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by BoppreH 5y ago
Almost every movie that features Tom Hardy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iSOWRsmibc And from personal experience, from the last movie I watched: https://youtu.be/AJ0uqAr8Q4E?t=106 . I'm not a nativ
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by BoppreH 5y ago
Another enormous gripe I have with modern movies, other than the (lack of) interesting moral lessons from OP, is the sound design. Loud explosions and music, with quiet, mumbled lines[1]. I'm forced to watch every movie with subtitles
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by BoppreH 5y ago
The only reason I switched away from Vivaldi was the sluggish UI (too many things on the main thread, I guess), but I hear there have been improvements in that area. I may give it another try. qutebrowser on the other hand seems to have lim
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by BoppreH 5y ago
I'll never forget when I managed to squeeze my Night Elf between the trees that made the wall around Teldrassil, only to realize that the whole map I had been exploring for so many hours was the trunk of a humongous tree , and the sea
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by BoppreH 5y ago
My two most important extensions were my adblocker, and Vimium (enable Vim-like control in Firefox). The new WebExtension API broke Vimium, with no replacement possible[1]. Meanwhile, I never had problems with extension clashes. I appreciat
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by BoppreH 5y ago
BSODs are rare now, but only a few hours ago I got an "update" that broke the start button. Clicking or pressing "win" does nothing now. I'm sure it's fixable, but it's not a reliable product by any stretc
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by BoppreH 5y ago
Another bug report: https://www.ebay.com/itm/125134793099?mkcid=1&mkrid=711-5320... 4GB RAM, 64GB SSD, and an i5-1035G is misparsed as 64GB RAM and 1035 GB SSD.
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by BoppreH 5y ago
Deliberately misleading article. The community was mad at Doreen because they held a vote on whether to send someone to the Fox interview, and the consensus was NO. She violated an explicit choice of the community, and this complaint has be
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by BoppreH 5y ago
Network effects. Google Reader was big enough that many websites added RSS support to ensure users would return. When Google Reader died, too many people stopped subscribing to feeds and hence websites stopped offering them. I'm afraid
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by BoppreH 5y ago
StumbleUpon. Every click brought you to a different website, depending on your preferences and voting. The Infinite Scroll Algorithm used in today's TikTok/Facebook/Reddit is similar, but too sterile because it's all hos
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by BoppreH 5y ago
> To put it succinctly, my notes do not fit into a DAG. I think you mean "tree" or "hierarchy"? A DAG would be a superset of tagging, and could place SQLAlchemy under both Python and Databases, as long as you consider
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by BoppreH 5y ago
Offtopic: are "Show HN" topics with both link and text a new feature? The Submit page still says "If there is no url, the text (if any) will appear at the top of the thread.". If it's a new feature, I find it extr
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by BoppreH 5y ago
The proposal is strictly inferior to SQRL[1] plus emailing your friends shares of your secret[2]. You get private keys, no third parties at all, social recovery, but with no Blockchain costs. Bonus point: you automatically get a pseudonym f
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by BoppreH 5y ago
That's a really cool project with its democratic claim assessment, and I admire their transparency. But as with everything related to safety in crypto, today it's still based on optimism. For example, today the 5-member Advisory B
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by BoppreH 5y ago
A cool feature of Shamir Secret Sharing Scheme is that it has information-theoretic security[1], just like one-time pads. In a exaggerated 100-out-of-1000 scheme, even if you steal 99 out of the 100 required shares, you still have zero info
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by BoppreH 5y ago
> 6-figure USD theft Traditional banking is not perfect by any means, but if 6-figure frauds are making the news, it means they are uncommon. Meanwhile, cryptocurrencies regularly have scams and hacks in the hundred-million dollar range.
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by BoppreH 5y ago
I don't want to speculate in cryptocurrencies, I want to use them for their intended purpose, financial transactions. The problem is that I can't do that at anywhere near the safety of my traditional banking institution.
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by BoppreH 5y ago
> banks lose a lot of money to fraud and nobody is prosecuted. That's true some times, but then it works like an insurance policy to me. I like insurance, especially when it's about my life savings. > a future financial inst
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by BoppreH 5y ago
I do, regularly, and it takes a few dollars and a few days to arrive. That sucks. But this comes from following regulations, and fees for the useful service (e.g. protection). Right now international cryptocurrency transfers are a legally g
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by BoppreH 5y ago
No, cryptocurrencies are reduced to "mailing cash to an anonymous postbox", which has a lot fewer guarantees. I'm happy giving cold hard cash to buy something from a brick-and-mortar store to be delivered in the future. I&#x2
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by BoppreH 5y ago
Everyone should be worried about that, and if your suggestion is to use exchanges, that just makes them de-facto banks. Now you have a traditional banking system on top of a slow and expensive settlement layer.
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by BoppreH 5y ago
Bitcoin/Ethereum is what allowed these scams to be executed, not be reverted, and to go unpunished. If you want to push for those technologies, you have to explain how to give consumers a minimum level of protection.
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by BoppreH 5y ago
> Normal individual transactions are secure. For a very narrow definition. You still need a way to get Bob's wallet address, and to secure your own wallet. Just look around and you'll see plenty of experts failing to do that co
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by BoppreH 5y ago
Nope, because cryptocurrencies also removed all other protections. - The scams are online, so I cannot knock on the scammer's door with an angry mob and ask for our money back. - Pseudonymous identities means scammers have strong prote
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by BoppreH 5y ago
This is my biggest complaint against cryptocurrencies in general. I'm happy with my bank's fraud protection. How can crypto users protect themselves without recreating traditional banking? Bitcoin was released ~13 years ago, and w
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by BoppreH 5y ago
Found the original post where this feature was announced: https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/hide-sites-to-find-m... Note that it was not even on the "..." menu (it didn't exist at the time), i
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by BoppreH 5y ago
> Seriously was this ever possible? Yes. Many years ago the "..." menu on each search result had a "Block this domain" button, and you could manage your blocklist from your profile. I can't find much information
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by BoppreH 5y ago
Getting strong vibes of The Birth and Death of JavaScript (2014) [1], one of the numerous great talks by Gary Bernhardt. My engineer side is happy seeing how strong tooling enables such creative features with high assurances. My futurist si
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by BoppreH 5y ago
The one I linked uses no Javascript! It POSTs to an endpoint that returns the HTML of the page with the results. Now I feel bad for sending extra traffic to them.
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by BoppreH 5y ago
Good catch. Weighting by common n-grams would probably fix this, at the cost of a much larger database.

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