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Toast_25··on My Second Year as a Solo Developer
> Make $300K A year

You make it sound easy! How do I do that outside of not just SF, but the US?

Toast_25··on My Second Year as a Solo Developer
That's me in my dad's company rn. I know the tech but not the business and it's something I'm trying to get out of, but don't really know how.
Toast_25··on Confessions of a lotus-eater
r/notlikeothergirls

And while I'm at it r/IUseReddit

Toast_25··on Preventing Tracking Prevention Tracking
It's impossible to build a perfect system, even ML could have a bias towards a certain solution or the badguys could ML a way to track us again.
Toast_25··on Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?
If you really wanted to avoid dupes you could just hash the pics, save a list of hashes in a txt and then lookup against new ones, but it's less efficient than what OP proposes.
Toast_25··on Ask HN: What’s your “Everyone has a price” experience?
The pay seems worth it to me, but I only get 10 days of PTO as it is, so there's that.
Toast_25··on A Life-Saving Checklist (2007)
I like using google keep. It's more for notes, but has a checklist mode, an android app and a browser mode.
Toast_25··on Anthony Bourdain has died
It may be that the effects we're having now were caused by that "man up" attitude that was going on back then.
Toast_25··on Why I'm leaving Linux
IMHO debian comes closer. I like to install the server version and then install gnome-core on top of that, sort out the dependencies of what I need and I'm golden.

apt is way better than apt-get anyways.

Toast_25··on The Mysterious Heir of Extreme Travel
This type of person was my first girlfriend, it was a very tough experience, but I learned a lot from it.
Toast_25··on Impersonators who are paid to flirt on dating apps
"I could totally do that if I tried"
Toast_25··on Impersonators who are paid to flirt on dating apps
I've also applied PUA and redpill is toxic, mysoginistic trash. It's nearly impossible to find PUA stuff that's not toxic and mysoginistic.

The only reason I call it PUA is that I don't know what else to call approaching strangers I find attractive in a respectful and honest way, especially because it seems that where I live or the people I go out with never meet new people.

6cd6beb encapsulated it wonderfully, if PUA is taken as only this and not the manipulative alpha male b/s that is taught, I believe it can teach men a lot of perspective and respect towards the opposite sex:

[...] the general formula of "know your value, be confident and unapologetic about what you want, be ready to accept 'no' quickly and gracefully" is the buried gold. Maybe it's just me but grinding through failure after failure after failure taught me those things.

Toast_25··on Cryptographic Right Answers
There are waaaayyyy easier and cheaper ways to get your private information than by a massive, distributed covert operation designed to make your encryption implementations slightly easier to brute-force.
Toast_25··on The Key to Good Luck Is an Open Mind
Sadly I believe this term has a misogynist undertone. I learned about talking to women like that and while it had enormous benefits, they also didn't really teach what was appropriate and had to learn them as well as un-learn a few bad habits.
Toast_25··on Ask HN: How Did You Find a Job Abroad?
Sorry I took so long to answer, but thank you! I'll definitely start looking!
Toast_25··on Leaked Files Show How NSA Tracks Other Countries’ Hackers
I think they're only looking for 2-5 IOC because they're checking the same machine they've broken into for operations.

Maybe they're looking for tools the other groups use to establish initial beachheads and not tools that are used for exploitation, info gathering or other more involved tasks.

Toast_25··on Ask HN: How Did You Find a Job Abroad?
A couple questions: did you have to travel to the hackathons?

How did you fing these groups?

Toast_25··on YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asian Males, Lawsuit Says
This begs the question, what is Latino and what is white? I was born in a Latin American country to a Latin American mother and a Canadian father, have lived here my entire life but if you saw me you wouldn't even think I spoke Spanish.

Likewise, I've made friends in the US who are of Mexican descent and look very much like it but don't speak a lick of Spanish.

This has led me to feel not at home in either my country of origin or Canada. Since I'm too white to be from here and don't know enough about Canadian lifestyle to relate to anyone there.

Toast_25··on Ask HN: How Did You Find a Job Abroad?
I'm personally really interested in living in spain for a while, I already speak spanish and only need 2 years to got citizenship due to living in iber-america. How hard do you think it is to get a job in spain?
Toast_25··on Lost Art of Bending Over: How Other Cultures Spare Their Spines
That's a good idea! How do you use your computer/laptop? What about eating? And how long did it take for you to get used to not having furniture?
Toast_25··on Lost Art of Bending Over: How Other Cultures Spare Their Spines
I didn't know what I was doing was called seiza, but I've been getting better at it thanks to jiujitsu. My knees are the biggest obstacle due to untreated osgood-schlatter during my teens, but I'm working on it. Hopefully I'll be able to seiza and squat comfortably by the end of the year.
Toast_25··on Lost Art of Bending Over: How Other Cultures Spare Their Spines
Thank you! Hopefully this will help with squats, I can NEVER do them without hurting my back, but I can deadlift 110% bodyweight fine and I've never known why.

Sadly in my country proper form isn't all that common and I've seen so many people do squats with plates under their heels, so finding a knowledgeable expert isn't easy.

Toast_25··on Canada to Scrap IBM Payroll Plan Gone Awry Costing $1B
As someone working in ifosec, i loathe how vague that article is about what exactly is going on in the chips.
Toast_25··on Why is it hard to make friends over 30? (2012)
> I find it difficult to make friends with people of both genders, but my hobbies and interests seem partitioned strongly to one gender, virtually making the other gender seem alien and extra hard to make friends with.

I don't think the fact that you find it hard to do so should be a reason to restrict your user-base. I see a case for single-gender outings and understand that some people would prefer such outings, but I think co-ed outings could add to the app.

EDIT: Just saw your link on why tribes are single gendered. I didn't really take the creep-factor into account. Maybe a 2 on 2 female/male ratio would help reduce it, best of luck with figuring it out, it's a tough nut to crack!

Toast_25··on Breaking Textbook RSA Used to Protect the Privacy of Millions of Users
Then perhaps you could point me in the right direction:

where Cb = C (2^(be) mod(n)) (mod n)

I assume we are calculating Cb by encrypting the bit-shift and then applying it to C (which is already encrypted). Why do we need that last modulus at the end?

Toast_25··on Picture of a Single Atom Wins Science Photo Contest
Sadly those aren't the high-resolution photos. If you look at the link abainbridge shared you'll notice the image is a LOT higher resolution than the ones in the link you shared.
Toast_25··on Picture of a Single Atom Wins Science Photo Contest
Awesome, thanks! Do you know where I can find the other submissions? Particularly "In a kitchen far far away..."? It looks astounding!
Toast_25··on Ask HN: How do you manage to go through so much of good content posted on HN?
I agree, the cases that bother me are the ones where it's painfully obvious the commenter didn't read the article. I enjoy reading counterpoints and is one of the main reasons I read the comments.
Toast_25··on Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple and Fast (2007)
Thanks, I'll keep that in mind for next time. Is there a way to edit the title now?
Toast_25··on Ask HN: How do you manage to go through so much of good content posted on HN?
The problem about this is that a LOT of users that seem knowledgeable pull shit out of their ass. I've seen this many times here: I read the article and then the comments and they just end up being elaborate bullshit based on a title and previous "knowledge" (often refuted by the article itself) rather than informed discussion.
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