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by jffry 5y ago
Two I can think of: - Performance. Rendering emails, especially big HTML emails, in a separate process means that rendering can be offloaded to a different CPU core and that can help keep the main Thunderbird UI more responsive - Security.
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by jffry 5y ago
Back when I was in college in the mid 2000s, some people found a key in the grass outside one of the dorms. They set up a website with a photo of the key and sent the link to the general "HelpMe" mailing list. As a tiny Pandemic
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by jffry 5y ago
The rest of the landing page seems squarely geared at educators giving lessons via video calls. With that in mind I think the landing page set a good tone for what and who they're trying to sell to, and that doesn't include "
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by jffry 5y ago
A much better link, from the second tweet in the chain, is https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/10/unter/#bezzle-no-more This is the same thing but all put on one page instead of broken into a long series of
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by jffry 5y ago
I did as well; Firefox 91 no longer has that option. You'll be Proton-ified if you upgrade.
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by jffry 5y ago
I believe the legal theory is that your employment and pay are compensation for agreeing to those terms, in terms of making it legally binding (offer, acceptance, and compensation) It's crummy and it's my opinion that non-competes
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by jffry 5y ago
Some states, like California, do place stricter limits or outright on non-competes, and it's gaining steam in other places. Worker's rights in the US are generally terrible so it's a giant patchwork of varying quality.
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by jffry 5y ago
Ah. "Employment Contracts" are not really a thing in most of the US, at least not like they are in Europe. Yes, employers will have you sign an official looking employment agreement, which basically serves as documentation that th
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by jffry 5y ago
Barring specific states or specific circumstances (e.g. negotiated terms with a union), yes that is the way it works in most of the US. Your employer cannot retroactively change your compensation for work already performed, but they can,
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by jffry 5y ago
Halliburton tried it - https://patents.google.com/patent/US20080270152
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by jffry 5y ago
Probability wise, nearly doubling your entropy will significantly reduce the risk of a collision in your generated IDs, but there's lots of other considerations for you to make. But for the raw odds perspective, from https:/&#x2
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by jffry 5y ago
At least for where I am in the US, that's basically how my mail-in ballot worked for last fall's election. The completed ballot goes into an opaque sleeve devoid of identifying information, which then goes inside of an envelope. T
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by jffry 5y ago
Was the title changed? Presently, the post title here matches the article's title: "Fencers Refused to Fight. Then Came the Rule That Changed the Sport" That seems reasonably accurate to me given the content of the article, w
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by jffry 5y ago
Just a guess but maybe it means that the "on" pixels will reflect back more ambient light, thus appearing brighter and having better contrast with the dark "off" pixels under marginal lighting conditions?
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by jffry 5y ago
Yeah I got that, I just didn't quite catch the "Launch HN" instead of "Show HN" prefix on this post at first glance
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by jffry 5y ago
I was also attempting to work out how a company called "Sane IT" was undertaking such myriad endeavors. It was an accidentally good hook to get me to read more!
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by jffry 5y ago
See jaywalk's reply to you from earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27982727 It sounds like the discrete GPU is only needed for specific things which seem like they could reasonably need a discrete GPU (We&#x
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by jffry 5y ago
If I did want to close that hole, is there anything more clever than just having a username that isn't an email address, and allow more than one account to use the same email address?
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by jffry 5y ago
The article hadn't specifically discussed rng period but I see the linked code [1] uses an implementation [2] with a period of 2^128-1 [1] https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/4927ee426aedbeea0f4119ba...
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by jffry 5y ago
One neat trick could be to use a linear congruential generator to iterate through the 32-bit integers without repetition, as long as you choose the right parameters. Fortunately, these are relatively simple to pick [1] when we're deali
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by jffry 5y ago
I don't believe Cloudflare Tunnel is free, the free tier pricing page [1] lists Argo Smart Routing at "Starting at $5 per month" ("Argo includes: Smart Routing, Tunnel, and Tiered Caching") [1] https://ww
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by jffry 5y ago
In case anybody thinks this is offtopic: pressing F does indeed do something on that page (be warned: there is sound). There's an inscription in the marble below the list of products that implores you to pay your respects to capitalism
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by jffry 5y ago
That phrase is directly quoted from a press release on the official US Department of Justice website for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of New York. https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/popular-
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by jffry 5y ago
They can't be removed from the language, sure, but we can benefit by shunning the bad parts of the language, and using newer additions that are easier to reason about. When's the last time you considered using a with(x){} block in
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by jffry 5y ago
You might be interested in this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green_distinction... "Definitely" green is a difficult assertion to make universal. It's true that it has slightly mor
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by jffry 5y ago
> In the winter [...] you get to pay twice. That heat in the hot water is coming from somewhere, and you're paying for it regardless of where it came from. The question is _how much_ you're paying. The magic of heat pumps is t
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by jffry 5y ago
That would only be a problem if you didn't ultimately require email verification. At least to me, this seems like a tool to decide if you should send email verification or block the signup attempt, but I can see how some people might
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by jffry 5y ago
If you are just trying to read EDN, use clojure.edn/read-string instead.
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by jffry 5y ago
Fortunately since Clojure 1.5 (released 8 years ago), Clojure provides clojure.edn/read and clojure.edn/read-string which are safe to use.
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by jffry 5y ago
That's what I would hypothesize as well. Inclusion in a leak by HIBP increases the confidence that it's a real address (but not the converse). Weighting is left as an exercise for the library consumer :)

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