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Pharaoh2

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About Pharaoh2

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/akshetpandey; my proof: https://keybase.io/akshetpandey/sigs/AcLwTDYvWbR9A4BYlBh0nfwxDxnj3RII_jTajYx_3wY ]

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    Comment #46164457

    https://react.dev/blog/2025/12/03/critical-security-vulnerab... Privately Disclosed: Nov 29 Fix pushed: Dec 1 Publicly disclosed: Dec 3

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    Comment #44579794

    https://www.dnsperf.com/#!dns-resolvers Last 30 days, 8.8.8.8 has 99.99% uptime vs 1.1.1.1 has 99.09%

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    Show HN: Toolbox: Run FFmpeg, Imagemagick, 7Zip and Friends in the Browser

    I got sick of sketchy online converter sites that phone home and may keep your files and walking non-technical friends through brew/apt/choco installs every time they need ffmpeg o…

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    Show HN: Python tool to migrate from YT Music to Spotify

    Ran into enough issues that I wanted to switch from youtube music to spotify. So I made a small tool to keep my liked music and playlists. It will match exact and fuzzy match track…

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    Comment #43561314

    NPOs still need to be financially sustainable/viable. They still need to pay their employees and pay their vendors.

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    Comment #40384758

    The wiki link says otherwise. Silver and gold are <40% reflective in visible, while aluminium is ~90%, neither of that is enough. Reflectivity goes down very quickly as metals heat…

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    Comment #38439367

    The article's result is large than that

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    Comment #34168304

    This isn't real. This is a scam video for crypto.

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    Comment #32663780

    I see it there

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    Comment #22764435

    Its fairly common to embed canary trap into message to find out who the leeker is. Not saying this memo had one, but its generally no longer safe to just show redacted messages wit…

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    Comment #22243180

    This scams are very common and fairly easy to detected even without contacting the person. I have been looking at apartments since november and finally found a place in January, an…

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    Comment #21696967

    Its mostly higher bandwidth from being closer to source. Latency is definitely improved but so is bandwidth if you are in peered in the same exchange. Peek bandwidth is going to be…

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    Comment #21696053

    Basing this solely as a person from India and not some research background, In the small minority of hacker rank study set, I would say that women are just as much encouraged or fr…

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    Comment #21695965

    Presumably because the gap exists in the current system, and the current system is optimized for the current scoring function. Changing the scoring function will cause the system t…

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    Comment #21490105

    Modern 3D graphics has a lot of facets, a good resource as well as engine for PBR rendering is filament and is documented here: https://google.github.io/filament/Filament.html

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    Comment #17294941

    That just the fire stick, or the netflix firestick app or your network. That isn't netflix's infrastructure problem. Netflix is the most reliable of netflix/hulu/hbo. Try a higher …

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    Comment #17208622

    Its the domain name they use for their servers. Its generally a good practice to have a dns name that maps to a particular server apart form the website its supposed to be serving …

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    Comment #16916347

    That seems to deal with anti-circumvention provisions and not copyright provision and not with infringing on trademark/copyright as the GGGGP (white-flame) seems to be pointing to.…

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    Comment #16909554

    IANAL, but the two things seem related, why is GP being down voted? From just a reading of the wiki pages without much law knowledge it does seem like sega would win today? What I …

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    Comment #16243398

    Which is basically what a blockchain is... Just that instead of a cryptographically append-only acyclic directed graph, its a cryptographically append-only linked list.

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    Comment #16242597

    Because this way you have a public ledger that can't be mutated without notifying the public. Not everything that blockchain gives is for the trust distributed use case. For that f…

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    Comment #16117502

    To further support your point, if you switch to a pane that does require the padlock and then switch back, the padlock is gone. Looks like someone forgot to set the padlock bar to …

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    Comment #16104803

    5 mins on amazon will find you what you are looking for. There are a whole bunch of feature phone and basic carrier/prepaid phones out there. Some of them will also do usb tetherin…