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Joke's on you, now I know your password is 7 chars, but more importantly, I also know your password is not 7 stars.

Also, make sure to use official website, not just Google search, or any chat agent question, the SEO are sometimes poisoned with scam phone numbers. I consider myself always to be …

you don’t need to be an aviation expert to trust the plane will fly. likewise e-voting systems pass through cryptography experts auditing to verify it does what it says it does. sa…

yes you can. each citizen gets an anonymized private key via a secure channel (eg. postal) and use that to vote. votes are double enveloped: outer envelop: anonymized id + inner en…

Weirdly this reminds me of the Raft consensus protocol: two nodes cancel each other when failing consensus as you can't tell which is the valid one, three gives you better chances,…

though why treat booleans as special case and keep timestamps for them when you don’t for integers with this pattern: isDarkTheme: {timestamped} paginationItems: 50 I can see when …

this. Let’s not confuse meanings. There are multiple ways to improve quality of code. Testing is one, code review is another. this belongs to the latter

I'm located in Barcelona, and yesterday lot of transactions on mini markets / pharmacies were not possible because the item prices were unknown, adding to the fact there was no pho…

This reminds me of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42342382 on the blog https://eieio.games/blog/writing-down-every-uuid/ they mention how they tackled various challenges such…

seems to me a survival bias.

That's because by definition it is not going to be "major" problem since the unit test acted as gateway before it got pushed to production, instead you'll probably be 'meh' and fix…

I’ve actually talked with ChatGPT and asked it both to output mairmaid diagrams of discussed architecture (context was kubernetes clusters, namespaces and Pods) and also read diagr…

That would be a great, and terrifying at the same time, first contact response message to us. proof-of-superiority if you will.

I had an understanding that quantum entanglement can be used to for encryption and guaranty there are no man-in-the-middle attacks by making sure the entanglement is not broken. if…

From the investor's perspective starting from Google is a lot better, and I bet this was done deliberately. It provides him the insight he doesn't need the CEO to find the articles…

Also worth noting that time response deviance when user exists or not can also be a leak of info

This reminds me my father when I mentioned bad news he always referred to a saying; no need to worry, things you can't control you can do nothing about them, and why worry about th…

There is a point to be made here that is an important difference between web2 and web3+centralized apis. On the latter companies do not have lock-in of the data, which provides a b…

> Helium is very much centralised because it has to (by the nature of their offering) lock down the end-user devices heavily. They have a single approved manufacturer last I checke…

I tend to look closely into projects that are outside of the echo chamber that can provide real world value and better economic models than web2 solutions. My two favorites are: he…

On post-docker pre-kubernetes time I used `--cpuset-cpus` on docker args to dedicate specific cpus to redis instances, using CoreOS and fleet for cluster orchestration.

When you buy bitcoin you are _investing_ in the possibility that the bitcoin will be part of the economic network. The earlier you invest the better the returns. As time passes and…

global economy is much like communicating vessels, large scale domino effect is also possible, having a global currency such as bitcoin disconnected from nation events, is no more …

You assume there is a correlation between USD and BTC. Another way to see this is this: If USD prices rise, the price of BTC will also rise, as BTC is another product you can buy w…

> Stablecoins piggyback on the legal aspects of dollars, and as long as you treat them as dollar-denominated assets, you're fine. The second you treat them as dollar-equivalents, y…