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by screwt 7mo ago
This article is a great explainer of the basics underlying anonymous credentials. I look forward to the promised follow-up explaining real-world examples. The key issue however is trust. The underlying protocols may support zero-knowledge p
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by screwt 2y ago
In case you don't already know - set noprocrast in your HN profile to limit the time you spend on this site.
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by screwt 2y ago
It's great that you slip into this mode automatically. For me, the reframing of "goal" to "quest" helps enormously with this change of mode. A "goal" is something I hope/want to achieve in future - bu
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by screwt 2y ago
(very late reply, but in case you see it) This Joel On Software article [0] is a good starting point. Incredibly it's now over 20 years old so that makes me feel ancient! But still relevant today. The suggestion that the web should jus
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by screwt 2y ago
Yes, this has happened. See this example from OpenJSF: "The OpenJS Foundation Cross Project Council received a suspicious series of emails with similar messages, bearing different names and overlapping GitHub-associated emails. These e
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by screwt 3y ago
With Google->Alphabet and Facebook->Meta, we can now use MAAAM instead.
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by screwt 3y ago
Not for trains - there's a shared expectation that pedestrians should not access the track. Similarly, not for a freeway. Where some feel the balance is wrong, is at local-level streets. Today the assumption in most places is that cars
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by screwt 4y ago
> If you’re in a group and talking about something factual A good rule of thumb for this that a few of my circles use: you can check, but only after 10 minutes have passed. Of course, 95% of the time by then no-one cares, as you say. Occ
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by screwt 4y ago
They are not sailing downwind in this case - they're sailing across the wind, which is why they are able to travel so much faster.
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by screwt 5y ago
Do you check everyone's card when you split the bill? What makes you think the others are debit rather than credit cards? For info: the debit & credit cards from my bank look almost identical. The only difference is one says "
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by screwt 5y ago
Easy! People have lots of different reasons why they may choose not to eat meat or dairy. "Not liking the taste" is one possible reason. If that particular one isn't your reason, then you may still miss the taste/texture
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by screwt 6y ago
ELO ratings start at 600 for absolute beginner. With a good amount of effort, a dedicated amateur can reach ~1500 without too much difficulty, and at that level you'll beat any casual player. 2000 is international standard. Best human
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by screwt 6y ago
For a very large set of people, motivation to study is absolutely key. If your motivation comes directly from learning the concept itself, you may be right that studying it directly is more effective. But for many, trying to do that because
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by screwt 6y ago
You're right - though it's more about the precise timing of the tones than the frequencies themselves. The T.38 protocol exists to allow faxes to send over a packetized network. Already if you're sending a fax there's a
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by screwt 7y ago
That's not the case where I work. It's a sound business decision for a company to invest in its people. Better-trained staff, happier staff, longer retention. It sounds like the place you work isn't like that. There are other
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by screwt 7y ago
To be fair, the article does explicitly call out that the system won't work for arbitrarily hard or impossible problems. That's addressed in the opening paragraphs, and again called out in step 4.4 of the single-loop.
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by screwt 9y ago
Yes - this does happen. [1] https://www.cnet.com/news/dutch-chipmaker-sues-to-silence-se... [2] http://www.eweek.com/blogs/security-watch/german-software-co... [3] http://www.secur
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by screwt 9y ago
Be aware that 'free range' and ('organic', FWIW) are close to meaningless in terms of animal welfare. Both give a set of definitions for what meets the label, which is then achieved by farmers by the most cost-effective
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by screwt 10y ago
For self-driving cars, I'd much rather your code control _all_ the cars, not just an individual. Individualistic driving leads to worse overall performance for everyone. One of the things I'm most looking forward to in an all-code
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by screwt 10y ago
True. But also the pendulum of which is better (Firefox vs Chrome) has swung back and forth a couple of times since Chrome first came out and overtook FF. At this point though most people are just using whichever was best N years ago, and h
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by screwt 10y ago
I'll second brusch64 here. I used SVN for 7 or 8 years and then Git for the past 3, with about a year of overlap (on different repos). To me, Git is vastly superior. I tend to use it in quite an "SVN-like" fashion - there&#x2
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by screwt 11y ago
> if you don't have the official engineering degree, you will never be considered an engineer The same is true in the UK - apart from the fact that we overload the term 'engineer' to mean both 'someone who fixes thing
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Bill Gates: How much do you know about the state of the world?(gatesnotes.com)
2 points by screwt 11y ago|0 comments
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by screwt 12y ago
As per jacquesm's comment below[0], your example would, by default, be compiled out if NDEBUG is defined. So in production you'd never release the lock. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8206258
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by screwt 12y ago
Catch-22. In a similar vibe (but a fair bit shorter), Slaughterhouse 5. Both cover the hell of war by examining its absurdity. Catch-22 is also the funniest book you'll ever read. If you're into engineering books, the best I'
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by screwt 13y ago
- Browser plugin : block 'useless' sites entirely (for me, that's reddit, boingboing and a few others). I can check these out on my tablet at home, but not on my work PC - HN noprocrast. I have this set to 30 mins max, refres
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by screwt 13y ago
It's a bit of a bizarre analogy - I don't think it fits. The reason why the rudder is at the back rather than the front of a ship is the same as why a pendulum rests straight down, but a pencil won't balance straight up - sta
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by screwt 13y ago
Sites are susceptible when user input is ... incorrectly filtered for characters used in database commands ... If you're trying to protect yourself from SQLi by filtering & then running user input, you're doing it
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by screwt 13y ago
Apologies for nit-picking at punctuation, but occasionally it matters :-) "Twilio is over-billing ..." = Twilio is charging more than they should. "Twillio is over billing ..." = Twilio has given up on billing. It's
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by screwt 13y ago
I very strongly recommend the book "Eating Animals" by Jonathan Safran Foer in relation to this topic. He covers the desensitization of abattoir workers, as well as documenting some of the cruelties (and just day-to-day work) that is involv

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