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by sunaurus 4y ago
Keybase was such a great project that didn't deserve its fate. If Zoom really just acquired Keybase to effectively kill it and then later laid off the engineers... that would be horrible.
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by sunaurus 4y ago
Maybe I'm being a bit pedantic here, but being born without tusks is not in itself an "evolutionary response". Surviving without tusks and passing on those tuskless genes at a higher than previously normal rate is the actual
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by sunaurus 4y ago
There's a huge difference between renting and buying.
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by sunaurus 4y ago
FFXIV is a great example where characters are just more mean and less wholesome in the English localization compared to the original. I noticed a lot of instances where the English subtitles skipped some appreciative comments from character
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by sunaurus 4y ago
I was under the impression that decrypting storage actually requires the passcode of the phone, but this bug makes it look like the device is able to decrypt itself without any external input. Does anybody know more context about this? Wha
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by sunaurus 4y ago
> And just to be clear, I absolutely do get that for some people (fresh parents, people living at home to take care of their parents etc.) remote work is a real blessing. All the fresh parents I work were the first people who wanted to g
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by sunaurus 4y ago
I don't think they were the best because they were remote, they were actually amazing because they were with really amazing people, and it's very hard to find a lot of amazing people that also work well together in a single geogra
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by sunaurus 4y ago
It would be very hard (probably impossible) to tempt me to take a non-remote job. The two main arguments I've heard for forcing tech roles into offices: 1) Offices are better for collaboration 2) WFH is lonely and anti-social. All of t
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by sunaurus 4y ago
> 1. I didn't want to be the boss, I just absolutely HATE being told what to do. The only way to not be told what to do, then, is be in charge. I'm surprised you say that this is the #1 secret to your success - in my experience
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by sunaurus 4y ago
I was more worried about attacks where the attacker takes a screenshot of the QR code and sends it to the user while pretending to be a support agent. So the user never even opens any evil site in their browser.
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by sunaurus 4y ago
Does anybody understand how passkeys protect against phishing more than OTP codes do? With OTP codes, an attacker can just ask the user to share their code ("please share your 2fa code to authenticate yourself"), surely with passk
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by sunaurus 4y ago
I've had a horrible experience with zone.ee (aka zone.eu) and will always caution clients against using them. I had a client with a domain and some VPS hosted in zone.ee, and one day out of the blue with no prior communication, the cli
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by sunaurus 4y ago
You're right that you're not the only one - this way of thinking is common, it's known as "fragile masculinity". As you've found, if you worry too much about people with very fragile masculinity, you won't
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by sunaurus 4y ago
Related to writing scripts on Mac OS, I highly recommend rumps ( https://rumps.readthedocs.io ) to show anything you want in your status bar. For example, I have one script that uses rumps to show how many outdated homebrew packag
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by sunaurus 4y ago
I use dish soap to clean mine after every use, haven't had any issues.
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by sunaurus 4y ago
Your comment made me curious and I looked up what I paid for my skillet 10 years ago. I found the order confirmation e-mail, it was 12.99€ - that's over a 10x difference. I'm sure that explains why my skillet had a rough surface,
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by sunaurus 4y ago
What really impressed me with cast iron skillets is how they actually get better with use. I bought my first cast iron skillet 10 years ago, originally it came with a relatively rough cooking surface. This meant that it was still somewhat s
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by sunaurus 4y ago
> Is it DevOps or not? These words do mean things and matter. I'm surprised at this comment, in my experience, that word has almost no meaning at all. It can mean anything from "Engineering teams are responsible for everything,
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by sunaurus 4y ago
Random examples of MITM attacks I could do on a read-only website: * Inserting malicious JavaScript * Changing content on trusted websites in order to mislead people * Replacing downloadable application binaries with versions that contain m
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by sunaurus 4y ago
You should still protect against MITM attacks even with read-only websites - not all attacks are based on stealing user input.
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by sunaurus 4y ago
A 6+6 notation can be used for any kind of scale, including diatonic ones. Just like a 7+5 notation can be used for non-diatonic scales. A 6+6 system makes more sense in terms of fundamentals - there's the exact same distance between e
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by sunaurus 4y ago
Your argument feels quite subjective - the exact opposite argument seems like it could just as valid to somebody else: "looking at sharps is annoying, with 12 distinct notes you can just count the intervals". I think in an alterna
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by sunaurus 4y ago
I just tend to think of scales in terms of numbers and not letters, so the pain of having an "uneven" naming for the notes is worse for me than any pain from no longer having letters line up perfectly with two specific scales. But
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by sunaurus 4y ago
Nice summary. The fact that 7 of the 12 notes in an octave are assigned letters has always bothered me. It's quite arbitrary, we could just as easily have 6 letters + 6 in-between notes, or just 12 discrete letters.
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by sunaurus 5y ago
I believe you're being downvoted because you're referring to something that happened over 10 years ago. Not to justify what he said back then, but Brandon Sanderson has grown and changed his views since then.
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by sunaurus 5y ago
Again, go ahead and read the link I posted. You're talking about cookie consent pop-ups, those are not what the GDPR is about at all. Putting a cookie consent pop-up on your website does not make you compliant with the GDPR. The GDPR i
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by sunaurus 5y ago
It seems you're not fully clear on what GDPR is. You could check this page for more info: https://gdpr.eu/what-is-gdpr/ Just as a very brief note: it's not really about cookies, it's more about how compa
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by sunaurus 5y ago
I have the opposite experience - I’ve found that people who are good at abstract thinking (most of my software engineering colleagues) tend to also have more empathy than average people. In fact, I believe empathy is just a form of abstract
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by sunaurus 5y ago
> Totally crushes Apple with straight up numbers and pure unadulterated objectivity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtd7UzLJHrU I don't know a lot about either of these monitors, but I don't find it surprising
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by sunaurus 5y ago
If you use a big monitor, Rectangle ( https://rectangleapp.com/ ) is must-have. It’s minimal and works really well. Without it, using multiple windows side-by-side is really painful.

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