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by stephenr 3y ago
If you're not willing to take it in to have what sounds like a hardware fault fixed under the warranty you're paying for and not using, I'm not really sure what you want, except something to complain about. Warranties exist f
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by stephenr 3y ago
Ok, well for this case specifically let's just assume that "reasonable" means "knows a UUIDv1 isn't random, and shouldn't be used as if it were". You can probably sub in "suitably experienced" fo
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by stephenr 3y ago
The point I was making is that the claimed "exploit" is completely outside the bounds of what a reasonable person would do. It's like complaining that a garden hose can be used to fill a car with carbon dioxide so we should r
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by stephenr 3y ago
I'm aware of the contents of UUIDs, I just thought we were somehow past absolute bottom of the barrel "well this might be misused by someone who clearly has no idea what they're doing" before claiming things have caused
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by stephenr 3y ago
By that logic serial-type ids are unsafe for use too, and much more vulnerable. I was kind of expecting some claim that actually exploits the inclusion of a hardware identifier, rather than "don't use predictable numbers as secret
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by stephenr 3y ago
What model are the other MacBooks? Possibly it's something not optimised or even not compiled for arm. Wifi can be a very mixed bag, the usb-c charging issue sounds like something worth taking/sending it back for (assuming it&#x27
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by stephenr 3y ago
... ok, I can see how the host MAC segment could be an issue if the UUID is generated "client" side and distributed.. What's the risk (in terms of "pwning") when the UUID is generated on a server?
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by stephenr 3y ago
That you mention a specific app in regards to battery life suggests it's more likely an app specific problem. I don't think it's a coincidence you're having poor battery life with an electron app.
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by stephenr 3y ago
I notice this article makes the same lies-by-omission that others commonly make: They compare "land use" and conveniently forget that both solar panels and wind turbines can co-habitate with other uses of the land, and wind turbin
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by stephenr 3y ago
I think whole-home battery backup (charging from solar panels on your roof) using more modern battery chemistry is probably a better solution if you're able to do that.
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by stephenr 3y ago
Im less than a minute in and already there are some rather interesting tidbits - not so much "Oh I didn't know that about Thailand" more, interesting about the actual video itself. (a) The video is blocked in Thailand (works
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by stephenr 3y ago
so the core is cooling and shrinking. I'm pretty sure I saw a documentary about this and the risks it poses to astronauts...
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by stephenr 3y ago
... take cough medicine?
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by stephenr 3y ago
I've migrated to mostly using a desktop now but even when I use a laptop I'll use a mouse if it's more than a few minutes. A Magic Mouse gives the benefits of both (movable mouse, touch panel) anyway. I did buy a touchpad for
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by stephenr 3y ago
> Elegance comes with an unexpected benefit: battery life. I'm not really sure that's particularly unexpected.
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by stephenr 3y ago
> I would venture a guess that the vast majority of quadriplegics would jump at the opportunity Surely said jump would then invalidate them from eligibility?
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by stephenr 3y ago
> I thought there was no way someone on HN wouldn't know that Visual Studio Code is based on Electron I did know that. The issue isn't that I didn't know what VSCode is. The issue is that I have no idea what "IDEs&quo
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by stephenr 3y ago
> this feedback applies to all electron-based apps Yes absolutely, I'm not saying yours specifically is the cause of the issues, it's inherent to the 'platform'. > I think it can be classified as a preference thing
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by stephenr 3y ago
... what does roadside assistance do in that scenario? They can't be carrying spare tires of every variety, and the equipment to fit them .. this just sounds like a terrible non-solution to a solved problem.
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by stephenr 3y ago
> don't get a flat tire if you care about your time. can you elaborate on this?
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by stephenr 3y ago
If they can't manage to convey that "we couldn't make it crispy to the utmost degree that we consider acceptable" without saying "it just didn't work" and implying that it's impossible to make it cris
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by stephenr 3y ago
Look mate, you clearly think you know what other people are thinking, and hey good for you, that's great I guess. Some of us aren't so gifted as to know what other people are thinking, nor arrogant enough to assume we know, so nex
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by stephenr 3y ago
A text editor is not an IDE.
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by stephenr 3y ago
The pigs or the helmets?
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by stephenr 3y ago
Making everything a webpage with worse security is an odd way to "improve" something. I'm also not really sure how IDEs factor into this, to my knowledge there are no electron based IDEs.
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by stephenr 3y ago
Surely the helmet will prevent them from sniffing out the spruffles?
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by stephenr 3y ago
That's a pretty shitty article. I'll see myself out.
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by stephenr 3y ago
In php it would be trivial (and expected) to have a `string` type on a parameter that's expected to be a string - thus negating this issue. But then using the email address from the request rather than the already verified address in t
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by stephenr 3y ago
If someone claiming to be an "expert" says that something cannot be done, but you yourself have done it countless times at home, it tends to give the impression that the "expert" has no fucking idea what they're doi
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by stephenr 3y ago
Here is the video, right at the point where they make their absolutely ridiculous fucking claim: > We tried to get that skin crisp in a hot oven and under the broiler, and it just didn't work . The only way to get it crisp was usin

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