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minebreaker

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About minebreaker

Scala dev. Passkey delenda est!

[birthday] 1992 [location] Saitama, Japan [github] https://github.com/minebreaker [email] see github

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48394273

    That's exactly me. I mean, people told me the exact same things when TROS came out. It was horrible.

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    Comment #48392766

    Yes, I have X4. It has amazing hardware, but the activation thing is such a shame. I really wish it were illegal. And the proprietary video format. I want an open source converter …

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    Comment #48117876

    I strongly disagree with a lot of claims here. >> if it isn’t there, it’s probably for a good reason. > which isn’t really true anymore. For most websites, the majority — not just …

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    Comment #47764232

    I just checked the Backblaze app and found that .iso was on the exclusion list. Just in case anyone here is as dumb as I...

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    Comment #47711511

    He has an article for that https://aphyr.com/posts/379-geoblocking-the-uk-with-debian-n... > This is, to be clear, a bad solution. MaxMind’s free database is not particularly preci…

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    Comment #47611379

    > The fact that the people running r/progamming don't know not to wait until April 2 to publish this tells me that they don't have real-world experience in shipping software in a b…

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    Ask HN: Books about Global Warming?

    After bumping into some "global warming is fake" YT videos, I decided to learn real knowledge about it. Please recommend me the books about global warming. * Written by renowned re…

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    Comment #47377441

    I have to say I'm quite disappointed by his attitude against Palestine. RIP, but not with the victims. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/22/israel-hamas-w...

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    Comment #47098553

    This is why we shouldn't use passkey. The authorities (not only the US) are clearly aiming to lock down the hardware we can use. Remember, passkey has a function to restrict the fr…

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    Comment #46714244

    > Steve Yegge's recent credulous foray into promoting a crypto coin I didn't notice that. Can you give me a source?

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    Comment #46507101

    Call me crazy, but I love JSS. "Separate styles with components" never made sense to me. Styled components are much better.

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    Comment #46429075

    When our team decides to hire a new programmer, each team member always writes a short letter, which tells the applicant why we want to hire them. How well they did in the intervie…

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    Comment #46308167

    > America can never win a war with Venezuela, seeing their humiliating defeats in Afghanistan, Iraq and Vietnam against much smaller and less developed nations. I don't disagree, b…

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    Comment #45525830

    No, I don't do SNS. I created it to show it to the police. Looks like "I don't have any social media" is considered to be suspicious and you are "hiding" something. At least that's…

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    Comment #45515309

    I'll look into them. Thank you.

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    Ask HN: Great Firewall in Iran?

    I'm kinda burnt out and took a 2 month vacation, and decided to fulfill my dream of visiting Persepolis. The last time I traveled abroad is decade ago, so I assume a lot of things …

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    Comment #45136105

    Isn't it interesting that the name is the opposite in 1984. It's called the Ministry of Peace. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministries_in_Nineteen_Eighty-...

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    Comment #45034037

    > The safety increases, but freedom decreases It's never safe when there's no freedom.

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    Comment #45023808

    Are you a professional climber? "Poorly protected" is ... not the word I'd use to describe those places. https://4travel.jp/travelogue/11828856 I've only taken the tourist route of…

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    Comment #45021051

    I believe the number is correct. The source from the government: https://www.mlit.go.jp/tagengo-db/common/001556845.pdf I assume you've never been there. 一ノ倉沢 is really impressive …

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    Comment #44981883

    > We would not have this problem if we all agree to return number of bytes instead. I don't understand. It depends on the encoding isn't it?

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    Comment #44742613

    I hope the guideline is clearer. "Unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." is too ambiguous.

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    Comment #44656875

    Fair criticism, but it's not really a practical problem. Usually a linter will catch them easily, and even when junior devs ignore the warnings, you can just tell them to use "equa…

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    Comment #44656479

    So true. Scala 3 made it even worse. Hope Jetbrains will improve that, but they seem to fully committed to Kotlin.