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triangleman··on The 773M Record “Collection #1” Data Breach
Does keepass support yubikey out of the box or is there a certain plugin you use? What do you do about mobile?
triangleman··on The 40M dollar job
Don't feed the UBI trolls.
triangleman··on The Hand Licking Incident
Yeah, one time I told my 3 year old not to touch a wild mushroom. Mostly because I'm grossed out by it. But now she's got this crazy attitude towards mushrooms, the weirdest plants in the world that people eat but are dangerous. I have no idea how it's going to shake out. If I could do it again I would have let her touch the freaking mushroom.
triangleman··on Firefox desktop market share now below 9%
I can read you because I went to my settings and turned on "showdead". But you are shadowbanned, so you don't know you're banned. It sucks and it's really mean; it's a big thing I don't like about this website.
triangleman··on Firefox desktop market share now below 9%
Red, you're dead. It looks like you were banned some time in 2017.
triangleman··on Some Amazon employees bought NYC condos before news of HQ2 location emerged
Hey lightedman, just wanted to make sure you know you are shadowbanned and have been for years. I can see your comments because I have "showdead" turned on but most people can't.
triangleman··on JAB Code – A high-capacity 2D color bar code
My wife is Brazilian and I showed her this comment. She says the Brazilians were just giving you a hard time and that they don't find those terms offensive.
triangleman··on Ask HN: I've been a programmer for 6 years, and I can't solve basic CS problems
These problems remind me of the ones on checkio.org. The difference being over there you get the benefit of using python--not that I already knew python but it's rather intuitive, plus you can run a million things through an interpreter to quickly understand how it works. These CS50 problems require C, which most mortals would have a much harder time working with.

In either case you constantly consult the language reference and standard libraries until you find something that works. The C reference at https://reference.cs50.net/ looks perfectly good.

To be honest I don't know how I would load a CC# into an array to compute Luhn's algorithm on it in C. In Python I know there are easy ways of doing that, because strings are automatically arrays in the first place (same as that Caesar cypher problem, Python makes it much easier to work with strings). I don't even know if that's the "right" way to do it, but that's what I would do in Python: Convert the number to a string, operate on it as an array, converting each character to an int as it goes, running the algorithm as given in the problem, back-converting to string and then back again to int as needed (like if I need to add the digits of a number together). Fine I suppose I could avoid doing that by taking modulos and if I didn't know what a modulo was I would divide by 10 for instance and then take a floor to get the first digit of a 2-digit number.

I have no idea if any of these methods are "correct", I would just hammer away at the code until the acceptance tests passed. It would take over an hour for each of these solutions, after getting into the zone, so let's say 2 hours. There you go, 4 hours of work to get through these two problems in C, let's add on a lunch break and we have a full work day. That will be $325 thank you. Oh I don't get paid to study computer science in my free time? Oh ok. I guess I will just bookmark CS50 and come back to it... some day.

Your wife is lucky she gets to study this stuff. Don't be so hard on yourself.

triangleman··on GitLab Made $10.5M in Revenue with Every Employee Working from Home
I'm sorry but I don't understand, are you saying that you are able to do your work at the same time as taking care of a baby?
triangleman··on Music industry hails passage of the Music Modernization Act
But they do pay the original artist to come to their show and play their original hits. Meanwhile other people pay less to see a cover band.
triangleman··on The growth in passive funds has caused markets to become more correlated?
> I bet on the idea that other people down the line would bet on the same company but that they'd bet even harder.

Ultimately you are betting that the company will one day buy back stock, be acquired, issue dividends, etc.

triangleman··on Gene drive used to turn all female mosquitos sterile
More detail would be helpful. What was Chrichton's version? Why has this movie line been bad for popular understanding?
triangleman··on How China Systematically Pries Technology from U.S. Companies
According to Wikipedia[0] China GDP(PPP)/capita is $16,624, just below Dominican Republic and Iraq. Not sure that's "wealthy" quite yet.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)...

triangleman··on Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam
Milton Friedman famously put forth an argument against minimum wage in his TV series Free to Choose:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-BGi4NIFww

triangleman··on Tensegrity (1961)
Worth noting: Kenneth Snelson wrote a letter in 1990 claiming he invented/discovered "tensegrity" and Bucky had taken credit for it.

