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by LeonM 5y ago
Well, I guess 'it depends'. Generally I agree with hybrid systems being more complex that ICE only systems, but having a high(er) voltage electricity source and powerful electric motor available does remove some complexity. Depend
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by LeonM 5y ago
This reminds me of something a friend once told me. This was about 10 years ago, he was a commander for the navy at the time. In the navy, while at sea, you are expected to drink during social events. Alcohol is considered the 'social
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by LeonM 5y ago
After reading this post I googled to see what Wordle is. I immediately recognized Wordle as a clone of 'Lingo' [0], a popular TV game show that started somewhere in the 80's, and is still broadcasted today. It's very pop
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by LeonM 5y ago
Try https://www.mailhardener.com which includes (amongst many other features) DMARC and SMTP TLS report aggregation. You can use it for free for personal (non-commercial) domains. Paid tiers (starting at 19 EUR/month) also
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by LeonM 5y ago
If the author is here on HN: link to patch 007 is incorrect.
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by LeonM 5y ago
Which is just as long as "Y2022", but probably not as catchy to use as a title...
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by LeonM 5y ago
> It's pretty bad - nobody is really doing it. I'm curious how you came to that conclusion. Messo's question above made me curious, so I just did a quick query on the database of Mailhardener. >99% of email coming from
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by LeonM 5y ago
> I guess it would be easier to build up a decent IP reputation if it was on a "virgin" IPv6 address used only for this purpose, and not tainted by prior use etc. IP addresses (especially IPv6) are ephemeral, email providers kn
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by LeonM 5y ago
> (with DMARC signatures and other modern email practices) DMARC does not provide signatures, DKIM does. DMARC adds the DKIM 'alignment' requirement. Meaning that not just any DKIM signature will do, the public key (the DKIM DN
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by LeonM 5y ago
This. 2 rules: - Always indicate that your application is performing a network action (like showing a spinner, disable forms/buttons while submitting, etc) - Always catch errors (including timeouts) and give some form of feedback to th
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by LeonM 5y ago
> I've heard it said that it's more difficult to make a $10,000 car than it is to make a $1,000,000 car. It is, but probably for a different reason than you'd think. In automotive, the difficulty is not designing the car,
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by LeonM 5y ago
Thank god I am not the only one experiencing this. I am generally interested in space related subjects, but my feed is constantly full of fake 'live' SpaceX and Elon Musk videos. These are just old SpaceX streams overlayed with cr
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by LeonM 5y ago
The issue is often that: 1. The vendor is not aware that this is a problem 2. As a result of point 1, the vendor does not have budget planned for this. 3. The reward for the investment does not make sense for most of the vendors. About poin
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by LeonM 5y ago
Hi Marcan! Amazing to get a response from the man himself :) This is why I love HN. Please don't take my post too cynical, I understand how much work has already gone into getting this far, but also how hard it is to get the last 1% fu
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by LeonM 5y ago
Don't forget that Thinkpads have a huge Linux fan base as well. Don't get me wrong though, I am hoping that this project succeeds, I'd love to have a Mac with Linux as my daily work machine. I guess time will tell how well th
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by LeonM 5y ago
Don't get your expectations up too high. My ThinkPad X1E has horrible battery life under Linux, and has a boatload of issues with thunderbolt, the external dock, HDMI port, audio and WiFi. For example: when my Thinkpad goes standby wit
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by LeonM 5y ago
This. It is astonishing how efficient they are. I sometimes feel bad having to order a 3 cent part at Farnell/Element14. Which is then packed and shipped from the UK to the Netherlands without any handling or shipping fee. Usually it i
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by LeonM 5y ago
It's the opening line in the lyrics of Bon Jovi's Livin' on a Prayer.
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by LeonM 5y ago
> I am aware that there are some situations where there is no other option than driving yourself. But trying to justify the ability to drive intoxicated, just for that once-in-a-lifetime emergency seems selfish to me. I did try to explai
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by LeonM 5y ago
I completely agree with you on this. But again, my comment wasn't about this system, but drunk driving in general. I acknowledge that situations exist where drunk driving is the only option (like with the flood/tornado/vulcan
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by LeonM 5y ago
My reaction on the OP was about drinking under the influence of alcohol. Not on how the car may detect false positives on erratic driving.
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by LeonM 5y ago
I know your comment is cynical, but really, an emergency rarely justifies driving while intoxicated. If someone (or yourself) needs medical attention, call an ambulance. If somebody is in danger, call the police. If you need to go somewhere
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by LeonM 5y ago
It also said enough about Coinbase that they went public on an actual stock market, for actual money. Instead of doing for some blockchain buzzword ICO.
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by LeonM 5y ago
Even on racetracks indicators and high-beams are used in their own way (that is: if the race car is equipped with such lights). Hazard lights (both indicators): Used in yellow zone, both to confirm to the marshals that the driver has seen t
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by LeonM 5y ago
I've used Jetbrains products for a long time, both as a student, and later professionally. Jetbrains products are free for students, and paid for professional use. In my opinion, the pricing of the product is spot on. My company pays a
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by LeonM 5y ago
> And for what? A couple of dollars of side revenue. And whole lot of customer hatred. Don't forget that the HN crowd is not your average consumer. Most people don't care, or don't seem to have issues with the ads. They ju
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by LeonM 5y ago
Except that the OP did not post all the information to verify. The IP address does belong to the fbi.gov (both forward and reverse DNS lookups check out). The DKIM public key does exist at the given selector [0], but without the complete ra
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by LeonM 5y ago
> What are they going to do, tweet that you have an inadequate SPF record? Heh, well, given that I run an e-mail hardening platform, our customers rely on our consulting on how to (amongst other techniques) set an adequate SPF record. So
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by LeonM 5y ago
As soon as we published a security.txt, we started received multiple beg bounties on a weekly basis. The thing is, that responding to them (regardless what you write) often triggers a drip mail campaign with sad stories of how the 'hac
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by LeonM 5y ago
I started writing the comment with "I highly doubt it", but as I was writing, I think it is a very interesting question. And it might be possible. Like you said, spark plugs require high-heat and high electrical insulation propert

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