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GoMonad··on World first as wind turbine upgraded with high temperature superconductor
Can you explain where the 2/3 and 3/2 powers come from?
GoMonad··on NixOS – Purely Functional Linux Distribution
I've thought about making the jump to NixOS a few times. Questions: Do people use it for their desktops? How do security updates work?
GoMonad··on Antikythera Mechanism
The YouTube channel clickspring is building this in their hobby machine shop. Really goes into detail as well as guessing how they would have built it back then. Fantastic channel in general.
GoMonad··on Do we really live longer than our ancestors?
That's super interesting. Do you have a reference where I can read more about this?
GoMonad··on Why do we never hear of Google security problems?
Many hacks these days involve social engineering and phishing. Google's blanket use of security keys by its employees has pretty much stopped phishing.
GoMonad··on YubiKey 5 Series with New NFC and FIDO2 Passwordless Features
In the parent comment link to the technical manual it mentions 25 resident keys can be stored.

It is now starting to make sense to me why. As jiveturkey pointed out, it allows usernames to be stored. And, as you're pointing out, it's useful for RSA or maybe other crypto. Thanks.

GoMonad··on YubiKey 5 Series with New NFC and FIDO2 Passwordless Features
If I'm understand correctly, the resident keys can be used in the case of a non-ECDH scheme and otherwise they wouldn't be used? How flexible is the FIDO2 specification on crypto schemes?
GoMonad··on YubiKey 5 Series with New NFC and FIDO2 Passwordless Features
My understanding is that for udf / fido2 authentication, keys are not stored but rather regenerated with an HMAC

https://developers.yubico.com/U2F/Protocol_details/Key_gener...

I'm curious what these resident keys are for.

GoMonad··on How Teachers Came to Be So Underpaid in America
Having a long period of too few teachers could lead to large class sizes and a reduction in education quality. Those that could afford it would switch to private schools and we could end up in a feedback loop of reducing funding, worsening education and less support for public education.
GoMonad··on The First Quieter Megacity, Thanks to Electric Vehicles
Curious. Where is that?
GoMonad··on California Moves to Require 100% Clean Electricity by 2045
Indeed. The Bay Area is one of the most environmentally friendly areas to live for this reason.

Economist Ed Glazer makes the argument that by not allowing more housing to be built there, more people have to live in more energy consumptive locations (Houston, for example). Housing development policy of the Bay Area has a big environmental impact.

GoMonad··on Money Really Does Lead to a More Satisfying Life
I think of it in the reverse. If money isn't buying you happiness, you should reconsider what you using it for.
GoMonad··on How an International Hacker Network Turned Stolen Press Releases into $100M
As an example why it might drop (or rise) with high volume: firms could be "derisking" before earnings.
GoMonad··on Electric Scooters in New York City? They Just Might Work
In which city are you?
GoMonad··on The Orange Juice Test (1985)
Reminds me of Van Halen's Brown M&M clause. A test they put in their riders to check if it would be safe to play a gig.

https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2012/02/14/146880432/...

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