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by philsnow 2y ago
"I can't tell you, it's one with beards and also secrets"
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by philsnow 2y ago
An oddball question, but do you have that government document/card that also works as a smartcard to create digital signatures? Does that get used typically in interactions with the government (or maybe even businesses)?
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by philsnow 2y ago
I was going to make a quip about how that's because, compared to Europe, almost nobody in the States has bothered to get a passport.. but apparently the percentage of Statesians who have passports has skyrocketed in the last 35 years f
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by philsnow 2y ago
The performance jump between a top-of-the-line intel MBP (I don't remember the year, probably 2019) and the m1 max I got to replace it.. was rather like the perf jump between spinning disks and SSDs. When I migrated all my laptops to S
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by philsnow 2y ago
> People believe in index funds because of multi-decades of globalization At some point we're going to reach the heat-death of the economy and we'll be "completely globalized", I guess?
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by philsnow 2y ago
I feel the same way when twist-ties on bread from the store are twisted the “wrong” way (for the 90% of people who are right-handed)
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by philsnow 2y ago
I love Factorio but the graphics look a bit like 1996 SVGA 256-color sprites (edit: by which I mean, I feel like there is noticeable dithering). I haven't played the new "Factorio in space" bits, maybe it gets out of the bro
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by philsnow 2y ago
Companies liked to bring patent suits there because it has historically been a very “business friendly” docket
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by philsnow 2y ago
That rocket docket is somewhat diminished after TC Heartland https://www.bakerdonelson.com/return-of-the-rocket-docket-ne...
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by philsnow 2y ago
I don't know if it's different in the UK, but at least in the states, tech companies only have offices in the most locally-expensive areas, so if their offices were converted into co-working spaces, I'd still have to commute
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by philsnow 2y ago
I'm surprised they just punt on concurrent updates [0] instead of locking with something like dynamodb, like terraform does. [0] https://github.com/awslabs/git-remote-s3?tab=readme-ov-file#...
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by philsnow 2y ago
Ah, maybe this is what’s happening to me.. I use Firefox with uBlock origin, privacy badger, multi-account containers, and temporary containers. Whenever I click a link to another site, i get a new tab in either a pre-assigned container or
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by philsnow 2y ago
This reminds me a bit of org-babel’s support for running blocks in any language. I like the idea and the execution. This bit though: > makedown.sh > npm install -g ... > #!/usr/bin/env python Gives me a bit of whipl
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by philsnow 2y ago
I would argue that a magic link system has to only allow the click-through to grant access on the machine that initiated the login flow. If I enter my email in SomeSite, they send a magic link to my email address, and then Mallory intercept
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by philsnow 2y ago
> nothing beats the security and privacy of username + password + TOTP (or security key) security key is at least somewhat better than TOTP because it's not (or less-)phishable
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by philsnow 2y ago
Can you imagine a world where instead of sites prohibiting pasting into password fields, they prohibit hunt-and-pecking passwords? It's beautiful.
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by philsnow 2y ago
There are ESP32s that use RISC-V, see https://www.espressif.com/en/products/socs/esp32-c3
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by philsnow 2y ago
This "ball and button in a box" analogy is precisely the one that people told me about when I was processing grief. Right after the traumatic event, the "ball" hit the "button" nearly continuously, but as the
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by philsnow 2y ago
It sounds a lot like “auditory icons” as used in Emacspeak [0] and some other environments to improve accessibility for people with vision impairments. Bill Buxton [1] seems to have a good treatment of the subject but i don’t know what’s au
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by philsnow 2y ago
In cantonese it’s what a toddler might call poop
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by philsnow 2y ago
> OpenSCAD is a one-way, declarative CSG environment that essentially only outputs mesh formats This is why such a basic-seeming thing as “how do i get the bounding box for this CSG frankenobject I’ve created?” comes up again and again o
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by philsnow 2y ago
I doubt that there are requirements on the number of members of a ham club, you could probably have a 1- or 2-member "club" for the adults in your household, right?
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I read that as "sole [proprietor]"
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Easy-bake cryptominer
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by philsnow 2y ago
Back in 2018 I did the math and ended up buying a house in Texas. Table stakes for a 2- or 3-bed shack on the SFBA peninsula was ~$1.5M at the time. At 1%, that's $15k / year in perpetuity to CA. In TX I found an amazing house
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by philsnow 2y ago
Oh that's lovely, thank you, I didn't know it was possible to do.
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It’s not necessarily fake. I do like helping people.
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Some of the elements of this reminded me of a Daniel Suarez book, Daemon. I don’t want to call out which elements in particular because that might be too spoiler-y. Daemon is a super quick and fun read though.
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by philsnow 2y ago
> I'm just facing this with a contractor doing repairs in my house Are you saying that you give your contractor a list of seven things to address, and find that they only address two and say they're done? I can't remember
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> You need to develop a polite but curt tone of voice for customer support If this makes you uneasy, it can be easier if you sign initial support replies under another name. Hey, this is John, I'll be happy to help you with that

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