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rnbrady

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rnbrady··on GridSnap – an open-source Divvy-style window snapper for macOS
I used and loved SizeUp until upgrading laptop and MacOS from 15 to 26, now most features don't work or are buggy, especially moving windows between spaces, desktops or sceens. Will be giving GridSnap a go asap.
rnbrady··on Ending respiratory infections
Maybe they can send some of this money to the Wuhan Institive of Virology to research respiratory viruses in bats and some to Raph Baric at UNC for vaccine development. What could go wrong?
rnbrady··on Hacking millions of modems and investigating who hacked my modem
If they didn't have RCE but could push config to the router, they might have pushed a syslog destination and then mined the logs. URLs for uncrypted HTTP requests could end up in the logs due to ALG, parental filtering or any other numbers of features. If you replayed such URLs from a large enough set of victims over a long enough period of time, you'd find something valuable in a response sooner or later.
rnbrady··on Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
This is awesome, especially if you can keep it super lightweight and fast.
rnbrady··on How Boeing, FAA certified the suspect 737 MAX flight control system
> It makes no metion of MCAS.

27 - FLIGHT CONTROLS STABILIZER TRIM: Stab Trim cutout switches panel

rnbrady··on The subscription-pocalypse
You have a good point but I feel overwhelmed with subscriptions today. Between personal and business I have easily got 40 or more paid subscriptions. It's not just media but software too. Mac apps, iPhone apps, web apps. They're hard to cancel and easy to forget (until I check my bank statements). And they dip into my bank account with no renewal confirmation or approval. And they'll happily self-renew for the next year without being used once in the last year.

Of course I signed up to and pre-authorised all of this, and forgot to cancel when I stopped using them, so it's 100% my own fault. But something doesn't feel right about it.

rnbrady··on The Dropbox hack is real
I've had sites reject an email containing +.
rnbrady··on An act to amend Financial and Corporations Codes relating to digital currency
Surely cold storage is compatible with segregated accounts using payment channels or one of the other novel Bitcoin mechanisms. But if not, and cold-storage had to be abandoned, then that would have been a good signal to walk away.

And if accounts had to be segregated then losses should have been segregated too, not socialised.

rnbrady··on An act to amend Financial and Corporations Codes relating to digital currency
I never struggled to tell Coinbase from Bitfinex. Coinbase has top tier investors. Insured deposits. Multisig.

And I got out of Mt. Gox way before it hit the wall because it lacked any similar re-assurances.

Impossible? Hardly. You can count the good ones on your fingers and they are not hard to spot.

rnbrady··on Show HN: RESTful Bitcoin payment channel server (written in Haskell)
Payment channels are cool. REST is cool. This is cool^2.
rnbrady··on The sad state of SMTP encryption
Wow, that's an eye opener. Thanks for the write up.
rnbrady··on Lightning Network: “Bitcoin Doesn’t Scale” [pdf]
lol
rnbrady··on Bitcoin revealed: a Ponzi scheme for redistributing wealth
Sunk costs have no bearing on the logic that "if miners are spending more on electricity than the Bitcoins they mine are worth then they should immediately stop mining".

You're falling for the so-called "sunk cost fallacy".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_costs#Loss_aversion_and_th...

What does have a bearing is whether they intend to sell or hold those Bitcoins. If they believe the value go up before they sell, then they would continue to mine speculatively.

rnbrady··on Show HN: A simple “stateless” password manager for Chrome
This is awesome. Minimal and elegant.
rnbrady··on Scaling email transparency
This is awesome. Being a payment company, how does this influence your ISO 27001 / PCI DSS compliance efforts?

I encourage lists at work but the first objection is often around our "need to know" security policy, thanks to ISO.

rnbrady··on Airbus patents aircraft cabins shaped like doughnuts
Another layman here. In claim 1 it refers to "a space outside the structure" which to me implies this is literally a hold right through the aircraft. EDIT: I think I'm wrong here, the structure refers just to the cabin.
rnbrady··on Bitcoin against Ebola (tldr: donate Bitcoin to ebola affected people with low fee)
Just post a Bitcoin address already.

This requires signup which completely defeats the object of Bitcoin donations and leads me to the conclusion that this site is a thinly veiled attempt to attract users to Beam.

I know only this because I genuinely tried to donate.

Am I missing something or are you?

rnbrady··on Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday
Very cool! First song it served me under minimal was both new and awesome.
rnbrady··on Bitcoin Ponzi scheme
Or they realised too late that they had a bug which caused some people to get back 900% instead of 120%. That would break the model. Underpaying is something you could correct retroactively, overpaying not so easy.
rnbrady··on Hammerspace: Persistent, Concurrent, Off-heap Storage
Doh. Thanks!
rnbrady··on Hammerspace: Persistent, Concurrent, Off-heap Storage
Pretty graphs! Drawn using?
rnbrady··on LearnGitBranching now has lessons on git fetch, push, and pull
This is totally awesome!
rnbrady··on Bitcoin Tops $50USD on MtGox
And what problems are they "trying" to solve?

This is what traction looks like, sometimes it's messy. That doesn't mean it's not legitimate.

What does legitimising a currency mean anyway? It's already used as a medium of exchange and a store of value, that's legitimate.

But if you are going to try and compare it to the "legitimacy" of fiat money, you're not going to find what you're looking for.

Bitcoin is an anarchist concept, it does not seek to be legitimised. It is achieving exactly what is set out to do.

you could just see the fluctuations as the currency being honest about its value as opposed to fiat money which is just as vulnerable yet artificially stabilised (legitimised?).

rnbrady··on Managing Nested Libraries Using the GIT Subtree Merge Workflow
Really useful info, I know of at least one open source and one proprietary software project both of which could put this to great use. It it certainly less documented than the submodule workflow. And I find 50% of the joy of git come from switching to it, the rest from learning to use it to do cool stuff. The first time I used git bisect it made my day, no my week!