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I found "Don't Make Me Think" by Steve Krug to be a helpful guide. As an engineer who was shy to approach product design, I felt the language really helped demystify things.

> One way to make DNS surveillance more difficult is to use a public open DNS server, such as Google's 8.8.8.8 I assumed Google ran 8.8.8.8 to collect data for targeted advertising…

Snowflake IDs may compress well. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowflake_ID

Agreed, very enjoyable. https://what-if.xkcd.com/

Right. Content creator: Can you distribute my content? Only in $list-of-countries though. Distributor: Sure. If the distributor permits VPNs, how are they sure they are authorized …

Legal and moral definition of piracy vary. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_piracy Unfortunately, if you don't have permission to download then you may be committing piracy. …

One of the unexpected benefits for me has been that I can lock any OAuth enabled app to a container for the OAuth provider I use. To login, I check which container I'm in and click…

https://cve.mitre.org/cve/

Same MacBook, same SSD upgrade. I haven't replaced the battery, I tend to stay near an outlet anyway. Debian and Ubuntu work great on it, so I moved off OSX.

Surely there are people getting banned from Google who are not HN users. Social media outcry is not a good solution as its not accessible to everyone. Agreed about wanting to see m…

> To be fair, if the rest of your pipeline runs in the megabytes per second, then memory allocation might as well be free from a speed point of view. This is important, but I think…

Presumably, if the customer doesn't have the right to repair then the manufacturer would be able to make parts that are exceptionally difficult to repair without specialized knowle…

How are folks using light weight cloud resources approaching password hashing? The `10s of gigabytes of RAM` feels like an expensive requirement. Even lower memory, high iteration …

Relevant Senate links appear to be: • https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_... • https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Wyden%20Lummis%...

Turning off the hashing toggle, I ended up trying to draw some shapes. zzzzmmmmaaaa2222 For example is a box. Sort of fun.

Agreement from me, although I'd avoid double booking. Double booking means that other people are expecting you to attend, they may wait to see if more people join, or need to resch…

I'll add my (32/M/USA) perspective as someone who subscribed to duolingo plus last month. I'm learning Arabic ahead of a _potential_ move with my spouse to an Arabic speaking count…

Great answer, thanks for the detail!

Any thoughts on how customers should think about securing their skills? ChatOps exposes skills that may provide deep access to deploy code or modify system configuration. Slack doe…

I think it's best to migrate to a preferred formatting slowly, versus touching everything at once. I've had open pull requests that I've started over due to aggressive reformatting…

I recently changed my opinion on todo list type projects. I previously thought it was a crowded place and a solved problem, not worth building yet another. But a todo list is such …

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