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by warner25 3y ago
To my knowledge, I'm not banned from using TikTok as a US military service member. The ban is about using it on government furnished equipment / devices / networks.
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by warner25 3y ago
In my experience, though, people now freak out if you fill in the SSN field on the form, because that makes it PII with a bunch of requirements for proper storage and transmission. This is despite the fact that most of the other information
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by warner25 3y ago
I think you're thinking of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), not OMB (although I did just learn that the Trump administration proposed to merge parts of OPM into OMB). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_S
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by warner25 3y ago
That's thought-provoking. I've had a couple of the other adults in her life recommend it as a good, wholesome way to satisfy her curiosity about computers and games. All else being equal, I guess no gaming is best (I personally ga
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by warner25 3y ago
Thank you, this is exactly the kind of insight that I was looking for. However, I gagged at the thought of buying an iPad and signing her into Apple and Microsoft accounts. :(
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Yeah, I was looking at that page before, and that generated some of my questions. Like I see two different price points, and both have "Java Edition" and "Bedrock Edition," whatever that means, but it looks like maybe th
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by warner25 3y ago
I was waiting for some version of this reply. Thanks. We ride bicycles, go swimming at the pool, and run 5K races together too. I think there's an appropriate balance.
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Ask HN: How do I help my kid get started with Minecraft?
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by warner25 3y ago
I agree with this assessment. First of all, the distro doesn't matter much, because you can get almost any desktop environment for almost any distro. I doubt there's much difference, in terms of resource usage, between Mint with C
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by warner25 3y ago
I tried to express a similar question / curiosity last year in a discussion about the Intel Management Engine ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33345040#33346166 ) but you have expressed it better. It's like wh
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by warner25 3y ago
> ...just how data-hungry modern apps are... True. I really try to avoid using the browser for anything unless I'm on WiFi because a single page (really all the other crap that gets loaded besides the actual content that I'm lo
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by warner25 3y ago
Haha, once in the morning, and I then I'm looking at it all day long.
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Nice! I have a few days in the past month with only 1-2 unlocks, but those are outliers. At a minimum, my wife and I will exchange a couple messages per hour when I'm out of the house. I like to think that I could live as a total weird
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by warner25 3y ago
Sure. I just mean, from a home economics perspective, that people should look at their actual bandwidth usage rather than blindly paying for 500 Mbps or 1 Gbps because they just want a fast connection and that's what the ISP marketing
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by warner25 3y ago
What do you do with all that, especially with WiFi everywhere? Are you continuously streaming video while on-the-go between WiFi networks? That's fine, it's just stunning. I'm admittedly a minimal user of my phone. I average
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by warner25 3y ago
I strongly agree about upload bandwidth. In previous homes I've chosen higher tiers of service for exactly that reason. I think I could live happily with 20 or even 10 Mpbs down, but not 1 Mbps up when I'm using cloud storage for
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by warner25 3y ago
Me too. I tell everyone who will listen that they should look at their actual bandwidth usage. I've looked at the detailed statistics on my Google Nest WiFi router, and my family's peak usage never exceeded about 30 Mbps. That&#x2
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by warner25 3y ago
That makes sense. And I'll add that feeling the reward was energizing. For whatever reason, I experienced interest from a few girls in high school even before I made much of an effort, and I had just enough success in my first two ye
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by warner25 3y ago
Four kids, similar ages, and I've reached similar conclusions. It's humbling. My oldest is now 9 and I'm starting to see how quickly the dynamic changes, like you said about not being toddlers for long. She might already be h
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by warner25 3y ago
> The curious question is... how did they end up with their current (and only) partner in the first place? They had to do at least some socializing to get a date... You might become more extroverted temporarily for instrumental reasons..
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by warner25 3y ago
I've been beating this drum for a few years now, and the key point that upsets me is precisely that they already have their own infrastructure, like you said, but they have practically abandoned those official .gov, .mil, .org websit
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by warner25 3y ago
Yes, I can imagine that. At 5'4 I think you're close to the average for women and that will stand out. What's fascinating to me is this apparently strong preference for 6'0+ and not a hair under that.
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by warner25 3y ago
This was my question elsewhere, but I'll put it here too because I'm really curious: Are most women really able to look at a guy in-person and know that he's 5'10 vs. 6'0? Or is it mostly abstract and only becomes a
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by warner25 3y ago
This is fascinating to me. I'm a 5'9 American guy who got married in my early 20s to a girl who I met in college the old-fashioned way (in-person through an extracurricular activity) before the iPhone existed. So I was just never
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by warner25 3y ago
That was the parent comment's point. My point is that there are trade-offs. You make the network less vulnerable to that particular attack, and open up other vulnerabilities instead. Anonymous communication service design is full of su
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by warner25 3y ago
Right, I think that it could be good. But it's not obvious that it would be good while it would definitely add complexity, bugs, and attack surface, and discourage at least some people from using Tor. > Being able to interject o
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by warner25 3y ago
I think it would be exactly like that, because that's how it already works for relays. The Tor Project operates a measurement system that tests relays in various ways and records their status in the public consensus document. Clients t
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by warner25 3y ago
I share your opinion. I started my undergrad CS program in 2004, and familiarity with a Linux / Unix shell was a de facto expectation. The school and CS department servers that we had to use ran Linux. The tools that we had to use were
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by warner25 3y ago
> gets a lot of things right... having every network participant relay some internal traffic There are trade-offs. The Tor Project has its reasons for not doing this (from https://support.torproject.org/alternate-design
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by warner25 3y ago
Yes, that study is a good find. There are so many fascinating bits of information once you start looking at this topic below the surface. Another one that I remember learning is that the suicide rate among white troops is much higher than t

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