snissn

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   by snissn 11y ago

   If my phone is protected with a 4 digit pin, and someone has physical access to it, why is it so hard to decrypt? Can someone point me to an explanation of the hardware that protects my data?
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   by snissn 11y ago

   This is Hersh's publication: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n10/seymour-m-hersh/the-killing-of-...
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   When a Genetic ID Card Is the Difference Between Life and Death(theatlantic.com)

   2 points by snissn 11y ago|0 comments
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   by snissn 11y ago

   By brick, which language would you want to use?
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   by snissn 11y ago

   could you share what editor and what, if any, plugins you're using?
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   by snissn 11y ago

   For me the big difference between dynamic and statically typed languages is catching bugs like: foo = bar() if foo: fooo = baz() in a static language, you'd have to write int foo = and the third line where you have a
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   by snissn 11y ago

   Do drones really pose that large of a threat to a commercial aircraft?
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   by snissn 11y ago

   All of the emails my mom sends me are tagged as spam. I have a label that forces them to go to my inbox, but I still get a warning that gmail identified her emails as spam, and there's no clear way of over-riding it.
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   by snissn 11y ago

   Ah, thanks I didn't make it that far
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    by snissn 11y ago

    Do they have any sort of monetization plan or strategy?
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    by snissn 11y ago

    i haven't looked into it deeply, but it sounds like it'd be great if you wanted to build a decentralized p2p system that didn't require a centralized routing system like dns or ip. like in practice email or twitter but decent
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    by snissn 11y ago

    nice! I really enjoyed reading this the other day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owsley_Stanley
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    by snissn 11y ago

    Can you list a few other weird requests you've made? I'm curious if there's anything you can recommend!
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    by snissn 11y ago

    Just a little deduction for a moment.. if it was a bug in his pacemaker, don't you think he'd call it out in the article?
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    by snissn 11y ago

    I've used bloomfilters for a bit, but I'm not sure how bloom filters use xors, can you explain that for me? thanks!
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    by snissn 11y ago

    The eff released their own ad blocker type tool available here https://www.eff.org/privacybadger and it's great. It doesn't come with a singular list of sites to block, but instead blocks domains that are seen acr
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    by snissn 11y ago

    Have you tried python..? You might like it
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    by snissn 11y ago

    .. hang on let me write a blog post about how i'm quiting the tech industry
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    How Google Finally Got Design(fastcodesign.com)

    3 points by snissn 11y ago|0 comments
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    by snissn 11y ago

    Can anyone provide a sound argument for choosing MySQL over Postgres?
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    by snissn 11y ago

    if you replace biker gangs with semi-competitive / collaborate start ups, it's a pretty interesting parable. Companies are happy to have similar companies co-exist as long as they're not "bottom rocker"-ing the exac
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    by snissn 11y ago

    Thanks for very eloquently expressing my reaction to the article!
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    by snissn 11y ago

    Hi, this looks great, and i've just been wanting to learn swift, but it's a bit overwhelming! Is there a recommended path towards working through the repo? also i wanted to load a few of the games in the Games folder, but there ar
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    by snissn 11y ago

    > It's full of harmful chemicals because of the way it's processed. Like which chemicals?
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    by snissn 11y ago

    submarine?
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    by snissn 11y ago

    ...until the next version where they had to do a clean break to add in whatever new feature it will be maybe a better take away is that microsoft will be maintaining their code and regularly pushing patches, as opposed to the very discrete
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    by snissn 11y ago

    I haven't used spotify for ~3 years and last week wanted to listen to some specific music, so i downloaded it. Within 20 minutes, a really really annoying audio ad came on and I went from thinking that this team has built a really grea
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    by snissn 11y ago

    I think it would be really cool to integrate a GPU into a database to speed up certain operations if an optimizer can decide that certain parts of a query will benefit from it. The thrust docs [0] indicate that the C++ gpu library can be us
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    by snissn 11y ago

    I'm just curious because I see so much negativity: has anyone had a positive experience with a tech recruiter?
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    Give 'Em Hell, Bernie Sanders(rollingstone.com)

    2 points by snissn 12y ago|0 comments