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by zenexer 6y ago
A static placeholder doesn’t really count as “back online.” Their domain name found a home—that’s old news at this point. The jury is still out on whether (or where) they will find hosting. I’m calling this one misleading clickbait. No, the
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by zenexer 6y ago
Just carry around a first-party Apple charger that matches the highest draw among your devices. Using a higher-rated charger won’t hurt anything.
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by zenexer 6y ago
I’m confused. Are you saying a website might actually spit out your current password or what you had just entered when attempting to change it? The former should never, ever be the case; the latter shouldn’t be the case, although it does ha
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by zenexer 6y ago
Can we get some better sources? This seems like an awful lot of hearsay, and there have been several comments from HN readers in this thread[0] and another[1] indicating that there is no public evidence to support these claims. Given that t
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by zenexer 6y ago
It's worth noting that there are workarounds, although none are particularly great: 1. The Mac mini form factor officially supports two external displays. One must be DP/TB3, the other must be HDMI. However, I would argue that t
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by zenexer 6y ago
> When M1 finally supports docker I've been using the preview beta of Docker on M1 for some time now. It works fine for me; some people have reported issues in the corresponding Docker Slack channel, but they usually stem from the
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by zenexer 6y ago
Yes, I actually like the change—I think they finally got it right this time. (The Riot rebranding was a mess.) However, it’s still frustrating when trying to communicate with people who aren’t following Matrix-related news. In my circle of
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by zenexer 6y ago
That’s not typically how it works. Normally, if you fail to prove eligibility, there’s a grace period during which your registrar waits for proof that’s considered acceptable by the registry. I’m not saying that’s what happened here, but th
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by zenexer 6y ago
The constant rebranding and confusion over Matrix/Vector/Riot/Element is another point of pain for me. It’s incredibly difficult to communicate unambiguously about Matrix with people who haven’t been following it for years. D
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by zenexer 6y ago
It has, and I’ve been using it since its early days. I still use it. It’s still terrible, just slightly less terrible. And, no, messages don’t consistently send in 100ms on the default home server; there are regularly disruptions that cause
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by zenexer 6y ago
XMPP is supported by a large number of clients, but running a server and getting everyone on clients with comparable featuresets is a nightmare. It’s a cluster of disparate standards, and it’s overwhelming. I’m sure it’s doable if you have
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by zenexer 6y ago
As far as I can tell, that’s for 1,000 IU. You’d have to take 50 pills per week to achieve the dose described here. That would be more like $3/wk.
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by zenexer 6y ago
I'm not entirely sure that makes sense here. If I understand correctly, Cellebrite mostly just provides an interface and degree of automation designed for law enforcement; you could, in theory, retrieve the same data on your own witho
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by zenexer 6y ago
Is it actually common for such hardware to be used in civil cases? I'm not sure I'm keen on someone crawling through all my data and potentially storing it indefinitely--including data with security implications (session cookies,
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by zenexer 6y ago
Now I'm actually somewhat curious what the career of a recruiter looks like.
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by zenexer 6y ago
> I think you are just reading in something that wasn't intended. Almost certainly, as I'm wont to do. I appreciate you humoring me and taking the time to explain regardless.
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by zenexer 6y ago
Indeed, I apologize--I certainly did get carried away with a hypothetical. The mere thought of someone actually going out and doing that triggered all kinds of panic.
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by zenexer 6y ago
> All I'm seeing is this statement which is factually correct: 50,000 IU dosages aren’t really available by prescription only when 5,000 IU pills are OTC. I think it was probably intended to be somewhat humorous, and yes, it's
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by zenexer 6y ago
Perhaps, and taking a normal OTC dose of vitamin D might be prudent. My argument here is exclusively with regards to encouraging people to self-medicate at higher-than-OTC doses when they don't even know that they need such a dose in
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by zenexer 6y ago
If I were on a tight budget and didn't have a prescription, I'd definitely get mine from Amazon. It's a relatively cheap, generic product. I'd be a little worried about other unexpected chemicals being mixed in, but fo
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by zenexer 6y ago
> but beyond that I don't know what your point is. The ancestor to which I'm responding was suggesting that self-medicating at prescription-level doses was a viable option. It's not: 1. If you can get the tests to show tha
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by zenexer 6y ago
While that does include a significant percentage of America, I would argue that, for the time being, that $2 is better spent elsewhere. Unfortunately, this part of the argument is fairly subjective. Is $2/mo/person on vitamin D
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by zenexer 6y ago
I can only speak for people I know, but I think the logistics of that are right up there with "take advantage of free healthcare that's available at your income level." They have to: 1. Know that the option is available 2. H
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by zenexer 6y ago
I suppose if you're buying it online instead of locally, that's an option. If I were to buy it from a local store, though, it's a lot more expensive than that--$16 will get you 14-30 doses, even with a cheap brand. And that
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by zenexer 6y ago
This is entirely anecdotal, but I was recently prescribed 50,000 IU/wk by my doctor after blood tests. Even if I had paid for the doctor, blood tests, and prescription entirely out-of-pocket, it would've been cheaper than self-me
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by zenexer 6y ago
It'd be ridiculously expensive compared to the prescription option, though. And potentially rather dangerous. If you're willing to invest that much in dubious self-medication, use that money to get better insurance (edit: if pos
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by zenexer 6y ago
> We can manufacture it in the body. "Essential nutrients" are things we cannot manufacture. Entirely anecdotal, but there are definitely people out there who have to take supplements to achieve normal levels. My most recent b
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by zenexer 6y ago
Probably because it’s received quite a bit of attention. If you’ve been reading HN for a while, particularly articles about the recent injustices in China, you’ve likely already encountered such claims.
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by zenexer 6y ago
Money. They have actual experience and won’t work for minimum wage. Not saying it’s a good reason, but that was probably the logic employed here.
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by zenexer 6y ago
The author’s assertions are misleading at best, outright false at worst. Their testing is inherently flawed, and they’re misinterpreting the output from hashcat. Although their choice of bcrypt is a good one, they clearly don’t understand

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