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by bccdee 5y ago
That's like saying that the rules of chess describe instead of prescribing. Perhaps it doesn't say anywhere that you should play chess. But neither does it suggest that the rules of chess "describe human play better than th
902.
by bccdee 5y ago
It's cheaper and faster. What's the hassle or inconvenience of a separate drive? If anything, Dropbox is less convenient because it requires installing an application to use it. The only drawback is that you have to carry it aroun
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by bccdee 5y ago
There's a lot of people talking about galleries here, and that's great. But it strikes me that all the professional artists I know make their money through Patreon, and market themselves on social media. That's another venue
904.
by bccdee 5y ago
If you're making a tool for people to use, it's probably best to use a syntax that most people are comfortable with. UX doesn't only matter to corporations.
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by bccdee 5y ago
C++'s templates go too far — way further than Rust's generics go. Rust's type system may technically be Turning-complete, but nobody's actually doing serious* metaprogramming in it, unlike in C++, where template metapr
906.
by bccdee 5y ago
I feel like you ignored most of the original post and are just injecting your own preconceived notions. > Taking money from people with expectation of value, while not providing that value If the employers in question felt that they were
907.
by bccdee 5y ago
It seems very weird that people are attributing this to progressivism. It's bad governance perhaps, but it has nothing to do with California's social policies. Since when are open container laws "progressive"? It's
908.
by bccdee 5y ago
I don't think most visits to documentation involve reading the summary; they're either looking for a specific detail (which they can find via the index) or for a common snippet that can be expressed in an example. If I'm usin
909.
by bccdee 5y ago
The issue is that there are conflicting use cases — "I want to refresh myself on how `re` works" and "tell me what order the arguments for `re.match` go in". I think the second use case is most frequent, so an index and
910.
by bccdee 5y ago
Any form of communication is a medium for coded messages. Steganography through e-mail, code words exchanged during visitors' hours. I think it's silly to hold up books as a dangerous avenue for secret communication when there are
911.
by bccdee 5y ago
No, that's very silly. A mob isn't a democracy; democracy is structured. If a democracy votes not to permit vandalism and then I vandalize something, I'm going to get sanctioned. A mob has no structure and no restrictions.
912.
by bccdee 5y ago
You can never have a totally trustless system, but I think we could trust our applications a lot less than we trust them now.
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by bccdee 5y ago
Silverblue sounds promising. "Entirely safe" is just shy of impossible, but I feel like a reasonable and responsible degree of security should be possible without too many sacrifices.
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by bccdee 5y ago
Yeah I was more worried about an attacker getting my bank account details than an attacker compromising a codebase I work on.
915.
by bccdee 5y ago
Yeah, the more I think about it, the more it seems like this might be the way to go. What are the drawbacks? I know GPUs are hamstrung, so gaming isn't viable. But I can use another machine for that. What else?
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Ask HN: What's the best way to secure your workstation?
117 points by bccdee 5y ago|88 comments
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by bccdee 5y ago
> The fact that [worker cooperatives] make just a small part of economy suggest they are not really effective or interesting. Actually there are a few reasons why we don't have many worker co-ops. First reason is, private investors
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by bccdee 5y ago
For one, investment in the US is directed by wealthy private investors. Which means that the entire bearing of its economy is undemocratic. It doesn't matter if a majority of the public favour heavy investment in (eg) green energy; if
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by bccdee 5y ago
At least the public sector is nominally democratic. Obviously the Easter Bloc never was, but that doesn't mean that some flavour of socialism couldn't be. Meanwhile, capitalism rejects even the principle that democracy could be th
920.
by bccdee 5y ago
The IV isn't secret, but in CBC mode it does need to be securely random, otherwise you open yourself up to a class of attacks based on IV prediction. In other modes (CTR, for instance) you can use any nonce you like, so long as you&#
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by bccdee 5y ago
Absolutely. Disk image backups feel completely pointless to me — why would I back up my entire system when I can reinstall 90% of it from a live USB? It's only my documents that I care about (including photos, etc). My restic job runs
922.
by bccdee 5y ago
Even twitter is a PWA now — the app is redundant.
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by bccdee 5y ago
I for one will never download an app when I can just use the mobile website instead. That's what modern websites are — they're single-use disposable applications. Why would I throw that away for a native app that eats up disk sp
924.
by bccdee 5y ago
The fact that the moderation team didn't have the power to moderate the core team is public, as it needs to be if that is going to change. The actual moderation issues that arose from that have remained private, which is probably for t
925.
by bccdee 5y ago
I dunno, I think iPads are much more a laptop-lite/smartphone-plus than they are an improved e-reader. The promise of e-readers was a comfortable ebook reading experience, and tablets deliver more of a web-browsing and social media exp
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by bccdee 5y ago
I usually do it in Rust. I have a lot of fun with it, it's great practice.
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by bccdee 5y ago
It's very doable, but the problems tend to get longer later in December, so it's easy to fall behind late in the month. It's fun, it's certainly worth giving a shot.
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by bccdee 5y ago
OOP's toolset is useful for abstracting over interchangeable parts, which is the sort of thing that doesn't really come up a lot in Advent of Code problems. AoC is lots of fun, and Python is a great language to do it in, but I don
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by bccdee 5y ago
"What about the rubber hose" is an entirely valid security concern in some contexts and is part of why the principle of least privilege is important. Whether you think it's fair to call this "censorship" or not, t
930.
by bccdee 5y ago
That's exactly my point, though. What happens on-chain doesn't really matter when you can circumvent it in real life. If I start sending people to jail for using blockchain, nobody's going to want your bitcoin, no matter how

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