ale_jrb

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by ale_jrb 4y ago
The bottom of the post mentioned that sales have increased by 40% with the new design. It will probably take some time to know if that sticks, but it seems like it works from that point of view, even if it was maybe overpriced.
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by ale_jrb 5y ago
But it's always medically necessary, because weight changes are a leading indicator of many issues, and the long-term trend is needed to see these. If people feel that they don't understand why it's necessary, maybe better co
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by ale_jrb 5y ago
The furlough system transferred a large amount of money to households, because people had substantially reduced expenses (due to not having to commute, and service-based industries being closed, for example) but only slightly reduced income
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by ale_jrb 5y ago
They're probably less attainable specifically around San Fransisco and Silicon Valley than in most of Western Europe though, even on a SWE salary. It's definitely true in cheaper areas and states though.
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by ale_jrb 5y ago
The maintainers are the process, as they are reviewing it, so it's absoutely attacking the maintainers.
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by ale_jrb 6y ago
I feel like fiasco might be overstating it a little, but basically atom is incredibly slow and this is probably the main reason that it never overtook Sublime and friends in the same way the VS Code did.
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by ale_jrb 7y ago
I understood it that reading from `/dev/random` will still block just after boot (i.e. before it's initialised) unless you pass the new flag `GRND_INSECURE` to `getrandom`. After it's initialised, however, it will never
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by ale_jrb 8y ago
This is true, but kicking off a large subset of the userbase every time an account is compromised (or more realistically, every time someone changes their password—which should certainly invalidate their old tokens) isn't going to be a
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by ale_jrb 8y ago
The problem, as the linked 'Slightly Sarcastic Flowchart' says, is: how do you handle the invalidation server going down? If you just assume that tokens are valid in this case, then an attacker just has to kill the server and they