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by paledot 4y ago
"Cut and paste the options from somewhere" is a questionable practice even when it's not part of a security-critical workflow. And yet I'd venture to say that most people who use OpenSSL do so with commands copy-pasted v
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by paledot 4y ago
No, but I wouldn't trust them if they referenced their math experience as a qualification to teach me SCUBA diving.
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by paledot 4y ago
That's blanket illegal here in Quebec. You can't call yourself an engineer of any kind unless you're licensed by a professional board. I'm a software developer.
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by paledot 4y ago
Unfortunately, that's exactly the problem. If it didn't provide value, no one would use it and its lack of security would be a moot point. The PDF converter is a great example. It's functional, people use it - to transfer pot
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by paledot 4y ago
Pardon me for being pithy. We've all heard the adage about perfect security being a logical impossibility. I will say instead that if a tool doesn't have security proportionate to its risk factor integrated in its design, it does
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by paledot 4y ago
If something isn't secure, it doesn't work. At that point, you would've been better off shipping a wireframe.
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by paledot 4y ago
Bear in mind that, according to TFA, this work is noteworthy specifically because of the high temperature - past work has achieved the same results, albeit with lower efficiency, at lower temperatures.
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by paledot 4y ago
Evidently Randall Munroe reads HN, to the surprise of no one.
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by paledot 4y ago
I was just discussing :man-in-business-suit-levitating: with some friends earlier today. Also an interestingly cryptic background, albeit not an unsolved one. https://emojipedia.org/person-in-suit-levitating/ (Edit: Ap
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by paledot 5y ago
A valuable piece of pedantry, since I hadn't heard of either name and interpreted the GP to be referring to a product now named Clubhouse.
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by paledot 5y ago
I do this with ProtonMail. I have it set on a subdomain, though: my regular email is email@example.com, while my account email is hackernews@email.example.com. This avoids the spam sent to asdf@everydomain.
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by paledot 5y ago
This reads like a LinkedIn parable. I hope you're also providing them with avenues to become full-time contributors if they want to, and ensuring they're fairly compensated and have access to the resources as discussed in this thr
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by paledot 5y ago
My projects seem to end at MVP. (Which might have been the joke you were attempting to tell, while we're being pedantic.)
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by paledot 5y ago
When you mentioned serde, my reaction was, "oh, that's why the name sounds familiar". And then you mentioned anyhow. And proc-macro2. My goodness he's prolific. As someone who has been dragged down to the proc macro laye
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by paledot 5y ago
Making the keypad optional adds user confusion. It might be a worthwhile tradeoff if doing so is necessary to save screen space, but if the keypad is actually accounting for such a significant portion of your screen real estate, I'd lo
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by paledot 5y ago
Why does scale always come up as an excuse in these discussions? If one employee can profitably monitor 10k uploads per day, a thousand employees can profitably monitor 10m.
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by paledot 5y ago
> macOS has a native color picker that is apparently so good that someone reimplemented it for iPadOS. I recall the colour picker being one of the first features that blew my mind upon getting my first Mac running 10.3. I could save swat
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by paledot 5y ago
I mean, your rainbow table would need to contain 2^92 entries...
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by paledot 5y ago
There are a lot of elected positions in the US that actually undermine democracy by themselves being democratically elected, such as sheriff, judge, and indeed election commissioner. These are jobs where the correct thing to do is often
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by paledot 5y ago
As a sibling comment noted, the vast majority of "breakthroughs" are hot air and your discovery of a way to "fix" your colleague may not be received as warmly as you expect. I don't know anything about your colleagu
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by paledot 5y ago
Just like universal design in the physical world, universal design in software has knock-on benefits for everyone. A website that can be properly parsed by a screen reader can be scraped by search engines and archived efficiently. An applic
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by paledot 5y ago
And spina bifida, and cerebral palsy, and strokes, and diabetes, and broken bones, and arthritis, and being pregnant, and just getting old, and literally hundreds of other disorders that cause temporary or permanent impairment. By the time
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by paledot 5y ago
No. My wife is paraplegic and we did in fact test a rudimentary exoskeleton at one point. The reason they don't work is because the mobility she misses the most is the ability to transport a cup of coffee from the coffee maker to her d
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by paledot 5y ago
Canada is unexpectedly one of those countries. Accessibility here is a nightmare, especially in big cities. As another partner of a person with limited mobility, I always notice and appreciate the difference that 40 years of ADA has brought
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by paledot 5y ago
I see it as a feature. Using Facebook's deliberately shitty mobile interface with Firefox Focus, which clears cookies every time I close a browser tab, helped me to kick my Facebook habit by making it too inconvenient to check except f
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by paledot 5y ago
TIL you could open (and not close) a heredoc string in an alias.
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by paledot 5y ago
ProtonMail launched with labels only. They later added folders for those of us who like to file messages under "organized now, don't want to think about this again".
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by paledot 5y ago
> What if you could literally import an ncurses library directly into your app and do the flow in-process? I'm not even sure if there's a way to do that securely but it would be sweet. I mean, the security of OAuth as a UX flow
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by paledot 5y ago
That's the worst part. If you're logged in, it'll flat refuse to show you the picture you logged in to see, and will instead dump you into a timeline of completely irrelevant images calibrated to improve your engagement.
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by paledot 5y ago
And rightly so - just about every year there's a news article about another pedestrian or cyclist killed by a snowplow here in Montreal.

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