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occams_chainsawon Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes

the first part of the article was interesting, but I couldn't finish it because it reads so heavily in claude's 'voice'

occams_chainsawon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2024)

Any tips for what DD is looking for outside of what's mentioned explicitly?

kuro5hin, now that's a name I've not heard in a long time

occams_chainsawon Nginx Security Advisory

Why are they enabled by default while this page says otherwise?: https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K000138444

  Note: The HTTP/3 QUIC module is not enabled by default and is considered experimental.

occams_chainsawon Almost every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret

There's _a lot_ in the article that existed in the 00s. Now imagine a programmer from the 70s...

occams_chainsawon Rue de l'Avenir

Same for me just in October for some stretches

occams_chainsawon The One Billion Row Challenge

...very relative

occams_chainsawon Ship of Fools

yup- in florida, you need to leave the AC on, even if just at a higher ~80f temp while on vacation

occams_chainsawon FindMyCat – Open-Source Pet Tracker

It's definitely on the expensive side, but the form factor on the newer fi collar model is _much_ better than before (important for me, having a small dog). Battery life is about as good (it dropped ~3-5% with a dogsitter as I was away for a week).

occams_chainsawon OceanGate CEO Told Videographer to Sleep on the Titan Sub After the Battery Died

> Neither the student interns nor OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush and its employees have commented regarding this report.

occams_chainsawon Ocean drone captures video from inside a hurricane

For that matter what do regular (amateur) boaters do if their sailboat or motorized boat get caught in a bad storm on the open ocean?

They footage IS very cool, for that matter what do EXPERIENCED boaters do if their sailboat or motorized boat get caught in a bad storm?

occams_chainsawon Ocean drone captures video from inside a hurricane

are you speed reading?

occams_chainsawon You need Software Developers to believe in your project (2020)

There's a place for both- you need the devs who care more about adding business value quickly, and you need the devs that lean more towards perfectionism in how it's built.

Too little of the former, and nothing valuable gets done. Too little of the latter, and you end up drowning in technical debt, preventing the business from adapting as quickly as it needs to

occams_chainsawon United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic

I think people would more likely associate "boom" with the times planes not-so-spontaneously explode

occams_chainsawon The Electric Ford F-150 Can Power Your House for Three Days on a Single Charge

Article says it's not manual: "F-150 will seamlessly transfer its stored energy back into the home and automatically notify the owner via a push notification sent to their phone"

occams_chainsawon Conversations almost never end when both parties want them to: study

In my case, at least, I try to get more direct statements even when I understand the intent, to hopefully reduce misunderstandings in situations where I fail to pick up on the real intent

occams_chainsawon I spent eleven years working on this Line Rider track

I want to play it.

occams_chainsawon Fuck You Sunday

COBOL?

occams_chainsawon Street View of 1940s New York

If you're on mobile, zoom in to see the photos. If you zoom out, or (in my case) the default zoom is too far, you won't see the dots and boops will have no effect.

occams_chainsawon Comprehensive Python Cheatsheet (2018)

Easier:

  no_duplicates = set(<list>)

occams_chainsawon Larry Wall's Very Own Home Page

then the expression is occasionally replaced by a murderous look of rage when you have to maintain a 5k line script

Try dozens of 5k line Perl scripts

I think my expression will soon be permanently fixed into a look of murderous rage

occams_chainsawon Linux Kernel Developer Criticizes Intel for Meltdown, Spectre Response

Neither of you have provided citation or reasoning. You basically just said "nah uh"

occams_chainsawon Don’t Do This in Production

A rotting foundation eventually catches up with you. Things don't have to be perfect, or even particularly great... but when things are working by accident rather than by design...

occams_chainsawon Secret Life of an Autistic Stripper

People won't expect you to pick up on visual cues like the person you responded to, though.

occams_chainsawon Google: Security Keys Neutralized Employee Phishing

What do you mean "passed through"? You can't just steal a key and replay it whenever you want. (Unless you physically steal the key)

occams_chainsawon Google: Security Keys Neutralized Employee Phishing

Even if you phish their password to a site, the person can't log in because they also need the physical key. The key doesn't validate anything related to the domain AFAIK

occams_chainsawon Introducing the Python Language Server

The pro edition doesn't really have anything you'd otherwise get from VScode, and even then it's still free with an @edu email, or for OSS projects, or whatever other exceptions they have, so it's basically free