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Mostly Electron. I don't like it either, but Electron is a fact of life now. While you don't have to join in on that as a developer, you still have to be aware that 95% of users wi…

Yes, but in the real world there are a lot of opportunities for implementation failure.

AES is one of the few that has a pretty good shot at it, yeah. SHA-2 has had its margin eroded significantly over the last 10 years. I'd feel nervous about using it in security-cri…

AES is one of the few that I'm pretty confident will be around for a while. RSA already has a lot of caveats to its use and they will undoubtedly grow. In my completely uneducated …

I don't think that's an unpopular opinion. 20 years is a long time in cryptography, and it'll be surprising if more than a handful of current cryptoprimitives live that long.

They can easily be remotely disabled if there's any suspicious activity, ie to any other server than the telemetry backend.

I've noticed that Coke Zero bottles that were left out in the sun lose most of their sweetness and taste awful. Maybe there's some photosensitive compound in the sweetener.

There are IoT SIMs available on most major carriers, which are intended for economical occasional low-data usage on large numbers of devices. They're popular in GPSes among other t…

> In my experience with language design, a little bit of syntactic sugar can have transformative results. Promises/async functions in JS and C# do absolutely nothing that you could…

Googling for "julian assange paranoid" will give you some examples. I'm hesitant to point the finger at a specific example, because I wasn't thinking of one in particular.

> I seem to recall a whole bunch of people arguing that Assange wasn't going to be extradited to the United States once they extracted him from the embassy. At the time a fairly ex…

In many interpersonal relationships, a trauma response causes you to become more liable to ending up in the same situation, not less. Do not underestimate how many people end up re…

This looks absolutely brilliant.

I'm pretty sure there is more extensive literature involving the exact types of degradation that is characteristic to the disease, but I do not think I'm competent to cite it corre…

Asterisk. I meant in the long term. In the very short term, hospital can be an option, but asylums no longer exist in first-world nations. Our treatment systems simply do not curre…

> I am very hesitant to use this when a drug can be prescribed (with knowing bad side effects) can be applied. It can seriously mess someone's life up. This is why it's so importan…

Thank you for that! I hadn't seen it before. I'm a little nervous about the idea of coming to conclusions about individual outcomes based on national surveys of self-reported diagn…

This is a really dangerous and misleading way to look at bipolar. The disease proper of bipolar disorder is progressive and degenerative. This progression is accompanied by structu…

Australia speaking. We get a buttload of spam calls from China (in Chinese, no less).

There's evidence that classical (5-HT2a agonist) psychedelics can have a permanent impact on a person's openness score (as part of the Big 5): https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/bl…