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dirtnugget··on Ask HN: How can I have a stable career when I don't like talking to most people?
Sounds like you are made for a full-remote position
dirtnugget··on Facebook Is Gaslighting Users into Allowing Ad Tracking on iOS 14
Exactly what I thought.

For anyone unfamiliar with the term: As an example, gaslighting is when Alice and Bob had an argument. Alice slaps Bob in the face. Then, three weeks later, Bob goes back to Alice and asks "why did you slap me during that fight" and Alice would go "That never happened, Bob. You slapped me. Are you insane?" Thus making Bob question his memory and sanity by insisting on a false narrative.

What Facebook is doing is simply trying to lure people, it doesn't mean they are trying to question their sanity.

dirtnugget··on Russia Is ‘Ready’ to Disconnect from Global Internet
If this is the response to mass protests I wonder which kind of protests will happen in response to this.

This is not just another great firewall of China, this is more like a nation-wide intranet. I do not believe that the Russians are as indoctrinated to this as the Chinese are.

dirtnugget··on NES.css – NES-Style CSS Framework
text-transform: uppercase would also have worked I guess. Although .toUpperCase also normalizes
dirtnugget··on Creating my awesome Windows 10 dev setup
Windows for development for me is not a question for the filesystem alone.

Deleting a large folder like node_modules seems to take ages on windows as compared to macOS or Linux.

dirtnugget··on Security professionals often warn against Telegram
> However Signal is open source.

Not a telegram fan at all but their clients are also open source

dirtnugget··on Zuckerberg slams Apple in an earnings call, casting Facebook as a victim
http://web.archive.org/web/20210128074212/https://www.washin...
dirtnugget··on Zuckerberg slams Apple in an earnings call, casting Facebook as a victim
> Zuckerberg also accused Apple of providing false assurances on user privacy.

Of course Facebook is the prime example of user privacy. Throwing stones in a glass house.

dirtnugget··on Blockbuster up 4900% in 2 days
My guess was that BTC correlates with the stock market lately and most stocks have seen a pretty big drop in the last days
dirtnugget··on Blockbuster up 4900% in 2 days
> I'm not sure 4 the lulz nihilists has enough capitol to do big movements

Apparently they do. See AMC, BB, NOK...

dirtnugget··on Blockbuster up 4900% in 2 days
WSB looks more and more like crypto-style pump and dumps.
dirtnugget··on Vue Native (2018)
It is pretty damn powerful and quite elegant. What do you find bad about it?
dirtnugget··on React created roadblocks in our enterprise app
Yes that I completely true. However, not sure of you know @ngrx/entity but it solves 80% of all business logic I need in a clean way. An most of the time creating services I end up building exactly what the framework gives me
dirtnugget··on React created roadblocks in our enterprise app
RxJS is not a replacement for redux, in fact ngrx is a redux implementation based on RxJS and Angular. It brings everything, including effects with their own plugins and it is quite a pleasure to work with.
dirtnugget··on React created roadblocks in our enterprise app
It’s sad that Angular still has a bad reputation from AngularJS. Basically all the pain points the author mentions (deciding on router, DI, http client, working in multiple teams, reliable hot-reload, deciding between class or functional components, whether or not to use hooks) are all things in which angular shines. They could have saved a ton of money here by choosing Angular over react. In fact in comparison over the last 5 years, angular has been much more consistent whereas react has become a scattered mess.
dirtnugget··on Show HN: WickedBlocks – Tailwind Blocks ready to copy-paste
Still a favorite of mine:

https://slipsum.com/

dirtnugget··on Please Stop Encrypting with RSA Directly
Disclaimer: I am not a cryptography expert at all.

That point about the maximum length of RSA messages is something I encountered while tinkering with encryption for chat purposes. It's dependent on the size of the RSA key. I ended up slicing the string into pieces that were short enough. Seemed to work fine, as long as the array of encrypted slices stays in the same order. For performance reasons though it makes sense to use a RSA/AES hybrid where you encrypt the actual message with AES and then send that AES key along, itself being RSA-encrypted. It took down the time to decrypt large messages such as pictures by a lot!

dirtnugget··on Telegram surpassed 500M active users. 25 mil new users in the last 3days
Still don't trust them at all.
dirtnugget··on Ask HN: Where to get cheap VPS with big storage?
I can also recommend contabo for exceptional pricing and service. They are very quick and friendly to respond. Maybe you can work out a custom plan with them if you contact them.
dirtnugget··on Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
I have real trouble spotting non-phonetic sarcasm
dirtnugget··on Signal gaining popularity in India after WhatsApp policy changes
I really hope they don’t
dirtnugget··on Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
I think he called Trump facist
dirtnugget··on Alibaba Uyghur Recognition as a Service
"Is it Uighur" : boolean

Wow.

dirtnugget··on SuperRT – Realtime Raytracing on the SNES
Well they do tend to sue
dirtnugget··on Europe's night trains are on track for a resurgence
High-speed, on-ground (or underground) transportation will be the future for the average Joe. While low-orbit flights may be a viable solution to transport for the upper class I bet that a sustainable railroad network will keep the folks moving in the mid term. It is not so hard to get carbon free and yet so effective.
dirtnugget··on Google Has a Color Picker
I generally really like DuckDuckGo's widgets. Just typing in currency conversions from and to crypto e.g. has always worked much better for me with them. Happy to have them as my default.
dirtnugget··on Deno 1.6 supports compiling TypeScript to a single executable
I wish there was a NestJS equivalent to Deno, then I’d consider using it for projects
dirtnugget··on Are people with dark personality traits more likely to succeed?
I can kind of feel this articles point. Due to some life-changing events and a bipolar disorder I have developed quite some of these dark traits. But they do tend to come and go. I am not proud of them but they did help me establish myself professionally on some levels while dragging me down on others.o My soft side would usually be very sorry and forgiving while the darker side would push my ego.

I had one episode where the darker side took over. I felt like a king, not respecting others opinions on me. For the first time I had this self-esteem which my soft side was lacking. I did actually double my salary with that dark side but ever since I feel completely lonely.

dirtnugget··on GitHub Dark Mode
Just using black often feels like enabling accessibility features for contrast (as iOS has one) but at first glance I feel like the GH version is just fine for me due to the usage of grey instead of white for outlines and fonts.

Feels so much better on the eyes.

dirtnugget··on Show HN: A simple, plain, minimal, classless CSS for simple, plain HTML pages
These classless CSS frameworks are insanely popular on HN. There’s one on the front page every other week.
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