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by dfabulich 5d ago
"Apparently"? Is this something that can be tested with VMs?
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by dfabulich 6d ago
Does the macoOS login keychain get backed up by Time Machine backups in a way that could restore the keychain if the original machine's Secure Enclave is lost or destroyed?
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by dfabulich 7d ago
Did you switch to SwiftUI or UIKit?
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by dfabulich 7d ago
Small self-driving busses would do exactly what you want. The cost of increasing bus service is overwhelmingly the cost of bus drivers. If the busses could drive themselves, cities could afford to deploy a lot more busses, especially smalle
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by dfabulich 10d ago
1. Dating apps/sites are a rich-get-richer market. Most people go where everyone else goes, because everyone else is there. 2. The more work you ask your users to do up front, (e.g. answering a bunch of survey questions, taking high qu
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by dfabulich 15d ago
Bitwarden lets you extract and import passkeys. Apple, Google, Microsoft, and 1Password don't support that directly, but they do support a finicky app-to-app transfer system, where you install two password-manager apps on the same devi
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by dfabulich 15d ago
People just assume that, but it's not true. If you have access to your Microsoft account, then you'll have access to your Microsoft passkeys in the cloud. Passkeys are just passwords that require a password manager. You can login
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by dfabulich 15d ago
Passkeys aren't tied to physical hardware. They're tied to your password manager. Passkeys are just passwords that require a password manager. On Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android, there's a cloud-based password manager built
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by dfabulich 15d ago
You say "they're packing lots of signals into fewer words," and sometimes they do, but often they do the opposite of that. I think the deeper problem is that the models (not just Claude) have a very poor understanding of what
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by dfabulich 18d ago
It's just to reduce the maintenance burden of backwards compatibility.
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by dfabulich 18d ago
+1. Most games, once shipped, completely disband their development team. If you require game developers to even so much as recompile their game, they simply cannot do it. If you want the game to keep working, you have to guarantee ABI compa
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by dfabulich 22d ago
Now seems a good time to mention that you can beautify your XML RSS/Atom feeds without XSLT using CSS and JS. You can add a stylesheet to an Atom feed by adding a <link> tag with an xmlns attribute, like this: <?xml vers
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by dfabulich 2mo ago
We get to define "AI" however we like, but a definition of AI that includes a SQL planner is so broad that it includes literally all complex software. When I wrote that a broad definition of AI "obscures more than it reveals,
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by dfabulich 2mo ago
I watched Dr. Hipp's keynote. Here's my summary for folks who don't want to sit through it. (This is hand written, not LLM-generated.) Dr. Hipp suggests a definition of "AI" in which SQL planners are AI, defining AI
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Small ways the App Store could be improved for developers(lapcatsoftware.com)
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by dfabulich 2mo ago
Today, Gmail and other major providers do this by tracking sender reputation at the domain level. If users mark your emails as spam, that hurts your domain's reputation. If a domain's reputation gets low enough, Gmail won't d
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by dfabulich 2mo ago
> It should be really, really cheap to send an email to one person (like a fraction of a fraction of a cent), but get exponentially more expensive the more you send. The problem is the cost of creating fake identities. As long as creat
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by dfabulich 2mo ago
For the "quick one-off script" case (where Implicitly Declared Classes shine), I think the most galling ceremony in this example is explicitly converting all N items in a list of literals into JsonValues for JsonArray. This would
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by dfabulich 2mo ago
POJOs and records require more configuration (e.g. Jackson's @JsonProperty, @JsonDeserialize). That could plausibly be out of scope. But for constructing JSON out of strings, numbers, booleans, lists, and maps, there's really not
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by dfabulich 2mo ago
A stated goal of the API is to have "low ceremony"; this seems like a lot of ceremony. IO.println(JsonObject.of(Map.of("providers", JsonArray.of(List.of(JsonString.of("SUN"), JsonStr
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by dfabulich 2mo ago
Yes, I did. When you set up a passkey on your phone in your password manager, you'll transfer it to your other device using your password manager. Either your password manager will automatically synchronize for you, or you can transfer
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by dfabulich 2mo ago
All of the major operating systems and all of the major browsers are password managers. Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla are all password managers. They all have apps that let you access their password managers on other operating sys
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by dfabulich 2mo ago
"Most" apps? So it works in some apps, but not others? Setting your preferred password/passkey manager on Android 17 to 1Password works fine in Chrome and Firefox to log in to any site, presenting passkeys managed in 1Passw
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by dfabulich 2mo ago
Did you try it? That’s not correct. I just logged into GitHub with a password (+ 2FA), on an account that also has a passkey. No major bank revokes your password when you setup a passkey, either.
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by dfabulich 2mo ago
> Every single major password manager supports export. They all support exporting passwords , but, check your CSV; you won't find any passkeys in the CSV export for Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, 1Password, or LastPass. (Bi
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by dfabulich 2mo ago
Citation needed. Walk in with photo ID, a bank card, and your PIN, and all the major banks will send you a reset-password email.
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by dfabulich 2mo ago
Sure, that's alarming, but if you set up a passkey on the "wrong" password manager, you've (temporarily) lost your passkey. You should probably be kinda alarmed about that. You can click "try another way" and u
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by dfabulich 2mo ago
I don't think you're giving those seniors good advice. When the banks ask people to "switch" to passkeys, they're not removing the passwords; they're adding passkeys as an alternate login mechanism. If you
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by dfabulich 2mo ago
Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, and 1Password don’t let you export passkeys to a file that you can read and backup, but Bitwarden, Proton Pass, and KeepassXC do. I think Bitwarden is on HN's current happy list. (I just use Apple iCl
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by dfabulich 2mo ago
Then you'll login to your Apple iCloud account using your password. Passkeys are just passwords that require a password manager; you can't login to a password manager without something outside the password manager, usually a pas

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