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by wtbob 10y ago
> Beards itch With curly hair, I find that my beard only itches when the hairs are long enough to curl in. For me, there's a stage about two weeks in and a stage about two months in where it itches terribly, but after that it'
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by wtbob 10y ago
I bought an even-older-fashioned straight razor for $75 very nearly fifteen years ago, and it's still working just fine. I've spent more on strops since then.
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by wtbob 10y ago
I think that shaving is a symptom of a weird mental illness: why would I want to remove the marks of adulthood & maturity from my body and look like a little boy instead of what I am, a man? It's weird to me that shaving isn't
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by wtbob 10y ago
> A code of conduct is a signal that juvenile behavior won't be tolerated Hardly: a code of conduct is juvenile behaviour. It's like when I was a little kid and drafted a huge constitution for my amazing awesome cool club —
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by wtbob 10y ago
> It is ethically imperative to aim to eliminate disparities and social inequalities between races, even if, and this is what is usually left unsaid, judgments become less accurate in the process. Why? Why is it 'imperative' t
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by wtbob 10y ago
Ouch, that's horrible — I'd no idea. Yet another reason to disable JavaScript by default.
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by wtbob 10y ago
Ouch, HN stripped the smiley face I appended to that. So I'll add a textual one now: grin
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by wtbob 10y ago
> I have frequently seen "example.com/product#platform" style urls, where #platform (and sometimes ?platform) indicates which magazine the ad appeared in. Since the fragment doesn't get sent to the server, that seems
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by wtbob 10y ago
> they were saying they wanted macros in non-lisp languages. He ; I don't have multiple personalities
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by wtbob 10y ago
> You can also use your own auth server if you want The problem with that is that if the auth server is on a machine you don't have complete control over (e.g. one hosted by a dedicated-system or VPS provider) then you are trusting
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Modern browsers are set to upgrade automatically in the background, without notifying the user. My browser isn't; I use the Debian Firefox package and update it on my schedule. > If you're paranoid, you can self-host your
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Mozilla cannot decrypt and read your data. Completely false: they can if they want to. All they have to do is serve a new login page to you which transmits your password as well as the derived key. They control the login page, they c
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Firefox Sync encrypts your data with a password-derived key so that Mozilla can't even see your browsing history. Not quite true: the JavaScript (!) that derives the key is served from mozilla.org; at any time they could choose or
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by wtbob 10y ago
> How is forcing the guy to sign away his voting rights while he was in the hospital legal? Well, the concern from the standpoint of the other parties would that he would die, and his voting rights pass on to someone completely non-techn
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Sure, when Lisp came out it was "advanced". Garbage collection, AST parsing and manipulation, macros, packages, a standard library, modules, homoiconic data structures, etc. The big advantage of Lisp is that is has homoiconic
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by wtbob 10y ago
I'm surprised no-one tried to flip the drone with his wings, as Spitfires did to V-1 bombs in WWII: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-1_flying_bomb#Interceptors
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by wtbob 10y ago
As natedub indicates, to turn a password into a key you need to use a password-based key-derivation function; PBKDF2 is standardised, sane and reasonably quick; scrypt and bcrypt get more love these days, but I think any of them would be su
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by wtbob 10y ago
And then there are things within the South like Tidewater food, which up until the past century was still a combination of English-settler and aboriginal food: pork and squash, just like our ancestors ate at Jamestown or soon after. It&#x2
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by wtbob 10y ago
> 64 bits, everywhere! What if you need to represent 2^64? Bignums everywhere!
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FWIW, I'm not saying we must have a perfect solution: I'm saying that we have to build systems which make the implicit failings of their imperfect solutions explicit. As an example, it is impossible to build a system which gives
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by wtbob 10y ago
I don't get at all that it's a genie — it looks like a boy with a weird matte blue squashed halo. I don't think there's anything wrong with the idea of a genie (although note that AFAIK Sikhs & Turks have worn turban
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What do the wealthiest know that others don't?(slate.com)
30 points by wtbob 10y ago|66 comments
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> I am sorry, security guys, but unless it's military-grade software, security is just another feature. And it is not a highest priority one. I completely disagree: security is the foundation of any software system. Without security
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Watching YouTube inside emacs 25(reddit.com)
5 points by wtbob 10y ago|0 comments
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> Why does my editor need to be "in the cloud"? Well, how else will they be able to steal your IP and passwords? How else will you be able to go get coffee every time the net's down? How else will you be able to spend ye
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HTTPS: the end of an era(medium.com)
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Also, if I'm reading it correctly then each plaintext message from a particular client ends up at the same location within an epoch, due to the one-time shuffle at the beginning of each epoch. That might be able to reveal information
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It's interesting, for certain, but still requires all clients to dedicate an identical amount of bandwidth (n.b.: this is very probably required for traffic-analysis-resistant anonymity): 'Moreover, each message needs to be padded
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swordswinger12 posted this on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12073942; I thought that it's important enough to post separately.
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Riposte: an anonymous messaging system handling millions of users(arxiv.org)
10 points by wtbob 10y ago|1 comments

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