http://www.grunch.net/snelson/rmoto.html

triangleman··on Hospitals to launch their own drug company to fight high prices and shortages
This was announced in January. Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16182152

triangleman··on Introducing Android 9 Pie
Yes. OK I have one complaint, the speakerphone (microphone) does not work well in some applications like WhatsApp. However I believe that can be fixed with some settings changes, I have not tried it.
triangleman··on Introducing Android 9 Pie
Still using S5 as my daily driver, with LineageOS. No major complaints here, but yeah I will probably get a new battery soon.
triangleman··on In Brazil, it is considered rude to be on time to a party
Visiting Sao Paulo I found the trains to be reliable, clean, timely, and used by all segments of society except I assume the super-rich who have someone drive them.

One thing that struck me about Brazil compared to the U.S. is the huge number of people standing around doing nothing. You will never see that in the U.S.: if someone is loitering here, they are a teenager or homeless. But it was huge in Brazil. I am assuming this is because of the extreme unemployment and lack of opportunity.

Unfortunately, seeing so much despondency is likely to affect everyone in the society. You tend to change your outlook on things. I have heard there is an "everyone does it" attitude with regard to paying bribes, stealing services like electricity, etc. This also drags down society.

My wife is Brazilian and she is a very timely person, living in the U.S. Partly due to acculturation but also because of the "I wasn't born here but got here as fast as I could" effect.

triangleman··on Why Americans Spend So Much on Health Care–In 12 Charts
Is there a printable view of this? Not that it's multiple pages but if you try to print it, you lose all the charts after the first!
triangleman··on Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos
Oh, nice one!
triangleman··on Codec2: A Whole Podcast on a Floppy Disk
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Question for IP experts: now that I have heard of the existence of WaveNet and a rough idea of how it works (training a neural network to decode low-bitrate speech data with as much fidelity as possible to the original), would I be prohibited from selling a similar product built with the same technique? How about if I had never heard of WaveNet and went about doing the same thing?

triangleman··on Twitter ‘smytes’ customers
Yes, yes, and yes.

What's more, you could be product focused and still produce bad products. I just left a startup that seemed to have really bad decision making in areas like "what feature should we build first/second/third", and major areas needing design and careful thought were instead treated as an afterthought. But the tech was solid and lots of work was getting done, so... good enough?

triangleman··on People using Venmo to spy on cheating spouses
Well it's PayPal without the fees.
triangleman··on Amazon device recorded private conversation, sent it out to random contact
I can't find anything about him being a moon landing conspiracist. Link?
triangleman··on Why the Luddites Matter
He's right: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/jul/17/bread-f...
triangleman··on Google Grapples with ‘Horrifying’ Reaction to Uncanny AI Tech
HN actually had some of the most horror:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17022963

Which is heartening IMO. People who deal with computers all day should be the ones most skeptical of technology.

triangleman··on Please Stop Using Adblock (But Not Why You Think)
I'm sorry but that is splitting hairs. The comment used a name but it was not name calling, it was the core of his argument. He was being relatively civil, it's clear from the comment. And are you really going to delete someone's comment because you think it's engaging in a straw man argument? Can't the other commenter defend himself?

Sorry I think you sometimes get too heavy handed around here.

triangleman··on 96-Year-Old Secretary Quietly Amasses Fortune, Then Donates $8.2M
Yeah I meant 2 Thessalonians. The context is the whole of chapter 3 verses 6 through 15. Basically the Apostle Paul is writing to the church in Thessalonica with advice on how to make the communal lifestyle there work. Because if everyone is living together and working together, you're bound to have some issues with some people taking advantage of that. So the Apostle is saying, first of all, set a good example, and secondly, go ahead and exercise some discipline in the community.

Verse 15 hints at how you might want to interpret these verses as compared to the references you cited: "Do not regard them as enemies, but warn them as believers." You see, a Christian has rather different conduct when he is dealing with a believer or a non-believer. If someone is your brother in Christ, it's ok to be a little hard on him. Same way you have the right to be a little harder on your own family members than I would. It's all supposed to be done in love, of course.

Hope that helps.

triangleman··on Please Stop Using Adblock (But Not Why You Think)
How did he violate the guidelines? It did not seem like an ad hominem as much as a fair argument.
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