profmonocle

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by profmonocle 4y ago
> the original project leaders will be excised entirely and replaced with his friends, and they'll be selling the bible next year This is a great example of a major flaw in DAOs - crypto has no power over meatspace. You can write al
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by profmonocle 4y ago
> They probably have computers on the outgoing checkpoint too. Does the US have outgoing checkpoints on its land borders? I thought you only dealt with the Canadian/Mexican customs agents on your way out, and only dealt with US CBP
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by profmonocle 4y ago
Dedicated, paid EV stations can also differentiate themselves by providing fast DC charging. This requires more expensive equipment and quite possibly an upgrade to the property's connection to the grid - something that probably isn&#x
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by profmonocle 4y ago
Why stop at EV charging? Require restaurants to disclose how much of my bill goes towards subsidizing free ketchup and mustard.
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by profmonocle 4y ago
Automatically copying tweets from Twitter to a competing service, without permission of either Twitter or the original tweet authors, sounds pretty dubious from a copyright standpoint. Especially since you'd also presumably be copying
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by profmonocle 4y ago
> Mainly this was propagated by EV cert sellers, but it was all kinda silly. I feel like it really started back in early(ish) days of online shopping. I remember "never enter your credit card details without looking for the lock ico
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by profmonocle 4y ago
It's frustrating because certificate revocation doesn't even really work, since most browsers don't check for it due to the various performance/privacy issues it causes. (OCSP stapling doesn't help here, because a s
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by profmonocle 4y ago
> and consequences if they don't. And these consequences usually just amount to getting some percentage of your service fees back. I'm sure the affected customers will get their entire monthly Atlassian Cloud fees back. Since t
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by profmonocle 4y ago
I actually got an email from our Atlassian contact just the other day encouraging us to switch to their cloud service. Crazy that no one thought to pause those. (I assume it must have been scheduled.)
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by profmonocle 5y ago
It's difficult to get excited about any Google Cloud product launch, because Google almost seems committed to being difficult for businesses to trust. Just today on HN there were multiple stories about Google banning entire companies
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by profmonocle 5y ago
> but he can launder it like old school people used to and have some. Crypto provides exciting new ways to do that, too. First send it through a mixer service. Then, invest in some new NFT project. Six months later, oh nice, someone boug
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by profmonocle 5y ago
Learning a protocol by writing a toy client (or toy server) is a blast. It's so satisfying to see a real, production-quality server sending real responses to your little mess.
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by profmonocle 5y ago
Worth noting that the benefits of DNS over TLS/HTTPS (with encrypted SNI) are a bit limited. For cases where a very large number of domains are hosted on a single IP address (or pool of IPs) it's effective at masking your destinat
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by profmonocle 5y ago
Google as an organization seems hellbent on teaching their users not to rely on them. On the consumer side it's by rapidly abandoning products, on the cloud side it's by dramatic price increases. I think this is the third time we&
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by profmonocle 5y ago
The first iPhone app I wrote back in college would crash if you used it in a time zone with a positive UTC offset. I can't even remember why.
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by profmonocle 5y ago
I don't know about VPNs specifically, but stories of Google handing out automated, unappealable permabans are rampant. There's one on the front page of HN right now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30345201 E
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by profmonocle 5y ago
> Google mean while has the same business-to-business support that it does for private customers like the author here. For some services it’s because Google doesn’t care, but they do care about Education and they still can’t figure out h
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by profmonocle 5y ago
> the individual posts on main screen now take up much more screen space It's insulting how deliberate this is. I just tried using the redesign for ~5 minutes to see if it was as bad as I remembered, and the amount of dead space on
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by profmonocle 5y ago
> At this stage, your account is essentially finished, it's basically impossible to talk to someone and get your account unblocked. Seems like they're following Google's strategy. Presumably, ad profit from each individual
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by profmonocle 5y ago
> In 2014 a card that doesn't have a chip might as well be broken. Chips were basically non-existent on US cards in 2014.
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by profmonocle 5y ago
I can't count the number of times I had to stop in the middle of an interesting NPR story because I'd arrived at my destination and didn't exactly have time to sit around in my car until it ended. I never looked back from pod
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by profmonocle 5y ago
About 15,000 tonnes of material enter the Earth's atmosphere each year from meteors. I know the makeup of satellites vs. random meteors isn't exactly the same, but it's probably not concerning in terms of pollution sources, a
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by profmonocle 5y ago
Oh holy christ, I hadn't heard of them doing that. Doesn't shock me, sadly.
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by profmonocle 5y ago
It's probably trivial to other sources of plastic pollution. Most people get what, maybe one new credit card and one new debit card every 4-5 years? By volume it's nothing compared to the average person's consumption of singl
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by profmonocle 5y ago
Not sure about Europe, but here in the US you can use the magstripe if your chip is broken. After three failed scans with the chip it lets you use the magstripe. I've always felt like it defeats the purpose - if the idea is that the ch
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by profmonocle 5y ago
I was on a train a few years back and the snack cart had to go cash-only when we were in cellular dead zones. I guess it depends on the operator's risk tolerance - you can't tell if a card is declined until the customer is long go
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by profmonocle 5y ago
I'm not sure how it was in the early days of Uber, but these days Uber does background checks on drivers, and IIRC they have for quite some time. Is there really any reason to believe that cab companies would do a better job of weeding
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by profmonocle 5y ago
This reminds of of when I was in Oslo back in 2014. We ordered food at a small restaurant after confirming they accepted credit cards. When it came time to pay, the woman behind the counter refused to scan our credit cards because they had
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by profmonocle 5y ago
Something I was thinking about the other day is how some modern credit cards technically have four different ways to pay. Swiping pressure-sensitive paper over the raised numbers (the original method) is still possible, though I haven'
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by profmonocle 5y ago
Apple's marketing and developer documentation usually refers to x86-64 as "Intel". Since Intel makes the only x86 CPUs legally allowed to run macOS, I suppose it's not completely silly. 'uname -m' says x86_64.

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