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by nbadg 10y ago
Agreed. Incidentally, the game Planetary Annihilation uses kinetic bombardment as a game mechanic, and it's pretty cool. Also terrifying.
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by nbadg 10y ago
I agree wholeheartedly. I think that treating software as dichotomous with "hard tech" (instead of orthogonal) is a profound mistake that really proliferates, not just through VCs, not just through the industry, but through our en
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by nbadg 10y ago
Ha that calculator was amusing to play with. Evidently my dinner last night (stir fry that I cooked at home) was 1250ish calories. Good thing I don't need to worry about scurvy! https://i.imgur.com/oxVBEgi.png
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by nbadg 10y ago
I keep meaning to sit down and start writing a tool to help me with this, but I keep being too busy with other stuff. If you could combine a nutritionist with awareness of local grocery availability with budget and time (etc) requirements w
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by nbadg 10y ago
I don't really pay attention to my macronutrition, beyond just having a general sense for it, but I'm at roughly 3000-4000 kCal daily, before alcohol, which, well, different subject entirely. I'm still at a deficit though, an
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by nbadg 10y ago
To your first point: I agree that it's not the key format that's the problem with forwarding -- so, you could use a PGP key definition for a different message format that worked better, and as long as you ignored all of the extr
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by nbadg 10y ago
Keybase is definitely working on creating a trust bridge between physical identity and (a specific type of) digital identity. Whether they've managed to do it in a scalable, business-sustainable way remains to be seen. Let me be clear:
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by nbadg 10y ago
Using social engineering to bypass this is a big enough issue that even the FTC has a blog post about it [1]. It's happened to popular Youtube producer H3H3 (even with a pin) [2]. Fusion did a thing about it at DefCon this year as well
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by nbadg 10y ago
> One take away is how SMS as 2FA depends on a flawed assumption. NIST (among many others) has recommended you stop using SMS for MFA: https://threatpost.com/nist-recommends-sms-two-factor-authen...
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by nbadg 10y ago
> We need a good solution to identity We have one: public keys (or more appropriately, their fingerprints). Building social trust on top of that is another layer of scope; you use the fingerprint to ensure you're communicating with
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by nbadg 10y ago
> In such a case, would using a traditional library by spawning threads to run any blocking operation be a good stop-gap solution(until an async replacement comes along)? For the record, asyncio provides this ability out-of-box using the
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by nbadg 10y ago
Stuff like the LiveScribe is close, but not quite, what I want. I think at the moment one of the most likely candidates is actually something with AR. Plus, it would just be really stupendously cool to have a blank notebook that is "fu
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by nbadg 10y ago
That's super clever too. Man, my notebook game is getting so much better today.
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by nbadg 10y ago
As an aside, I really wish there were something that really, truly duplicated the experience of pen and paper, but were digitally indexable and searchable. There's just something really special about the tactile feedback. I also really
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by nbadg 10y ago
The doubly-linked list is a really good idea! I'll have to start using it. For no real purpose other than personal interest, I like to put a "NET" (no earlier than) date next to my page numbers in my notebook. Every time I st
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by nbadg 10y ago
I have pretty mixed feelings about this. What I think the article gets right is that the false sense of profundity surrounding stuff like this is really and truly ridiculous. The Yo app, I think, is/was an even better example: yes, the
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Show HN: Daemoniker, OS X/Linux/Win daemonization, signal handling for Python 3.5(github.com)
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by nbadg 10y ago
My understanding is that it's a little bit more grey than that. Modification of signals with an intent to obscure the content of the transmission is explicitly forbidden. But obfuscation for other reasons is not expressly forbidden.
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by nbadg 10y ago
There's also the issue of the dubious legality of using encryption over eg HAMNET. Modern internet without encryption simply isn't modern internet.
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Automatic license plate readers ubiquitous, including airport parking lots(krebsonsecurity.com)
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by nbadg 10y ago
For a reference point on scaling, on a Windows 7 machine that hasn't been shutdown in a week or two, I have a long-running Firefox session with 5 windows and 80-something tabs, and I'm at 1.7 GB. Half a GB of that is being consume
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by nbadg 10y ago
To expound a little on this combination: > There will... be a day when devices [are] necessary for everyday life... are effectively impossible to buy "dumb". > As an experiment, try to find a new car that you can personally
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by nbadg 10y ago
I think the article does a decent job of highlighting some of (what I hear as) the primary concerns surrounding IoT, namely: 1. WiFi needs to always work 2. Internet connection needs to always work 3. Power needs to always work 4. Stability
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by nbadg 10y ago
Well first off, I honestly don't know if it's possible; if I knew, I'd just shoot an email off to 1password. That being said, I don't think we're suggesting the same thing. I'm saying one could write a webpage
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by nbadg 10y ago
Question: could DNS rebinding be used to tap into 1Password inter-process communication? They use localhost websockets for IPC; it's authenticated through the request origin and then through verifying the PID is in fact the browser [1]
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by nbadg 10y ago
I'm an unaffiliated 3rd party (with a ton of interest) but from what I hear, Python's BeeWare project could use contribs. They have a number of endeavors that are all really neat. Some of them: 1. Toga: cross-platform + mobile, OS
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by nbadg 10y ago
I think that the "best" message here is that the performance of memory access, hash lookup, etc, is a more complicated question than always just O(1). Knowing the context -- basically, the second-to-last graph that highlights perf
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by nbadg 10y ago
On a tangential note, I was happy to see that they're using Solidworks files within git. There are precious few examples of this "in the wild", and after guiding my previous (small, <20-person) company to using git for har
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by nbadg 10y ago
The relationship between drag and lift is complicated. They're ultimately both the same phenomenon: pressure differentials introduced by dynamic fluid flow. You cannot have lift without drag, and you cannot have drag without lift [1].
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by nbadg 10y ago
> and try to force the brain to rewire itself to use the other nerves in the cluster as an output I think that's very likely to be innately possible, given both research like you linked, as well as existing animal experiments with B

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