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I recently deleted social media from my phone. With nothing left, I found myself compulsively checking HN anytime I had a free moment. That’s shifted now after a few weeks. I’m no …

I mean, you've collapsed a complex, mixed system into a single negative narrative. Examples of how I learn with LLMs: - Paste sections from reading and ask questions / clarify my u…

I agree that when it comes to portion size and whole foods, Europe makes it easy to follow by example. FWIW, I ate healthy in the US before because I rock climbed and needed to mai…

I lived in Germany and Indonesia. It’s easier for me now back in the US than ever to eat healthy. I can buy pre-chopped Cole slaw, diced peppers / onions, etc. Whole Foods is best …

Cool project! I run tech for a reverse logistics business buying overstock from Costco/Target/Walmart and we’re building a similar system for recognizing and pricing incoming inven…

For the never-ending text file for todos and work journal, I've found great success with org-mode, especially since deadlines automatically end up in my calendar with org-agenda. T…

If you get Berzerk, I’ll sign up :) that’s what I’m looking to read next, one way or another. I really enjoy the Shonen Jump app on my iPad for reading One Piece so I’m definitely …

Computer Networking: A Top-down Approach, Jim Kurose I read this about 2 years into my study of CS. I found the design of the internet, at times intentional and very often emergent…

I'm probably C2 comprehension, C1 speaking in German. I self-taught to high B2 (based off placement into that level in a Goethe Institut Intesivkurs) in 15 months of 2 hours a day.…

I moved to Germany as well and self taught German to a high B2 level in the 15 months before moving. That was enough where I was able to be conversationally fluent within 3 months …

This is why I always like to have a `status_history` or `audit` table. You don't have to have event sourcing to still want a trail of who changed what in the system when.

Kotlin does this, and I find it’s massively improved the readability of our codebase

I read Kurose’s book in college and recommend it as the perfect book for this topic. As a neophyte at the time, I remember really drilling into the details of TCP and just being in…

Your reading of this is rather extreme, and I feel you've missed the point by thinking that Russell is advocating to avoid fun intentionally at times so as to preserve a happy life…

I was specifically thinking banking and it’s exactly this type of spear phishing attack that happens (although with other types of tokens the Fido). In these scenarios, you only ne…

While mitigating a number of attacks, MFA with these types of physical tokens is still only as strong as their setup/enrollment process, which in many cases can be compromised via …

What type of physical tokens are you talking about and what exactly do they do to prevent authentication on the scammer site?

I’ve used the Cocoapods tool Xcodeproj to facilitate really nice Workflows that Xcode didn’t provide for me out of the box. I don’t need this in every project but when I do it’s a …

Completely agree. When implementing new functionality in my Kotlin Spring Boot apps, I find the debugger crucial for fixing any exception that isn’t immediately clear. I’ll simply …

I recently got an app on to the Shopify app store. The review process is the worst that I've been through. My rejections in chronological order: 1. Rejected for having text in the …

I'm an American living in Germany and I'm always thrilled when Germans think I'm Dutch after hearing my German ;) As for the accents, I had a similar experience when moving around …

The existence of a system that allows for companies to pay foreign labor well below market puts a downward pressure on compensation for everyone in industries that take advantage o…

I've spent the last 3 years building the whole solution suite for 2FA banking devices. We have our own hardware devices with secure elements that use your computer as an internet p…

Risk analysis requires accepting trade offs. I don’t think it’s so backwards or self destructive to not want the level of potential danger that a nuclear power offers in your backy…

I’ve worked in a number of areas with basically no fail/delay SLAs. I think it’s naive to think “if you need a hot fix right now, you’re doing it wrong”...the number of times we ne…