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by nepthar 2y ago
Honestly, I think it will be used for the reverse (and unfortunately more evil) - Google wants to be able to control YOUR machine's compute environment for things like playing back of DRM'd content. They want a chain of trust that
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by nepthar 2y ago
I made something called shell workspaces[0] for this. I like to tinker with bash and this has helped me keep all of the commands relevant to a particular project discoverable, accessible, and documented. It uses a function "," for
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by nepthar 3y ago
I am blown away that this is not already part of gRPC. A lifetime ago, I worked on twitter's version of this sort of thing (thrift/finagle) and I assumed it was standard.
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by nepthar 3y ago
While I agree with your opinion here, I find it more alarming that these researchers are mixing the reporting of empirical evidence with "just like their opinion, man". Joking aside, I think that's worrying. It immediately ca
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by nepthar 3y ago
Sorry, I must have missed the claim of righteousness in the canary. Can you point me to it?
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by nepthar 3y ago
Reading through the comments, I realize this may be a minority view - but I like coding for the happy path and letting exceptional states crash. I find languages like go a bit harder to parse quickly because I always have to "unwrap&qu
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by nepthar 3y ago
Yep, if there are zero members, then the statement "all members are vetted" is mathematically true. Well done.
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by nepthar 3y ago
Please accept my sincere thanks for moving on from corporate memphis. And I think this is an interesting project!
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by nepthar 3y ago
I'd ask the inverse question to you - why would you think it is unimportant to determine the cause of things that happen in the world?
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by nepthar 3y ago
Genuine question - why is it up to us to convince you? It's already in widespread use benefiting the folks who use it.
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by nepthar 3y ago
I'd be curious about how Netflix would get access to your SSID. On a mobile app, you'd have to grant that permission - do they now ask for that?
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by nepthar 4y ago
The first comment refers to this bot as the "Ultimate Redditor", which is 100% spot on!
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by nepthar 4y ago
While I agree that the process could have raised red flags with the customer's behavior, why not have a human look into it and verify that it's legitimate? Why the ghosting/poor communication?
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by nepthar 4y ago
Good point, thanks for your insight.
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by nepthar 4y ago
I may finally have a take worth sharing here: Yes, I think programming culture is immature as in there is lots that isn't yet well understood. I think the entire industry of software development is the same. But I think this is more a
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by nepthar 4y ago
Deadline confusion :)
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by nepthar 4y ago
Any potential trusted third party is corruptible whereas the type of "block chaining" that is used can be quickly verified as correct by anyone.
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by nepthar 4y ago
Why's that? I use both.
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by nepthar 5y ago
Small plug for Kotlin as well! Yes, there's new concepts to learn with structured concurrency, but I've been mostly enjoying how quickly it gets out of your way . once properly configured :)
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by nepthar 5y ago
Welcome to HN! Please check out the guidelines for posting comments, as I believe this one runs afoul of several of them: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by nepthar 5y ago
Out of curiosity, which meal was that?
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by nepthar 5y ago
> they're not authorized to demand it like the health care industry is. There is no governing body that determines who is and who is not "authorized" to request ID in the United States.
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by nepthar 5y ago
I'm sorry to say that putting a coil near a tower would only leech what passed through it, so unless the coil was nearly the same size as/bigger than the tower, and right beside it, and the coil was directly in line with the folks
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by nepthar 5y ago
I agree. I wish there some better way of defining this.
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by nepthar 5y ago
... If I had dug just a bit deeper before posting :) > Today, this type of reporting requires at least one party to learn which specific people made a purchase after seeing a specific ad. With MPC, say one party has the information about
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by nepthar 5y ago
I've been digging through this in an effort to understand exactly how it preserves user privacy. I'm at a bit of a loss, probably because I lack domain expertise. From digging through their docs[1]: > This adds a new privacy co
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by nepthar 5y ago
FWIW, I didn't detect any snark in your words either. Perhaps brevity was mistaken for snark?
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by nepthar 5y ago
High level answer: Lightning transactions happen off network and only "sync up" once in a while. In a lightning transaction, only the two individuals transacting know that it has happened. But in an on-chain transaction, that info
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by nepthar 5y ago
True, but it could be marketed a bit better: "Update finishing in the background"
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by nepthar 5y ago
I too am left scratching my head trying to understand who the intended target audience is.

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