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A stick figure guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) (2009)(moserware.com)
70 points by ropable 5y ago|14 comments
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by ropable 5y ago
I'll add BeeWare ( https://beeware.org/ ) as a pretty nice nice to deploy Python applications cross-platform easily. It's more like a suite of tools, though.
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by ropable 5y ago
This statement is incorrect. Being vaccinated does indeed help others. People who are vaccinated against the virus are enormously less likely to manifest dangerous symptoms and require hospital care, thereby reducing the overall demand for
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by ropable 5y ago
Couldn't disagree more. To me, an apology signals that a mistake was made, noticed, embraced, (hopefully) corrected, and learned from. There's no shame or opprobrium attached to an honest apology, and plenty of potential for impro
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by ropable 5y ago
The floor plan reminds me of how my Dwarf Fortress bedroom floors always end up looking.
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The Environmental Impacts of SpaceX's Oil and Gas Gambit(esghound.substack.com)
1 points by ropable 5y ago|0 comments
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by ropable 5y ago
Sure, mate. Masks "strongly discouraged"? Where? As I recall, the advice on effective prevention measures evolved pretty rapidly through 2020 but at no point did any government organisation here in Australia ever "discourage&
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by ropable 5y ago
Reading the article makes me wonder how many close family members and friends the author might be willing to lose before deciding that a temporary requirement to wear masks out in public places is a reasonable step.
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by ropable 5y ago
Nuclear is an especially sensible option in my country (Australia) IMO; we have an abundance of uranium ore, a geologically stable continent, a high-quality interconnected electrical grid (over most of the population), and a reliable politi
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Casascius Physical Bitcoins(en.bitcoin.it)
2 points by ropable 5y ago|0 comments
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by ropable 5y ago
A good resource, thanks for putting it out there! I'd suggest that having an idea for a reasonable program might be more useful for a beginner, i.e. a series of routines to be carried out over the next n weeks. I feel that it's
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by ropable 5y ago
I'd love to try this out, but I can't determine how to make the application accept requests to a hostname other than localhost. We're not all developing on a local machine. Is there documentation available for the app yet?
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by ropable 5y ago
Is there a defined "age limit" on iTunes accounts (or any other digital asset account)? I don't know the ToS, but I assume that it's illegal to sell, trade or gift an iTunes account to someone else. Assuming that I conti
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by ropable 5y ago
Anybody want to ELI5 the general concepts of how this is composing the loops? E.g. I don't know what 303-01, 303-02 and 909-XX are, or what the notation in those rows means.
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by ropable 6y ago
Signed up for Newsblur after Google Reader announced the shutdown on a HN recommendation, did the import, haven't looked back since. Bravo.
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The Crypto Doctrine, the Castle Doctrine paintings as non-fungible crypto tokens(thecastledoctrine.net)
2 points by ropable 6y ago|0 comments
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by ropable 6y ago
I feel like this has the potential to damage the NewsCorp media here in Australia far more than it might damage FB. It would be fascinating to see what happens to their web traffic before & after this change.
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by ropable 6y ago
My comment isn't for her; it's for everyone here. I don't know you, but I know me: a well-educated, middle-class white man, aged 25-44 y.o. in a Western country. I'll bet that demographic covers a majority of contributor
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by ropable 6y ago
I'm mainly annoyed at the glass-half-empty, an-imperfect-solution-is-worse-than-no-solution attitude on display by many commenters in this thread. I don't accept the assumption of "lasting and irreparable pollution" from
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by ropable 6y ago
Stating that burying plastic with the rest of the trash in a landfill is the same thing as taking that plastic, incorporating it into a durable building material, then using that building material for its purpose is patently absurd.
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by ropable 6y ago
All the well-heeled nerds internet-sniping about microplastics: this is a female African engineer/entrepreneur who is taking a waste product (destined to be dumped or burnt) and recycling it into a durable building material (with every
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by ropable 6y ago
Tangentially, this article makes me so very glad that our own work projects are all making use of the Django ORM. Database migrations and general usage have been a non-issue for literally years.
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by ropable 6y ago
If you'd like to reinforce some of the same mental muscles used during programming, you might consider certain tabletop games as a good way to do so during play. There is a game out there called Robo Rally which is excellent for the pu
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by ropable 6y ago
Remember, team: just as there is infinite variation in the severity of mistakes, so there is infinite variation in the methods and appropriateness of apology that can/should/might be made. The post is a decent framework, not a pre
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by ropable 6y ago
Just use poetry (my preference) or pipenv. This has been a solved problem for a long time.
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by ropable 6y ago
I'm as much of a technophile as any other HN reader, but I am continuously flummoxed that anyone makes use of the sort of electronic voting machines described in this article. This is mainly from the perspective that a lot of the redun
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by ropable 6y ago
YMMV, but I found the following articles quite useful to 1) help self-manage symptoms brought on during strength training, and 2) to stop obsessing about my using "bad" form during training: https://www.barbellmedicine.
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by ropable 6y ago
Tiddlywiki plus OneDrive has been my go-to for a personal knowledgebase for a couple of years.
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by ropable 6y ago
Spouse and I got hooked like this when we visited Beijing some years ago. We could actually tell what was going on, but our "guide" was a friendly university-aged girl who (at our request) took us to a couple of local art gallerie
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by ropable 6y ago
So don't tax the first (e.g.) $25,000 of a person's annual income/consumption, then tax the remainder at a progressive rate.

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