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thisacctforreal

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    Comment #21432755

    Note that a it’s an entirely different story with a “real” kdf like scrypt or bcrypt. MD5 and SHA are specifically designed to be fast to compute, they shouldn’t be used for passph…

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    Comment #20491211

    FWIW iOS Search (swipe down from the middle of the Home screen) can do conversions too. https://i.imgur.com/16AAqDG.png

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    Comment #19480758

    This is really cool, nice work. Pairs nicely with the end-user programming post earlier[0]; maybe training neural nets will someday be possible from a spreadshet. [0] https://news.…

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    Comment #19475549

    AKA Canadian standards. https://www.macleans.ca/society/technology/canadas-almost-th... My grandfathered $140/month mobile plan has 14GB of data; 320MB is 70% of a day's bandwidth,…

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    Comment #19473039

    disposable != short lifespan

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    Comment #19439425

    Ah, this guy! I found him through his stack overflow maybe a year ago, definitely cool.

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    Comment #19427111

    It would be good to know what bus the Ethernet talks on; with the Pi it's shared over the USB bus and it hampers the performance considerably. For this reason I went with an Odroid…

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    Comment #19417378

    FWIW this article specifically is mainly for common traps (e.g. spamming arrow keys) in vanilla vim.

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    Comment #19411515

    A fitbit might be a good match, my girlfriend's Alta HR lasts a handful of days between charges. I bought it for her primarily for the hypnograms.

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    Comment #19398258

    I think it's somewhat frequent to have app submissions denied, but I haven't heard of Apple banning future submissions in the same way that I hear of Google permabanning developers…

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    Comment #19396635

    He talks about it very briefly at the end, but basically says it doesn't pass Occam's Razor: there are better ways to implement the hack which can't just be detected with visual in…

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    Comment #19395234

    I don't know, to me it doesn't seem like he's stopped regarding his users as dumb fucks.

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    Comment #19394989

    Wait, the law firm talks about their dealings over Facebook?

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    Comment #19394765

    Ah I see, they can successfully protect asymmetric crypto but not symmetric.

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    Comment #19388565

    Honestly it feels like splitting hairs, unless I'm misunderstanding something. What is there to gain "cracking" the TPM itself, if you can get the keys fine by sniffing? Apple's Se…

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    Comment #19385287

    Banged, shebang is #!

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    Comment #19384924

    The idea of there being a layer of software between the pilot's intentions and the aircraft's control input freaks me out.

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    Comment #19375472

    Is there any sense in compiling human-readable LLVM IR, like many compile-to-C languages aim to do? I imagine doing so wouldn't have much value, as nobody programs in the IR.

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    Comment #19361734

    Would love links to 11 year articles out of curiosity.

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    Comment #19355429

    Are you saying parent is not doing his own thing, or that the people who think he's a sucker aren't doing their own thing? I agree with the latter :)

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