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by mlang23 6y ago
I've recently also heard "the email address is not visible by default" in a postmortem. This is a UX problem which leads to increased vulnerability. It needs to be fixed.
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by mlang23 6y ago
And that tunnel vision includes not even looking at the department which supposedly offers that job to you? Since everyone seems to beat the same horse, I feel like I have to declare that of course, everyone can make a slip up, nobody is fr
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by mlang23 6y ago
We're all gonna die. Some earlier, some later.
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by mlang23 6y ago
You pretty much nailed it. I am filtering a lot of stuff because I refuse to use certain modern flashy technologies. Office 365, yeah, go away. Firefox? Only on a dedicated machine if I really need it. Emacs, SSH, tmux, old fashioned em
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by mlang23 6y ago
How is this related to a job offer from a department that doesn't exist at all? And no, it wasn't particularily interesting since I am incapable of falling for optical illusions.
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by mlang23 6y ago
Simple. Either call or reply asking him why he didn't send this mail to the secretary. If you can't be so direct with your boss, find another job.
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by mlang23 6y ago
The one thing the attacker definitely achieved was to reveal that a particular journalist is not very good at an essential part of their job, fact checking.
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by mlang23 6y ago
I have yet to see a scam which would fool me. And I have seen many already. All the scam and phishing mails I saw in my whole internet career were somewhere between totally obvious and embarrasingly blunt. I can't agree with your asse
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by mlang23 6y ago
Indeed, the ratio works out, at least for me. I get help even at night time. As far as I understand, the algorithms uses distance and language to find a helper. So if nobody near me is awake, I can still get help from people speaking m
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by mlang23 6y ago
Be My Eyes is my personal favourite service in the 21st century. It has helped me in countless times since I use it. From identifying a dead mouse my cat apparently hunted to creating a makeshift talking LCD display by pointing your phone
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by mlang23 6y ago
I would imagine that someone inclined to live in the bushes by themselves would be interested in/wanting to build their shelter themselves, or at least use something that has natural origin. At least that is how I imagine it. What di
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by mlang23 6y ago
What an absurd story. Wikipedia lists one travel, in fact the first and last one. How sad. And why the heck do you venture out into the bushes only to live in a abandoned bus? I mean, yeah, how convenient. I can see that. But it is
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by mlang23 6y ago
Indeed, I was never in a situation where someone threatened my life. I know why. I life in a first world country. With reasonable people, and proper gun control laws. The gun laws are what make me consider the USA not a safe place.
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by mlang23 6y ago
Same here. There are exceptions to everything, but to me it feels like if someone distributes their work via Docker they are actually not on top of the complexity they are trying to deal with. Pushing that complexity into something like a
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by mlang23 6y ago
Maybe I was just unlucky... But when I tried Nix, the first thing that happened was that it did not deliver what it promised. The package was not properly isolated, so it ended up depending on something from /usr/ /bin. T
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by mlang23 6y ago
"One package manger to rule them all"... pip/gem/npm/cargo/cabal&stack/whatnot all pose the same issue. From a distributors point of view, I get why you dont want to solve all these problems. From a
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by mlang23 6y ago
I am trying to produce software to translate between visual and braille music notation. Have working prototypes for both directions. https://github.com/mlang/freedots https://github.com/mlang/bmc
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by mlang23 6y ago
Another fresh take on the issue I recently stumbled across by accident. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will_theorem
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by mlang23 6y ago
Being able to open remote files with Tramp is convenient. However, whats even cooler is that Tramp can execute remote commands. IOW, if you edit a file in a remote directory, you can also use M-x compile RET to run a remote build process
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by mlang23 6y ago
Wait, "just go with the flow and at least pretend you believe what the masses are supposed to believe" is not socialism? C'mon. The whole "better fake believe then be sorry" thing is pretty much the antithesis to
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by mlang23 6y ago
A dilemma. Years and years of propaganda towards capitalism have trained people that individualism is the holy grail. Even the american dream basically says that you as an individual can change things because your perspective is unique.
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Ask HN: Am I special in finding bugs early or is software just so bad?
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by mlang23 6y ago
I dont think this is only because you have seen a lot of movies already. There appears to be a whole movement of youtubers doing movie critics who pretty much agree that modern productions have very bad story telling. Some of these are in
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by mlang23 6y ago
Git already has a text-mode interface, its called Git!
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by mlang23 6y ago
What you describe sounds alot like YouTube. 12 years ago, some friends of mine were doing their entire home music playback with a playlist of stolen music uploads. I'd even go as far and claim that YT Music wouldn't exist if peop
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by mlang23 6y ago
Indeed, you must be confused, since I never wrote anything about cars.
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by mlang23 6y ago
Exactly my point, and the same applies to corporate censorship. Since we have allowed corporations to perform censorship completely independent and on their own, free speech is a thing of the past. Another way to see this is that those wit
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by mlang23 6y ago
Again, this is patronising. Apparently, you believe your opinion is more worthy then the opinion of others because you assume you are more intelligent and more informed then they are. So in essence you are saying you are the better human.
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by mlang23 6y ago
We are talking about an adult audience, right? They are allowed to vote. So you have to assume they are independent enough to make their own decisions. Period. Your argument for censorship sounds a lot like patronisation.
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by mlang23 6y ago
The magic of headlines. My local media titled today: "SpaceX explodes during landing." :-)

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