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alan5

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    Comment #25794193

    I just donated to Signal after seeing the error banner in the app. I realised I was more than happy to pay WhatsApp's yearly charge back in the pre-Facebook days (think it was 70p …

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    Comment #21102677

    > Engineers design pickle forks to last the lifetime of the plane, more than 90,000 landings and takeoffs, a term known as "flight cycles" in the aviation industry, without develop…

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    Comment #19649179

    co-worker: @here co-worker is typing... co-worker is typing... co-worker is typing... co-worker: Could you help me with $x? Nothing more annoying than grabbing everyone's attention…

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    Comment #16243516

    If you modify your .inputrc with the following this should propagate to all of readline as well (e.g. python): set editing-mode vi

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    Comment #12541687

    I assumed they were remote, otherwise I would have thought they would have premises costs stated. Rent, heating etc.

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    Comment #12541658

    I know in addition to salary there are other "hidden" costs like health care etc, but even taking that into account their employees must be taking home a pretty significant wage.

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    Comment #10634654

    While not quite to the same level of obfuscation, your suggestion reminded me of this project: http://www.cipherdyne.org/fwknop/ Its essentially port knocking with a single encrypt…

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    Comment #10617827

    Steve Gibson's SQRL looks to be an interesting application of QR codes. https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm