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by thamer 4y ago
It's not the same. If you the un-hashed password leaks it can often be used to authenticate on other websites since people reuse passwords. You can't do that if all you have is the hashed password.
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by thamer 4y ago
Peter Beck (Rocket Lab CEO) has explained in a few interviews that maintaining a fleet of boats is incredibly expensive, and that this cost is one of the major reasons why they didn't go this route. Operating helicopters is much cheape
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by thamer 4y ago
I wasn't familiar with the term hominin and though it might be a misspelling of hominid, but that's not the case: https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/homi... Hominid: the group c
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by thamer 4y ago
The wiki page seems outdated now, but at some point Noisebridge in SF spent an estimated $700/month on Club-Mate (compare to "other snacks" for $900): https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Finances
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by thamer 4y ago
macOS equivalent of locate: mdfind. This actually uses Spotlight, so it can search for files by content as well as by name. # search by content: $ mdfind some_string # search by name: $ mdfind -name my_file.txt Bo
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by thamer 5y ago
If you want to try w3m in Docker (although without support for images), I found it packaged in 14 MB only: docker run -it --rm corbinu/alpine-w3m https://news.ycombinator.com Press [tab] to navigate from link to link
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by thamer 5y ago
This looks like a great start! There's one thing I couldn't find from this page, which I'm sure many developers would ask about: is there a Vim plugin, or Vim mode? And if not, are you planning to add one?
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Custom Literal Suffixes in Python(github.com)
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by thamer 5y ago
An engineering blog from the BBC published an update a few days ago on their migration to a serverless architecture, titled "BBC Online – A year with serverless": https://medium.com/bbc-design-engineering/bbc-
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by thamer 5y ago
There are some instances of real data taking much more than 6,389 seconds to travel. Voyager 2 was contacted in November 2020[1], being at the time 18.8 billion km away from Earth. Light takes about 62,000 seconds or 17h25m to travel this d
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by thamer 5y ago
With Qt you don't really have to deal with unexpected messages. A signal is triggered by an event, like a button click or a slider value changing, a checkbox being toggled, this kind of thing. A slot is just a place to receive it, it&#
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by thamer 5y ago
I've written a fair share of GUI apps in C++ on multiple platforms, starting with Win32 API and MFC on Windows and later Qt on Linux. The way you write applications with these frameworks is different enough to have a significant impact
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by thamer 5y ago
I hadn't heard of this, this is a pretty cool way to provide this proof. Back story: https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2017/06/26/proof-of-life-vi... The block in question (open "Click to see mo
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by thamer 5y ago
This says the prefix being announced by two ASNs is only a /24, which is kind of narrow for a hijack? Considering the countries involved, reporting this as a hijack will inevitably lead to people assuming it is related to the current c
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by thamer 5y ago
I can't speak for a JS virtual machine, but for a point of comparison CircuitPython[1] runs on many ESP32 boards and builds are often under 1.5 MB. It does come with a whole set of modules, with the ones you'd expect to have in Py
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by thamer 5y ago
If you drink alcohol and have the option to get the wine pairing in a Michelin star restaurant, I'd highly recommend it. They are usually offered only with a prix-fixe menu where all the courses are pre-selected. With (say) 7 dishes yo
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by thamer 5y ago
With the STEMMA QT port you can attach something like this $4 RFID breakout[1] and have a badge that people can scan at a conference to get your details. No soldering needed, you can connect it directly to the board with a $1 cable and it&#
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by thamer 5y ago
If the page says that "you have reached your article limit": http://archive.today/a4pso
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by thamer 5y ago
I'm in an organization with many thousands of people and find search to work very well. Does the pricing plan influence the amount of resources your organization can use? e.g. slow search on the free plan, but much better on Enterprise
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by thamer 5y ago
The feature exists on mobile, there's a "Related items" section that has a list of file names with a ">" caret next to each one. If you tap on an entry it opens in a new page where you can tap "View document
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by thamer 5y ago
I searched for "font" in this thread and certainly did not expect this comment. I found it so hard to read that I added custom CSS rules to replace it with 'sans-serif' for the body and 'monospace' for the code
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by thamer 5y ago
I only saw your comment after a day and just tried your extension, it works great! I really like how much faster it is than JSONVue, and the JQ integration looks super useful; this is a really good start. Oh and welcome to HN :)
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by thamer 5y ago
This is great! I use the JSONVue Chrome extension at work to display JSON files, and I can see the similarities. If I could suggest one thing: ctrl-u and ctrl-d are pretty common shortcuts for page up and page down, they're even suppor
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by thamer 5y ago
A couple of years ago I had a coworker ask me if I had ever seen the Milky Way, after he had finally seen it for the first time. He must have been maybe 25 at the time. I was taken aback by the question, and felt sad for him that he had nev
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by thamer 5y ago
I've used it a few times. It was the most useful either to "prove" the conditions for a bug[1], or to gain confidence that an algorithm I had worked on was safe under tricky conditions involving concurrency. The main downside
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by thamer 5y ago
The answer is "yes"… from online pharmacies that ship it from India. Whether you get the real product or a counterfeit version is anyone's guess.
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by thamer 5y ago
Does Caddy support generating HTML files? I use Hugo for a few websites that I host on S3 + CloudFront and am very happy with AWS handling the back-end part this stack, and wouldn't want to switch to a server that I would now need to m
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by thamer 5y ago
Or open your browser's dev tools and type: $('game-app').solution
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by thamer 5y ago
I've mentioned this before on HN, but `act` was completely unusable for me when I tried it. Tons of errors that required digging deep into the code to understand, missing features… has it improved over time? It seems very useful and I
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by thamer 5y ago
> I don’t need a keyword just to tell me that a variable isn’t modified during its lifetime. I agree that this isn't very well argued, and variable re-use is a common source of bugs – especially variables that are used several times

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