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by yetanotherjosh 4y ago
That key didn't change and is listed here https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/keeping-your-accou...
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by yetanotherjosh 4y ago
Please before replacing your local fingerprint with the new one, double check it is the expected value. This is an opportune time for man-in-the-middle attackers to strike, knowing everyone has to replace their stored signatures, and that s
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by yetanotherjosh 4y ago
Even outside private browsing, Firefox has a feature called "total cookie protection"(1) which in a nutshell creates a separate cookie jar for every domain, so that third party cookies "work" but are not actually the sam
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by yetanotherjosh 4y ago
Are you interested in learning a potentially new and more efficient way of doing things? Then you have to stop being annoyed that your habitual way of doing things is unavailable to you, and stop assuming your habits are the obvious and cor
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by yetanotherjosh 4y ago
a harder way of doing things initially in exchange for incredibly small productivity gains that when applied millions of times over the course of a programming career, make a monumental difference A key ethos of Vim is that once you cli
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by yetanotherjosh 4y ago
k8s is just one component of the whole architecture, yet people talk about it like it's the singular defining characteristic. It reminds of people talking about building "react apps" when react is one of probably hundreds of
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by yetanotherjosh 5y ago
Your criticism applies to the word "debt" in the traditional financial sense as well. If you want to be more specific about how much and how severe the debt is, that is not a fault of the the term "debt" or a reason to s
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by yetanotherjosh 5y ago
You can find other people in this thread swearing that the problem is using too much heat, and they cook their over-easy eggs on cast iron perfectly every time using low heat for longer, etc. Cast iron care and use opinions are a special cl
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by yetanotherjosh 5y ago
> There's a whole nonsense mythology that has been built up about how to treat cast iron (and carbon steel). Yes but sorting out the sense from the nonsense is effectively impossible. You can find arguable authorities/experts t
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by yetanotherjosh 5y ago
Even if the execution was flawed in that it did not deliver a successful gaming strategy or sufficiently complex model of the game, I still appreciated the nature of the exercise. I would love to read an article that takes it to a more accu
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by yetanotherjosh 5y ago
> Decision-making isn't on the table If one of the main examples is a decision making process, I don't think it's fair to say decision making isn't on the table. You might say it's about evaluating claims, not a
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by yetanotherjosh 5y ago
I'm an avid user of mobx and yes, this is similar, but no where near as powerful, and much less magical. For example, in no particular order: * mobx is smart enough to know when only one property of a complex object has changed and tha
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by yetanotherjosh 6y ago
> you should do things uniformly, since the linked list has a uniform structure Except that it actually isn't uniform, is it? A linked list has three kinds of nodes: the first node (to which nothing points), the middle nodes, and th
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by yetanotherjosh 6y ago
Agreed, but I also think it's worth pointing out that science-based medicine has been around for a long time now, yet why has there been so little attention paid to the issue of healthy breathing? Why do doctors not assess a patient&#x
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by yetanotherjosh 6y ago
I've deeply wondered about the question regarding why science and modern medicine have largely ignored breath as a topic of health. Part of the explanation I believe is that it doesn't make anyone any money. But, this can't b
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by yetanotherjosh 6y ago
Slow breathing, unless you are doing it to an extreme, doesn't actually significantly alter blood oxygen levels. Mostly you are dealing with carbon dioxide levels. In fact, due to the dilation of the blood vessels caused by CO2, cellu
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by yetanotherjosh 6y ago
No pausing on the end of the exhalation? Pausing there is the most relaxing part of breathing, IMO.
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by yetanotherjosh 6y ago
As I understand it, even objects with no velocity in space still have velocity in time, and the curvature of spacetime shifts it from the time component into the spatial components. In other words an object's velocity is a 4 dimensiona
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by yetanotherjosh 6y ago
Anyone interested in the topic should learn about the Buteyko technique and the work of Konstantin Buteyko. He was a Russian scientist who studied the negative effects of chronic hyperventillation, the positive effects of healthy breathing,
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by yetanotherjosh 6y ago
Aren't you trying to act as a courtroom, though? The main issue I have with your site is that your fundamental premise involves a presumption of guilt. You declare this behavior "brutality" (which implies a forgone conclusion
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by yetanotherjosh 7y ago
Please try 1Password or LastPass before you shoot yourself in the foot with something so unjustifiably insecure and functionally-hobbled as this. You'll see those apps are no hassle at all, this stateless approach really doesn't g
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by yetanotherjosh 7y ago
> I will often get "fingerprinted" with a very valid browser, then continue my work after treating their site as an API; ie: talking directly to the backend (or rendered HTML page) and no one else. This seems like just the kind
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by yetanotherjosh 7y ago
What's your take on ML for bot classification? How successful has that family of strategies been in your opinion? One could speculate on what particular features of client behavior a model would hone in on to detect a bot, but it would
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by yetanotherjosh 7y ago
Where's the shortcoming? When someone talks about astrology as b.s. because, hey, we have science to show as much, then they go and talk about virgin births and resurrections and holy books that are pure revelation of the word of god,
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by yetanotherjosh 7y ago
Are you saying that religion offers proof and skeptics just don't want to verify it? For example?
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by yetanotherjosh 7y ago
> Do most religions claim to have such proof in hard terms? Do most people into astrology claim to have scientific proof in hard terms? I know a lot of people casually (and some pretty seriously) into astrology, none of them claim that.
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by yetanotherjosh 7y ago
It is a lot easier from a technical standpoint if the group you pick is not already in tech. Replace "rails developers" with something like "antiques collectors" or "massage therapists" or "arborists"
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by yetanotherjosh 7y ago
Not a single mention in this thread of a gaiwan. It's stunning how there's an ancient, effective, wasteless, flavorless, attractive and elegant alternative to tea bags that western culture simply has no clue about. The Chinese and
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by yetanotherjosh 7y ago
> Remember NOT to jump into Python for your new product if don't know Python. If you are developing for a young startup, have time crunch, then stick to what you know. Are you saying this as a general maxim (don't try to learn
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by yetanotherjosh 8y ago
Good, extensive write up. Note that correctly hashing passwords is a topic in itself and the short answer IMO is: use bcrypt. It should also mention that after a user changes their password, all login sessions should be invalidated. This le

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