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alfuon Endurain: Self-hosted Strava like service

"Medlife Crisis" has an interesting video about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT8GZlBBv5k (Cyclists' hearts: can you be so fit that you die?)

alfuon How many floating-point numbers are in the interval [0,1]? (2017)

Does 0 ms = "at compile time"? Seeing that the impl. just computes

    ((long) upTo) - from + last;

I would think it just takes less than 1 ms on first execution.

https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/caa841d9a52352a975394e55...

alfuon Cached Chrome Top Million Websites

If I am not mistaken, 8310 sites offer http and https:

    grep -o -E "://.*?," current.csv | sort | uniq -c | grep -v "1 ://" | wc -l
    8310

alfuon Show HN: A web front end for your Org-files

https://two-wrongs.com/

alfuon The Illustrated TLS 1.3 Connection

I thought of ulfheim too and it redirects to the new site.

Author's reasoning:

> A few years ago a hate group started using the "ulfheim" name for their own purposes. It's useless trying to reclaim a word, so I'm moving to the domain "http://xargs.org".

https://twitter.com/xargsnotbombs/status/1538227164599812096...

alfuon GnuCash

I create most of my transactions with a script reading my bank and card statements. The description in the statements are usually good enough to map them to the correct account. I also added snippets to my editor for adding entries (I use a text-based accounting system).

alfuon Ask HN: How do I protect myself against SIM swap attacks?

Yes, I listened to a podcast that describes an attacker getting access even though the victim's account had a PIN (https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/97/):

>MILES: [MUSIC] They were able to get ahold of T-Mobile and manipulate their way in through either doing it in person or doing it over the phone, and convince somebody to change out the SIM for them.

alfuon SpeedCrunch

Based on this issue https://bitbucket.org/heldercorreia/speedcrunch/issues/746 (2017) it could also be re-highlighting the entire history when a new expression is evaluated.

alfuon I can read C++ and Java but I can’t read Smalltalk (2000) [pdf]

Why not compare it with t.rotate(rotateBy, around)? Could a,v used for many purposes and this example allows us to indicate their role for this specific call?

alfuon uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results

I am using these:

    google.*##.g:has(a[href*=".pinterest.*"])
    google.*##a[href*=".pinterest."]:upward(1)

alfuon Why does anyone use Angular in production?

https://github.com/WorldMaker/blog.worldmaker.net/blob/gh-pa...

alfuon Your Phone Is Your Private Space

Can't do this indefinitely in some countries :/ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-mask_law)

alfuon CompCert – Formally-verified C compiler

>The files in question are, from a formal verification standpoint, the interface to CompCert. They are licensed under the non-commercial license (NCL) so that they can be used together with the rest of CompCert (the implementation of the compiler, so to speak), which is NCL-only.

>Additionally, the interface files in question are also licensed under the GPL so that they can be used in other, open-source projects such as VST (http://vst.cs.princeton.edu/) that connect with CompCert.

at https://github.com/AbsInt/CompCert/issues/140 (2016); GPL -> LGPL in a later commit.

alfuon Insurance is like gambling, don't overdo it

>Insurance companies (same as betting companies) always need to bill you more than the chance you get your big payoff.

In theory, couldn't they charge less if the ROI of the premiums was large enough?

alfuon Triplebyte now showing profiles by default without consent

The HN api includes the timestamp (unix time). For instance: https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/23279837.json?pri...

cryptography or cryptocurrency?

alfuon Contrast Rebellion – to hell with unreadable, low-contrast texts

I only read the comments anyway.

alfuon Why ranking employees by performance backfires

(some?) ft articles are readable if you are coming from a google search. At least it works for me when I search the article by title.

alfuon The Difficulties of SAML Single Logout

Is the conclusion to just use use SameSite=None?

I did some research while back and found that shibboleth supports local storage for sessions [0], unfortunately the IdP+SP I'm using do not support such a thing.

[0] https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/DEV/IdP+SameS...

alfuon Why is electricity so hard to understand? (1989)

Is "electron hopping theory" same as the hopping transport mechanism in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge_transport_mechanisms?

I'm trying to read up on it because I realized my knowledge about electricity is very basic (only first year physics lecture on electricity & Maxwell's equations).

alfuon Can’t use iCloud with “true” as the last name

It shows the apple logo on some fonts. See: https://codepoints.net/U+F8FF?lang=en

alfuon Germans are turning down Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine

Source on the 40%?

Quick search yields

> “Between 10% and 15% of those vaccinated may have side-effects from this vaccination, but it is only a feverish state, fevers, nausea and within 12 hours it goes away.”

https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-europe-as...

alfuon A Dishonest, Indifferent, and Toxic Culture

Here: https://sci-hub.se/10.1145/3307650.3322260

alfuon The endless browser wars

A killer feature for me is opening the history & download list in a tab instead of a window. This way I don't have to alt+tab twice to switch to the next application. Opening the history in the same tab (ctrl+h) isn't good enough because I usually need the time of visit and there is no shortcut to open the download list in the same window.

Perhaps this is just muscle memory and I would think oppositely if I never switched to chrome.

alfuon Ask HN: Why does Pinterest dominate Google text search results?

I've been seeing the same even in English language.

alfuon Infinite Bad Guy

I mostly got videos with the original song or overlaid at least. I am curious how well it could snyc actual 'covers'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu1vdDhz-_c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff60IrtLogU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG0xMK1ciaA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByWD2cdIyIk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_RdZwWJzm4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfn_9sz1yaQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2MhpkYjHLw (exception)

alfuon The Rise and Fall of Pret a Manger

It confuses me because the accents are 'missing' (prêt-à-manger). I wonder if people more familiar with French are better at interpolating accents.

alfuon July 11, 2020 RIP my darling boy

In Germany there is "Antragsdelikt". Such an offense cannot be prosecuted without a complaint by the victim.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antragsdelikt

alfuon Anti-Cheat Kernel Driver

From the same company (Riot games)