one, read the accompanying paragraph, and stopped to think about it. I thought for a while before proceeding on, at which point I noticed that
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by B-Con 13y ago
For MBTI, it seemed like more of tenuous a J/P mapping. Structured being J, "go with the flow" being P. The structured, high-level/multi-level thinking is more of an extroverted judging function (aka, J-like), whereas th
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by B-Con 13y ago
I tried doing this for a while (after this or something similar surfaced on HN a year or so ago) and used Chains[1], but I didn't feel that it helped much. Honestly, a simple daily todo list as one of my "app" tabs is the bes
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by B-Con 13y ago
> and he is using Windows !? WTF. He is going against his own advice - to use public/free software as often as possible. It is weird, but I saw it coming. He has always used Windows. Back early 2000s it was because that was what hi
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by B-Con 13y ago
At a DefCon (15, I think?) I got to ask a panel of FBI/CIA/NSA bigwigs a question at an open Q/A panel. I asked how they made the decision of which exploits they'd keep for themselves and which they'd help the proje
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by B-Con 13y ago
Some insight into the idea behind Bedrock can be found in arecent reddit comment[1] by the author. [1] http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1nufog/have_any_of_yo...
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by B-Con 13y ago
I can't make him out to be a buzzword slinger. I've listened to quite a bit of his show (although admittedly very little from the past year or so) and he definitely demonstrates good knowledge. Listening to him talk, my impression
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by B-Con 13y ago
It seems that they're ditching the NIST crypto suite for the Schneier suite. </joke> I can understand the skepticism of anything NSA-related, but I'm skeptical that switching is better. These are two algorithms that are
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Non-NIST Cipher Suite(silentcircle.wordpress.com)
2 points by B-Con 13y ago|1 comments
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by B-Con 13y ago
> It is thicker than an Xbox 360 controller at the base where the sides of the controller rest in your palms. The weight is about the same. I didn’t feel as if the controller was too heavy or too light. I did notice the bulk of the contr
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by B-Con 13y ago
So, the appeal is "take it or leave it" simplicity. While the various choices at a normal grocery store have certainly caused us confusion on an occasion or two, I'm trying to remember the last time it did for us. Once you ge
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by B-Con 13y ago
> There's no "good, in-depth analysis" of anything on the default subreddits, regardless of your political leanings. Politics isn't a good The best content on reddit that I find comes from niche communities. There are
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by B-Con 13y ago
> I remember the post that launched imgur. So do I. It's kind of funny to see some of the things that have been born out of reddit or other social communities, having read the posts that resulted in them. On that note, I wonder how
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by B-Con 13y ago
> Bacon is one of the few things that I refuse to eat. I don't refuse it, but I don't really care for it. It's pretty much just fat, which I don't find appealing.
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by B-Con 13y ago
For the record, sorry, accidentally downvoted you (meant to upvote). Unfortunately, such people start with the assumption that race is the motivation for dislike, and you can do pretty much nothing to change their mind. It's mind-boggl
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by B-Con 13y ago
I have similar feelings about article comments in general. Most of it is noise not worth reading. Exceptions are communities with a specific focus, or communities where the comments are at least mostly segregated from the content and easily

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