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Ask HN: How am I “supposed to” manage GPG key loss or compromise?
4 points by nateberkopec 7y ago|1 comments
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by nateberkopec 7y ago
I love ternary operators, but nesting them is a recipe for turning your code into an unreadable mess.
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by nateberkopec 7y ago
Rails is a dependency: https://github.com/tongueroo/jets/blob/master/jets.gemspec#L...
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by nateberkopec 7y ago
> I don't understand this, I'm not exactly in the market for buying $1 billion military airplanes and missiles. Where do you live? You're probably a voter in an area that Boeing needs a helping hand in Congress.
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by nateberkopec 8y ago
Looks like you didn't read the article.
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by nateberkopec 8y ago
Worth noting that the main reason Rubyists are disabling THP is memory consumption, which is something the author didn't measure.
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by nateberkopec 8y ago
As a search and rescue volunteer, I have had a number of fascinating experiences with trained scent dogs. I thought scent dogs only really worked in the movies, but watching them work to find humans lost in the woods was an eye-opening expe
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by nateberkopec 8y ago
I used "you" in the wrong way here. You == qualified medical people, such as in the article. Not you == oneself/one.
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by nateberkopec 8y ago
> Once I realized this, it never came back again. This was the same for me with RSI. It was simply the act of realizing it was psychosomatic and caused by stress that made it disappear completely.
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by nateberkopec 8y ago
I completely agree with you, but our society has such a stigma around mental illness that if you tell someone their back pain is caused by repressed emotions, you get what happens in the article.
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by nateberkopec 8y ago
Over the next 20 or so years, expect a lot of syndromes/conditions to be reclassified, as Michael Sharpe puts in the article, as "biological condition[s] that can be perpetuated by social and psychological factors.". I strugg
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by nateberkopec 8y ago
FTA: >I also understand that government is bloated and there are many places where we could cut spending The problem with this critique (the right-wing rallying cry since at least Reagan) is that no one ever wants to cut any particular
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by nateberkopec 8y ago
What's the future for the study of Oumuamua? Apparently, it should be beyond the orbit of Saturn by the end of this month. Will we _ever_ know what it is definitively, or is it too late?
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by nateberkopec 8y ago
It is not beyond our ability, as "detecting earth-sized planets" was the explicit mission of the Kepler spacecraft.
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by nateberkopec 8y ago
The video assumes that the most important and most difficult part of a SAR drone's job - object detection - will simply be solved at some point in the future. I am a SAR volunteer, and our team has used drones on real searches. What I
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by nateberkopec 8y ago
Let me get this straight: you're arguing that a 10-year-old top-100-in-the-world website taking 4 full-time engineers and having them upgrade their core framework 2 major version over 18 months is some sort of massive failure, and that
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by nateberkopec 8y ago
> Would this be different if, for example, Facebook was targeting people for job ads based on "people who like action movies" or "people who like romance novels" (I'm stereotyping here, but just assume you pick a
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by nateberkopec 8y ago
I love Forgotten Weapons. I'm not even a gun nut, never owned one, but something about watching him explain the history and mechanical functioning of each firearm is so relaxing and satisfying.
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by nateberkopec 8y ago
My local co-op has committed to providing 100% of sunny daytime electricity with solar by 2022 (35 megawatts): http://kitcarson.com/electric/100-daytime-solar-energy-by-20... It's really interesting that the push
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by nateberkopec 8y ago
FYI, most US SAR teams use websites which basically just call "getCurrentPosition()" to get GPS coordinates from lost subjects. i.e. they leave a voicemail/text subject with a link to a website, and they can push a button on
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by nateberkopec 9y ago
I live in a rural town in New Mexico of about 10,000 people. We get 50 megabit symmetrical fiber from the local co-op for about $60 a month. I think the fiber was funded by a USDA grant. One of the nice things is not having to deal with big
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Invasion Stripes(fly.historicwings.com)
1 points by nateberkopec 9y ago|0 comments
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by nateberkopec 9y ago
Not sure the intent of the author was to cover operational-level commanders. Even if Gulf War I did count, coalition forces outnumbered the Iraqis in sum total, so Schwarzkopf's WAR probably wouldn't be very good.
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by nateberkopec 9y ago
This is really neat. I love the idea of applying sabermetrics to historic generals. However, one failure of this approach is that it assumes that the numbers of soldiers given for ancient battles is accurate. The Greeks will tell you that t
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Malloc Can Double Multithreaded Ruby Program Memory Usage(speedshop.co)
5 points by nateberkopec 9y ago|1 comments
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by nateberkopec 9y ago
The link makes it sound like SEP only handles TouchID - is this true, or does the SEP also deal with passcodes?
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by nateberkopec 9y ago
In Puma, we emit a warning if we detect any additional threads running prior to fork.
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by nateberkopec 9y ago
Ah yes, a hacker organization which does things like create Android malware to disable Ukrainian artillery and attempts to interfere with American elections is probably not a Russian front. Come on. Dell SecureWorks and the CIA have present
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by nateberkopec 9y ago
Anti-missile defense systems on the ballistic scale are pretty much a 50/50 proposition. There's signs they may have been testing multiple re-entry vehicles as well, which makes it even more difficult. But just because anti-missil
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How to Get a Computer Science Degree in a Warzone(nateberkopec.com)
9 points by nateberkopec 9y ago|0 comments

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