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by _vdpp 4y ago
It’s not particularly great for that, either. Every transaction is traceable and publicly visible.
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by _vdpp 4y ago
Same reason you don’t keep all your savings under the mattress. There have been a number of stories about people losing or corrupting their crypto wallets. Once it’s gone, it’s gone.
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by _vdpp 4y ago
What laws did they break? Legitimately curious.
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by _vdpp 4y ago
I think they were arguing that it showed more promise at the time. I disagree though, I think it was simply too over-priced for the mainstream. M1 is very competitive both performance-wise and price-wise. I don’t think it will unseat the re
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by _vdpp 4y ago
There’s a lot more to a computer than just a CPU or instruction set, and it’s borderline negligent for these companies to avoid developing standards for the surrounding ecosystem. RISC-V was initially guilty of this too, but I think they’re
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by _vdpp 4y ago
I thought it was caused by loose floormats.
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by _vdpp 4y ago
It makes iteration less error-prone too when the index of the last element is equal to the length of the array. In C it’s pretty easy to iterate past the end of an array if you use <= by mistake in a for loop, or forget a “length - 1” so
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by _vdpp 4y ago
The term “504” was new to me - doctor-prescribed academic assistance, apparently. https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/504faq.html Is this being abused?
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by _vdpp 4y ago
So, it’s better to produce less agriculture and drive up prices (affecting mostly those least able to afford it) than just desalinate? My understanding is that proposed desalination plants in CA were shut down because of NIMBYism. Better fo
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by _vdpp 4y ago
Whenever I see salary discussions on HN I’m reminded of a saying about military medals: “There are some who deserved more that got less, and some who deserved less and got more.”
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by _vdpp 4y ago
Recursive descent parsing is such a handy tool to have in one’s toolbox. Jack Crenshaw’s series of articles is where I was first exposed to it. For people without a CS background (like me) it can be a bit intimidating to get started. Parser
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by _vdpp 4y ago
I’m pretty ignorant of the marketing industry, but it seems like maybe you’re lumping demographic targeting in with personalization - broad categories like age, geographic location and gender are probably good ways to target advertising. Hy
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by _vdpp 4y ago
That’s an insightful take, and completely un-obvious, at least to me. The idea of a company having its engineers livestream all their production work kind of terrifies me, but might also be kind of an interesting way to do business. I wonde
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by _vdpp 4y ago
Neurodivergent perspectives aside, it’s entirely possible that the world (well, universe) is some combination of religion and mathematic proofs.
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by _vdpp 4y ago
I could probably use this. My muscle memory still reaches for “ifconfig”.
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by _vdpp 4y ago
As a fish user myself, I’ll admit there is something to be said for standardization. It’s easy to poke fun at somebody for being afraid to learn something new - but with the explosion of different tools it’s becoming impossible to stay abre
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by _vdpp 4y ago
Oh nice! No more futzing around with GPG. You just made my day.
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by _vdpp 4y ago
Sounds basically like a key store/loader like this one: https://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/usa/kyk13/index.htm . I have a little experience with its successor. There’s a legit purpose for it but it’s a d
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by _vdpp 4y ago
If I’m the one entering the master secret in, then the device is a glorified password manager. The point of an HSM is that nobody, not even the user, can access the secrets. I’m not saying there isn’t a use case for such a device, or that i
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by _vdpp 4y ago
How is that seed any different from a password then?
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by _vdpp 4y ago
Yeah, for the paranoid you’d have an air-gapped box with your PGP tools on it that you’d plug the hardware key into for setup.
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by _vdpp 4y ago
FIDO2 with resident SSH ed25519 keys works great, just make sure the OpenSSH client and server versions on all the machines you’ll be using the key on support it. I wish there was a way to sign Git commits somehow using them instead of PGP.
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by _vdpp 4y ago
That’s a pretty big foul. I use a different hardware key plugged into each workstation I use and then some “roaming” keys that I can use for backup, travel, etc.
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by _vdpp 4y ago
I think the whole point of HSMs is that you can’t back up (read: exfiltrate) the master secrets. Having said that, on certain Yubikeys you can store PGP keys on them, and put the same secret key on several different Yubis. If you’re relying
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by _vdpp 4y ago
I see a lot of people saying “society needs to be more comfortable with less.” I never see anyone saying “I need to be comfortable with less.”
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by _vdpp 4y ago
99% of climate change effort is social signaling, the other 1% is engineers and scientists working on more efficient, cleaner technologies. What I see here is lots of money for talks, articles, conferences, and “awareness.” Climate conferen
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by _vdpp 4y ago
I’d argue the quality of tools is the problem. I am starting to view every new tool as just a new set of log messages I have to sort through to figure out why things aren’t working. I spend more time trawling GitHub issues to find workaroun
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by _vdpp 4y ago
I get that complicated problems have complicated solutions, but what I don’t like is pushing that complexity onto the developers/users. Better interfaces would make all the difference in the world. Whoever develops the “Visual Cloud” I
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by _vdpp 4y ago
I’ve wondered this too. At one point I started writing a hobby programming language and explicitly added escape codes for these extra control characters to be used in string literals. (Ada has them all included in the “ASCII” package which
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by _vdpp 4y ago
pandoc comes to mind, one of those pieces of software that “just works.” I’m not a Haskell guy but pandoc makes me wonder sometimes. Visual Basic (cue the hecklers). Yes the language is awful. But the tool was great. I wish Microsoft (or so

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