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by dpifke 2y ago
Dan and Tom can speak to this, but by my reading of the guidelines, "criticism of the current administration" and "views on topics like gender" are both explicitly prohibited: "Please don't use Hacker News for
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by dpifke 2y ago
From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html : "Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity." "Agendas" are often ideological battlegrounds. I fl
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This is my experience as well, although I've also found that some of the companies they hire to do these checks are borderline incompetent. The last time I had a background check, despite providing the name, address, and phone numbers
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by dpifke 2y ago
Not marttt, but I'm a big fan of beancount after using it for the past few years for my company's books. Recycling an old comment of mine that might be helpful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37937942 (mor
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by dpifke 2y ago
Why not just use the commit message then? What benefits do you get from building your workflow around the proprietary PR interface?
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by dpifke 2y ago
Good thing Microsoft has never been evil. Otherwise, one might be concerned about locking up your project's history in Github's/Microsoft's proprietary issue tracker (embrace, extend, extinguish!) rather than open sourc
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by dpifke 2y ago
The official documentation contains some guidelines and the reasoning behind them: https://git-scm.com/book/ms/v2/Distributed-Git-Contributing-... https://git-scm.com/docs/SubmittingPatch
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by dpifke 2y ago
Preliminary indication is that we had an oxygen/fuel leak in the cavity above the ship engine firewall that was large enough to build pressure in excess of the vent capacity. Apart from obviously double-checking for leaks, we will a
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by dpifke 2y ago
Which coincidentally launched 22 years ago today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-107
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by dpifke 2y ago
Mostly Linux with systemd-nspawn, also some Kubernetes, plus the occasional full VM. (If I were setting this up from scratch, I'd probably try to figure out how to run my desktop as 100% Kubernetes, using something like k3s, but I don
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by dpifke 2y ago
It feels unstoppable, which is why the best I can do is try to mitigate its impact. Some mitigations that come to mind: The development environment where I'm downloading random libraries is on a completely separate physical machine th
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Oh, nice! This wasn't obvious from the help text. Maybe add it to the FAQ on the "Adding security keys" sidebar?
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by dpifke 2y ago
> You could always use something like a Yubikey. This is the option I prefer, but only on sites that allow me to enroll more than one device (primary, and backup for if the primary gets lost or damaged). AFAICT, Mercury only allows a si
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by dpifke 2y ago
How about giving me a setting to disable device verification: "I know how to type mercury.com into the URL bar and accept all risk of getting phished." I appreciate you guys are trying to protect people, but no other financial ins
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by dpifke 2y ago
Make the link in the email https://mercury.com/something instead of https://mailgun.com/something (which then redirects to https://mercury.com/something ). Or (in addition to, or instead of
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by dpifke 2y ago
The link in the email could be a direct link to Mercury's website, rather than one that passes through a third-party HTTP redirect service. Authentication tokens (even tertiary ones) usually are supposed to have pretty strong secrecy g
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by dpifke 2y ago
Yes, I clear cookies every time I close my browser, as a layered approach to privacy on top of uBlock Origin and NoScript. There isn't a great way to exclude certain sites from this, other than setting up a dedicated web browser in a
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by dpifke 2y ago
I've been a loyal Mercury customer for a while now, but their forced use of magic links as a third authentication factor any time my IP address changes ( after authenticating with a secure password from my password manager and after
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by dpifke 2y ago
Go does have first class support for this in the standard library, e.g. https://pkg.go.dev/crypto/subtle . It's not at all weird that the language authors needed assembly to implement such a thing. They figured ou
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by dpifke 2y ago
NASA evaluated a bunch of options before deciding to de-orbit ISS. You can read a summary here: https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/iss-deorbit-... (PDF) About boosting to a higher orbit, th
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In the U.S., the Federal Trade Commission can prosecute companies for unfair business practices: https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/contact Complaining to your state's Attorney General might also be effective, dependin
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by dpifke 2y ago
Possibly, but per [1] it would come down to: "(1) whether the practice injures consumers; (2) whether it violates established public policy; (3) whether it is unethical or unscrupulous." e.g. it might be deemed "unfair"
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After you finish the Silo series, if you're wishing for more, there are some short stories in the same universe in an anthology Hugh Howey edited: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apocalypse_Triptych I generall
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Not only that, but the companies being disconnected have been ignoring the FCC since February. They were given a new deadline in April that they also ignored. Why did it take an additional seven months to start the process of cutting th
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It's crazy how slowly the FCC is moving on this: WCB notified each Company on March 29, 2024, that its certification was noncompliant with section 64.6305 because the Company had failed to submit an updated RMD certification and updat
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Better Binary Quantization with hardware accelerated SIMD instructions(elastic.co)
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by dpifke 2y ago
If I understand correctly, DNT is being deprecated in favor of a new proposal, "Global Privacy Control": https://w3c.github.io/gpc/ So instead of sending the header: DNT: 1 Firefox will now optionally (via a
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by dpifke 2y ago
Nevada has one of the worst school systems in the nation. This became apparent in just about every interaction I had with state workers when I lived there.
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I had a Nevada LLC when I lived in Las Vegas, which was great up until around 2020, when the state seemed to just stop processing paperwork and the Secretary of State website started going down for ~6 hours/day. They then introduced a
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For anyone who wants their own replica: https://wiki.evilmadscientist.com/Peggy_2

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