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OP: > Now, ask yourself what it's going to take for a car to know this. It's not going to be some specialized set of driving instructions. It's going to require a holistic view of,…

> It's early in the year. You want to drive straight through the middle of Chinatown in SF. Why might that be a bad idea? In case anyone is wondering: yes obviously even the dumbes…

Maybe IQAir? They do have paid plans, it looks like.

Sure, I'm not saying it's unreasonable. The big selling point of `soanm` is that you don't need to have anything extra installed on a typical distribution (not even ssh!) and you d…

Interlingua is a similar project for primarily Romance languages: https://www.interlingua.com/interlingua-en/

Entropy of a single password isn't actually a well-defined concept; entropy is always about a distribution. "Entropy calculators" that look at your password and tell you "its entro…

More often for e.g. work computers.

I mostly agree, but I do find myself choosing a new FDE and login passphrases about once a year, and I wish that I could choose these using something like Diceware, but memorable e…

This is a fair question; I've been thinking about "weird" password choice strategies recently, for which it can matter. For example, if you want your password to be an English sent…

I've done a fair bit of research into this, and as far as I can tell, the entire internet does this thing you've never seen. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_str…

I hadn't looked at yjs; I'll check it out! [edit: It looks to me like yjs is much more flexible than my design here, but doesn't include an ability to move ranges of lists to diffe…

If anyone is interested, I've been trying to think about the problem of moving ranges in a list-structured CRDT for a couple of weeks now for a side project, and I've got a candida…

Sure - I still think the title is misleading. "Was always a scam" implies that everyone in the sharing economy has been lying for decades in order to make money. I don't see any ev…

The title seems totally unsupported by the article to me. A less misleading one might be "The 'sharing economy' has evolved into a collection of large, unregulated, rental business…

This is a critical response to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18609375 ; in the comments is a response by Jamie Farnes, the author of the paper, and a rebuttal by the blog's …