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playingalong··on The only tourist in Moldova
Until some special operation happens or some other one off event.

At the same time, yes, I wouldn't worry for theft or robberies.

playingalong··on Quartz: A Deterministic Time Testing Library for Go
It feels like every second, sorry every other time-related library is called Quartz.
playingalong··on Google and Microsoft consume more power than some countries
NK has several million people. Surely they are not as advanced in consumer consumption of energy. But I would still guess the whole of NK eats more than some uni campus.
playingalong··on Ask HN: Do dead YC companies sell their brands/IP?
At the first glance I thought you meant starting a different service called Twitter.
playingalong··on Wireless Amiga Tank Mouse
I think opening is easy. What's hard is to get it back to the same state afterwards. Or at least a decent one.
playingalong··on Leaked admin access token to Python, PyPI, and PSF GitHub repos
That's why I consider writing any secrets into code base a security malpractice. Just for a minute or I am sure I won't commit it, is not an excuse.

Use environment variables or better yet - store the secret on the disk outside of your repo and make the code read it. It's a one liner in plenty of languages.

playingalong··on The magic of small engineering teams
Large companies vs. large teams is not the same.

> How do large teams form if not from necessity?

Not sure if there's some Parkinson or Murphy's law, but every manager complains about too little headcount. Also count of people reporting to you (directly or indirectly) is one of the measures of success for managers.

playingalong··on Lacking official sources, some Texans use Whataburger app to track power outages
Or have more redundancy?
playingalong··on Awsviz.dev simplifying AWS IAM policies
You might consider adding git-scraping label to your repo.
playingalong··on Linksys Velop routers send Wi-Fi passwords in plaintext to US servers
Yet they are the same org who develop and release the client software, which obviously has access to plain text values.
playingalong··on Linksys Velop routers send Wi-Fi passwords in plaintext to US servers
That's kind of hate speech. Do you really think people can develop software for a wifi router and cannot spell?
playingalong··on SCIM: Ncurses based, Vim-like spreadsheet
You might have not seen different kind of tosters.
playingalong··on POSIX 2024 changes
Typo. 2024 is meant
playingalong··on List of Common Misconceptions
Foreign embassies are not extraterritorial.
playingalong··on List of Common Misconceptions
Funny, the first section called Arts and Culture starts with discussing cash and legal tender.
playingalong··on Show HN: Gosax – A high-performance SAX XML parser for Go
It loads the whole document to memory?
playingalong··on The loneliness of the low-ranking tennis player
Assuming the success is independent.
playingalong··on I rebuilt my algorithmic trading platform in Rust. I'm filled with regret
The comment about Rust community being unfriendly (well, the words used are harsher than this) might be specific to Reddit sub.
playingalong··on Misconceptions about loops in C
Rinse and repeat.
playingalong··on Reconstructing Public Keys from Signatures
Some systems require things being signed, but don't care for who signed it. E.g. the open source pro bono Maven/Java library repository.

I think it serves the purpose of ensuring integrity with no requirement for revamping revealing the identity.

playingalong··on AT&T can't hang up on landline phone customers, California agency rules
Isn't it the English-language world tradition to use a word play in news articles like this?
playingalong··on Migrating from Java 8 to Java 17: A Comprehensive Guide to New Features
Java without generics was a pain. By today's standards I wouldn't even call it a statically typed language.
playingalong··on Beyond velocity and acceleration: jerk, snap and higher derivatives (2016)
How do you know this is not second derivative (acceleration), but the third or higher?

Genuinely curious.

playingalong··on London Underground hosts tests for 'quantum compass' that could replace GPS
Re odometer - don't the wheels of a train slide a little bit? I know the train is big pile of heavy iron, but still. My naive thinking is that when braking or during a rush start some extra distance can be covered.

Don't know, just thinking out loud.

playingalong··on Show HN: SHAllenge – Compete to get the lowest hash
Why would the selection of characters matter? (Other than making sure you try distinct input strings)
playingalong··on Show HN: Keydogger – Minimal keyboard macro for Linux (Wayland)
The readme hardly explains what it does.

Is it a keyboard macro service? E.g. for a given keyboard shortcut I get a predefined sequence of keys pressed?

playingalong··on Show HN: SHAllenge – Compete to get the lowest hash
Would it make sense to have some partial/incremental SHA256 implementation? E.g. one that gives the first character only (in ASCII representation). So that you could have a cheaper money miner to narrow down the search space?

Is it even possible to have cheaper first character SHA256 algorithm?

playingalong··on Show HN: SHAllenge – Compete to get the lowest hash
Fun or not, but I think the parent means electricity, i.e. how much kWh were wasted/spent on this
playingalong··on Voyager 1 is back online: NASA spacecraft returns data from all 4 instruments
Doesn't the phrase "today's dollars" imply the practical value will stay the same?
playingalong··on Effect of passenger position on crash injury risk in aircraft (2015) [pdf]
Wouldn't it make some people feel sick? Not sure if there's any science to back people preferring to sit forward facing in trains
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