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   by paledot 6y ago

   Minimal effort was a big part of why I struggled in university. I'm smart, and learned at an early age that I could get away with coasting and scrape decent grades - until university. Turns out working at something that doesn't co
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   by paledot 6y ago

   I wouldn't say it doesn't matter, just that there are many paths to the same destination. And yes, anyone who tells you that your decisions are the primary determinant in how your life goes is a liar. 1% inspiration, 9% persperati
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   by paledot 6y ago

   Good point, I've been meaning to make this a feature request in ProtonMail.
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   by paledot 6y ago

   The other problem I ran into is spam+sitename@mydomain.com is really awkward to read over the phone. I ended up switching to sitename@email.mydomain.com, which passes all validators and doesn't sound as sketchy. Using a subdomain, I do
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   by paledot 6y ago

   I unschooled K-2, was in a traditional school 3-5, then did a mix of unschooling and traditional homeschooling until high school (depending on the subject and year). I dropped out of a criminology program in my third year, ran unsuccessfull
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   by paledot 6y ago

   I would have said the same about .dev, and did, until Google came along and registered it.
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   by paledot 6y ago

   At work I briefly experimented with naming releases deterministically based on the git hash and a common words list. I generated 20 random 3-word phrases as a quick proof of concept, and 3 of the 20 were easily construed as sexually suggest
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   by paledot 6y ago

   The username dance is why I often use a random string as a username. I was delighted to discover that my first name was an available username at my bank, until my login kept getting locked due to too many failed login attempts. I had a 15-c
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   by paledot 6y ago

   I would say yes, as long as certificates are unique per-device. The harm of my light bulb's cert being compromised is less than the harm of my light bulb no longer working if the manufacturer's CA goes offline and it can't re
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    by paledot 6y ago

    I didn't say it didn't make sense. The recursion just made me smile.
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    by paledot 6y ago

    There are two options: * Manually install a root certificate, which is a confusing process for most end users and a non-starter for anyone who cares about security. (Imagine walking your parents through the process.) * Trust a self-signed c
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    by paledot 6y ago

    I love that your front page made your front page.
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    by paledot 6y ago

    I love this idea. There are enough influential tech people who read HN, can we make this happen please?
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    by paledot 6y ago

    I think this is the only practical answer, unfortunately. Everything else might possibly be made to work for a personal project, but definitely isn't an option at scale.
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    by paledot 6y ago

    With the tightening of certificate trust, demise of self-signed certificates, etc., is there any remaining way to establish a consumer-oriented HTTPS server on a local network? Thinking of things like routers, printers, and self-hosted IoT
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    by paledot 6y ago

    PHP has opcode caching. Not that it invalidates your other points, but you're not hitting the disk once per file per request. Just once per file per deploy.
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    by paledot 6y ago

    While also saving thousands of lives a year. Morally, the calculus works.
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    by paledot 6y ago

    The technology sounds fantastic. The synergy with heat power plants is particularly cool (heh). The same goes for desalination: waste heat can be reduced by recycling heat between the processes, increasing the overall efficiency of the syst
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    by paledot 6y ago

    Incidentally, this happened to me yesterday. Roll20 told me that my library was full but didn't give me an obvious way to delete more than one item at a time, so I spent 40 minutes reverse engineering their API to batch delete everythi
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    by paledot 6y ago

    All good points, but you missed the most important part: in any mature programming language, you're not implementing the HttpClient yourself: it's a library, package, bundle, whatever. Which means that when you mock that you'
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    by paledot 6y ago

    Thank you for sharing. Your journey also resonates for me as a humanist. The only difference is that my belief lies in other people.
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    by paledot 6y ago

    My wife and I are both programmers, both enjoy our jobs. She works for Google, my job is less prestigious. We don't need two incomes to live very comfortably. Our solution is to work fewer hours (both on 4-day weeks now) and aim to don