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It was a reference to this: https://xkcd.com/369/

"died in a blogging accident"

Bitcoin does use encryption for messaging, but I don't know if this is what Musk was referencing: https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/v2-p2p-transport/

Didn't all the major browsers alter their timing APIs to make this impossible/difficult?

It would block requests to OCSP responders, for one.

The 4chanx extension (userscript, run it in violentmonkey or equivalent) lets you nest comments in a chain to make following threads easy while maintaining the overall chronologica…

I _think_ iMazing can do what you want: https://imazing.com/configurator Disclaimer: I've never used this feature. I only use it for backups and copying files to my iPhone.

Note that Ruby also has \z which is what you generally want instead of \Z. (\Z allows a trailing newline, \z does not)

K-Lite Mega Codec Pack!

Hah, I saw this: Steve was not a big fan of authority, so he also liked the idea of a site without editors. and remembered him getting prod database access to censor comments criti…

Imagine you did all of that, received and accepted an offer, and then they made you work on snap. Grim.

Magnesium glycinate!

Fair enough.

Same here. "Learnings" sounds ESL to me.

There's a huge difference between using your personal Spotify account at work and using your personal Github account at work.

Sivers is an OG. Definitely not a bot. I've looked at sivers.org/multiply at least once per year for the last 15 years.

Mine is just a cool-looking paperweight now.

Microsoft, Google, and other companies have all determined that about 70% of CVEs are memory-related. Here's the US government's take: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/news/urgent-…

Hey, thanks for the response! There have been a lot of across the board improvements in the kernel in the last four years so I'm surprised there's not a noticeable performance impr…

I'm curious what the performance difference would be on a modern kernel.

Well, the inverse is "we're so Barack".

This is the second reference to BotLS I've seen today on HN. The other was here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38938981 I've read the four BotNS books. Is BotLS worth it if …

What I got out of it was "determination eventually beats natural skill over time".