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by markstos 5y ago
You are right. Obesity maps look like the inverse of walkability maps.
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by markstos 5y ago
> I know that new "open" laptops are still available, but most of them--the System76's, the Purisms, etc.--are overpriced in my opinion. He understands the value of these open devices, but isn't willing to pay more fo
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by markstos 5y ago
Sounds like the story was that the tablets were given to external participants in studies without the expectation of being returned.
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by markstos 5y ago
With 9 known high severity vulns in release 99 this replaces, looks like they need a few more dozen releases to really get this polished.
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by markstos 5y ago
IANAL, but if the page is used to opt-out of marketing emails, then yes, Visa is in violation the US CAN-SPAM act, which requires promptly processing opt-out requests. https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources&#x2
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by markstos 5y ago
Where the claims that meat is mind control or Soylent Green?
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by markstos 5y ago
Lightning connectors don't have enough pins to replace all that USB-C connectors do.
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by markstos 5y ago
I designed a keyboard case for the Corne keyboard shaped like a corn husk... I was going to buy yellow keycaps to look like corn kernels against the green case, but my preferred keycap profile wasn't available in yellow.
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by markstos 5y ago
Are you maintaining AMIs or using a tool like Ansible? For instance, how do you apply security patches to 10,000 instances?
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by markstos 5y ago
For TypeScript, Ghost: https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost
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by markstos 5y ago
Scammers use small changes on stolen cards as a test. If the test change doesn't get noticed or flagged, later a much larger is sent through. "That's weird" is a not an acceptable answer for a card was charged for any am
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by markstos 5y ago
Thanks for the clarification. Could you address the comment left directly on the post? How was the this client-side JavaScript being used as part of the security of the transaction? Shouldn't the transaction have been recorded as part
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by markstos 5y ago
That’s using backcompat in source code, like “CompatMode”. Thankfully dictionaries aren’t full of all the variable names that exist in source code.
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by markstos 5y ago
I'm working on seeding `backcompat` as a portmanteau of "backwards compatibility". Help me out, HN.
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by markstos 5y ago
Username checks out.
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by markstos 5y ago
Even developers who "don't make type errors" have to deal with bad and unexpected data, which may be in a different type. If you don't validate that all untrusted data is off the appropriate type, security vulns or &quot
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by markstos 5y ago
Are you saying that if there had been type checking, this issue would have been much easier to detect and prevent?
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by markstos 5y ago
> There's going to be a lot of resistance to distros shipping a binary they didn't build from source. Tow-Boot appears to be MIT Licensed. There appears to be nothing stopping them from building Tow-Boot from source.
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by markstos 5y ago
Right. For example, normally "twimg.com" is used for serving images and "t.co" is used for link shortening and engagement tracking. So they may need additional Tor domains to map the additional domains they normally use.
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by markstos 5y ago
Cars are already complex enough to make them vulnerable to global supply chain challenges. The more tech that's required to put a car on the road, the more challenged that manufacturer is going to be have enough inventory of all the co
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by markstos 5y ago
I have used Gron-- it's very useful and easy to learn and use.
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by markstos 5y ago
Same. This product is not for us.
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by markstos 5y ago
Commenter above explains it's a design patent, which are more specific: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30467500
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by markstos 5y ago
At a job interview, I pointed out the company could cut their bandwidth in half if they enabled gzip compression on their web server. I got the job.
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by markstos 5y ago
You are too brainwashed by git.:) The bigger picture is that the project is trying to provide a better interface on top of the existing git data store. As someone who used darcs for a major project before Git dominated DVCS, there are much
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by markstos 5y ago
Even better is defense-in-depth. Do development in VMs AND don’t store your private SSH in plain text on your laptop.
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by markstos 5y ago
We had situation where if you worked late, the test suite would consistently fail. Since developers rarely worked late and would give up when hitting the "random" test suite failure and go home, the bug persisted for months before
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by markstos 5y ago
Just reading the headline gave me traumatic flashback to a customer project for a winter sports brand that broke on April 1st after not being modified for months prior to this. You guessed it: There was a sleeper bug detonated by the date c
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by markstos 5y ago
My dad calls this “punishing the masses for the indiscretions of the few”. Like airport security theater.
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by markstos 5y ago
There are checks in place to make difficult to buy an SSL certificate for the official domain of a bank. At least Chrome tracks malicious websites. By comparison, there seem to be no checks in place to prevent writing an ethereym contract t

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