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by dperfect 8y ago
Spotlight in macOS is terrible when it comes to this sort of thing, and it's been that way forever. I can't count how many times I've tried to launch an app with Spotlight only to realize that macOS has conveniently replaced
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by dperfect 8y ago
For more context into Facebook's decision-making process when it comes to censorship, you might find this episode of Radiolab insightful (it was for me): https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/post-no-evil From what I
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by dperfect 8y ago
I believe it's due to HN including this: <meta name="referrer" content="origin">
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by dperfect 8y ago
Maybe we shouldn't be looking at whether or not this law allows this particular message to be communicated in this way, and instead look at whether or not arbitrarily blocking access is permitted under the agreement between the service
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The "battle-tested" argument is becoming less and less obvious. As for being error-prone, I've seen a lot of people set up their session cookies incorrectly/insecurely when using traditional session tokens (and framewo
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by dperfect 8y ago
Again, I’m not arguing that traditional sessions are bad and JWT is categorically good. Of course, if everything is already implemented for you[1], then ease-of-use is less of an issue, but there are valid use cases where JWT makes sense (i
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by dperfect 8y ago
I don’t think of JWT as a replacement for db lookups or storage, but they do provide a convenience in not having to store and manage all sessions in the database[1]. I’ve done it both ways, and as long as you’re careful about a few of the p
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by dperfect 8y ago
In the past, I've compared the "iat" (issued at) value with a column in the users table called "invalidate_tokens_before". If I need to invalidate tokens for a user (for my use case, it would always be all tokens fo
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by dperfect 8y ago
Thank you for pointing this out. I wish more people understood this point. It happens to be the same reason that Amazon can't just say "sorry, we don't take any responsibility for the suppliers of solar eclipse glasses that w
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by dperfect 8y ago
> They are being redirected to the mobile web version of the app and asked to enter payment details with Netflix directly. Sorry, but if Apple's policies are applied consistently (I know they often aren't), this won't fly.
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by dperfect 8y ago
From my experience with a GTX 950 and a GTX 1060, the macOS Web Driver from NVIDIA doesn't seem to care about virtualization, and it works fine (assuming the drivers and passthrough are configured correctly). Windows is a different sto
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by dperfect 8y ago
I've set up several Hackintosh machines in the past (bare metal / no hypervisor), but lately I've been using QEMU/KVM almost exclusively - specifically through Proxmox (I tried ESXi for a while, but I prefer the flexibil
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by dperfect 8y ago
Thanks. That's true, though to be fair, the kind of changes needed to terraform Mars also normally happen on geological time scales. That's not to say it can't be done faster, but as others have mentioned, plans to terraform
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by dperfect 8y ago
Even if there was enough carbon dioxide, is seems likely that solar wind would erode away any terraformed atmosphere as some believe happened in the past[1] due to the lack of shielding from a global magnetic field. [1] https://e
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by dperfect 8y ago
I believe the term you're looking for is reciprocity failure[1] (or schwarzschild effect), though apparently it doesn't happen with digital sensors - only film. Noise becomes an issue in similar situations, but it's not affec
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by dperfect 8y ago
> You might argue that, but you might also argue that when you bought a CD, you bought 10-15 tracks, even if you only wanted one or two. My same argument applies to a single track purchased via iTunes - it doesn't matter how many ti
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by dperfect 8y ago
> Spotify knows exactly how many people listened to a song, and pay accordingly. From what I understand, they actually pay based on how many times a song is played, which is not the same as how many people listened to it. If I only lis
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by dperfect 8y ago
Trust isn't a feature in the way a16z describes: "Blockchain computers are new types of computers where the unique capability is trust between users, developers, and the platform itself." So yes, maybe blockchains require a c
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by dperfect 8y ago
Bitcoin was indeed designed to avoid the need for trust: "What is needed is an electronic payment system based on cryptographic proof instead of trust, allowing any two willing parties to transact directly with each other without the n
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by dperfect 8y ago
I agree mostly with the point you're making, but there's an important distinction between "reputational trust" and an assumption that game theory and market forces will continue to provide the necessary levels of decentr
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by dperfect 8y ago
Trust isn't really a feature of blockchains, nor is it a byproduct (or "software primitive") of blockchains. Bitcoin was designed to avoid a need for trust, so it really just steps around the issue of trust in a distributed l
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by dperfect 8y ago
That's been my experience also. It's kind of surprising given that I was able to replicate 90% of the functionality (that I normally use) for a Raspberry Pi project using only netevent[1] and netcat. Obviously cross-platform and i
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by dperfect 8y ago
Yep - that's what I was thinking. Probably a "feature", not a bug.
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Instagram (was) sending all bio links to instagram.com
1 points by dperfect 8y ago|2 comments
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Sounds like we'll have to start solving voice captchas just to call businesses.
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https://youtu.be/ogfYd705cRs?t=1h57m57s
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Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Kit Kats [video](youtube.com)
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> ..."build the things that people want to use" culture causes people to experiment, to hone their skills, and to develop Maybe it depends on the size/stage of the company to some degree. In the startups I've been inv
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I agree, but where would you draw the line between spending time/money on projects like this and needlessly reinventing the wheel? I see a lot of startups creating internal software themselves (e.g., CRM's, email marketing systems
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I agree with you on that. I'm just pointing out that the data isn't being shared with "some random third-party tracker/ad-ware" (it's either a conscious decision or a serious security mistake to include third-p

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