ReligiousFlames

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by ReligiousFlames 9y ago
How can we mentor the next gen of code craftsmen/women if we disengage and unplug the phone?
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by ReligiousFlames 9y ago
Yes. As a maintainer whom actually cares about feedback and usability, I care that features developed apply to the real world and aren't imagined in an utopian vacuum by own possibly insane biases. Social democracy, not authoritarianis
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by ReligiousFlames 9y ago
This is arrogant and misguided. There are a minority of very capable people whom need to be able to report security issues and want to contribute valuable additions easily. I for one just found a CVE-worthy DoS in a popular YAML library, an
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by ReligiousFlames 9y ago
So were many the hundreds of thousands of sailors whom have died at sea. The ocean doesn't care about experience or arrogance when a storm comes up and drowns this guy, or the great deal of money and risk to rescuers this clown imposes
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by ReligiousFlames 9y ago
This almost assures some quite terrible conclusions in the long-term: When it becomes technologically possible to interface electronics into our brains, corporations will have almost unprecedented opportunities to do some really terrible th
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by ReligiousFlames 9y ago
It's a feedback effect of consumer choice with corporate oligopolization and monocultural cost-optimization. Popular, easy and cheap wins most of the time, even if it hides deferred costs like terrible security and engineering choices.
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by ReligiousFlames 9y ago
This reminds me of that "hackproof" box BBC reviewed that was a Raspberry Pi that couldn't update itself. Also, having run an email startup in London, patching and anti-spam at almost any scale is nontrivial.
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by ReligiousFlames 9y ago
I hope this dies in its current form because: 0. It's self-promoting a panacea "fix" as a product at the wrong level of abstraction. 1. Protocols and standards exist for interoperability. 2. Tries to rebuild everything (suppl
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by ReligiousFlames 9y ago
How many people even know what the flag of Seychelles looks like, where is this country and what is it's infamous distinction without cheating by looking it up?
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by ReligiousFlames 9y ago
I use a cheap, no-brand 7x 18650 cell USB battery with a seemingly gimmicky solar panel that actually works from Amazon. It both charges and discharges slowly, but it works good enough for now and it's TSA-compliant to pack in carry-on
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by ReligiousFlames 9y ago
This article is interesting because most people on Earth are resource-constrained. Also, many first-world people still don't have sufficient digital literacy to be aware when/if their technologies are receiving security updates. F
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Third-World Countries Use Outdated Browsers and Operating Systems(admixweb.com)
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by ReligiousFlames 9y ago
VMware Fusion userland & kexts to see how they intercept IOKit USB connections.
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by ReligiousFlames 9y ago
Plus, de Vos.
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by ReligiousFlames 9y ago
Having great grandparents from Nantucket who's 7 family members died at sea while working as crab fishermen, it's seems reasonable this is a publicity stunt or he has absolutely no respect for how violent and unforgiving is the oc
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by ReligiousFlames 9y ago
In fact, 8 oz of hot water (say from a coffee shop or not quite boiled on a camping μstove) added to a larger cup, covered, will rehydrate pasta without external heat just fine (~15 min) and it's probably not as sodium-terrible as rame
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by ReligiousFlames 9y ago
Maybe there needs to be a separate political HN site with the same login so people whom want to engage can do so and others can opt-out? Say: https://political.news.ycombinator.com Also, any stories deemed mostly political can j
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by ReligiousFlames 9y ago
I completely disagree. If you look at a recent video of Tesla self-driving real-world "debug" mode with identification/classification bounding boxes, that and Musk's bet on the simplicity of pure-optical CV they have a c
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by ReligiousFlames 9y ago
monkeysphere for personal ssh private keys stored in gpg chef and hashicorp vault Another neat thing to deploy into dns is sshfp records so there's almost never ssh fingerprint verification prompts for deployed hosts. Alternatively, ss
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by ReligiousFlames 9y ago
There's minimal, necessary limits to free speech after it happens : shutting down child pornographers, violent extremists, 0day exploits and other sites that are obviously, imminently dangerous. Other than that, Neo-Nazis and other un
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by ReligiousFlames 9y ago
Instead of growing vertically up, cities ought to consider down because it doesn't ruin existing property owners' view and the community's beauty of not turning into a concrete, brutalist jungle. Furtheremore, there's ef
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by ReligiousFlames 9y ago
By comparison, actual pro scanning: matterport grabs textures and verticies simultaneously, originally using a Kinect. https://matterport.com Here's an DIY instuctable (untested) which also uses a Kinect http://w
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by ReligiousFlames 9y ago
In VICE HBO Season 5 Ep 7 "Plastic Oceans," Jeanette Garcia, a PhD polymer science researcher at IBM's Almaden Bernal facility in San Jose, discussed chemical recycling of plastic. http://www.hbo.com/vice&#x2F
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by ReligiousFlames 9y ago
WhatsApp got 2 million concurrent (mostly idle) connections per box on FreeBSD using modified Erlang. Video: https://vimeo.com/44312354 Slides (PDF): http://www.erlang-factory.com/upload/presentations&#
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by ReligiousFlames 9y ago
Google Wi-Fi mesh network in Mountain View hasn't worked in a long time. Toronto may well get similar service decline. Also, Starbucks Google Wi-Fi rarely uses Google Fibre, IME, and instead uses commercial providers like AT&T and
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by ReligiousFlames 9y ago
AIM is a John Fry (Fry's Electronics) nonprofit. There was an office between Fry's and the GM development complex in Palo Alto (where Fry's employees smoke), but it looks like they moved to a larger office in San Jose. Actual
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by ReligiousFlames 9y ago
Damn straight. XML DI config files overwhelm end-users (and developers) with a metric crap container port of details and things to break in non-obvious, diffusely (un)documented ways. (See also: configuring Atlassian on-prem products) Simpl
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by ReligiousFlames 9y ago
On git moving away from SHA1: it's about time. - There shouldn't be too many nor too few hash algos. Too many: paradox of choice, user confusion and interop overhead. Too few: security monoculture risks being broken by well-funde
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by ReligiousFlames 9y ago
Overly-aggressive negative LoC competition can also increase technical debt and support issues, if taken too far. I think being quick and responsive to consistently deliver what customers need is more important... because without profitabil
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by ReligiousFlames 9y ago
If he truly cared so much about equality, he'd spend zillions to lobby Congress to massively raise taxes on the rich, publicly-finance political campaigns, commit to real climate change policy, enact single-payer healthcare and address

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