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by pmontra 1y ago
Or copy pasting passwords manually. In that case the password manager is equivalent to a list of passwords on a sheet of paper.
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by pmontra 1y ago
But the process have been bootstrapped billions of years ago. They would have to print a feconded egg cell and make it grow. I think that the best we can do now is to freeze that cell and ship it to the next star. Then build the womb, which
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by pmontra 1y ago
It's not only about palladium or any other kind of ore. It's that you can launch from there to Earth orbit and spare most of the costs of lifting mass from the surface of our planet. Then you build habitats and ships with that stu
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by pmontra 1y ago
Firefox reader mode gets all the text and some pictures.
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by pmontra 1y ago
Next step: mandate that every web site verifies the identity of its users, no matter the content, whether users register or not. Goodbye old style personal static sites and blogs. Everyone forced to join a content silo or serve no content.
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by pmontra 1y ago
Don't know. A company can have a huge valuation on the stock market but that does not necessarily mean that they have cash to pay wages or can afford to pay a large team. If all they have are stocks they have to find somebody that buys
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by pmontra 1y ago
There is git format-patch to create a diff and git send-email [2] to mail it to another developer and git-am [3] to apply the patches from a mailbox. The Linux kernel developers have been using that workflow for a lot of time. Maybe still n
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by pmontra 1y ago
> "we are going to not charge taxes on tips" It's been a very long time since my last visit to the USA. I probably paid tips in cash back then. I would assume that workers can chose to never report those tips as income, o
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by pmontra 1y ago
That's a very shallow protection. Even if one has no other camera (phone, table, a real camera) there are always friends and relatives that can help and take a picture of the screen. Furthermore a picture of the screen and the phone ar
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by pmontra 1y ago
And "nowadays" is an example of that process https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=nowadays,%20no...
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by pmontra 1y ago
A dozen years ago a company hired me to maintain an ecommerce system that had been built for them by a guy that left soon after. They told me "he is not even a developer." That was my assessment too. The system mostly worked but i
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by pmontra 1y ago
It's worse than that. I bet that the vast majority of those pictures are viewed only on a phone screen, at whatever resolution WhatsApp, iMessage or Messenger transcode them, but not much more than a few centimeters wide. I add the Ins
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by pmontra 1y ago
I never received a SMS from Italy when I was on vacation in Australia in 2019. Apparently my phone contract would allow them but either the phone company did not honor its terms or banks didn't send SMSes to roaming customers. I ended
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by pmontra 1y ago
Many manual jobs wear away fingerprints. I renewed my ID card after renovating my home and the fingerprint reader could not read anything meaningful. They told me that sometimes the state accepts those messy fingerprints anyway and yes, the
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by pmontra 1y ago
The only 2FA I'm using is the one of my bank, because I must (there are regulations.) I stopped logging in into GitHub since they enforced 2FA on my account. Luckily no current customer of mine is using GitHub. They are on Bitbucket an
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by pmontra 1y ago
The average person does not know anything about all of this. I start with TV sets. The usual way to chose one was walking into a shop, looking at dozen of TVs tuned on the same channel, picking the ones that subjectively looked best then ch
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by pmontra 1y ago
Yes, and I remember the years around 1990 when teams with tall men with a lot of stamina and not much else were giving headaches to top teams with top players. But soccer is also a team sport and there are dynamics that go beyond fitness. T
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by pmontra 1y ago
Because where there are no checks there are the cheaters. Example: there is no antidoping in amateur races. Amateurs dope themselves to win those races.
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by pmontra 1y ago
You are right. Those are common in my country too.
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by pmontra 1y ago
I'm not familiar with the UK tax system but the usual solution is to have progressive (?) tax bands. Example: On the part from 0 to 1000, no taxes 1001 to 10000, ten percent 10001 to 20000, twenty percent 20000 to 30000, thirty percent
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by pmontra 1y ago
According to the table in the article there are more languages with a recommended value of 2 than languages with 4. I'm using 2 for Ruby and 4 for Python. I don't remember what I'm using for JavaScript, maybe the same value o
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by pmontra 1y ago
No mobile network can be an inconvenience but who has to respond will have the means to communicate no matter what. Furthermore every single common person will feel a personal level of danger and they won't simply shrug about the desti
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by pmontra 1y ago
Only if they absolutely need it. Nobody would spoil an asset like that. Maybe they would turn off mobile in Taiwan if they control their network. I didn't check which technology provider they use.
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by pmontra 1y ago
I do think that smooth grass fields (I mean billiard-like smooth) greatly help teams with the best players that can pass ball with no mistakes so those points #1 and #3 were probably very effective at closing the gap to the top teams. Every
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by pmontra 1y ago
That's my laptop. I'll check what my customers do on their servers, but all of them have a login screen on the home page of their services. Only one of them have a registration screen. Those are the servers I have access to. Their
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by pmontra 1y ago
I usually fix those kind of problems by running the offending software in a docker container, with the correct version. Sometimes the boundaries of the container create their own problems. Dovecot 2.3 is at https://hub.docker.com
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by pmontra 1y ago
I've been running with swap off since my first SSD in 2015 or 2016. 16 GB RAM, then 32. No problems at all. If I see RAM close to 30 GB I restart my browser and go back to 20 GB or less. Not every month.
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by pmontra 1y ago
Probably because if you and me would write one and install it on our cars it would void all certifications and make the car not legal to drive. That doesn't mean that manufacturers could not band together and make a common OS for cars,
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by pmontra 1y ago
I googled. Starting from 81,200 USD and 85.250 EUR. I can fit my car almost 6 times in there.
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by pmontra 1y ago
> setting the cruise control to 50 when in a 50km/h zone will have you driving 45 in reality as evidenced by speed measuring displays I drove by. At 100km/h you'll probably be going 90. This is very common and it's pr

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